Orchestra Miami launches new ‘Amahl’ tradition

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Orchestra Miami launches new ‘Amahl’ tradition

Published December 20, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

Orchestra Miami's poster for Amahl and The Night Visitors. The story goes that composer Gian Carlo Menotti, blocked on his commission for a Christmas opera for television and running out of time, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, hoping to clear his...

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“Channeling the USA” at the McColl Center

Published December 20, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

"Blurred Interpretation" by Randy Shull 2011. According to curator Janet Kopolos, “the most interesting use of the U.S. map shape,” in Randy Shull’s new body of work “is that it’s a void.” A void is usually seen negatively as a loss or lack of something. Perhaps...

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Three at Grizzly Grizzly rejuvenate the mundane

Published December 20, 2012 by CSchwartz

At Grizzly Grizzly, three artists that participate as part of the Knight Arts grantee Community Supported Art (CSA) program are displaying art created for the project, as well as additional work that demonstrates their diverse styles of making. Sarah Kate Burgess, Brian Giniewski and Linda Yun are currently displaying their...

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Reactions to Abhinaya Dance Company’s fall concert on “Gandhi”

Published December 19, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Abhinaya Dance Company’s fall concert on "Gandhi" received excellent comments by the Silicon Valley audience. With publicity and tickets extending to Zevents, Goldstar, Dancers' group, etc. we had a significant number of new audiences that had never attended an Indian classical dance performance before. Some comments here include those from...

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Reports from Borscht 8 Film Festival

Published December 19, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

The Borscht 8 Film Festival debuted last weekend at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Miami New Times critic Michael Musto weighed in on the festival, saying: "Miami has real soul. And lots of burgeoning art scenes, which are reflected in the personal, expressive filmmaking that Borscht serves with brio." Click here...

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Macon State College students show off their work in fall exhibit

Published December 19, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

"Untitled" Spray paint with stencils on canvas by Jeremy Couch. Along with its list of concerts and workshops, The 567 Center for Renewal (a Knight Arts grantee) also hosts monthly art exhibits in its upstairs gallery. Often the work is by professional artists, but from time...

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A dispatch from Nautilus Music Theater’s intimate, eclectic ‘Rough Cuts’ series

Published December 19, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Rough Cuts takes place monthly with two shows - one in St. Paul, one in Minneapolis, on the second Monday and Tuesday of the month. Only about 20 people turned out this Monday night for Nautilus Music-Theater’s Rough Cuts show in Lowertown, and a number of...

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“The Bacchae 2012” a Kennedy Center festival entrant

Published December 19, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Let’s hear it for classy college theater. The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), an organization that is looking to “improve the quality of college theatre in the United States," has selected the University of Akron Theater program's fall production of “The Bacchae 2012” for its annual regional festival...

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Galina Vishnevskaya, the Russian tigress

Published December 19, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Galina Vishnevskaya was, above all, a survivor. Her life was out of an opera. Were only half of what she relates in her autobiography true, it would be enough to merit unconditional admiration. Everything was extreme in the tumultuous life of...

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Cordova’s artistic journey

Published December 18, 2012 by Anne Tschida

William Cordova. The work and curatorial vision of William Cordova can seem both ubiquitous and elusive at the same time in Miami. The Lima native is an ArtCenter/South Florida alum, an MFA grad from Yale, a 2008 Whitney Biennial participant, an on-again off-again inhabitant of Miami...

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Douglas Irving Repetto’s “Nest Machine” at Marginal Utility

Published December 18, 2012 by CSchwartz

Even before setting foot in the Marginal Utility gallery space, you can hear a strange whirring bouncing out into the hallway. Is there some type of construction project in the adjacent room? Are attendants vacuuming up from the night before? Actually, the answer is none of the above. What is...

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The Henry Ford Museum lights up Holiday Nights with an old-fashioned twist at Greenfield Village

Published December 18, 2012 by Rosie Sharp

Santa hailing true believers by name from the balcony of the Robert Frost house. A sold-out crowd of holiday-lovers and history buffs were on hand over the weekend at Holiday Nights, the special wintertime celebration that takes place within the historical Greenfield Village installation at...

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One culture’s imprint

Published December 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Bonita Buford, Gantt Center Mournful voices chant; chains scrape across a floor; sobs and sporadic drums form the soundtrack as visitors step into America I AM: The African American Imprint, a sweeping historical exhibition outlining pivotal moments of courage, conviction and creativity. This multimedia presentation includes rare documents, photographs...

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Maximizing our imprint by minimizing our footprint

Published December 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Bonita Buford, Gantt Center Pastor David Williams of Gastonia, North Carolina was the winner of the Harvey B. Gantt Center Imprint Contest, coming closest to guessing the number of plastic water bottles that were recycled and used to create outdoor signage for the Center’s America I AM: The African...

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Brand new yuletide carols being sung by a choir

Published December 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Elissa Weller, VocalEssence 2012 marks the 15th year of the annual Welcome Christmas Carol Contest. Co-sponsored by VocalEssence and the American Composers Forum (ACF), the Welcome Christmas Carol Contest provides composers with the opportunity to compose a modern-day yuletide carol, to be sung, you guessed it, by the VocalEssence...