It’s taken more than 20 years, but at last Carson Kievman is going to get his premiere. The founder of the SoBe Institute of the Arts spent four years writing an opera based on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” for the legendary director Joe Papp, only to have Papp’s untimely death from cancer in 1991 leave the work [...]
Contemporary classical composers have a higher profile these days than they did not long ago, which marks something of a return to an older time when the names of living composers were as well-known as performers. One musician who’s helped raise public awareness about contemporary classical composition is John Corigliano, whose score for “The Red [...]
Starting Feb. 25, the SoBe Institute of the Arts begins its American Masterworks series, four programs that will include performances of a major modernist classic – George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children – as well as music by Michael Colgrass and a performance in December by the fine Canadian violinist Lara St. John. Friday’s concert [...]
When Ryan Murphy, the creator of the runaway Fox hit Glee, accepted an Emmy award for the direction of the show’s pilot episode, he said during his acceptance speech that the TV comedy ultimately was about the importance of arts education. It’s no secret that seemingly every time the economy goes south and cuts in [...]
Carson Kievman in his office. (Photo by Greg Stepanich) Carson Kievman never thought he’d be running an arts school. But one request to find a violin teacher for a friend ultimately led to music teachers and students using his Miami Beach apartment for lessons, and before too long, he was renting out a studio apartment [...]
