You don’t want to miss Stephen Hough

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You don’t want to miss Stephen Hough

Published February 17, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

This weekend features an appearance by the excellent British pianist Stephen Hough, who comes to Julian Kreeger’s Friends of Chamber Music of Miami series for a solo recital. Kreeger has gathered a selection of pianists this year, and Hough is...

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Opera Carolina opens the door for nearly 4,000 first-time operagoers

Published February 16, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By James Meena, Opera Carolina In mid 2011, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded Opera Carolina an Audience Development grant to create a bold new initiative for the company to exponentially increase its audience. With this grant, the Knight Foundation purchased 90% of the house to the...

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Report from the Glades part 2: Danielle Austen, Artist-in-Residence Everglades National Park

Published February 16, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Danielle Austen, Artist-in-Residence Everglades National Park Birds, Alligators, Crocodiles…OH MY!!!! The one thing I cannot get enough of in the Everglades is the Wildlife… especially the birds! In the past five years while visiting the glades, I have noticed the amount of birds...

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Report from the Glades part 1: Danielle Austen, Artist-in-Residence Everglades National Park

Published February 16, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Danielle Austen, Artist-in-Residence Everglades National Park There is something to be said about “ignorance is bliss”….in the previous years visiting the Everglades I had never given much thought about snakes… boy was that...

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The Knight Arts Challenge’s Emmy-winning “Ideas in Motion” hits the small screen

Published February 16, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Breaking news – WPBT Channel 2 will air the Emmy-winning "Ideas in Motion" documentary Tuesday, Feb 21 at 7:30pm. Produced by Knight Foundation, the 27-minute special showcases the Knight Arts Challenge and its winners. “Ideas in Motion” gets inside the studio and behind the curtain with five winners of the...

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Asian Arts Initiative presents “Marvels & Monsters”

Published February 16, 2012 by CSchwartz

Knight Arts Challenge Finalist Asian Arts Initiative currently has on display “Marvels & Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics 1942 – 1986”. Curated by Jeff Yang, the show is a collaboration with the Asian / Pacific / American Institute at NYU, which presents the vast comic book collection of...

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Opera Carolina performs “Pinocchio” as a family opera

Published February 16, 2012 by carmella.jarvi

Opera and family are not two ideas that usually go together. But, to think of it another way, children who experience live performances — of opera or other classical music — are often more inclined to participate, enjoy and support the arts as adults. Now take the children's classic story...

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“Ask Your Mama” opens at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center

Published February 16, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

Note on Commercial Theatre You’ve taken my blues and gone — … And you fixed ‘em So they don’t sound like me. … But someday somebody’ll Stand up and talk about me, And write about me — Black and beautiful — And sing about me, And put on plays about...

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Mu Daiko celebrates its 15th anniversary with joyful noise

Published February 15, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

When Mu Daiko’s taiko drummers beat out a rhythm, it’s not just performance — it’s exultation. With a fusion of percussive beats and fluid, athletic movement, the artists on stage for Saturday night’s 15th Anniversary Concert gave the enthusiastic crowd in Ordway’s intimate McKnight Theater a rousing performance of both...

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The Calder Quartet with Iva Bittová on the FUZE! series

Published February 15, 2012 by EGuregian

When Iva Bittová sings, her voice darts its way in and out of a melody like the needle of a mad embroidery master. To listen to this Czech singer is to be transported to a place where you don’t know what will happen next — but you want nothing more...

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Do you like gospel? Do you have talent?

Published February 15, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Adrienne Arsht Center Staff The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is looking for you! As part of its Free Gospel Sundays program sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Arsht Center is conducting a New Gospel Talent Search. Wanted: Miami’s...

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What’s new in a fair

Published February 14, 2012 by Anne Tschida

This will be a bit of an experiment: the inaugural edition of the Art Wynwood International Contemporary Art Fair, to be held in a 100,000-square-foot tent in Midtown. Opening up on Thursday night and...

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“Doing Time | Depth of Surface”

Published February 14, 2012 by CSchwartz

In the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design there is a project on display, courtesy of Philagrafika by Spanish artists María Jesús González and Patricia Gómez, entitled “Doing Time | Depth of Surface,” which will be on display through March 17. The installation of photos, videos and large-scale...

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The Charlotte Symphony Presents Carmina Burana

Published February 14, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Eva Lewis, Charlotte Symphony It is both sacred and profane. It is of romantic love and carnal desire. Primitive, passionate and powerful, the Charlotte Symphony will present Carl Orff’s ecstatic piece of love, springtime and passion. On February 24th and 25th at 7:30 p.m. listeners will enjoy in the...

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The Borscht Film Festival heads to South by Southwest

Published February 14, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

The Borscht Film Festival, a Knight Arts grantee, is heading west next month as four of its shorts were selected for the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival. The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke (Narrative Shorts competition), Reinaldo Arenas (Narrative Shorts competition), I Am Your Grandma (Midnight Shorts...