By Steven O. Evans, PhD
Dear Readers,
Amazing is the only word that comes to mind as I write this month’s letter. I am sitting here with the windows and doors open. Our amazing Florida weather and sunshine is pouring in.
This month (March) was an amazing concert by the South Florida Symphony Orchestra with cellist, Zuill Bailey, at the newly remodeled Parker. I saw Itzak Perlman in person at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. The concert of a lifetime. I heard Liz Callaway perform with the Symphony of the Americas. I sat back and mellowed to the sounds of Stacey Kent as she sang with Gold Coast Jazz. The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts hosted us for a fantastic performance by Bernadette Peters. Michael Carbanaro made the night magical (pun intended) at The Center (Coral Springs Center for the Arts). Island City Stage gave us another thought provoking and entertaining show. And the Gay Men’s Chorus of South FLorida (GMCSF) astounded another audience with their amazing performance.
What’s next? Don’t miss Florida Grand Opera’s Barber of Seville. Tru, a local performance with a leading role I highly recommend. Please do all you can to make it to Dining Out for Life. Broward House helps so many in our community. Stop by for brunch at Lips and don’t forget your dollars for gals. OutClique welcomes New City Players to the family. Check out their show, Cry for Old Kingdom. And if that’s not enough, the OutShine Film Festival has a whole host of films and events. While you’re in Miami, the Adrianne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts has a lineup of shows with something for everyone.
I’m headed to Island House Key West. More on that, next month!
May happiness be abounding.¹
Dr. Steven²
¹Dr. Angela Easterday-Holder, former Chair and Professor of Music at Carson-Newman University and choir member Immanuel Baptist Church, Lexington, KY (www.ibclex.org)
²Dr. Jane McEldowney Jensen, doctoral supervisor. Director of Graduate Studies, Educational Policy Studies & Education. University of Kentucky, College of Education. Dissertation title: Pediatrics education in an AHEC setting: Preparing students to provide patient centered medicine. A research study of ways that medical students learn patient centered medicine through their rotations in AHEC clinical settings.
