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15th Annual Festival of the Arts Boca from page 1

National de Paris, and Staatsoper Berlin, she has become
a fixture at many of the top houses around the world. She
released her debut album, There’s a Place for Us, in 2018.
On Sunday, March 7th, the Festival will welcome Grammy
Award-winning Florida-based violinist, James Ehnes, and
friends performing from the Boca Raton Innovation Campus.
Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity,
serene lyricism and an unfaltering musicality, Ehnes is
a favorite guest of many of the world’s most respected James Ehnes Constantine Kitsopoulos
conductors, including Ashkenazy, Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis,
Denève, Elder, Ivan Fischer, Gardner, Paavo Järvi, Mena, of North America, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the more than 50 medals,
Noseda, Robertson and Runnicles. Ehnes’s long list of Tokyo Philharmonic. In addition to Maestro Kitsopoulos’s including 28 from foreign
orchestras includes, among others, the Boston, Chicago, engagements as guest conductor, he is Music Director of the nations in his 37-year
London, NHK and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, the Los Festival of the Arts Boca, and General Director of Chatham military career. Nestor Torres
Angeles, New York, Munich and Czech Philharmonic Opera and New York Grand Opera. On Tuesday, March
Orchestras, and the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Philharmonia The Festival will close on Sunday, March 14th, with 9th, at 7 p.m., Bruce Feiler will discuss his latest book, a
and DSO Berlin orchestras. Grammy-Award winning South Florida favorite, jazz flutist top 10 New York Times bestseller, “Life Is in the Transitions:
On Saturday, March 13th, tune in for a salon evening with Nestor Torres, and his band at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. Mastering Change at Any Age”, a collection of hundreds of
the Festival of the Arts Boca All-Stars, featuring Constantine If a flute could talk and sing, it would certainly be life stories, exploring how we can navigate life’s growing
Kitsopoulos, Festival Music Director, and musicians from the in the voice of Nestor Torres, for he speaks through his number of transitions to live with more meaning, purpose,
Festival Orchestra. instrument. Nominated for several Latin Grammy Awards, and joy. Feiler is the author of seven New York Times
Kitsopoulos has established himself as a dynamic Torres won it in 2001 for his CD, This Side of Paradise, a bestsellers; the presenter of two prime-time series on PBS;
conductor known for his ability to work in many different bittersweet victory given the fact that the Awards ceremony and the inspiration for the drama series, Council of Dads,
genres and settings. He is equally at home with opera, was scheduled for 9/11/2001. His CD, Dances, Prayers on NBC. Feiler’s two TED Talks have been viewed more
symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, music & Meditations for Peace, signaled a new departure, as a than two million times.
theatre, and composition. His work has taken him all over reflection of his experience on 9/11. Torres’s most recent On Thursday, March 11th, at 7 p.m., the Festival
the world, where he has conducted the major orchestras Grammy -nominated CD, Nouveau Latino, heralds the will welcome Sonia Shah, science journalist and prize-
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flautist’s exuberant return to his Salsa and Latin Jazz roots. winning author of the heavily lauded, “The Next Great
In addition to his achievements in the studio and on the stage, Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move”, that
“Keeping the Promise” from page 1 Torres has received numerous awards and commendations, explores our centuries-long assumptions about migration
including two honorary doctorates for his commitment to through science, history, and reporting, predicting its
Keeping the Promise to Our Community youth, education, and cultural exchanges. lifesaving power in the face of climate change. Her 2016
The New Patient Tower. This season’s Authors & Ideas program will include book, “Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera
The new Gloria Drummond Patient Tower will be a interactive discussions with three authors---Admiral James to Coronaviruses and Beyond”, was released in August
nine-story structure that will feature new surgical suites Stavridis, Sonia Shah and Bruce Feiler---via Zoom. 2020 with a new preface and has been called “superbly
and all private patient rooms that will exceed the latest On Monday, March 8th, at 7 p.m., Admiral James written,” (The Economist), “bracingly intelligent” (Nature),
safety standards for patient care. Stavridis, author and retired four-star U.S. Naval officer, “provocative” and “chilling,” (New York Times), a “lively,
Critical Care Units. will talk about leadership. He is currently an Operating rigorously researched and highly informative read,” (Wall
The need for state-of-the-art facilities for the most Executive of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm, Street Journal) and “absorbing, complex, and ominous,”
critically ill patients is apparent as the hospital attracts and Chair of the Board of Counselors of McLarty Associates, (Publishers Weekly).
