Schedule of Events:

Friday, March 1, 2024

7:30 PM: Henry Mancini at 100

It’s Henry Mancini’s 100th birthday!

From “Moon River” to “The Pink Panther Theme,” “Baby Elephant Walk” and “Days of Wine and Roses,” Henry Mancini composed some of the most beloved music of our time, while revolutionizing the art of film scoring. Celebrate his 100th birthday with us!

The Frost School of Music’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra will be joined onstage by Henry’s daughter, two-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Monica Mancini, eight-time Grammy winner Gregg Field, and five-time Grammy nominee pianist Shelly Berg, plus other surprise guest artists in an extraordinary multimedia event (with exclusive photo and video archival footage) dedicated to the centenary celebration of Mancini’s birth.

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Saturday, March 2, 2024

7:30 PM: JAWS with Live Orchestra

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the concert hall

The original summer movie blockbuster, with an Academy Award®-winning score by composer John Williams, Jaws is an unforgettable film-with-live-orchestra experience!

Directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws set the standard for edge-of-your-seat suspense, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever changing the movie industry. When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town’s chief of police, a young marine biologist and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again. Featuring an unforgettable score that evokes pure terror, Jaws remains one of the most influential and gripping adventures in motion picture history.

Now for the first time, audiences will have the chance to experience the power of a live symphony orchestra performing the entire score in sync with one of the greatest motion pictures of all time.

In the words of Chief Brody, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat!”

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Sunday, March 3, 2024

4:00 PM: Daisy Dowling: Workparenting

There are plenty of parenting books out there. But working moms and dads have never had a trusted, go-to guide just for them — one that coaches them on how to do well at work, be the loving and engaged parents they want to be, and remain true to ourselves in the process.

That is the focus of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids, Daisy Dowling’s book aimed at finding balance and meeting while both working and parenting. Cal Newport calls it “A must-read for anyone struggling with the dual challenges of careers and kids." The book, says Allbirds Chief People Officer  Laila Tarraf, “speaks to you as a whole person and encourages you to think of yourself as a whole person as well.”

Dowling will join us in Boca for a conversation about her book, parenting, and the challenges of balance, meaning, work, and engagement.

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7:00 PM: Renée Fleming Returns

Renée Fleming is one of the most acclaimed singers of our time, performing on the stages of the world’s greatest opera houses and concert halls. Honored with five Grammy awards and the US National Medal of Arts, she has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Super Bowl.

CONCERT PROGRAM

Handel
Ombra mai fu
To Fleeting Pleasures

Reynaldo Hahn: L’heure Exquise
Gabriel Fauré: Mandoline
Jules Massenet: Adieu, Notre Petite Table

Ruggero Leoncavallo: Musette svaria sulla bocca viva (La Bohème)
Giacomo Puccini: O mio babbino

Jerome Kern: All the Things you are
Stevie Wonder: My Cherie Amour

André Previn:  I Want Magic from A Streetcar Named Desire
Andrew Lippa: The Diva

Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah
Lerner and Loewe: I Could Have Danced All Night

The five-time Grammy-winning Fleming performed at our inaugural Festival in 2007, and again in 2015, both times to sold-out, standing-room-only audiences. This exclusive recital performance by the reigning queen of sopranos will be Fleming's only performance in South Florida this season.

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Monday, March 4, 2024

7:00 PM: Renée Fleming: Music and the Mind

Inspired by the Sound Health initiative, Renée Fleming developed her Music and the Mind program to explore the power of music as it relates to health and the brain. Since 2017, she has presented the program in over 40 cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. And now she brings it to Boca!

Music and the Mind has covered everything from childhood development, cognitive neuroscience, evolution, music therapy and the impact on healthcare, the impact of music education, music and social cohesion, and the future of music in medicine.

Fleming has interviewed experts from around the country and investigated the evolutionary role music may have played in creating community, as well as case studies and individual stories of how music has changed lives.

