Join Leica Store Miami for a Coral Gables photo walk with photographer Luis Cobelo. This is a great opportunity to photograph alongside Luis and learn about his process. Luis is an expert explorer of the uncharted waters of imagination, and through his art, he invites people to step into other worlds and alternate dimensions. Expand your imagination, engage with your environment, and ... +

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VANISHING CUBA is a visual storytelling project by American photographer Michael Chinnici. The collection depicts the changes Cuba is facing as it emerges from more than 60 years of isolation and decay. Michael’s 24 trips to Cuba have yielded tens of thousands of photographs, thought provoking and emotional stories, and created lifelong friendships. Vanishing Cuba is about capturing the past, present and ... +

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“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) asks the questions children ask in this young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars. What is it like to float weightlessly in the air? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a spacewalk? How do astronauts go to the bathroom? Is it true that they don’t shower? Can farts really be deadly ... +

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“There’s a real potency to how [Eva] Husson contrasts the sexual frankness of the young lovers’ meetings with the miserable ritual of their outside lives – the difference between white sheets and the deep reds and fussy florals of an Edwardian parlor room. —Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent “One of the sexiest period dramas in some time”—The Hollywood Reporter On a warm spring ... +

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Set in New York in 1982, the script follows forty-eight hours in the lives of three very lost young souls: Warren, a dejected nineteen-year-old who has just stolen $15,000 from his abusive, tycoon father; Dennis, his charismatic drug-dealing friend who helps Warren put the stolen money to good use; and, Jessica, the anxiously insightful young woman who Warren yearns for. Funny, painful, ... +

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In 1985, Susan Seidelman blessed the planet with Desperately Seeking Susan, a screwball East Village fantasia about amnesia, Egyptian artifacts, mob killings, mistaken identities, jacuzzi sales, magic acts, suburban ennui, Nefertiti’s earrings, and an extremely rad jacket. Leora Barish’s script had been lingering in development hell for years, with studios passing on it because, as producer Sarah Pillsbury put it in 2015, ... +

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Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the town’s most unsavory inhabitants. But when the boy meets a girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom…blood red. The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily ... +

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Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse headline this musical comedy about a Hollywood star who returns to the Broadway theater when no producer wants him for a movie. Egos clash between the movie star, his lithe ballerina co-star, and their effete director–and the show bombs in out-of-town tryouts. But the initial failure convinces the stars to work together, re-creating the Musical to entertain ... +

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The brilliance of a young Isabelle Huppert lends quiet intensity to this piercing period elegy. Budapest, 1936: Szilvia (Lili Monori), a wealthy heiress to an enormous family fortune, befriends Irén (Huppert), a young shopgirl of modest means. Unable to give birth, Szilvia offers Irén money in exchange for conceiving a child with her husband (Jan Nowicki) on her behalf—a transaction that blurs ... +

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What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of Cellphone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman, and a technological trailblazer who perfected a secure radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes ... +

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Zurumbático is a story full of the lifeblood that permeates thousands of Latin American little towns, the roots of that giant empirical hemisphere – passionate, forgotten, fickle, violent and, above all, happy. Aracataca is the country where Gabriel García was born and which inspired his original Macondo. This place, and the surrounding geographical area in this Caribbean part of Colombia, was his ... +

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Twenty-year-old violinist Kevin Zhu is a recipient of the 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He has amassed an outstanding record of concert performances and competition wins since he began playing violin at age three. Praised for his “awesome technical command and maturity” (The Strad) and “absolute virtuosity, almost blinding in its incredible purity” (L’ape musicale), Kevin regularly performs on the world’s largest ... +

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The jungle springs to life in a music-filled spectacle that chronicles young Mowgli’s adventures growing up in the animal kingdom. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s time-honored children’s tales, join Mowgli as he learns about friendship and survival with the help of friends like the wise black panther Bagheera and Baloo the lovable bear. Cheer as Mowgli faces his fear and foils his nemesis ... +

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Deserving comparison with the work of Pedro Costa, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Souleymane Cissé, This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection marks the introduction of a major filmmaker and the final powerhouse performance of a remarkable actress. The late Mary Twala Mhlongo, recognizable from Beyoncé’s blockbuster musical Black Is King, gives a heartbreaking career-capping performance as Mantoa, an 80-year-old woman who has ... +

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After toiling for years in bit-parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu (Ke-Xi Wu, who also co-wrote the script based on her own personal experiences) finally gets her big break with a leading role in a spy thriller set in the 1960s. The part, which calls for nudity and explicit sex scenes, is made all the more challenging thanks to the director’s unending belittlements. ... +

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“[Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci] are on magnificent form in a drama about love and mortality that is all the more powerful for its restraint.” —Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), partners of twenty years, are travelling across England in their old campervan visiting friends, family and places from their past. Following a life-changing diagnosis, their time ... +

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“Young lovers move over – Sukowa and Chevallier bring to life an unforgettable lesbian couple. A Cause for celebration.” —Lisa Nesselson, Screen International “Quietly groundbreaking. Entirely unique and uniquely vital.” —Mark Keizer, Variety France, 2020, 95 min, Dir. Filippo Meneghetti, Not Rated, French with English subtitles, Magnolia Pictures Viewing Window: 72 hours (once viewing is started) Price: $12 Two retired women, Nina ... +

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“Combines stunning cinematography, evocative sound design and hints of magical realism to create a visionary work of devastating power.” —Anjana Janardhan, Sight & Sound Mexico/Spain, 2020, 94 min, Dir. Fernanda Valadez, Not Rated, Spanish with English subtitles, Kino Lorber Viewing Window: 5 days Price: $12 Middle-aged Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend ... +

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With unfettered access to the Zappa family trust and all archival footage, Zappa explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career that never shied away from the political turbulence of its time. Alex Winter’s assembly features appearances by Frank’s widow Gail Zappa and several of Frank’s musical collaborators including Mike Keneally, Ian Underwood, Steve Vai, Pamela Des Barres, Bunk Gardner, David ... +

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“[Director Itay] Tal’s style has a simultaneous simplicity and density that has an affinity with the works of Lucrecia Martel and Michael Haneke. Rarely does a debut feature showcase a talent so fully formed. This is a remarkably potent film.” —Glenn Kenny, The New York Times Anat (Naama Preis, winner of the Jerusalem Film Festival award for Best Actress) has never been ... +

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The legendary love triangle of King Arthur, Guenevere and Sir Lancelot leaps from the pages of T.H. White’s novel in Lerner and Loewe’s award-winning musical. Featuring a rich soaring score boasting such gems as If Ever I Would Leave You, I Loved you Once in Silence, The Lusty Month of May and of course Camelot. This unique newly revised version focusing directly ... +

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Marian Anderson’s debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1955 broke through the company’s longstanding Jim Crow practices. Carol Oja, Professor of Music at Harvard University, revisits the campaign waged by the NAACP and Anderson’s manager, Sol Hurok, to gain equal access to concert halls and major performance institutions. Seventh Annual Robert Kelley Memorial Lecture Series Weeks Center for Recording & Performance, ... +

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Frost’s very own faculty artists collaborate to offer a feast of chamber music by some of the most influential Latin American composers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Musicologist Marysol Quevedo hosts a 30-minute pre-concert lecture about the program and its composers. Ross Harbaugh, director Free event

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The pairing of guitar and flute has long inspired delightful music, at once earthy and delicately translucid. An evening featuring Robert Beaser’s Mountain Songs, based on Appalachian music; Astor Piazzolla’s Histoire Du Tango, a tango lesson in four movements; Carlos Rafael Rivera’s Raven Dance, which draws on Balkan music, and more. Rafael Padron, guitar Jennifer Grim, flute

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The Switch Ensemble, which describes itself as “a new music ensemble for the 21st century with a commitment to the total integration of technology and live musicians,” premieres new works by Frost Composition faculty and works from their current repertoire in this concert. The concert will have Charles Norman Mason as director.

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In her concert debut as Artistic Director of the Frost School’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, NEA Jazz Master composer, arranger, and bandleader Maria Schneider presents a program featuring Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Egberto Gismonti. Both Schneider, one of the few who has received Grammys in the jazz, classical, and rock genres, and the classically-trained Gismonti, who has explored jazz as well as ... +

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Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons. On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic ... +

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The Frost Sextet and the Frost Concert Jazz Band revisit music from Miles Davis’s audacious Bitches Brew, released in 1970, reimagined in new arrangements by saxophonist Charles Pillow. As part of his residency at Frost, NEA Jazz Master saxophonist Dave Liebman, a Miles Davis sideman, performs with both Frost groups. Chuck Bergeron and John Daversa, directors Charles Pillow and Dave Liebman, saxophones ... +

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Over 60 million people worldwide have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make MAMMA MIA! the ultimate feel good show. A mother, a daughter, three possible dads and a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget. A large cast, nonstop laughs and explosive dance numbers, told through the story-telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs, propel thisenchanting ... +

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No one believes Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers his new next door neighbor Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. With his best friend and girlfriend in tow, Charlie turns to the only person who can help convince the masses that their quaint suburban neighborhood is in peril: late night horror show host Peter Vincent (Roddy MacDowall). 35 years since ... +

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Ensemble Ibis performs the music of MacArthur Fellow composer, musicologist, and trombonist George Lewis, the 2020 Frost Distinguished Composer-in-Residence as well as other contemporary works. Shawn Crouch, director FREE

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From award-winning journalist and best-selling memoirist Ada Calhoun, comes Why We Can’t Sleep, a generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique. Why We Can’t Sleep began as Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis and felt she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did ... +

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As a part of the Frost Honor Band Weekend, the Frost Wind Ensemble plays a concert featuring guest conductor Steven D. Davis, from University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. The program features works by David Maslanka, Percy Grainger as well as Ottorino Respighi’s epic symphonic poem Pines of Rome. Robert M. Carnochan and Steven D. Davis, conductors Tina DiMeglio, graduate conductor Jennifer Grim, ... +

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Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth, and arguably most personal, film from the writer-director is a paean to Hollywood’s golden age, an era whose end was ... +

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Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on her own terms ... +

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Charlie Christenson (vocalist, pianist, songwriter and educator) is currently a doctoral fellow in the Studio Music & Jazz program at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and a member of the indie rock band, beddside. Before moving to Miami in the Fall of 2017, he served six years as Head of the Voice Department and Director of the Graduate Program ... +

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Grammy-winning composer and trumpeter Brian Lynch joins the stage with three-time Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader John Daversa for an evening of new works for a large ensemble. Brian Lynch and John Daversa, directors Nov 14, 2019, 7:30 PM

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“This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.” – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly Modern science fiction wouldn’t be what it is today if not for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, the seminal –sci-fi film that depicted a multicultural, dystopian future filled with massive corporate advertising, thick pollution, and flying cars. Central to this world are replicants, human-like androids with ... +

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In New Hampshire during early 2008, a former First Lady is in a desperate bid to save her troubled Presidential campaign. Her husband sees things one-way; her campaign manager sees things differently. This play is a profound and timely look at two of the most controversial figures in American political history. Created by Lucas Hnath.

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“A movie like none other I have seen before…a film in which the inner chambers of the soul are laid bare.” – Roger Ebert “One of the great hallucinatory experiences in cinema, a visually intoxicating horror trip. A perfect introduction for those eager to travel down more rarely explored routes of international film.” – Nathaniel Thompson, Mondo Digital Fifteen years after Alejandro ... +

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Cinekid, The Netherland’s premiere film festival for children, presents a program of the very best of Dutch animation – featuring diverse stories, hilarious romps, inventive animation, and more! With trusty scissors in hand, Mr. Paper makes choice cuts to craft his ideal world. Blooming with artful animation and wistful storytelling, Emily was spotlighted as the Netherlands’ entry for Oscar consideration. Then three ... +

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Described by The New York Times as “a one-man band who turns a guitar into an orchestra and his voice into a chorus,” singer and songwriter Raul Midón returns to his alma mater for a solo appearance. Expect selections from his most recent Grammy-nominated albums If You Really Want, featuring the Metropole Orkest directed by Vince Mendoza as well as Bad Ass ... +

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A perennial Christmas classic, Miracle on 34th Street tells the story of a department store Santa Claus (lovingly played by Edmund Gwenn) who claims to be the real Claus. In spite of his good nature and widespread appeal, poor Kris Kringle is put on trial for his claim, putting everyone’s faith to the test. Over seventy years after its premiere, the film ... +

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Can a fabled stone offer another path for Matilde’s life on her Mexican rancho? And the choices we make at mealtime sometimes have a very big impact, especially for a seemingly picky eater with a lot more on his mind in the drama from Spain, Fish. The universal language of wizards bridges cultures from the UK to Cuba in the imaginative doc ... +

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CGAC pays tribute to exploitation auteur Doris Wishman with a screening of a new digital preservation of her sci-fi classic, Nude on the Moon, a 1961 romp about a tropical society of topless aliens on the moon, filmed in Homestead’s Coral Castle. Ms. Wishman moved to Coral Gables in the mid 1980’s, worked at The Pink Pussycat Boutique on Main Highway in ... +

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Cities of the Mind features nine large-format paintings that reference the artist’s fascination with city plans. Inspired by the Havana of his youth, the Medieval European cities to which he has traveled extensively as an adult, and his abiding interest in symbolic cosmology and origin stories, Estévez has created in this new body of work personal maps of the human mind influenced by ... +