more vulnerable patients. The Jean and David Blechman an international consulting firm. Previously, he served for Sonia Shah discusses the fascinating interplay of
Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU), the Jean five years as the Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and microbes, ecosystems, wildlife and livestock and human
and David Blechman Surgical Intensive Care Unit, as Diplomacy at Tufts University. He led the NATO Alliance behavior. In her July 2020 essay in The Nation she writes,
well as the Medical Intensive Care Units are fast-paced, in global operations from 2009 to 2013 as Supreme Allied “It’s time for a new story, one that more accurately captures
high-acuity, multi-specialty departments to be ideally Commander with responsibility for Afghanistan, Libya, the the reality of how contagions unfold and why. In this story,
situated within the new Gloria Drummond Patient Tower. Balkans, Syria, counter piracy, and cyber security. He also pandemics would be cast as both a biological reality and a
Marilyn and Stanley Barry Center for Surgical served as Commander of U.S. Southern Command, the first social phenomenon shaped by human agency.”
Services. Naval officer to do so, with responsibility for all military For more information, visit festivalboca.org or call (561)
As the Hospital’s surgical volume and medical needs operations in Latin America from 2006-2009. He earned 571-5270.
continue to increase, larger and more sophisticated
operating rooms are essential to manage the robotic Champagne ~ ‘Not Just For
equipment and technology needed for advanced surgery,
as well as minimally invasive surgeries. Plans call for 20
new over-sized high-tech operating rooms to be located New Year’s!’
on the second floor of the new patient tower.
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To address the significant growth for essential services Writer/Blogger This Champagne bar absolutely delivered on creating
at the Christine E. Lynn Heart and Vascular Institute, Boca Champagne has crossed the experience. I enjoyed a glass of Taittinger, Reims
Regional will develop a new Cardiovascular Outpatient over into the mainstream. I Champagne while nibbling on a macaroon. I was seated
in a beautiful bar, surrounded by two floors of literature
Clinic, as well as dedicated Intensive Care (ICU) and Step used to only drink Champagne with jazz music playing in the background. What pairs
Down Units in the new Gloria Drummond Patient Tower. on New Year’s Eve, or at better with Champagne than books? Our inner bibliophile
special events requiring a
Schmidt Family Parking Facility. For patient and toast. Now, I am seeing a nice surfaces!
visitor convenience, the Hospital added significant variety of Champagnes by the To keep prices affordable, Champagne bars offer a
parking capacity with the opening of the Schmidt Family glass offered at my favorite variety of Champagne by the glass, half bottle or bottle.
Parking Facility in 2020. The new 972-car garage has restaurants. If you are looking for a unique, fun experience, check
direct access to the current Hospital; upon completion Champagne bars are the out the local Champagne bars in your area and let me
of the new tower, convenient accessibility will be new “in vogue” place to try know what your new favorite Champagnes are!
maintained. new bubbly! They create a sophisticated, yet affordable, ~ Cheers
Expansion of the Marcus Neuroscience Institute. experience for the Champagne lover. The idea behind the ~ Keep the conversation going
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additional examination rooms, ICU rooms and minor
procedure suites; a new wet lab and an interventional
radiology suite.
Toby and Leon Cooperman Medical Art Pavilion.
The new Toby and Leon Cooperman Medical Arts
Pavilion will be a freestanding facility to house medical
specialty clinics and physician offices, along with an
Ambulatory Surgery Center and an adjacent parking
garage. The Medical Pavilion will also be the future home
of Boca Regional’s Orthopedic Institute.
Every commitment to “Keeping the Promise” from
the Boca Raton philanthropic population has already
made a tremendous impact on this initiative. As the
campaign momentum continues to prevail, the Hospital’s
administration looks forward to further support from the
community to ensure a future of unprecedented medical
sophistication in South Florida. Each and every gift is an
essential step toward “Keeping the Promise.”