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15th Annual Festival Of The Arts Boca To Reach Worldwide

Audience With ‘Virtual’ Star-Studded Performances And

Award-Winning Authors

Festival of the Arts Boca will go forward in 2021, of the Festival of the Arts Boca, and general director of
with virtual performances by Florida-based artists from Chatham Opera and New York Grand Opera.
iconic locations throughout Boca Raton from March 6 to The festival will close on Sunday, March 14, with
14. Each program will stream once only on the Festival Grammy-Award winning South Florida favorite, jazz
of the Arts Boca website: www.festivalboca.org. Access flutist Nestor Torres, and his band at the Boca Raton Resort
is free with advance registration. and Club.
“Our 15th installment will celebrate the tremendous If a flute could talk
talent in South Florida, showcase the beauty of Boca from and sing, it would
various venues and honor the legacy of our co-founder, certainly be in the voice
Charlie Siemon,” said Joanna Marie Kaye, executive of Nestor Torres, for
director of Festival of the Arts Boca. “Charlie would he speaks through his
have been thrilled to see that, paradoxically, we have the instrument. Nominated
opportunity to reach our biggest audience ever in 2021 for several Latin
with all of our events James Ehnes Grammy Awards, Torres
filmed and broadcast won it in 2001 for his CD,
worldwide.” of orchestras includes, among others, the Boston, Chicago, This Side of Paradise,
The festival will London, NHK and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, the Los a bittersweet victory
open on Saturday, Angeles, New York, Munich and Czech Philharmonic given the fact that the
March 6, with Orchestras, and the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Philharmonia awards ceremony was
Boca native and and DSO Berlin orchestras. scheduled for Sept. 11,
Metropolitan Opera On Saturday, March 13, tune in for a salon evening 2001. His CD, Dances,
star, Nadine Sierra, and with the Festival of the Arts Boca All-Stars, featuring Prayers & Meditations
friends in concert at the Constantine Kitsopoulos, festival music director, and for Peace, signaled a Nestor Torres
Boca Raton Airport. musicians from the festival orchestra. new departure, as a
Hailed as one of Kitsopoulos has established himself as a dynamic reflection of his experience on 9/11. Torres’s most recent
the most promising conductor known for his ability to work in many different Grammy -nominated CD, Nouveau Latino, heralds the
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young talents in opera genres and settings. He is equally at home with opera, flautist’s exuberant return to his salsa and Latin jazz
today, Sierra was symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, music roots. In addition to his achievements in the studio and
named the Richard theatre, and composition. His work has taken him all over on the stage, Torres has received numerous awards and
Tucker Award winner the world, where he has conducted the major orchestras commendations, including two honorary doctorates for his
in 2017 and the of North America, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the commitment to youth, education, and cultural exchanges.
2018 Beverly Sills Nadine Sierra Tokyo Philharmonic. In addition to Maestro Kitsopoulos’s This season’s Authors & Ideas program will include
Artist Award by the engagements as guest conductor, he is music director interactive discussions with three authors – Admiral
Metropolitan Opera. Having made a string of successful James Stavridis, Sonia Shah and Bruce Feiler – via Zoom.
debuts at the Met, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra national de On Monday, March 8, at 7 p.m., Admiral James
Paris, and Staatsoper Berlin, she has become a fixture at Stavridis, author and retired four-star U.S. Naval officer,
many of the top houses around the world. She released will talk about leadership. He is currently an operating
her debut album, There’s a Place for Us, in 2018. executive of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm,
On Sunday, March 7, the festival will welcome and chair of the Board of Counselors of McLarty Associates,
Grammy Award-winning Florida-based violinist, James an international consulting firm. Previously, he served for
Ehnes, and friends performing from the Boca Raton five years as the dean of The Fletcher School of Law and
Innovation Campus. Diplomacy at Tufts University. He led the NATO Alliance
Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, in global operations from 2009 to 2013 as Supreme Allied
serene lyricism and an unfaltering musicality, Ehnes is Commander with responsibility for Afghanistan, Libya, the
a favorite guest of many of the world’s most respected Balkans, Syria, counter piracy, and cyber security. He also
conductors, including Ashkenazy, Alsop, Sir Andrew served as Commander of U.S. Southern Command, the first
Davis, Denève, Elder, Ivan Fischer, Gardner, Paavo Järvi, Naval officer to do so, with responsibility for all military
Mena, Noseda, Robertson and Runnicles. Ehnes’s long list Constantine Kitsopoulos operations in Latin America from 2006 to 2009. He earned
more than 50 medals, including 28 from foreign nations in
his 37-year military career.
Archive GAlleries discuss his latest book, a top 10 New York Times bestseller,
On Tuesday, March 9, at 7 p.m., Bruce Feiler will
Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age,
a collection of hundreds of life stories, exploring how
we can navigate life’s growing number of transitions to
live with more meaning, purpose, and joy. Feiler is the
Pays higher Prices for fine art - antiques - Jewelry author of seven New York Times bestsellers; the presenter
of two prime-time series on PBS; and the inspiration for
the drama series, Council of Dads, on NBC. Feiler’s two
• Oil Paintings • sterling silver • antique jewelry TED Talks have been viewed more than two million times.
On Thursday, March 11, at 7 p.m., the festival will
• Oriental rugs • Objects OF art • MOdern jewelry welcome Sonia Shah, science journalist and prize-
• Fine Furniture • sculPtures • watches winning author of the heavily lauded, The Next Great
• POrcelain • clOcks • cOstuMe jewelry Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move,
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that explores our centuries-long assumptions about
migration through science, history, and reporting,
we also Purchase anything decorative or collectible predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate
change. Her 2016 book, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions
from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond, was
• servicing • in FlOrida released in August 2020 with a new preface and has been
called “superbly written,” (The Economist), “bracingly
• snOwbirds • new yOrk intelligent” (Nature), “provocative” and “chilling,” (New
• new jersey York Times), a “lively, rigorously researched and highly
informative read,” (Wall Street Journal) and “absorbing,
complex, and ominous,” (Publishers Weekly).
call now for a free consultation, no obligation ecosystems, wildlife and livestock and human behavior.
Shah discusses the fascinating interplay of microbes,

In her July 2020 essay in The Nation she writes, “It’s time
for a new story, one that more accurately captures the
cash courteous reality of how contagions unfold and why. In this story,
pandemics would be cast as both a biological reality and
Payments in home a social phenomenon shaped by human agency.”
For more information, visit festivalboca.org or call
uPon request mr. JosePh 561-498-7536 service (561) 571-5270.