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“It’s arguably the best Batman-adjacent movie since The Dark Knight. The must-see factor of Phoenix’s riveting performance alone — it’s both unsettling and weirdly affecting — will be significant.” – Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter “Joaquin Phoenix is astonishing in Todd Phillips’ neo-Taxi Driver knockout.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety Centering on the origin of Batman’s iconic arch nemesis, Joker is an original, ... +

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From the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and home and family. Performed by five incredible actor/singer musicians who play 20 different instruments, this exciting musical features the songs “I Walk The Line,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” and more than two dozen classic ... +

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Party as if it’s 1959 as the Frost Studio Jazz Band presents new arrangements of music from some of the greatest recordings released that year. Taking a journey through history-changing albums including Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, and John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. Stephen Guerra, director Nov 13, 2019, 7:30 PM

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A near-palpable sense of uncanny dread looms over the story of Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy), a young doctor who gradually discovers that the inhabitants of his sleepy California town are being replaced with mysteriously inhuman replicates. Adapted from a serialized novel, Don Siegel’s film would spawn several Hollywood remakes over the decades — a testament to its enduring legacy as an influential ... +

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The first feature-length film from the acclaimed studio TRIGGER, creators of the hit series Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia, and director Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill), Promare uses a bold cel-shaded visual style to tell a blistering action-adventure story, and is the spiritual successor to many of director Imaishi’s former works. Thirty years have passed since the appearance ... +

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Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, Doctor Strange) plays the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by over 900,000 people worldwide, the original broadcast returns to cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet (Benedict Cumberbatch) rages ... +

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“At once a devastating, curiously uplifting inhuman drama and a superbly crafted genre exercise, Let The Right One In can stand toe-to-toe with Spirit Of The Beehive, Pan’s Labyrinth or Orphee. See it.” – Kim Newman, Empire Magazine A lonely 12-year old boy, Oskar, befriends a mysterious 12-year-old girl, Eli, after she moves in next door. Pale and serious, Eli’s arrival coincides ... +

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In the Park, is a trip to the past. The year is 1962. The subject, a Sunday day in Bay Front Park, Miami, when the world was still innocent. The hidden camera, the free cinema, allows us to observe from a distance, to be voyeurs without being discovered. We see young and old in a sweet-and-sour situation, which gives the viewer a ... +

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Armand (Robin Williams) is the openly gay owner of The Birdcage, a South Beach drag club where his life partner, Albert (Nathan Lane), performs as the star attraction. Their idyllic and flamboyant lifestyle is uprooted when Armond’s son arrives to announce his relationship with, and intent to marry, a young woman whose father happens to be an ultra conservative Republican senator (Gene ... +

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Victor Fleming’s celebrated musical The Wizard of Oz turns 80 years old and we’re celebrating! Based on a book by L. Frank Baum, the film is about country girl Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) who is swept away by a tornado (with her dog Toto) to the magical land of Oz. There, she embarks on a difficult journey back to Kansas where along ... +

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The anarchic spirit of the Czech New Wave is alive and well and living … in America? Give Me Liberty follows Vic, a young Russian-American who over the course of a hilarious, poignant and very wild day and night in Milwaukee, ferries disabled passengers to and from their appointments while he tries to deliver a boisterous gaggle of elderly mourners to a ... +

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This fall, the worldwide phenomenon Downton Abbey becomes a grand motion picture event, as the beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important event of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance, and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance. Michael Engler directs the original ... +

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From the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and home and family. Performed by five incredible actor/singer musicians who play 20 different instruments, this exciting musical features the songs “I Walk The Line,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” and more than two dozen classic ... +

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The Miami Music Festival from around the World is back in 2019! The annual Festival features an extensive array of academic, traditional and contemporary music from diverse cultures performed by acclaimed world-class artists. The Miami Music Festival from around the World was created by S. FL Friends of Classical Music to encourage and support classical music performances and the musical heritage of ... +

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Kameristika Ensemble was created in 2018 by Venezuelan musicians based in the US and trained in the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela “El Sistema”, a recognized Venezuelan institution, awarded and replicated worldwide, created by the Maestro José Antonio Abreu. It originates out of the immense need of its members to continue performing universal academic repertoire in ... +

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Chamber music of Venezuela is an approach to some Venezuelan folk music authors from an academic perspective. Those composers are outstanding melodists, but also researchers of the traditional music in the country performed in the last decades of the XIX century. The songs are arranged for a small chamber ensemble, with piano, violoncello and voice. The concert includes excerpts from the song ... +

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The popularity of film music concerts has been increasing, as have the number of films available for a full orchestral performance plus screening, The Sounds of Movies is a concert with live Symphony Orchestra and screen visuals performing along with exclusive film footage, solo performers, and unique interactive segments to create an explosive one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. Be prepared to use all your ... +

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The performance will showcase chamber works by Johannes Brahms and display the virtuosity of Tchaikovsky Competition prizewinner violinist Eric Silberger, french hornist from the New World Symphony, Scott Leger, and acclaimed pianist Adolfo Vidal. The Evening with Brahms will be celebrated with some of his greatest works: the Violin Sonata #1 in G major (1879) and the Horn Trio in EbM (1865). ... +

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“The Very Many Mary Poppins” is a homage to this iconic character of the world of theater and cinematography, through a recreation of its beautiful legendary and new songs. Mary Poppins has impacted the life of kids and adults of several generations, with such grace, that we feel honored to make this humble tribute. RubiMusic is presenting this show within the Miami ... +

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Frost School of Music presents “Beethoven and the Past: Frank Cooper’s Musicology Series.” Professor Emeritus Frank Cooper as he walks guest through the wonders of Ludwig van Beethoven’s life. In this talk, Mr. Cooper explores the importance of J.S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, W.A. Mozart and Antonio Salieri as sources of inspiration for the young Beethoven.

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Frank Cooper’s Musicology Series is Back!These presentations focus on the myriad of facts, people, and works that are little known – but which round out the genius that was Beethoven.Musical technicalities are little involved – this is about feelings, motivations, losses, successes. Your friends will enjoy it. Please recommend.I’ve never done anything comparable. 9/5: Beethoven and the Past9/12: Beethoven and His Time9/19: Beethoven and the ... +

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Frost Symphony Orchestra Live Signature Series welcomes internationally renowned classical musician and conductor Gerard Schwarz on its debut appearance conducting the Frost Symphony Orchestra. In nearly five decades, Gerard Schwarz has received hundreds of honors including six Emmy Awards, 14 GRAMMY nominations, eight ASCAP Awards and numerous Stereo Review and Ovation Awards. His move to South Florida, along with being named the new music director ... +

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Everyone loves the idea of writing a novel…until they start it and realize they don’t know what they’re doing! “The Shape of a Novel” breaks down what you need to write a novel and how to outline your book before you start it so that when you’re stuck you have a blueprint to return to. Workshops will include brief lectures on how ... +

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Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, Doctor Strange) plays the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by over 900,000 people worldwide, the original broadcast returns to cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet (Benedict Cumberbatch) rages against the ... +

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Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Principal Trumpet, Thomas Hooten, and world-renowned collaborative pianist, Rebecca Wilt, present an eclectic program of Russian and American works by Reinhold Glière, Vladimir Peskin, John Williams, and more. Tom Hooten, trumpet Rebecca Wilt, piano

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A fine-art photography collection by the much-praised author of Aftermath, One Woman is an inspired collaboration between photographer and muse. Through John Botte’s masterful eye, Elicia Ho, a former ballerina, has realized a lyrical, visual diary of her becoming. Botte’s richly toned and beautifully lit signature images are reminiscent of the golden age of sumptuous portraiture à la Studio Harcourt and Cecil ... +

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The title of this project is “High Kill” by Photographer Marcos Garcia. Miami Dade Animal Services (MDAS, for short), is the local county shelter, and the location of this project. These photos were taken while volunteering at MDAS. Unlike most shelters, MDAS cannot turn away any animal surrendered to it, found as a stray, or confiscated by police. This “open admission” policy ... +

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Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth, and arguably most personal, film from the writer-director is a paean to Hollywood’s golden age, an era whose end was ... +

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“A movie of ravishing colors and textures that ultimately elevates style and sensuality into something genuinely meaningful.” – Justin Chang, L.A. Times A lonely woman visits a bewitching London department store in search of a dress that will transform her life. She’s fitted with a perfectly flattering, artery-red gown — which unleashes a malevolent curse and unstoppable evil, threatening everyone who comes ... +

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For teenager Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway), just surviving each school day is an adventure. Then the shocking news arrives that she’s a real-life princess! So begins a comical transformation towards poise and princess-ness, including a media storm, jealous schoolmates, and a plot to take over her country. The Princess Diaries features the breakthrough role for Anne Hathaway, who before this had starred ... +

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An intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work, honoring its subject through creative risk-taking. Director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid, featuring Hockney, a wary participant, as well as a circle of his friends, capturing the agonized end of the lingering affair between Hockney and his muse, an American named Peter Schlesinger. The result ... +

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CGAC and Books & Books pay tribute to the memory of trailblazing American storyteller Toni Morrison with a special screening of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ artful and intimate documentary meditation on her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted through a literary career that earned her the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for Literature and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Through the ... +

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Filled with hope, humanity and humor – this is the riveting true story of Simon Wiesenthal, who devoted his life to bringing more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice. Intelligent, funny, flawed and noble – his unbelievable dedication and tenacity over decades is honored in this play, which gives equal weight to his wisdom and wit during his long, purposeful life. ... +

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Women in Focus, brought to you by Leica Store Miami, is a photography exhibition and weekend festival dedicated to bringing visibility to leading women in the photographic industry who shoot with Leica. Through photography presentations, panel talks, image review, and a women’s-only workshop, this multi-day event will provide an outlet for photographers to discuss and empower women and their advocates within the ... +

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Have you ever wondered how paper can be made into art? Miami-based artist Lisa Haque at Books & Books Coral Gables, hold an intimate conversation about her work and papermaking process. Haque was a Studio Collaborator and the Production Manager at Dieu Donné in Manhattan, where she worked with artists in residence to create new bodies of work. Prior to that, she ... +

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Join Leica Store Miami in the Leica Lounge invites documentary photographer Vivianne Peckham. This Leica Lounge is coordinating with the Women in Focus festival weekend going on from July 24th – 28th. More events include a panel discussion, workshop with Maggie Steber, a brunch edition Leica Lounge and Photo-Slam. Currently living in Washington, DC, Vivianne was born in Belgium and has lived ... +

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Highly accomplished artists with different visions of abstract painting are being exhibited in “Abstract Diversity in Painting”. For its spring show Virginia Miller, owner and director of Greater Miami’s longest-established contemporary fine art gallery, selected three of the gallery’s leading artists: Florian Depenthal, Ned Evans and Linda Touby. “These artists have been painting for decades and have now reached the mature phase ... +

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Jul 17 – Aug 11, 2019 / Mixing classic musical comedy with a dash of Agatha Christie, everyone is a suspect in this house of eccentric characters unfazed by the dead body on the floor.  Murder for Two is a hilarious musical murder mystery with a twist; one actor investigates the crime, the other plays all 13 suspects, and they both play the ... +

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The play tackles the corrosion of the American Dream – and the economic, racial, and social tensions of a city, a workforce, and a nation. Set in a small factory in Detroit – the play articulates the workers struggle to survive. Their banter and confrontations are a powerful currency, posing urgent questions and revealing startling truths. “CRITICS PICK! A deeply moral and ... +

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Mixing classic musical comedy with a dash of Agatha Christie, everyone is a suspect in this house of eccentric characters unfazed by the dead body on the floor. Murder for Two is a hilarious musical murder mystery with a twist; one actor investigates the crime, the other plays all 13 suspects, and they both play the piano! A zany madcap musical mystery, ... +

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In grand style, Frank Cooper moderates the finale of the Chopin Festival, which will re-enact a typical soiree of a 19th century Parisian salon. Specially selected guest artists of the Festival will perform a variety of works in a relaxed setting on stage. Frank Cooper will introduce the performances and read interesting readings and excerpts. Sponsored by the Miami Salon Group Nocturne: ... +

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Jun 26, 2019, 7 PM Winners of the Frost Chopin Academy Concerto Audition, the Escher String Quartet, and Grzegorz Fankowski will perform Chopin Piano Concertos arranged for piano and string quintet by Kevin Kenner. Escher String Quartet Adam Barnett-Hart, violin Danbi Um, violin Pierre Lapointe, viola Brook Speltz, cello Gzegorz Fankowski, double bass Frank Cooper, moderator

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Deeply invested in both the environment and environmental concerns, James Prosek is a contemporary artist whose creative output explores timeless aspects of humanity and the natural world while also engaging directly with the zeitgeist. These complementary threads are beautifully woven together in his exhibition, James Prosek: Contra Naturam/Against Nature, providing a critical commentary on South Florida’s rapidly changing ecosystem. Artist, writer, naturalist, and ... +

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Everyone’s favorite swashbuckling “Feline in Footwear” shines in this musical retelling of the classic tale by Charles Perrault. Discover how Puss gets his Bodacious Boots and Flashy Fedora, and then join him as he helps the Miller’s youngest son go from rags to riches. Can Puss convince the King that the poor Miller’s son is the Marquis de Carabas? Can he help ... +

