By Peter Legget, Walker West Music Academy This October, Walker West Music Academy welcomed emerging improvisor Aakash Mittal and his quartet. The group performed music from Aakash’s latest release entitled Videsh in addition to performing compositions from a forthcoming record. Aakash and his quartet are among a new generation of young musicians incorporating an array of [...]
When I made plans to see Nautilus Music-Theater’s adaptation of “Joan of Arc” — its first fully staged production in the company’s small, Lowertown loft studio space — I have to admit, I was a bit dubious. Thinking of the medieval French peasant girl-turned-soldier of God, her famously transcendent visions and fiery end — the high drama [...]
Saturday, Oct. 29 started out grey with lingering wet on the ground. However, very quickly, a beautiful fall Carolina day blew in, and we were left with crisp, breezy air, along with sprays of contrasting yellows, reds and orange leaves against that perfect blue sky. The sound of dry leaves rustling and the palpable excitement [...]
Featuring an almost overwhelming array of 150-plus performances, “Sleepless Night” (a Knight Arts grantee) returns to Miami Beach with 13 consecutive hours of cultural arts and entertainment scattered around the city at strategic locations from South Beach to North Shore. One of the best things about the cultural arts
By Sebastián Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer It was three years ago at the Adrienne Arsht Center, with strong support of the Knight Foundation. It was a concert by the first “musical ambassadors of the 21st century,” that the Miami Music Project was officially launched. It was an idea that gradually took hold, became a reality [...]
Today is the final day to submit your best idea for the arts in Philadelphia to the Knight Arts Challenge! Make sure you apply by midnight tonight. No idea is too large or too small, and everyone can apply. Here’s a reminder of our three basic rules: Your idea is about the arts. Your project [...]
Here’s an idea I like a lot. Violinist Hilary Hahn, who comes to Fort Lauderdale next week as part of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ classical music series, is throwing a contest. She’s looking for a composer to write a new violin encore for her to play at one of her concerts, as [...]
There are several one-off art events every year that are must checks on the calendar for collectors, artists and art lovers. One such happening has become the time-honored fundraiser for the non-for-profit Locust Projects (a Knight Arts grantee), one of Miami’s most important venues for original, non-commercial, cutting-edge artwork. Non-commercial is the key word here, [...]
By Eva Mowry Lewis, Charlotte Symphony Synesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus of one sense leads to a secondary reaction from another sense. These ‘secondary impulses’ result in relationships between numbers, language, taste, colors and music. People who experience synesthesia (synesthetes) see inherent relationships between numbers and colors, days of the week and personalities, [...]
By Gregory Lucas-Myers, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History On October 15 and 16, 2011, the Wright played host to “Rhapsody in Boop,” a musical tribute to the big band jazz that helped to turn a cartoon character into an icon. The songs of greats that leant their music to Betty Boop’s cartoons, [...]
