I’ve had a lot of moments in my life lately that have prompted me to hope and wait for the movie script ending or the sitcom laugh track that, unfortunately, does not exist in real life. This phenomenon dates back to my childhood, when I would narrate my daily activities and imagine what soundtrack I [...]
On Dec. 10, 2011 at 7 p.m., Miami Open Stage, a combined effort of Dance NOW! Miami and the Little Haiti Cultural Center (LHCC), will feature new work and works in progress by South Florida choreographers Christine Beggs, Constance McIntyre, Sandra Portal-Andreu, Pioneer Winter
The news keeps getting better and better for Seraphic Fire. On Wednesday, the Miami concert choir born nine years ago at the Church of the Epiphany in South Miami was informed that it had been nominated for two Grammy awards. Its newest recording, the “London” version of the Brahms “German Requiem,” is nominated in the [...]
It is almost impossible — well, it is impossible — to experience and absorb all of the art on display this week during Art Basel. Add together all of the other off-Basel exhibits and events and the task seems even more daunting. The smaller venues featured below offer the weary and overwhelmed art-goer a lower-key, [...]
Last spring, unless you acted fast, you likely missed out on seeing Penumbra Theatre’s premiere staging of “I Wish You Love.” Tickets sold out quickly to playwright Dominic Taylor’s musical portrait of ‘50s crooner turned television pioneer, Nat “King” Cole. If you were one of those, like me, who missed out on tickets for the [...]
Marissa Alma Nick dares you to show your face and follow (or un-follow) your shadow to “The Shadow Projects,” a site-specific experimental performance inspired by Carl Jung’s shadow theory. Jung’s shadow theory posits the idea that the shadow contains “the disowned qualities of the conscious
Of the more than 1,000 pieces that Franz Schubert composed before his early death at the age of 31, around 600 of them are songs. He was the supreme master of the German Lied in the first decades of the 19th century, and while there are many individual treasures in his vast catalog, he’s particularly [...]
Thousands of people from around the country will descend upon St. Paul’s vast downtown RiverCentre complex this weekend for the 36th annual Hmong New Year celebration. A significant majority of the more than 66,000 Hmong Americans who call Minnesota home live in the Twin Cities, making ours the largest urban Hmong population in the world. [...]
Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is this Thursday. In addition to the food consumption, it might mean you start humming Christmas tunes or other holiday music. There are so many ways to celebrate this season, but music is often a common shared experience. Memories associated with music around this time of year are strongly rooted [...]
One of the more exciting musicological discoveries of 2010 comes to life this weekend when a Miami-based Baroque flutist performs a long-lost concerto by Antonio Vivaldi. The concerto, called “Il Gran Mogol,” apparently was written in the late 1720s as part of a collection of four flute concerti honoring various potentates; this one would have [...]