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Through Jun 9, 2019 / Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for “Best Play,” all elements come invigoratingly together like clockwork in John Patrick Shanley’s provocative play Doubt, a gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest’s behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. Doubt is blunt yet subtle, manipulative but full of ... +

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Thirty five years ago, Oscar-winning cinematographer Néstor Almendros (Days of Heaven) and El Super co-director Orlando Jiménez Leal joined forces to document the systemic violation of human rights and the persecution of homosexuals in Castro’s Cuba. The film, produced by Barbet Schroeder (Barfly, Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female), was an international eye-opener, picked up major awards from Strasbourg to San Francisco ... +

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Roman (Matthias Schoenaerts), a convict in a rural Nevada prison who struggles to escape his violent past, is required to participate in an “outdoor maintenance” program as part of his social rehabilitation. Spotted by a veteran trainer (Bruce Dern), he is accepted in the selective wild horse training section of the program. There, Roman discovers his own humanity in gentling an especially ... +

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The beloved 1939 film is well known to most and is based on the 1900 book series by L. Frank Baum. This version of the show, first performed in 1987 by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, England, featured the film’s music by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg—including “We’re Off to See the Wizard” and “Follow the Yellow Brick Road”, ... +

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In a remote cottage on the lonely British coast, a couple of retired nuclear engineers are living a very quiet life. Outside, the world is in utter chaos following a devastating series of events. When an old friend turns up at their door, they’re shocked to discover the real reason for her visit. This scary play makes tense drama out of the ... +

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Inspired by actual events, Memphis follows the story of Huey Calhoun, a fictitious white radio DJ who was one of the first to play black music in 1950s Memphis, and Felicia, a black club singer who is hoping for her big break. Filled with laughter, soaring emotion, forbidden love, irresistible dancing, rhythm and blues, and roof raising rock ‘n’ roll, this winner ... +

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This program showcases the rediscovered sounds of Cuba, Bolivia, and Peru through ancient music that blends indigenous rhythms and instruments with European traditions. Patrick Dupré Quigley, conductor Join us for a PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION one hour before each concert Concert Schedule: Fri, Apr 12, 7:30pm  |  Coral Gables Tickets Sat, Apr 13, 7:30pm  |  Ft. Lauderdale Tickets Sun, Apr 14, 4:00pm  |  Naples Tickets Seraphic Fire ... +

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The Florida Guitar Foundation hosts its third annual guitar competition on March 16 and 17, 2019, featuring evening performances by Pavel Steidl, and Aniello Desiderio. The highly acclaimed Pavel Steidl will kick-off the 2019 Classical Guitar Competition on March 16 at Clarke Recital Hall. Since his first prize at the Radio France International Competition in Paris in 1982, Steidl, known for his performances on ... +

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Maestro Desiderio won 18 first International Awards in both national and international competitions, and has performed as a soloist and with orchestra all over the world in some of the most important theaters of the world such as: Carnegie Hall, Munich Philarmonie, Alte Opera, Tonhalle, Teatro delle Palme, Radio France, Die Gloke, Istanbul Philarmonie, Berlin Philarmonie, Opera House Wien. “…the kind of ... +

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His highly expressive performances of rare 19th-century guitar literature on authentic instruments add a wonderful dimension to his already exceptional performances. Steidl plays with a quasi-improvisational flexibility in all of the works here and emphasizes the showy aspects of Mertz’s style over its lyrical introspection (though the latter is not neglected). He varies his tempos to an extraordinary degree, taking risks that ... +

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Seraphic Fire shines the spotlight on gems of East Asia in this not-to-be-missed event that brings South Korea to South Florida. E. J. Yoon, conductor Join us for a PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION one hour before each concert Concert Schedule: Wed, Mar 13, 7:30pm  |  Miami Tickets Thu, Mar 14, 7:00pm  |  Naples Tickets Fri, Mar 15, 7:30pm  |  Coral Gables Tickets Sat, Mar 16, 7:30pm  |  ... +

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Inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance — a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. Set at a time when waves of immigrants were changing the face of America, this play with music charts the history of an ... +

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Patrick Dupré Quigley and the women of Seraphic Fire recreate Antonio Vivaldi’s famed 17th Century Ospedalle della Pietà performances in this program of his concerti for treble voices accompanied by Baroque chamber instruments. Patrick Dupré Quigley, conductor Join us for a PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION one hour before each concert Concert Schedule: Wed, Feb 13, 7:30pm  |  Boca Raton Tickets Thu, Feb 14, 7:00pm  |  ... +

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Area Stage Company adds a charming, fishy fairy-tale to its already wildly successful Mainstage Season. The Coral Gables-based theatre will open Disney’s The Little Mermaid in January, presenting the well-known story as a seaside circus spectacular. Following the immense success, and critical acclaim, of his Shrek The Musical and She Kills Monsters earlier this year, Giancarlo Rodaz will direct as well as ... +

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Mistaken identity is closer than you think in this multiple Tony Award-winning comedy. One Man, Two Guvnors is a triumph of visual and verbal comedy, a feel good hit. Join leading character Francis Henshall as he enlists the aid of willing and unwilling audience members, and a large hilarious cast of characters, in his quest to serve two masters and his pursuit ... +

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Seraphic Fire returns to America’s first true concert music. Highlighting both solemn melodies and exhilarating rhythms, the ensemble presents the breadth and depth of African-American spiritual literature. Anthony Trecek-King, conductor Join us for a PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION one hour before each concert Concert Schedule: Tue, Jan 15, 7:00pm  |  Naples Tickets Wed, Jan 16, 7:30pm  |  Miami Beach Tickets Thu, Jan 17, 7:30pm  |  Boca ... +

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Seraphic Fire presents selections from its recording “A Seraphic Fire Christmas”. Selections include O Come All Ye Faithful, Ave Maria, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, Adeste Fideles, Silent Night and many more. Concert Schedule: Thu, Dec 6, 7:30pm  |  Boca Raton Tickets Fri, Dec 7, 7:30pm  |  Coral Gables: St. Philip’s Tickets* Sat, Dec 8, 7:30pm  |  Miami ... +

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Area Stage Company in Coral Gables presents The Ballad of Janis Matthews and the Dodo Scouts, a world premiere musical written, directed, and designed by ASC’s own Giancarlo Rodaz, with music by Rachel Dean. This folk rock, coming-of-age musical story follows Janis Matthews, a young girl living in 1960’s Colorado. During the course of a summer, she is set on a rollicking ... +

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One of several groups inspired by American traditions in the Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music Program, the Frost Anglo-American Roots Ensemble features students performing original compositions modeled on soulful Appalachian, old-time, and bluegrass music. Weeks Center for Recording and Performance, Clarke Recital Hall Brian Russell, director Free Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: ... +

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“Meziat shares the ability of the best hyperrealists to render ordinary objects in such exquisite detail as to make each so precious that we look at it in a different, more appreciative manner, transcending actuality,” notes Virginia Miller, owner and director of greater Miami’s longest-established contemporary fine art gallery. Along with still lifes, the artist’s favorite subjects include “windows” with thin curtains ... +

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FIU Music Series presents “Russian String Orchestra and Clarinetist Alex Fiterstein.” Misha Rachlevsky, conductor The FIU School of Music and the Friends of Chamber Music of Miami bring you a glorious program of classical music when Moscow’s finest young string ensemble, the Russian String Orchestra, brings its virtuosity amd warmth to the Wertheim Concert Hall. The Russian String Orchestra, formerly known as ... +

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The string chamber ensembles at Florida International University School of Music play a concert at the end of each semester. The groups are coached by members of FIU’s Artists-in-Residence, the Amernet String Quartet, violinist Marcia Littley, and Artist-in-Residence/violinist Robert Davidovici. The groups consist of an array of arrangements for string quartets, duos, trios, and soloists. November 20, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm ... +

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Top student vocal groups, directed by Kate Reid and Charlie Christenson, join songwriter and jazz/pop vocalist Jo Lawry, hailed as a “singer of dazzling self-possession” by The New York Times, on expanded arrangements of original material from her 2017 album The Bathtub and the Sea, as well as other jazz, pop, and rock tunes. Jo Lawry, singer-songwriter Kate Reid, director of Frost ... +

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A night of Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto in Eb Major No. 27 with guest bassoonist Ann Shoemaker and guest pianist Kae Hosoda-Ayer. Shoemaker will be presenting a short recital for the first half of the night. The night ends with four Frost bassoon students playing on the second half of the program in an intimate master class. Ann Shoemaker, guest bassoon Kae Hosoda-Ayer, guest piano Frost Bassoon Students ... +

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The U.S. Navy Band Commodores, the Navy’s premier jazz ensemble, has played with the likes of Ray Charles and Branford Marsalis. They celebrate their upcoming 50th anniversary by highlighting their legacy of innovation, with music from John Coltrane, Artie Shaw, and Clark Terry, as well as their world-class current repertoire. The U.S. Navy Band Commodores Jazz Ensemble William C. Mulligan, senior chief ... +

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A precocious and fiercely competitive actress, her father – a famous playwright – and a wickedly intense evening combine as they deliberate whether to read the reviews of her off-Broadway debut…and things unravel from there. This critically acclaimed play – in turns dark, funny probing – pulls the audience into the middle of a deeply complicated relationship and sheds light on the ... +

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Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (12 Years A Slave, Star Trek: Into Darkness) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Mansfield Park) alternating roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation. The production was a sell-out hit at the National Theatre in 2011, and the broadcast has since become an international sensation, experienced by almost half a ... +

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Frost Opera and choral ensembles join to perform scenes from favorite classical and contemporary operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, Leonard Bernstein, Scott Joplin, and more. Jeffrey Buchman, Corin Overland, and Coreen Duffy, directors Alan Johnson, director Frost Chorale, Frost Symphonic Choir, and Frost Women’s Choir Friday, Oct 26, 2018, 7:30 – 9:30pm UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost Opera Theater Gusman Concert ... +

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The FIU Jazz Vocal Ensemble, led by Lisanne Lyons, will perform music from the Wizard of Oz, sambas, swing, gospel, contemporary, a cappella and beautiful ballads. The group consists of twelve to fifteen vocalists and a four-piece rhythm section that often emphasizes close harmonies, improvisation, cutting-edge repertoire, and new works by students and FIU faculty. They have also been known to perform ... +

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Jorge Luis Zamora – Maestro Jorge Luis Zamora will open the Florida Guitar Foundation 2018-2019 Season Concert. Hailed by critics for his “perfect technique,” and being an “excellent musician” with “an interpretation reminds us of the Golden Age of Segovia”, “the reincarnation of Barrios,” Maestro Zamora will visit us from Costa Rica and will perform a concert that will include some Latin ... +

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A Celebration of the season with The Musical Theater Workshop. Opportunity to play irresistible holiday tunes from classic and contemporary Broadway musicals, including White Christmas, Mame, Meet Me in St. Louis, Elf, She Loves Me, Caroline and Change, and more. Frank Ragsdale, director UM Gusman Concert Hall Free Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 ... +

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Joshua Henry, 2018 Tony-nominated star of Broadway’s Carousel and lead of the first U.S. tour of Hamilton, returns to Frost to receive the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award. Marcus Lovett, who played Phantom on Broadway and London, joins Henry and Frost stars of tomorrow in an evening of iconic music from “The Great White Way.” Joshua Henry, baritenor Marcus Lovett, baritone ... +

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The Washington Post assigns reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) to cover the arrest of four burglars who broke in to the Democratic National Convention Headquarters inside the Watergate complex. What at first appears to be a minor issue soon turns into full-blown conspiracy as the pair uncover ties between the burglars and the White House. A memorable ... +

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A brand new musical that was selected specifically  to develop in Miami on its way to Broadway. An exciting world premiere, Havana Music Hall reflects the pulse of our community with its irresistible musical beat and heartwarming story centering on Cuban musicians Rolando and Ramona Calderon, and their lives in Cuba from 1958 to the present. Just as their local Havana band ... +

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Frost student composers collaborate with celebrated performers from Kaleidoscope MusArt, a Miami organization devoted to fostering classical music as a vital contemporary art form by developing new artists and broadening audiences. Find out more at kaleidoscopemusart.com. Chuck Mason, director Weeks Center for Recording and Performance, Clarke Recital Hall Free Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL ... +

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Old New Borrowed Blue, the musical that takes on a traditional wedding proverb begins with Steven Bryant’s jubilant Radiant Joy, followed by Gustav Holst’s Second Suite in F, influenced by English folk songs. It culminates in the majestic Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral, transcribed from the wedding scene in Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. Steven Moore, conductor UM Gusman Concert Hall Free Gusman Concert ... +

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The 1830’s and 40’s upended the standards for journalists, poets, playwrights, musicians, and artists, forcing innovators to join together while making room for individual genius. The result was a flowering of inspiration not seen in one city since Renaissance Florence: Hugo, de Musset, Courbet, Meyerbeer, Delacroix, Adam, Berlioz, Chopin… Frank Cooper, lecturer Thursday, Sep 13, 2018, 7:30 – 9pm Weeks Center for Recording and ... +

