Weather: Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Sunday Night: Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
The 2024 Flagler Wellness Expo by the Intuitive Living Institute, a for-profit company in the Hammock, is held at Flagler Palm Coast High School from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. $5 per person. Intuitive provides alternative and holistic health services through what it calls “master energy healers.” The expo will feature numerous local businesses that specialize in fitness, nutrition, acupuncture, crustal and energy healing, yoga and other alternative health fields.
Warbirds Over Flagler Fly-In at County Airport, a two-day air show, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Flagler Executive Airport, 201 Airport Rd, Palm Coast, $5 per carload. The family-friendly event offers fun and thrills for everyone that showcases past and present foreign and U.S. airpower with static displays of vintage and modern military aircraft and vehicles, warbird flybys, a kids’ zone, and music. There will also be plenty of food and beverage vendors. Gates open on both days at 10 a.m. so attendees can begin to enjoy the music, vendor booths, and static displays. Opening ceremonies will be held at noon Saturday with the national anthem, a few words by dignitaries, and a Warbird Parade Flyby. Between 1 and 6 p.m. there will be dozens of warbird flybys and RC aircraft demonstrations.
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Caryl Churchill’s ‘Vinegar Tom,’ at City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. on Sunday. $15-$30. Book tickets here. From Director John Sbordone’s program notes: Caryl Churchill’s VINEGAR TOM, written in collaboration with the Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company, uses the hunt for witches in the 17th century, as stool to investigate the subjugation of women in a male dominated society. The lessons of the past, though more blatant than the present, are reflected in many aspects of our own society. Churchill, a leading feminist writer in Britain for over 50 years, explores the free spirited Alice, the subservient Susan, the caged in Betty, the destitute Joan and the ever helpful Ellen in the context of their repressive environment. She uses modern techniques such as the episodic scene to convey the pervasiveness of the subjugation without absorbing the audience in emotional crisis. She asks us to observe the behaviors without getting lost in their melodrama. One technique establishes these goals graphically. The songs are intended to covey a contemporary commentary on the behavior of the past. CRT is proud to present this daring exploration and thankful to Benjamin Beck for composing the compelling music to accompany our efforts.
The DeLand Outdoor Art Festival: The 59th annual festival will be held at Earl Brown Park, 815 S. Alabama Ave. Admission is free. Fine artists from throughout the Southeast will be competing for thousands of dollars in cash prizes and awards. The festival offers a craft section with items for sale ranging from handmade jewelry, clothing, soaps, infused products, to carved wooden toys. Festival planners believe the event will attract more than 135 artists and crafters. More than 6,000 spectators came to the festival during its two-day event last year. As usual, country, folk, bluegrass, blues and other musical performances will be going on throughout this year’s festival. Entertainers will be on stage between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Food ranging from Greek salads to popcorn, Bar-B-Q, Kettle Korn to Home Made Ice Cream and much, much more to tempt and satisfy your pallet. Festival goers are encouraged to sign up in the information booth for the Spectator drawing of $100 to be spent on fine art & crafts. The drawings are held every hour both days from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. Meanwhile, The West Volusia Beacon newspaper will continue its tradition of sponsoring the Youth Division of the festival. Casey Marshall, a local graphic designer, is sponsoring the division. The division features artwork from students throughout West Volusia. Other sponsors include: City of DeLand; the DeLand Department of Parks and Recreation; Tinker Graphics and the Florida Department of Transportation.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Notably: “Discovering the recordings of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932-1982) might be one of the most important moments of any listener’s life. No other 20th century performer conveys a musical wisdom so peerless, a communicativeness so all-encompassing and a beauty so unquenchable,” Patrick Giles wrote in Salon (remember Salon?) in an April 2000 appraisal. I had that moment in my late teens of the early 1980s, just before or just after he died of a stroke two days after his 50th birthday. I’d been listening (discovering is an overused word, but it ‘s the right word here) to his Goldberg Variations, his second version of which had just been issued in 1981 to the sort of acclaim more in the league of Taylor Swift than a classical pianist. Vladimir Horowitz had that kind of response, though Horowitz was more of a romantic showman than the punctilious artist Gould was, and Horowitz specialized in false notes, making him often difficult to listen to. (There are limits.) But Gould, too, had his annoying quirks. He was all annoying quirks, whether it was his habit of only eating scrambled eggs, the way he wore gloves cut off at the knuckles when he played, his refusal to perform in public past a certain year, all of which is really irrelevant, but this isn’t: when Gould played, he hummed. He hummed. You could hear it. Keith Jarrett had that problem too, though it was a lot less intrusive. Gould’s humming really interferes with the experience, and in some cases ruins it. There’s that. There’s also the interpretations themselves. When you’re young, Gould amazes you with his technical virtuosity. The guy plays the piano with an unheard of precision, or at least so it was back then. But he also plays it with the sort of precision that can become a caricature of itself, at times making Mozart sound like Bach and Bach sound like Brahms. I’m exaggerating a little, but not when it comes to Mozart: I cannot hear him play Mozart. He plays him as if Mozart were a pair of shears trimming the gardens at Versailles, at ridiculous speeds that eliminate all of Mozart’s charms and muffle all of Mozart’s subtleties beneath Gould’s insistence on dominating every note with what he thinks rather than what Mozart wants you to feel. (Gould hated Mozart.) But all the harshness aside, Glenn Gould will always be the pianist you’ll end up listening to, and for the most part, being fascinated by, even if it’s not always enjoyable in the morose sense of the term. Edward Said called him “The virtuoso as intellectual.”
—P.T.
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The tension in Gould’s virtuosity remains unresolved. By virtue of their eccentricity, his performances make no attempt to ingratiate themselves with his listeners or reduce the distance between their lonely ecstatic brilliance and the confusions of the everyday world.
What they consciously try to present, however, is a critical model for a type of art that is rational and pleasurable at the same time, an art that tries to show us its composition as an activity still being undertaken in its performance. This achieves the purpose of expanding the framework inside which performers are compelled to work, and also -as the intellectual must do-it elaborates an alternative argument to the prevailing conventions that so deaden and dehumanize and de-rationalize the human spirit. This is not only an intellectual achieve-ment, but also a humanistic one. And this, much more than the kind of electronic fiddling Gould often spoke about misleadingly as providing listeners of the future with a creative opportunity, is why Gould continues to grip and activate his audience.
–From Edward Said’s “Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual,” Raritan, Summer 2000.
