Composer Fredrick Kaufman: Life on the Cutting Edge
FREDRICK KAUFMAN (b.1936) is the composer of over one hundred and thirty compositions that have been performed by leading orchestras worldwide. In addition, Kaufman is a former Fulbright Scholar, and author of “The African Roots of Jazz,” a groundbreaking study that drew heavily on his early musical life as a jazz trumpet player with the Woody Herman Band.
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Artist Sandra Ramos: A Foot in Miami and a Foot in Havana
SANDRA RAMOS is a Cuban contemporary painter, printmaker, collagist, and installation artist who explores nationality, gender, and identity in her work.
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Jim Gilbert: Editor, Journalist, Author
JIM GILBERT’s 35-year career as a journalist and publisher is notable in that he was always able to write about things he truly enjoyed while living in places he genuinely loved. His career began as a weekly reporter and editor on Cape Cod for the Provincetown Advocate, then shifted to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Newport, RI and finally to Ft. Lauderdale, FL, where he was the founding editor-in-chief and ultimately owner of ShowBoats International, which he started in 1988.
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Between Friends:
Susan Mailer + Esther Amini.
SUSAN MAILER is Norman Mailer’s first born. She grew up between Mexico City and New York, between her mother and her father.
ESTHER AMINI is a writer, painter, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. “Concealed” is her first memoir.
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Cartoon Great Mischa Richter
MISCHA RICHTER delighted readers of “The New Yorker” for a half century. His magazine art — his preferred term, rather than cartoon — appeared in other magazines over the years as well, but he was best known as one of “The New Yorker’s” most prolific contributors. Starting in January 1942, the magazine published more than 1,500 of his creations. Their common traits were wit, craftsmanship and intellectual curiosity.
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