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Join the Frost Choral Studies program as they present an early harvest of American choral music. This concert highlights works by modern American composers Stephen Chatman, Stephen Paulus, René Clausen, and more. Frost Chorale, Frost Women’s Choir, and Frost Symphonic Choir Corin Overland and Coreen Duffy, directors UM Gusman Concert Hall Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral ... +

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An evening of music for small jazz ensemble, featuring Frost Music Studio students and jazz faculty from Frost School of Music; with John Daversa as director. Weeks Center for Recording and Performance, Clarke Recital Hall Free Clarke Recital Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

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Back by popular demand and following the success of the recent retrospective of Spain’s revered filmmaker, Coral Gables Art Cinema was deluged by requests for additional gems from Almodóvar’s middle period – some say his finest – which they were hastening to oblige. As in the original program, all titles have been painstakingly restored to their original splendor. Launching this limited one-week series ... +

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The advent of the 20th century saw Paris once again become a wellspring of revolutionary artistic ideas. Mallarmé, Verlaine, and Rimbaud shattered poetry, while Braque and Picasso’s Cubism splintered the pictorial plan. Impressionism opened the way for Rodin, Debussy, and Ravel, and Stravinsky and Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes arrived with radically polytonal music and expressive movement. Frank Cooper, lecturer Weeks Center for Recording ... +

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Seraphic Fire Current season (2018-2019) brings the concerts to South Florida, presenting a multi-cultural exploration of chamber vocal literature, it begins in October 2018 the South Florida subscription series with American Brass Quintet in a voyage that traverses Spain’s storied Camino de Santiago through the music of Victoria, Guerrero, and other Spanish composers. The American Brass Quintet is internationally recognized as one ... +

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Known for their creative vision of classical music, the Frost Symphonic Winds will perform works by artists outside the Dead White Male European pantheon. They include Colombian composer Victoriano Valencia’s lively, folkloric-influenced Fandangueira, Japanese composer Yasuhide Ito’s emotionally stirring Gloriosa, and An Introduction to the Moon, by Grammy-winning American composer Libby Larsen. Steven Moore, Conductor UM Gusman Concert Hall Free Frost School ... +

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Enjoy a night of American themed anthems in large-scale arrangements by Stephen Guerra and John Daversa. Also Stephen Guerra and John Daversa as directors. Thursday, Sep 13, 2018, 7:30 – 8:30pm Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

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Venture to the musical frontier in this night of electroacoustic music by leaders in the field and Frost composition students. Pieces incorporate new trends in electronic dance music and advanced technology, using laptops, real-time processing, interactive electronics, game controllers, smartphones, and more. Juraj Kojs, Director UM Gusman Concert Hall FREE Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, ... +

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Originally released in 1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo quickly caught the imagination of movie audiences, becoming a landmark in independent film-making. The early screenings at New York’s Elgin Theater sparked the Midnight Movie phenomena, catalyzed by an endorsement from John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Classic Americana and avant-garde European sensibilities collide with Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and mystic ... +

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Music and movie buffs alike will be mesmerized as Jeff Beal, five-time Emmy-winning composer of music for film, media and concert halls, joins the Frost School’s Henry Mancini Orchestra on stage. The evening features a live music-to-screen performance of Battleground, Beal’s score from the acclaimed television series Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King. Other compositions by Beal will also ... +

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American Brass Quintet, “high priests of brass” (Newsweek), and Seraphic Fire explore the rich Spanish tradition of music for voice and brass. Join the ensembles as they journey across Camino de Santiago via the music of Victoria, Morales, Guerrero, and a world-premiere, O Antiphons, by Australian-Canadian composer Julian Revie. Patrick Dupré Quigley, conductor Wed, Oct 17, 7:30pm  |  Miami Thu, Oct 18, ... +

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A fearless new play that unravels a complex web of moral ambiguity, revenge, and racial bias. A wealthy white businessman and a struggling black single mom ride the same bus week after week. As they get to know each other, their relationship sparks a candid and surprising look at racial and economic divides. This play by Bruce Graham has been selected as New ... +

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Overworked cleaning lady Gloria (Carmen Maura) takes in multiple jobs to make ends meet. Her unforgiving life is inhabited by a cast of eccentric characters: an abusive taxi driver husband who schemes to forge Adolf Hitler’s handwriting, a drug-dealing teenage son who is the actual forger, an unappreciative mother-in-law who hides her sweets, and a prostitute neighbor who pays Gloria to sit ... +

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Two of the greatest Cuban films of all time – Memories of Underdevelopment and Lucía – were made fifty years ago and both have been restored for their anniversary by the Cineteca di Bologna and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project. Lucía is director Humberto Solás’ magnum opus, a sprawling historical triptych featuring women (who share the same first name) at a ... +

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Cliff Bradshaw, an American author working on a novel in Berlin, encounters singer Sally Bowles at the seedy Kit Kat Klub. When she is fired by the club’s owner—her jealous boyfriend—she moves in with Cliff and the two fall in love. As the Nazis begin taking control of the government, the atmosphere of the Kit Kat Klub and the lives of Cliff ... +

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Steven Spielberg instilled a fear of water in millions of moviegoers with the release of the very first summer blockbuster, Jaws. A gruesome great white shark terrorizes the resort town of Amity Island, sending police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) on the hunt for the killer creature. After several fatalities cripple the island’s Fourth of July celebrations, Brody enlists oceanographer Matt Hooper ... +

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CGAC presents a brand new 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s landmark film. Overseen by Christopher Nolan, “this 70mm print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative. This is a true photochemical film recreation. There are no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits. This is the unrestored ... +

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Charles Schulz’s beloved comic comes to life in Clark Gesner’s classic musical, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The whole gang is here: bossy Lucy is hopelessly in love with piano prodigy Schroeder who doesn’t give her the time of day, perfectionist Sally is still mocking blanket-toting Linus, Snoopy is in the doghouse, and “blockhead” himself, Charlie Brown, is in rare form. ... +

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville’s (Twenty Feet From Stardom, Best of Enemies) latest documentary takes an intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers. A portrait of a man whom we all think we know, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is an emotional and moving film that takes you beyond zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe, and into the heart ... +

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Meet Tony Montana (Oscar-winner Al Pacino), a Cuban refugee newly arrived in Miami courtesy of the Mariel boatlift. Together with friend Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer), Tony turns to criminal acts to make ends meet. As they dive into the world of cocaine, their graphically violent criminal enterprise quickly grows, as does Tony’s insatiable appetite for drugs, money, power, and the woman he ... +

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Sebastian Spreng’s DRESDEN depicts the decimation of this beautiful eastern German city by Allied bombers in February 1945, and is a meditation on mankind’s infinite capacity for both good and evil. Despite the stark messaging of the images in the  DRESDEN project, the 61 works, created on an iPad, have an undeniably lyrical, painterly quality due, in part, to Spreng’s deep knowledge of ... +

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Sheila Elias’ works in Painted Pixels come in and out of focus, buoyed by waves of colors, as one engages with them. Though abstract, many pay homage to her own body of figurative work as well as favored literary masterpieces that inspire her. Created on the iPad and printed on aluminum, whose luster and reflective qualities echo the effect of an illuminated ... +

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Four artists with unique styles and subject matter will be featured in “Eccentric Visions,” the new exhibition at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in downtown Coral Gables. The show goes around the variety we find at interpretation of reality through the arts. Artists featured are Arless Day, whose collages of architecture, landscapes and interiors look almost familiar and oddly mysterious, transcends their subject matter ... +

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This exhibition consists of five groupings of important works by Japanese ceramic artists of the last 80 years to sample the range of shapes, glazes, surface treatments of many of the greatest ceramic artists as well as an in-depth selection of early modern through contemporary masters. The exhibition consists of stoneware from Bizen, Shigaraki, and Mino to contrast with the Chinese inspired ... +

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For over three decades, Studio Ghibli has transported audiences across the globe to magical realms filled with fantastic creatures and awe-inspiring sights. Led by co-founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, the Japanese studio has garnered numerous awards, set box office records, and touched the hearts of children and adults alike. Join Coral Gables Cinema for a two-week celebration as we present, in ... +

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Presented in partnership with the Chopin Foundation of The United States, the Frost Chopin Academy is presenting the Frost Chopin Festival which allows concertgoers to enjoy a weeklong celebration of the music of Chopin and beyond featuring world-class artists from around the globe. This year’s festival features performances by pianists Dang Thai Son, Margarita Shevchenko, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, Kevin Kenner, jazz pianist Shelly ... +

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Winner of the Lawrence Oliver, Tony, and Drama Desk awards, Shrek the Musical starts off as many fairy tales do: “Once upon a time …” Yet this story is all but your typical fairy tale. After accepting he will live alone, apart from the “Big Bright Beautiful World” outside, Shrek’s swamp is invaded by fairy tale misfits thanks to a new decree by ... +

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Granted near-unfettered access to the notoriously insular Studio Ghibli, director Mami Sunada follows the three men who are the lifeblood of Ghibli – the eminent director Hayao Miyazaki, the producer Toshio Suzuki, and the elusive and influential “other director” Isao Takahata – over the course of a year as the studio rushes to complete two films, Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises and Takahata’s ... +

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In this whirlwind musical, two comedy writers try to raise enough “dough” for the most historically expansive show ever conceived, about the ENTIRE history of the universe. In a record 90 minutes, both actors are put to the test as they try to convince their potential theatrical backers (the audience) that this insane frivolity is somehow worthy of the authors’ unrealistic hopes ... +

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A diverse community must put aside their differences to enjoy a tasty meal in Stone Soup (France/Belgium), a hungry creature devises a way to get his fill in Tiger (Germany), and a young croc enjoys a tasty treat in Crocodile (Germany). With visually innovative animation and many Audience Award winners from New York International Children’s Film Festival 2017, Kid Flix Mix is ... +

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From Purcell to Vaughan Williams, countless composers throughout the centuries have found inspiration in William Shakespeare. Actress Siobhan Doherty and Seraphic Fire explore this magnificent canon of settings based on the great Elizabethan bard’s timeless words. Concerts and Venues Tue, May 8, 7:00pm Vanderbilt Presbyterian 1225 Piper Blvd, Naples, FL 34110 Wed, May 9, 7:30pm St. Sophia Greek Orthodox 2401 SW 3rd ... +

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Enjoy an enchanting evening with the Frost Symphony Orchestra (FSO) featuring guest piano soloist Zoe Zeniodi, who has appeared in major concerts halls throughout the world, as she performs Finzi’s Eclogue for Piano and String Orchestra and Romance for String Orchestra; Elgar’s Serenade for Strings; and Britten’s Simple Symphony led by conductor Thomas Sleeper. Revel in the beauty of some of the ... +

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English composers such as Gerald Finzi, Sir Edward William Elgar, and Benjamin Britten have written some of the most moving works for strings in the classical repertoire. Revel in their beauty as The Frost Symphony Orchestra and guest piano soloist Zoe Zeniodi perform Finzi’s Eclogue for Piano and String Orchestra and Romance for String Orchestra; Elgar’s Serenade for Strings; and Britten’s Simple ... +

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Ensemble Ibis performs a concert of contemporary American music by Christopher Theofanidis, the 2018 Frost Distinguished Visiting Composer-in-Residence, Frost faculty composers Charles Mason and Lansing McLoskey, and the seminal American composer John Adams. Featured guest performers include Frost faculty clarinet professor Margaret Donaghue, and Florida International University’s cello professor Jason Calloway. Shawn Crouch (director). Concert: Mason: Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre ... +

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Works by Mozart, Beethoven Chopin and Schumann by Rafal Blechacz, piano (co-presented with the Chopin Foundation of the United States). Blechacz won the victory in the 15th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2005, achieveing today a position as a truly world-famous artist. His outstanding talent has been appreciated by the audiences of Europe, America, Asia, by music critics, great conductors ... +

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Actors’ Playhouse proudly presents the return of the high voltage Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet (and the critically acclaimed cast!) for our 30th Anniversary Season. One of the longest running shows in the company’s history, Million Dollar Quartet was inspired by the famous photo and phenomenal true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n’ roll icons ... +

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Arvo Pärt: Passio is part of Seraphic Fire’ Season Sixteen (2017-2018). The Telegraph calls Pärt’s minimalist masterwork one of the 10 best classical music pieces for Easter. Filtering medieval sounds through an Eastern Orthodox aesthetic, this powerful setting concludes Seraphic Fire’s innovative Parables of Passion series. Concerts and Venues Fri, Apr 13, 7:30pm First United Methodist 536 Coral Way, Coral Gables, FL ... +

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Prepare to set sail off the coast of Cornwall with the swashbuckling Pirates of Penzance! Frederic has earned his dues as the pirates’ apprentice waiting to be promoted to full pirate-dom on his 21st birthday, but upon discovery that he is a leap year baby born on February 29th, it seems he may never get the chance. This roaring comedy, one of ... +

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Four or More is a free concert, as a part of Alhambra Orchestra’ Current Season. Orchestra Members will be featured in Chamber Groups. Venue Sun Apr 8, 2018, 7:30 PM Coral Gables Congregational Church 3010 Desoto Blvd., Coral Gables 33134 FREE Concert Alhambra Orchestra 2829 Bird Avenue Suite 5 Coconut Grove FL 33133 305.668.9260 www.alhambramusic.org