Join us for a powerful evening of discovery, as the world’s top soprano shares the amazing work happening at the intersection of music, health, and neuroscience.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

7:00 PM: Future Stars Competition

For this evening's competition, Rotary members and performance pros have selected 27 finalists to compete in five competition categories: high school vocal soloist, high school dance soloist, middle school vocal soloist, middle school dance soloist, and dance group.

The competition’s finalists will represent schools and performance educators from all over South Florida. Many Future Stars alumni have gone on to college-level study at prestigious music and dance programs and professional careers in the performing arts.

The Rotary Club of Boca Raton annually awards a need-based performing arts scholarship, and has over the years helped many Future Stars participants with scholarship assistance to pursue their dream of a career in the performing arts.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

7:00 PM: Nicholas Thompson: The Wired Future

Technology is changing everything, but it’s also moving more quickly than we can keep up with. How can we make sure it works for us instead of against us?

Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of WIRED, says that innovations have improved our lives in countless ways — “We live longer, eat better, and keep powerful computers in our pockets”— but we need vigilant journalism and an engaged society that is prepared to keep Big Tech in check.

An award-winning author and former editor at The New Yorker, Nicholas teaches us what technology like ChatGPT can mean for our society, and how we can thrive in a future defined by new rules, new values, and new possibilities.

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

7:00 PM: Poet Richard Blanco

Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, Richard Blanco’s poetry is all about the negotiation of cultural identity and the universal themes of place.

Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Blanco’s most recent poetry collection, Homeland of My Body, which he will read from this evening, reassess traditional notions of home as strictly a geographical, tangible place that merely exist outside us, but rather, within us.

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Friday, March 8, 2024

7:30 PM: Barcelona Flamenco Ballet: Luxuria

Directed by dancer and choreographer David Gutiérrez, Luxuria is a compelling tale of love and self-realization told through dance and music.

The male protagonist has no difficulty attracting female attention, yet these women desire him for what he has, not for what he is. Awash in this contradiction, the man meets the love of his life, and it is love at first sight. Yet he quickly understands that loving her will not be easy, because she is a woman of character, rebellious, strong and independent. She seems to fly when she dances. What can he do? His urge to live in lust masks his true feelings. Only she can save him.

Despair and tragedy. Desire and loneliness. Only flamenco could so powerfully embody all these emotions. How will it end?

Luxuria is a pioneering style of flamenco ballet, mixing classical music, jazz and conventional flamenco music in a uniquely beautiful and lyrical performance, yet one that is also tragic and rife with conflict. In short, Luxuria is a unique and unusual flamenco ballet show that taps into a rich variety and intensity of emotions, addressing themes both intimate and universal.

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Saturday, March 9, 2024

7:30 PM: An Evening with Isaac Mizrahi

His talent goes way beyond fashion. Don’t miss a night with famed clothing designer and Project Runway All-Stars judge, Isaac Mizrahi. Accompanied by his band of jazz musicians, Mizrahi will perform a range of tunes by the likes of Madonna and Barbra Streisand to Billie Eilish, Cole Porter, and more. He will also dish on everything happening from social media, politics, sex, and his latest Instagram obsessions.

Mizrahi has worked extensively in the entertainment industry as a performer, host, writer, designer, and producer for over 30 years. He has an annual residency at Café Carlyle in New York City and has performed at various venues across the country such as Joe’s Pub, The Regency Ballroom, and several City Winery locations nationwide. The New York Times noted, “he qualifies as a founding father of a genre that fuses performance art, music, and stand-up comedy.”

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Sunday, March 10, 2024

7:00 PM: 100 Years of Rhapsody in Blue

Kyle Prescott conducts the Festival Boca Jazz Orchestra, featuring rising star pianist Dominic Cheli, in Gershwin’s iconic American classic in its original version for jazz band as it was performed at the famous premiere in 1924. And get out your dancing shoes,  with everyone invited to get up and dance to the great American swing jazz classics in the second half of the concert!

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Date: March 1 - March 10, 2024

Location: Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432.

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