Change May Be Good For Florida Presenter

When the Concert Association of Florida forced out its longtime head, Judy Drucker, last week, the Miami cultural scene was stunned. But Lawrence Johnson says that the board’s decision to move past Drucker was probably the right move. “While Drucker’s achievements and vast contribution to the region’s arts scene are unassailable… her propensity for foisting herself aggressively into the limelight alongside her artists, most evident in her cringe-inducing curtain speeches, struck many as gauche and provincial. She could be abrasive, self-aggrandizing and selective with the truth.”