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This concert features new arrangements of music inspired by children’s literature such as The Cat in the Hat and The Giving Tree, as well as iconic Disney films. The program closes with a new suite by Stephen Guerra, Jr., of music from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Stephen Guerra, Jr., director UM Gusman Concert hall Frost School of Music ... +

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Ridley Scott set the standard for science fiction horror with his 1979 masterpiece Alien. After exploring the wreckage of a downed spacecraft, the crew of the Nostromo is picked off one by one by an alien creature sporting a double set of jaws, a blade-tipped tail, and acidic blood. Scott’s masterful use of shadows, framing, and sound capture the palpable fear permeating ... +

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President John F. Kennedy and composer Leonard Bernstein would have celebrated their 100th birthdays during the 2017 – 2018 academic school year. This multimedia, cross-genre salute to these American icons features Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Oliver Nelson’s The Kennedy Dream, and Peter Lieberson’s Remembering JFK (An American Elegy). Scott Flavin, conductor UM Gusman Concert hall Frost School of ... +

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FROST Extensions and FROST Jazz Vocal I presents music from the Great American Songbook as well as original music by some of today’s leading jazz composers. The concert will feature arrangements by FROST Studio and Music and Jazz faculty, students, and alumni. Kate Reid, director UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 ... +

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A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Grisha is one of very few guitarists in the world who is reviving the tradition of solo flamenco guitar in a concert setting that was practiced by legendary flamenco masters such as Ramón Montoya and Sabicas. Grisha strives to keep alive older flamenco masterpieces that now exist only on records, by performing them in concerts. Instead ... +

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An ambitious concert of music for winds including Mahler’s Um Mitternacht, the largest of the Ruckert-Lieder set, featuring FROST School’s vocal professor Robynne Redmon; and also Schoenberg’s Theme and Variations, Stravinsky’s Octet, Dahl’s Sinfonietta, and Schmitt’s Dionysiaques. Robynne Redmon, soprano Jeffrey Summers, guest conductor Robert Carnochan, director UM Gusman Concert hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 ... +

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Frost School professor Charles Castleman, one of the world’s most active performers and pedagogues of the violin, offers a program showcasing the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 78, Op. 100, and Op. 108. He will be joined by Dean Shelly Berg and Chair of Keyboard performance Santiago Rodriguez, both on piano. Santiago Rodriguez, piano Charles Castleman, violin Shelly Berg, piano ... +

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Tennessee Williams’ twentieth-century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gathers at their cotton plantation to ... +

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Works by Haydn, Borodin, and Mozart with Alex Fiterstein (clarinet), who is considered one of today’s most exceptional artists. Fiterstein has performed in recital, with distinguished orchestras, and with chamber music ensembles throughout the world. He won first prize at the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition and received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant Award. Since 1955, Friends of Miami Chamber Music ... +

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Classical guitarist David Russell is world renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise from audiences and critics alike. In recognition of his great talent and his international career, he was named a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Music in London in 1997. During his studies at the Royal Academy, David Russell won twice the Julian ... +

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For all the anime masters you’ve heard of, Masaaki Yuasa is the one you probably haven’t. His directorial vision – inspired by everyone from Tex Avery to René Laloux – is distinct in its fluidity and surreal nature, creating shows like Kemonozume, The Tatami Galaxy, and most recently Devilman Crybaby. With the release of his two new films, Lu Over the Wall ... +

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Scott Allen Jarrett, featured in Seraphic Fire’s GRAMMY® nominated Ein Deutsches Requiem disc, leads Seraphic Fire from the keyboard in the most joyous and tender of Brahms’ choral works, the eternal Liebeslieder Waltzes. Concerts and Venues Wed, Mar 14, 7:30pm St. Sophia Greek Orthodox 2401 SW 3rd Ave, Miami, FL 33129 Thu, Mar 15, 7:00pm Vanderbilt Presbyterian 1225 Piper Blvd, Naples, FL ... +

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Florida: The Florida Guitar Foundation (FGF) is proud to announce its 2nd annual Classical Guitar Competition featuring evening performances by world-renowned David Russell, and flamenco virtuoso Grisha Goryachev. For ticket information, please visit www.floridaguitar.org. DAVID RUSSELL Thursday, March 15th @ 8pm Grammy Award winner classical guitarist David Russell is world-renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise ... +

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For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken, Kiarostami selected 24 ... +

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The ever-curious Alice begins her journey innocently enough as she chases the White Rabbit. Her adventures become increasingly more strange as she races the Dodo Bird, gets tied up with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, raps with a bubble-blowing Caterpillar, and beats the Queen of Hearts at her own game! Based on Lewis Carroll’s famous novel, Disney’s Alice in Wonderland features updated songs from the animated ... +

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Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas’ new play developed at New York’s renowned Public Theater and performed in Cuba, asks the question— is it more dangerous to follow our desires, or to bury them? Reiderico sneaks out of his house and spends his nights in the garden conspiring with a boy who lives at the bottom of a well, testing stormy waters between reality and ... +

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Winner of eight Tony Awards® including Best Musical, Once is a truly original theatrical experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians, Once tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician and the beautiful young woman who takes an interest in his haunting love songs. As the chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new heights. Emotionally captivating and theatrically ... +

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Modern science fiction wouldn’t be what it is today if not for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, a seminal film that presented a multicultural, dystopian future filled with massive corporate advertising, thick pollution, and flying cars. Central to this world are replicants, human-like androids with limited life spans built by the Tyrell Corporation. When four of them escape from an off-world colony to ... +

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In the maelstrom of Cuban politics, Memories of Underdevelopment is one film made in the island after the revolution that generations will be revisiting for years to come. A film very much of its time, Memories is redolent of the jaunty, black & white sensibility of the French Nouvelle Vague that was common currency among European filmmakers in the sixties. It chronicles ... +

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Color + Geometry includes paintings, assemblage and sculpture by  artist Israel Guevara. His work, defined as a contemporary take on the long tradition of Latin American geometric abstraction and op art,  introduces innovative compositions that evolve from his years of experience as an architect. Guevara’s body of work is  sophisticated yet playful,  presenting a constant interaction that results in ever-changing colors, shapes, ... +

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Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, the musical of Carrie hasn’t been seen since its legendary 1988 Broadway production. Carrie White is a misfit and an outcast who’s bullied by the popular crowd and virtually invisible to everyone else. However, Carrie has just discovered she has a special power, and if pushed too far, she’s not afraid to use it…. Set in today’s world in a small town in ... +

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Set in the glamour of 1950s post-War London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he ... +

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The otherwise conventional Orlando has left his wife and kids for Marina (Daniela Vega), a passionate transsexual and much younger waitress-singer. After his sudden, unexpected death, Marina faces the suspicions of the police, the angry incomprehension of Orlando’s family and the discovery she’ll be denied the usual privileges of a grieving loved-one and life partner. On one level, writer-director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria) ... +

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Eric Lane’s poignant and hilarious play RIDE takes three teenage girls on a life-changing road trip. While Carrie and Molly would never hang out together at high school, the two form a fragile bond during their job at a local farm stand. Molly convinces Carrie to join her on an unexpected road trip, which deepens their connection. Sam, Carrie’s eleven-year-old sister, joins ... +

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Did you ever wonder what happens behind the scenes during the producing of a play? Well, we found your answer. Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off presents a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing and performing a flop called “Nothing’s On.” This uproarious farce features lovers frolicking, doors slamming, clothes being tossed this way and that, with both on stage ... +

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At 18, artist Luiz Cruz Azaceta fled Cuba from the threat of compulsory military conscription under Fidel Castro’s newly formed regime. He moved to the U.S. and used his previous experience with the dictatorial regime to create his work. Azaceta explores the themes of terrorism, war and exiles in his 29-piece exhibition that spans from 1980 to the present. Oppression and the ... +

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Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre closes its milestone 30th Anniversary Season with EVITA, one of the most passionate and powerful musicals in theater history. The company will present the production in English from November 1 – 26, and then in Spanish from November 30 – December 17, with both runs featuring the same incredibly talented bilingual cast. Winner of seven Tony ... +

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“…the TxGQ performs with virtuosity, clarity, balance, and a refined character which will no doubt help to establish them as one of today’s leading guitar quartets.” -Guitar International Following a sold-out, season-opening concert by Ana Vidovic, the Florida Guitar Foundation’s concert season continues with the Texas Guitar Quartet. Formed in 2008, the TxGQ has been hailed as “Impeccable in every respect” by ... +

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Johnny is living it up in San Francisco with his smoking hot future wife Lisa and best friend Mark. But when the devious Lisa grows tired of her life with Johnny, she seduces Mark and weaves a web of betrayal. This is all the plot you need to enjoy The Room, Tommy Wiseau’s cult film and one of the worst movies ever ... +

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Thirtysomething Greta Gerwig, iconic actress of her generation, ascends the ranks of America’s most celebrated filmmakers with her first directorial outing, the rage of this year’s Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals. Manohla Dargis writes in The New York Times: “Lady Bird is flat-out wonderful, as well as one of the best coming-of-age films since Amy Heckerling’s classic Fast Times at ... +

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Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’ cinematic landmark brings Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to Manhattan’s West Side as María (Natalie Wood) and Tony (Richard Beymer) fall in love in spite of the racially driven gang warfare that threatens the peace in their neighborhood. West Side Story won 10 Oscars, including Best Picture, the most for any musical. The real star of the show, ... +

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Lauren Norona pulls influence from multiple musical genres— including pop, alternative, and indie — she draws inspiration from the likes of Norah Jones, John Mayer, and Maroon 5, just to name a few. 7:30-11:30pm Books & Books in Coral Gables 265 Aragon Ave Coral Gables, FL 33134 305-442-4408 Read on Books and Books

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Silvia Lizama will give a presentation showing how a lifetime of influences has impacted her image making process. She will show different bodies of work, talk about the inspirations behind the work and finally give brief presentation on how she hand colors her black and white photographs. Silvia Lizama was born in Cuba and moved to South Florida in 1960. She received ... +

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In director Fernando Pérez’s latest film, Havana is a crumbling dowager-in-waiting whose lover has overstayed his absence beyond expectation. In a dilapidated apartment lives Diego (Jorge Martínez) whose AIDS affliction has left him bedridden but with joie de vivre intact. Miguel (Patricio Wood) is Diego’s childhood friend and roommate, but not his lover, though he waits upon Diego hand and foot, tending ... +

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Distinguished alumnus and internationally acclaimed guest conductor Cristian Măcelaru leads the Frost Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein’s Overture to Candide. Thomas Sleeper conducts Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin Suite and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Cristian Măcelaru, guest conductor Thomas Sleeper, conductor NOTE: Patrons who have previously purchased tickets for Monday, September 18 are already registered for this event. No further action is required. Friday, October ... +

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In the Swimming Pool is Maria’s largest series yet, originating in 2014 and continuing to develop to date. Sparked by a hunt for interesting locations, her fascination with the space of public swimming pools contributed to developing her visual style. Sterile, geometric beauty of old pools set the tone for these photographs. Each of them pictures a different pool, usually built in ... +

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Join Leica Lounge on Thursday, September 7, 2017 with photographer Miguel Salas. Miguel will share his experiences from Holi, the festival of color in India, which he photographed in March 2017. Holi is a Hindu festival that marks the arrival of spring and a celebration of fertility, color, and love, as well as the triumph of good versus evil. People from all around the ... +

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“The photographs in my “Darker Than Blue” collection represent moments I was fortunate enough to witness throughout my recent world travels – says Bitton. When I look at these pictures now, they feel like they were taken through a time machine, for a lucid dream, carrying every sensation and nuance—hyper realistic contrasts—only my Leica cameras can capture. My lifelong passion for the ... +

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She’s back! The 85-year-old dynamo, Margarita Cano,  just won’t stop creating. She has curated a new exhibition that will showcase a collection of her silkscreen prints on paper, originally produced in 1972. These works are an exploration of abstract images and variations, hand-painted studies and visual experiments. We are so proud to exhibit the work of this multi-faceted, enduring artist and cornerstone in our local ... +

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Informed Consent by Deborah Zoe Laufer with Elizabeth Dimon, Betsy Graver, Jovon Jacobs, Francisca Munoz and Carlos Orizondo take the spectators into three different perspectives around human beings and their creation. Among the characters we find a genetic anthropologist, a children’ s book author and a Native American  who tells the ancient legend about how Grand Canyon came to be. The play ... +

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  In Finding Mona Lisa, Carbonell Award-winning playwright Michael McKeever explores the history of the world’s most famous painting, including Leonardo da Vinci’s meeting of Senora del Giocondo (Mona Lisa) and his masterful creation of her indelible countenance. This historical, funny and intriguing new piece presents highlights throughout the painting’s infamous past, including her vandalism, her theft, her journey to America (at ... +

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The eighth edition of ArtLab @ The Lowe is the result of the collaboration of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a museum studies course during the spring 2017 semester, drawing on the impressive collection of the Lowe Art Museum. As the curators for the exhibition, the students selected the theme of fish in recognition of the importance of preserving the oceans ... +

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Screening of Angels in America, Part Two (Perestroika) as a part of National Theatre Live in Coral Gables Art Cinema. America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including ... +

