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By Rex Hearn
The season will soon be upon the only major America opera company to have a season in the 16. View website at pbopera.org, or call (561) 833-7888.
us. Masks? No masks? COVID pandemic! Here’s what you’ll hear in their 60th year! Palm Beach Symphony, Kravis Center
or a variant? Vaccinated or not, Palm Beach Opera, Kravis Center No more roaming around the county, the orchestra is
most arts groups in Palm Beach Bizet’s Carmen goes up Jan. 28 and 29, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. anchored at the Kravis Center from now on, thanks to their
County want to entertain you. and Jan. 30 at 2 p.m. new conductor, the estimable Gerard Schwarz. This year
Remember Palm Beach Opera’s Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love hits the boards on Feb. 25 their first concert is on Sunday, Nov. 7 at 3 p.m. featuring
daring three operas at the 6,000- and 26 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Thursday, Dec. 2 at 7:30,
seat auditorium last February? Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow begins on March 25 and p.m. has the Mozart Requiem in D minor with the Master
All the top singers from the 26 and its last performance is on March 27 at 2 p.m. Opening Chorale of South Florida.
Metropolitan Opera came to night dinners are on Jan. 28, Feb. 25 and March 25. The Lunch In the New Year, 2022, on Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m., Yefim
sing because their house was and Learn talks held at the National Croquet Center are on Bronfman plays the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3.
closed! Not Palm Beach, it was Thursday, Jan. 20; Thursday, Feb. 17; and Wednesday, March There will be no concert in February. On Monday, March
7 at 7:30 p.m., Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 is featured.
And on Sunday, April 10 at 3 p.m. Dvorak’s rollicking
Symphony No. 8 will close the season. For fuller details go
to: palmbeachsymphony.org or call (561) 281-0145.
all abouT kids
Dyscalculia: A Math
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By Jim Forgan, Ph.D.,School Psychologist
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struggles with memorizing
math facts, understanding
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