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All children, except one, grow up. JM Barrie’s much-loved tale takes flight. When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow during a visit to London, headstrong Wendy (Madeleine Worrall, Jane Eyre) helps him re-attach it. In return she is invited to Neverland – where Tinker Bell the fairy, Tiger Lily and the vengeful Captain Hook (Anna Francolini, wonder.land), await. ... +

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Photographer Azeez Bakare will give a presentation titled, Drones and 3D: “Outside and In.” He will discuss everything from the art of capturing aerials on the exterior to developing 3D art on the interior and how photography fuels both. Azeez Bakare is a 3D artist, photographer, and videographer who helps firms, agencies, developers, and solopreneurs translate their ideas into high-quality visualization. Spending ... +

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An injured Union soldier (Colin Farrell) arrives at an all-female Southern boarding school during the Civil War. Soon, sexual tensions lead to dangerous rivalries as the women tend to his wounds and offer him shelter and companionship. The school’s owner and headmistress is Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman). Sheltered, frustrated Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) sees the soldier as a tender soul who can sweep ... +

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide – the Stalker – leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to ... +

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Two dozen paintings by twelve international mid-career artists featured in ARTvisions International present diverse examples of their technique and subject matter. Highlighting the gallery’s current exhibition are six midcareer contemporary Chinese artists who premiered in previous gallery shows. Dominating their works is a 21-foot triptych by Liao Zhenwu. Other Chinese artists represented include a six-and-a-half foot horizontal painting by Li Bo and ... +

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Critically acclaimed singer and pianist Tony DeSare has played jazz clubs, Las Vegas, Carnegie Hall, and Jazz at Lincoln Center, and appeared on the CBS Early Show, NPR, A Prairie Home Companion, and the Today Show, to name a few. With three top ten Billboard jazz albums under his belt, Tony continues to bring his fresh take to old-school class. This holiday ... +

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New Orleans’ Grammy Award-winning musician and actor Chris Thomas King is considered one of the influential artists that contributed to change the way we think about blues. He is also known for his role as itinerant bluesman Tommy Johnson in the George Clooney film O Brother, Where Art Thou? Chris has sold more than 10 million records in United States, and is ... +

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Israeli cellist Amit Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today, and he charmed the CAP Summer Concert Series audience two years ago. Back by popular demand, Amit Peled performs with pianist Noreen Polera in a program that features the Cello Sonatas of Johannes Brahms. Amit Peled will perform this exciting recital on Pablo Casals’ ... +

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The Community Arts Program (CAP) in its 32th Season presents Summer Concert Series 2017. This edition brings talented musicicians from classical and jazz figures. Tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, the first female instrumentalist and the first South American ever to win the prestigious Thelonious Monk Competition. Israeli cellist Amit Peled performing with pianist Noreen Polera in a program that features the Cello Sonatas ... +

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Miami Chamber Music Society (MCMS) curates and produces The Mainly Mozart Festival, considered one of the most beloved chamber music series in Miami, now in its 24th season. Mainly Mozart presents outstanding local and visiting classical artists in concert. Family Concert #1: Extraordinary Young Pianists, brings Lindsey Yang(13) and Luke Yang(11) from the studio of Marina Radiushina. Winners of multiple youth piano ... +

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Miami Chamber Music Society (MCMS) curates and produces The Mainly Mozart Festival, considered one of the most beloved chamber music series in Miami, now in its 24th season. Mainly Mozart presents outstanding local and visiting classical artists in concert. Concert number five of the festival presents The Delray String Quartet returning to the festival and breaking into Duets of Mozart and Beethoven, ... +

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Miami Chamber Music Society (MCMS) curates and produces The Mainly Mozart Festival, considered one of the most beloved chamber music series in Miami, now in its 24th season. Mainly Mozart presents outstanding local and visiting classical artists in concert. Youth and Love -the fourth concert of the festival- brings soprano Ariadne Greif, praised by the NYTimes for her “luminous, expressive voice”. Greif ... +

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The Florida Film Institute in partnership with the Coral Gables Cinema announces CINEMA, a film education summer camp, from June 12 to July 21, 2017. Up to 25 high school students ages 13 to 18 are invited to attend the workshops. This year FFI will also offer a limited number of full scholarships to students in need of financial assistance. There will ... +

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Few stories in the history of Cuban popular music have as felicitous an outcome as those of the musicians that came to be known collectively as the Buena Vista Social Club. Director Lucy Walker chronicles the two decades of success that followed the release of the band’s original album produced by Ry Cooder and the documentary by Wim Wenders. Using the band’s ... +

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“Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos, and Toys in the Attic” is the first museum retrospective of Walter Wick, the award-winning author and photographic illustrator of Can You See What I See? and co-creator of the famed I Spy book series. This engaging exhibition features a selection of Wick’s early photographs, which provided a foundation for the artist’s interest in illusions, puzzles, games, and ... +

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National Theatre Live is a groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre live from the London stage to cinemas around the world including the Coral Gables Art Cinema. Twelfth Night starts with a ship that is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out ... +

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Homicide detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is one week from retiring when he’s presented with what will be the most disturbing case of his career: a serial killer who stages grisly murders representing the seven deadly sins. Brad Pitt joins Freeman as the newly-transferred David Mills, whose cockiness and marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow will be tested by the horrors committed by the ... +

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It Shoulda Been You aka “the wedding of the year” is an entertaining musical comedie that comes direct from Broadway to Miami. The bride is Jewish. The groom is Catholic. Her mother is a force of nature; his mother is a tempest in a cocktail shaker. And when the bride’s ex-boyfriend shows up, the perfect wedding starts to unravel faster than one ... +

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Soprano Yetzabel Arias Fernandez performs for the first time for Miami Bach Society audience with the program La Lucrezia (Georg Friedrich Handel) directed by Jay Bernfeld. La Lucrezia includes Cantata Spagnuola a voce sola; Pensieri Notturni di Filli HWV 134; Cantate La Lucrezia HWV 145; Sonata a Flauto e Cembalo HWV 362 and Suite for Harpsichord d minor HWV 428. Yetzabel Arias ... +

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Drawing from his personal pantheon of artist heroes, López’s work evokes the powerful imagery of 19th-century master portrait photographers like Nadar (Gaspar Félix Tournachon) and Julia Margaret Cameron. The series exemplifies Lopez’s acute interest in the continuation of formal photographic processes through carbon printing, which produces very beautiful, high-quality images that are rich in pigment and outstanding in visual resolution; a quality ... +

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One of the boldest films to come out of Cuba in recent years, Marilyn Solaya’s feature film debut, His Wedding Dress (Vestido de Novia), won the Audience Award at two of the most important Spanish-language film festivals: Havana and Málaga. The film is set in 1994, the worst year of Cuba’s so-called special period, which began with the collapse of the Soviet ... +

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The Frost Studio Jazz Band presents a concert featuring new music by Stephen Guerra, Jr. as conductor and graduate assistant William Longo, with members of the Frost Studio Jazz Band. UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

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Artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) left his native Cuba in 1932 to study in America, inspired by mid-century New York realists he was drawn to landscapes, both urban and rural, as well as genre scenes. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Sanchez established himself as one of the premier painters of daily life in the Caribbean. After 1959 Sanchez shifted his focus to other ... +

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“I’ve no talent for life.” Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free… Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel. Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic ... +

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The Department of Instrumental Performance sponsors the prestigious Frost Honor Bands Festival each year, attracting 200 talented high school instrumentalists from across Florida to the University of Miami campus for two days of rehearsals, master classes and a final concert. The performing groups include a Festival Wind Ensemble and Festival Symphonic Band conducted by outstanding conductors Robert Carnochan, Steve Rivero and Jay ... +

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Frost piano faculty artist Naoko Takao performs Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 81a “Les adieux,” Ravel’s Sonatine, Rachmaninov’s “Corelli” Variations, and Barber’s Piano Sonata. Winner of numerous awards as a soloist including the gold medal at the 2000 San Antonio International Piano Competition and the most recent award from the S&R Foundation, Ms. Takao enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, ... +

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Student documentaries from a co-taught UM course (Community Science: Music and the Brain) will show and discuss their films. This event is sponsored by the Department of Music Education and Music Therapy and is the second of three screenings about the portrayal of music learning and teaching in film. Each screening is followed by a panel discussion and audience participation. Clarke Recital ... +

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Hailed for Bach interpretations full of warm humanity, Artistic Director Patrick Dupré Quigley leads the ensemble in J. S. Bach’s exuberant Holy Week masterpiece. The oratorio opens with two contrasting instrumental movements, an Allegro concerto grosso of the full orchestra with solo sections for trumpets, violins and oboes, and an Adagio oboe melody over “Seufzer” motifs (sighs) in the strings. Bach composed ... +

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Dandy Lion Roars will present an afternoon of songs celebrating exhibition Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity. This performance features acclaimed baritones and pianist, and will showcase classical art song and spirituals by African American composers and poets. Exhibition Dandy Lion (on view through May 21, 2017) seeks to distinguish the historical and contemporary expressions of the Black Dandy phenomenon in popular ... +

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After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this at times strange and hostile environment. But with Raymond’s help and his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love, as he searches for ... +

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Late one night, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is led out of his home by Frank, a monstrous six-foot rabbit that only he can see. Frank informs his fellow classmates that the world will end in 28 days. The following morning, Donnie discovers a jet engine has crash-landed on the floor of his bedroom. From there, things only get stranger. Richard Kelly’s directorial debut ... +

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The Handmaiden by Park Chan-wook transplants Sarah Waters’ Victorian England-set bestseller Fingersmith to Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930s. The result is a historically charged drama, an erotic thriller, and, above all, a magnificent romance. Under Park’s direction, Waters’ tale, about a pickpocket-turned-servant and the heiress she conspires to swindle, provides the basis for something beautiful and brash. Park plays with taboos, genres, ... +

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Society Of Composers will present its original music with Kyle Guffey as president. Society of Composers, Inc is an independent organization concerned with the fellowship, collaboration, career goals, and objectives of new and contemporary music composers and those interested in topics related to composition. Clarke Recital Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 305.284.2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

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Their Tehran apartment block on the brink of collapse, a couple is obliged to move into a shabby nearby flat. Soon an unfriendly visitor comes calling and there is an eruption of violence. Before we can get our bearings, this work of slow-burning suspense has us unnerved and unable to look away. Farhadi rose to international prominence after A Separation won the ... +

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Carousel is a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, it was Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s personal favorite of all their musicals and it was dubbed “the best musical of the 20th Century” by Time Magazine. This poignant and heartbreaking story presents a faithful Julie and her brutish husband Billy, is considered one of the most powerful books in musical theatre history with memorable ... +

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A moving group portrait of particular people in a particular place (Santa Barbara) at a particular moment in the 20th century (1979), one lovingly attended detail at a time. The great Annette Bening, in one of her very best performances, is Dorothea, a single mother raising her son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), in a sprawling bohemian house, which is shared by an ... +

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The exhibition “Culinary Adventures: Bronze Sculpture and Paintings by Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz,” brings two well known partners in international art circles; both have exhibited widely in leading galleries and museums, Montoya since 1972 and Ortiz since 1996. Partners since 1994, Montoya and Ortiz are the extremely rare bronze sculptors who handle every phase of their work, from design to casting ... +

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University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and presenting sponsor UHealth, announce the spectacular lineup of the 33rd annual Festival Miami! From January 19 to February 11th, 2017 the festival will offer unique concert programs performed by Grammy Award-winners, Broadway performers, chart topping DJs, and acclaimed musicians, in the intimate UM Maurice Gusman Concert hall on the Coral Gables campus. Each year, ... +

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The 7th edition of this annual UM student-curated exhibition highlights 30 compelling photographs from the Museum’s permanent collection. Blasted Allegories considers the way photography resists decisive conclusions. Serendipitous details, unexpected gestures, and strange parallels occur across the photographs featured. Works by Garry Winogrand, Gregory Crewdson, Walker Evans, Eadweard Muybridge, Nan Goldin, Weegee, and others come together as suggestive examples of how photography ... +

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From The Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection, this exhibition includes works by many of Cuba’s foremost women artists. Spanning from the 1960s to the present, the works represent a wide range of media and genres. It features artists like Antonia Eiriz, Sandra Ceballos, Cirenaica Moreira, Aimée García, Belkis Ayón, Magdalena Campos-Pons, Rocío García and Sandra Ramos. They equally remind us of ... +

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Artist Sean Cavanaugh revels in the mundane. Specifically, trees—which for so many of us are merely background noise— are a source of endless fasciation for the artist. Through his meticulously detailed work, Cavanaugh explores richly textured tapestries of bark, lichens, and fungus, each different but all embodying a universe unto themselves. He does so through subtle watercolors, which, while naturalistic, never lose ... +

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Manchester by the Sea is Kenneth Lonergan’s masterpiece about a New England handyman (Casey Affleck) dealing with the death of his brother, the unexpected guardianship of his nephew and a guilt-ridden past that won’t let him go. With Manchester, selected by the National Board of Review as Best Film of the Year, Lonergan leaves the rank of gifted-playwright-turned-indie filmmaker to become a ... +

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Mathematics, science, and machines are the original sources in the imaginary world of Mexican artist Manuel Felguérez. The artist is a devoted reader of science fiction, a tendency that has influenced the poetics and themes of his work. To express the issue as such from the outset will facilitate the undertaking of examining his sculptures and his latest paintings. Felguérez career has ... +

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Three world premiere carol settings by Susan LaBarr and James K. Bass as associate conductor. Currently in their 15th Season Seraphic Fire sing timeless carols in the absorbing experience of Seraphic Fire’s traditional candlelight Christmas concerts. Performing throughout South Florida and on national tours, Seraphic Fire is regarded as one of the preeminent professional vocal ensembles in the United States. Led by ... +

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Award-winning jazz vocalist, Zoë began her musical career at an early age, growing through dedication and practice. Currently attending the University of Miami Frost School of Music on a full scholarship, Zoë continues to perform around Florida while finding time to teach voice and piano. Zoë has played in Austin, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Boca Raton, where she opened for Natalie Cole. ... +

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Frost Opera Theater students with Alan Johnson as director present the operas Scenes in Concert and Dido and Aeneas. Scenes in Concert includes classical and Bel Canto repertoire revealing the influences that will herald Frost Opera Theatre’s spring production of Stravinsky’s neoclassical opera The Rake’s Progress. In the other hand Dido and Aeneas -Henry Purcell’s extraordinary opera dating from 1680s- is a ... +

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Seraphic Fire, in concert with GRAMMY Award-winning organist Nathan Laube, performs a program of remembrance featuring the world premiere work, The Fate of His Ashes: A Requiem for Victims of Power, by Douglas Cuomo and the requiem masses of Fauré and Duruflé. From the delicate melody of Pie Jesu in Fauré’s Requiem to the unmistakable Gregorian chant in Duruflé’s Agnus Dei, this ... +

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Robert Carnochan leads the Frost Wind Ensemble on a musical celebration 90 years in the making. The world-renowned German Donaueschingen Music Festival takes center stage and features popular works from the wind band repertoire. A travel back in time to witness the programming of some of the greatest gems from legendary composers, including Hans Gál, Ernst Toch, Ernst Krenek, Ernst Pepping, and ... +

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With the scholarship help from the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation, a group of four outstanding young string musicians (violin, violin, viola, cello) take the stage by storm, performing with Ross Harbaugh as director. UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 305.284.2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

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Soprano Michelle Bradley, from the Metropolitan Opera has performed such roles as Mozart’s Fiordilligi and Donna Anna, Strauss’ Marschellin, and Verdi’s Alice from Falstaff. Included in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2016-2017 season, she was the 2014 grand prize winner of The Music Academy of the West’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition and completed a nationwide recital tour in May 2015. On the other hand, ... +

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Million Dollar Quartet is the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical inspired by the famous photo and phenomenal true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time in their careers. On December 4, 1956, these four young musicians were gathered together by Sam ... +

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Clara (Sonia Braga, Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands), a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, is the last resident of the Aquarius, one of the few buildings of its age and character that remains in a rapidly changing seaside Recife neighborhood. Now that the other apartments have been swept up by a company with ambitious plans for redevelopment, pressures to move ... +

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Bach’s B minor mass takes listeners on a journey they will never forget, considered as infectiously joyous and hailed as “a cathedral of sound,” this masterpiece is widely considered one of the best choral works ever written. In this occasion the Master Chorale of South Florida gets together with the Symphonia of Boca Raton and world-class soloists. Dates, Times and Venues November ... +

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The Frost Symphonic Choir and Chamber Singers join together for a chortal concert. Special guest group BisCaydence will join in to add some collegiate a cappella style to this event featuring music from Bach to Rock with Karen Kennedy as director. UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

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On October 7, 2016, CGAC officially becomes the only art cinema in South Florida equipped to screen films in 70mm, the high resolution format that became synonymous with the medium’s epics and films of exceptional visual grandeur. The theater will proudly unveil its new system in two separate programs, the second of which will take place in the spring. In this occasion, ... +

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On October 7, 2016, CGAC officially becomes the only art cinema in South Florida equipped to screen films in 70mm, the high resolution format that became synonymous with the medium’s epics and films of exceptional visual grandeur. The theater will proudly unveil its new system in two separate programs, the second of which will take place in the spring. Named after a ... +

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Seraphic Fire opens its 15th season with flourish featuring new compositions by Founder and Artistic Director Patrick Dupré Quigley and Guggenheim-winning composer Christopher Theofanidis, as well as selections from Philip Glass’s quintessential opera Einstein on the Beach. Venues Oct 19, 2016, 7:30 PM, St. Sophia Cathedral (Miami) Oct 21, 2016, 7:30 PM, St. Philip’s Episcopal (Coral Gables) Oct 22, 2016, 7:30 PM, ... +

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This two man show by Colombian Danny Esquenazi & Venezuelan Aureliano Parra reunites these talented established artists from Latin-America. Navigating between Geometric Abstraction and Neo-Kinetics, Esquenazi & Parra have found a way to reinvent these movements by embracing technology in the creative process and through the use of non-traditional materials. “Chromatic Perceptions” is exclusively composed by wall sculptures; showcasing the most recent ... +

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The Pawn Broker Tuesday Night Jazz Series presents Made from Scratch featuring Guti Talavera and Damian J. The project is not only committed to presenting the beginnings of jazz, it is also dedicated to the present state of this music as well as its future. Jazz will be defined by a master of electronic music and turntables interacting with a vintage jazzman ... +

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Internationally acclaimed guest conductor Mark Gorenstein leads the Frost Symphony Orchestra in an all-Russian program with distinguished Frost faculty pianist Santiago Rodriguez. Program includes Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Santiago Reodriguez in piano, Mark Gorestein as guest conductor and Thomas Sleeper as Director of Frost Symphony Orchestra. UM Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami Frost School of ... +

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The Vesper Project is the culmination of Titus Kaphar’s intensive engagement with the fictional history of the Vespers, a 19th-century New England family. The resulting project, which features the remains of an abandoned Connecticut home into which the artist has incorporated his own work, interrogates notions of race, identity, memory, and social constructs. The Vesper Project obliterates the distance between viewer and ... +

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The CAP 2016 Summer Concert Series closes with the Spanish maestro of the guitar, Sir Angel Romero. Considered one of the most sought-after musicians of his generation, his extensive discography includes highly-acclaimed recordings for Delos, International, RCA Victor Red Seal and RCA Victor Worldwide, Telarc, and Angel/EMI. In 2007, the Recording Academy, producer of the GRAMMY® Awards, presented Sir Angel with the ... +

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Frost Concert Jazz Band and Frost Studio Jazz Band conduct a fabulous concert performing original works by Frost composers in its second annual “House Writers” concert. Under the direction of John Daversa and Steve Guerra. UM Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive, Room 110 Coral Gables, FL 33124-7610 305.284.2241 www.miami.edu/frost/index.php/frost/

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Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen’s bittersweet romance Café Society follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) as he flees his father’s Bronx jewelry store for Hollywood, where he works for his high-powered agent uncle (Steve Carell) and falls for Phil’s charming assistant Vonnie (Kristen Stewart). When Vonnie’s boyfriend breaks up with her, Bobby seizes the opportunity to romance her, and she ultimately ... +

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Jazz Pianist, Drummer, Composer/Arranger and Educator Kom Wongsawat will perform a Doctoral Recital at Gusman Concert Hall. Kom has won several music competition in Thailand, Wining the “Best Keyboard Player 2005” by Overdrive Magazine, “Best Outstanding Keyboard” in the Thailand Jazz Competition 2006, and his band received First Prizes from many Jazz Band Competitions (As a pianist and drummer). As a jazz ... +

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In The Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood – a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where ... +

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The Coral Gables Art Cinema presents the U.S. theatrical engagement of Isla Bonita, the freshest comedy of the year. Director Fernando Colomo, who ushered in a new era of post-Franco Spanish comedies with Tigres de Papel turns Isla Bonita into an intimate summer interlude in the Mediterranean as his characters wrestle with the vagaries of love and life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxDprF8Nw4E Coral Gables Cinema ... +

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Area Stage Company presents Our Town by Thornton Wilder, featuring actors below the age of 18 in a production of Stage II. Our Town is considered a staple of American theater. This Pulitzer Prize-winning- is a drama in three acts -produced and published in 1938- that became a classic portrayal of small-town American life. Through flashbacks, dialogue, and direct monologues the characters ... +

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Speaking of Abstraction, language transitions in Latin American Art is curated by Dennys Matos, the show considers artists from six generations whose contributions and paths made of Abstraction the most influential tendency in the historiography of Latin American Contemporary Art of the XX century. The exhibition presents a selection of 12 crucial abstract artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay and ... +

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A focused micro-exhibit, this show highlights the work of artist David Hayes, who is remembered for his monumental cut-steel sculptures that have been featured in some 300 exhibitions both domestically and abroad. It includes six pairs of preparatory drawings and maquettes, or models, for Hayes’s full-sized colorful works, and sheds light on the sculptor’s artistic process, both intellectual and aesthetic, revealing the ... +

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Buyer and Cellar now starring Chris Crawford, was considered the most talked-about comedy of last year’s Off-Broadway Season, winner of the 2013 Drama Desk Award is a one-man tour-de-force. An underemployed Los Angeles actor goes to work in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu basement. What follows is a riotously funny new play that gets every comedic element right, ultimately questioning the price of fame. ... +

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The Community Arts Program (CAP) 2016 Summer Concert Series will take place featuring six extraordinary jazz and classical concerts. From the opening season with Doc Severinsen, passing to Sybarite5, Catherine Russell, Terri Lyne Carrington, to Peter & Will Anderson Jazz Trio to Angel Romero to summarize the season. Venue: Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ Performances: Every other Thursday at 8 ... +

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In 1966, the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute engaged noted medical illustrator J. McGuinness Myers to paint a series of eyes with ocular conditions that patients presented to the faculty of the Institute. This exhibition features highlights from this work, which captures with great aesthetic sensitivity what Henry David Thoreau referred to as “the noblest feature, the eye … the jewel of the ... +

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Playing Lecuona brought together Tenerife native producer-director JuanMa Villar Betancort in collaboration with Cuban director Pavel Giroud to present not a biography, but a musical journey from Cuba to Spain – via the U.S. – to demonstrate the timeless virtue of Lecuona’s music. Their proponents are masters in their own right, a matchless trio of Grammy-laden pianist/composers, to wit, Cuba’s greatest living ... +

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The Japanese movie Sweet Bean by Naomi Kawase – her first in traditional Japanese mode – is a graceful ode to the invisible essence of existence considered beautifully shot and acted, accorded to The New York Times, now playing at Coral Gables Cinema. Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayakis – pastries filled with sweet red bean paste. When an old ... +

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Area Stage is proud to be hosting the Ecuador Earthquake Relief Concert featuring performances by international singing star Jon Secada, as well as up and coming talent such as Ecuadorian singer Nicole Pernigotti, Conservatory staff and students as well. The orchestra will be directed by award-winning musical director Jon Rose. Area Stage Company 1560 S. Dixie Hwy Coral Gables, FL 33146 305.666.2078 ... +

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For the Gran Season Finale Concert, Greater Miami Symphonic Band will host Brian Neal, the trumpet virtuoso formerly from The Dallas Brass and soloist at numerous national and international events. The Band will play with him “La Virgen de La Macarena” and “Gabriel’s oboe”. Also the program will include “Twelfth Night”; “Star Wars:The Force Awakens” and other classical band pieces and famous ... +

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From the author of Making God Laugh, which the audiences fell in love with, comes Sean Grennan’s newest comedy, this one with inspirational dramatic resonance. The Tin Woman is moving theatrical experience involving a postoperative heart transplant recipient struggling with her own survival guilt, who decides to meet the family of the late donor, their son. The grief of the late donor’s ... +

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Praised by Le Figaro for his “unequaled touch, perfectly harmonious phrasing and breathtaking virtuosity” pianist Sergei Babayan will present a recital of works by Bach and Mozart. He will be joined by the festival artistic director and his former student at the Cleveland Instittue of Music, Marina Radiushina for a few duo piano selections. Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami University of ... +

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The Miami Chamber Music Society presents the Mainly Mozart Festival Inaugural Lecture Series with musicologist Frank Cooper. A celebration in learning, designed to heighten your experience of the music of history’s greatest prodigy Mozart, in the 250th Anniversary of his birth. Frank Cooper, award-winning Research Professor Emeritus (Musicology) at the University of Miami, Florida has appeared in the U.S, Canada, Mexico, the ... +

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ArtSpace Virginia Miller Galleries opens solo exhibition by abstract painter Linda Touby. Many of Touby’s most recent works at the gallery belong to her series, “Homage to Giotto,” inspired by the textures and colors of the frescoes of the Italian master. Touby was a student of Richard Pousette-Dart, youngest member of the first generation of the New York School of abstract expressionists. ... +

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From the author of Making God Laugh from two seasons ago, comes Sean Grennan’s newest comedy, this one with inspirational dramatic resonance. The Tin Woman is a rich, funny and moving theatrical experience involving a postoperative heart transplant recipient struggling with her own survival guilt, who decides to meet the family of the late donor, their son. The grief of the late ... +

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Johann Sebastian Bach’ John Passion with BWV 245 Dr. Donald Oglesby, Director Featuring: University of Miami Collegium Musicum Trinity Cathedral Anglican Chorale Miami Bach Society Chamber Orchestra. Soloists: Javier Abreu, tenor, Evangelist Steven Wilson, baritone, Jesus David Pegel, baritone, Pilate Vindhya Khare, soprano Stephen Rickards, countertenor and Andrew York, baritone. These performances are dedicated in memory of former University of Miami President ... +

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The Florida Guitar Foundation is proud to present the multi-prize winner Irina Kulikova in concert. The Russian guitar virtuoso will close the 2015-2016 Season with a program featuring her arrangement of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, and guitar treasures from Paraguay, Spain, and Russia. This special evening will feature performances by the Select Guitars of BAAM (Bridgeprep Academy of Arts and Minds), ... +

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Frost Opera Theater presents two evenings of two one-act operas. With Jeffrey Buchman as guest stage director, Alan Johnson as artistic director and Rosa Mercedes as guest choreographer. Mavra, Stravinsky’s 1922 neo-classical chamber opera in the comic ‘buffa’ tradition of the 18th century is a twenty-five minute opera from 1921 careens along with four characters featuring two arias, a duet, and a ... +

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Considered Kurosawa’s final epic masterpiece the film RAN is Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. The great Tatsuya Nakadai is unforgettable as the 16th-century warlord who decides to abdicate in favor of his three sons, but the dominant force looming over every element of this film, down to the smallest detail, is Kurosawa himself. Unusual for a foreign language film, Ran ... +

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Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music features a wide variety of student and faculty artist performances: Whiplash–Music Learning & Teaching Film Series. A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential. Each screening is followed by a panel discussion and ... +

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The Reverend Morrell, an energetic Socialist, is a man after Shaw’s own closely guarded heart. He and his strong-willed and beautiful wife, Candida, are happily married – or at least they think they are – until Eugene Marchbanks, an idealistic and passionate young poet, enters the scene and turns their world upside-down. This inventive musical, which was presented at Lincoln Center, explores ... +

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The Florida Guitar Foundation is proud to present the multi-prize winner Irina Kulikova in concert. The Russian guitar virtuoso will close the 2015-2016 Season with a program featuring her arrangement of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, and guitar treasures from Paraguay, Spain, and Russia. "Some of the most sheerly beautiful playing I have ever heard" – Soundboard Magazine, Al Kunze This special ... +

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Robert Kelley Memorial Musicology Lecture Series presents “Sacred Song and State in the Rise of Post-Secular Nationalism” by guest speaker: Dr. Philip Bohlman (distinguished Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago) Sparked by the recent November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, Professor Philip Bohlman examines the use of song in twenty-first century nationalist movements. He reflects upon the relation of ... +

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The rising stars of classical music as the student concerto competition winners perform as soloists with the Frost Symphony Orchestra and Julián Brijaldo, winner of the composition contest. Avner Dorman’s “Spices, Perfumes,Toxis!” featuring Darius Milhaud’s The Ox on the Roof and the world premiere of Simon by composer Julián Brijaldo. UM Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami Frost School of Music 1314 ... +

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Frost School of Music presents “Winds in Concert” featuring a blend of wind, brass and percussion instruments in grand style through works by top composers of today and yesterday. The ensemble plays led by music director, Robert Carnochan as well as guest conductors Chee Weng Yim and Christian Noon. UM Gusman Concert Hall Free admission University of Miami Frost School of Music ... +

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The Area Stage Company (ASC) plays The Nether by Jennifer Haley, a virtual wonderland where a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination. Winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Nether is both a serpentine crime drama and haunting sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of living out ... +

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Florida Grand Opera (FGO) and Steinway and Sons Piano Gallery Miami are pleased to announce “Song Fest Miami,” a free concert series performed by members of FGO’s Young Artist Program featuring a variety of classical singing styles. Each concert highlights a different style of song: German lieder, Broadway love songs, French mélodies, and English art song. Venue Steinway & Sons Piano Gallery ... +

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WordSpeak, an ongoing spoken word program for South Florida teens, invites performance poet, playwright and educator Emanuelee Bean also known as “Outspoken”. The program includes Workshops, Open Mic and Reading. Emanuelee Bean is a Texas Poet Laureate nominee, and ranked 9th in the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2013. He ranked 2nd in collaborative poetry at Group Piece Finals in 2013 and ... +

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It’s Only A Play, written by Terrence McNally tells the story of an Opening Night on Broadway while playwright Peter Austin, has his career on the line. He anxiously awaits reviews at a private party. Terrence McNally is 4-time Tony Award Winner and author of Mothers and Sons. GableStage at the Biltmore 1200 Anastasia Avenue Coral Gables, Florida 33134 305.446.1116 www.gablestage.org

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Tigertail Productions continues its WordSpeak teen spoken word project for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning) with nationally recognized Arab-American Spoken Word Poet and playwright Andrea Assaf. Andrea Assaf will perform and lead workshops for students at Pridelines and a number of Miami-Dade high schools. These SpeakOut events provide Miami teens the opportunity to learn more about spoken word as a ... +

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The Portrait Transformed explores the evolution of portraiture from final quarter of the 1700s until the present, featuring 151 rare portrait drawings and oil sketches. Among the highlights are a late eighteenth-century work by Jacques-Louis David, four works by Lucian Freud, and Aubrey Beardsley’s decadent India ink portrait of Oscar Wilde. The Portrait Transformed also boasts a fine range of self-portraits, many ... +

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Alternative Abstractions – Ludic Geometries is a group show that gathers the most recent works from Colombian artist Danny Esquenazi and Venezuelan artists Aureliano Parra and Reymond Romero. Their appearance in the art horizon around the mid to late nineties, marks the conceptual rupture where the great abstract geometricians and the kinetics masters had already happened; these artists belong to a generation ... +

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The Miami Bach Society together with University of Miami Collegium Musicum will celebrate a concert dedicated to people in Paris, devastated by the terrorist attacks of past november. The great English Christmas Tradition, will feature music of Henry Purcell, G.F. Handel, William Boyce, and others. The program includes: The Praise of Christmas, Remember O Thou Man, Lute Book Lullaby, Coventry Carol, Behold ... +

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Robert Carnochan conducts the Frost Wind Ensemble in Schuman’s George Washington Bridge, Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis. The Guest conductor Chee Weng Yim will perform Benson’s The Passing Bell. The Frost Wind Ensemble at the University of Miami consists of the finest wind and percussion players at the university, and performs for numerous concerts, conferences, and festivals throughout the season. ... +

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The violist Roberto Díaz, president of the Curtis Institute of Music, former principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra, has already had a significant impact on American musical life and continues to do so in his dual roles as performer. As a soloist, Mr. Díaz collaborates with leading conductors of our time on stages throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Also ... +

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Top Nashville Singer-Songwriters Craig Carothers, Tony Arata, Dave Berg, and Annie Mosher Present a Down-To-Earth Festival Miami Concert, on October 21, Featuring Their Biggest Hits. They hail from different parts of the USA, and each have their own musical perspective, but singer/songwriters Craig Carothers, Tony Arata, Dave Berg, and Annie Mosher all have something in common. They are some of Nashville’s most ... +

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Multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter and pianist Ben Folds performs his acclaimed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Frost School of Music’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. Composed in 2013 and since performed to sold-out audiences with symphony orchestras around the globe, the fresh and appealing work is featured on his new album, So There, slated for release in September 2015. UM Gusman Concert Hall ... +

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Richard Todd, Joel Smirnoff and Christopher O’Riley will perform at Festival Miami 2015. A new interpretation of Johannes Brahms’s Horn Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 40. by Frost horn faculty member. A motion picture and solo recording by artist Richard Todd performing with violin soloist and Cleveland Institute of Music’s president Joel Smirnoff and award-winning pianist and NPR’s From the Top host ... +

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Sylvan Street, a high-wattage group of eight accomplished musicians, performs funk-infused originals with surging electric bass grooves, powerful drums, tight horns, and exciting keyboards. They blend a driving fusion of jazz, rock, Latin, urban, jump swing and blues. Bassist-composer Jay Rees, a new professor at the Frost School of Music leads the charge. For this concert they’ll jam on new tunes and ... +

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The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet features four extraordinary musicians who bring energy to the concert stage in programs ranging from Bluegrass to Bach. LAGQ’s Guitar Heroes album (Telarc), winner of a 2005 Grammy, is a brilliant follow-up to their Grammy-nominated LAGQ-Latin. This time the quartet will present music from its new album New Renaissance, including the engrossing suite “Music from the Time ... +

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Grammy- and Emmy-winning tenor John Easterlin returns to his hometown with a variety of Broadway, gospel, folk, operetta and opera favorites, featuring arias by Mozart, Strauss, Wagner, Shostakovich and more. The theatrical veteran, named the 2015 Frost Distinguished Alumnus, weaves an entertaining musical tale. New York pianist Mitchell Cirker accompanies and Dean of the Frost School of Music Shelly Berg appears as ... +

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A three-time Latin Grammy winner and double Grammy nominee, Natalia Lafourcade is one of the most important singer-songwriters of her generation. Originally from Mexico, her latest album Hasta la Raíz “to the root” was inspired by connecting with oneself and connecting with the universe. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Mexican sales charts and remains a top seller. UM Gusman ... +

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Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local Berliners outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these lads have gotten themselves into hot water: they owe someone a dangerous favor that requires repaying that evening. As Victoria’s flirtation with Sonne deepens into something more, he convinces ... +

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Miami Chamber Music is pleased to present “Beethoven String Quartet” by Ehnes Quartet. Comprised of four internationally renowned string musicians: Grammy award winner James Ehnes, Fellow violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, Violist Richard O’Neill and Cellist Robert DeMaine; the Ehnes Quartet has been considered an important new force in the chamber music arena. Critically acclaimed performances from Seattle to Miami and Montreal have ... +

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Miami Chamber Music opens its 60th Anniversary Season proudly presenting The Borodin Quartet, who for seven decades, has been celebrated its insight and authority in the chamber music repertoire. Revered for its searching performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich, the Quartet is equally at home in music ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky. The Quartet is universally recognized for its genuine interpretation of Russian ... +

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Cuban-born pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Bulgarian-born percussionist Svet Stoyanov and American-born trumpeter John Daversa met at UM Frost as new faculty. In this energizing program with the Frost Concert Jazz Band they celebrate the multicultural vibrancy of their new musical home inspired in part by “Afro Blue” by Mongo Santamaría and “Manteca” by Dizzy Gillespie. Rubalcaba also performs highlights from his illustrious career ... +

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Frost Studio Jazz Band and Concert Jazz Band present Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess by Bill Potts. These two of the Frost School’s DownBeat collegiate award-winning big bands will also perform new works by Frost composers for soloists in the bands. UM Gusman Concert Hall University of Miami Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive, Room 110 Coral Gables, FL 33124-7610 ... +

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Thomas Sleeper conducts the Frost Symphony Orchestra in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, aptly described as moving ‘from tragedy to triumph.’ It features the tender and beautiful “Adagietto.” Thomas Sleeper is professor of instrumental performance and program director of orchestral activities at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he also teaches instrumental conducting. He is conductor of the Frost ... +

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Best of Enemies. Buckley vs. Vidal. The 10 Debates that Changed Television Forever tells the story who changed television news in 1968. Directed with consummate skill by filmmakers Robert Gordon and Sundance Film Festival alumn Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom), Best of Enemies unleashes a highbrow blood sport that marked the dawn of pundit television as we know it today. Dead ... +

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Arturo O’Farrill, pianist, composer, and educator, is the 2015 GRAMMY winner for Best Latin Jazz Album. Arturo is hailed by The New York Times as the leader of the “first family of Afro-Cuban Jazz,” and he’s the son of late, great composer Chico O’Farrill. Be prepared for a combination of piano, trumpet, sax, bass, drums and percussion that will move you, literally, ... +

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America’s most prolific filmmaker is at it again. Here is Woody Allen’s 45th opus. Neither a drama nor a comedy, but a dramedy instead, Irrational Man involves the arrival on campus of Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix), a professor that “should put some Viagra into the Philosophy department.” Gravitating toward Abe-in-a-funk are science colleague Rita (Parker Posey), locked into a loveless marriage, and ... +

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The Lowe Art Museum is thrilled to present the first public exhibition of works from the Francien C. Ruwitch and the Ruwitch Family Collections as a tribute to the wonderful woman who catalyzed their very existence. The Francien C. Ruwitch and the Ruwitch Family Collections comprise a rich, intergenerational assortment of art in all media, including works by Olafur Eliasson, Walker Evans, ... +

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Unnecessary Farce takes place in a cheap motel room, where an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant. In the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there’s some confusion as to who’s in which room, who’s being videotaped, who’s taken the money, who’s hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps ... +

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First love, school bullies, British New Wave … and SCUD missiles. This bittersweet 80s coming-of-age drama from director Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, The Lemon Tree) adapts two semi-autobiographical novels by the popular Arab-Israeli Sayed Kashua. Eyad is a gifted Arab teenager who wins the chance to attend one of the most prestigious Jewish boarding schools in Israel. Isolated and lonely at ... +

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This season the festival continues its partnership with the landmark Coral Gables venue – The Biltmore Hotel – that will host 7 of the festival Sunday afternoon concerts and 2 Family Concerts. The Opening Night will take place on Saturday, April 25, 6pm, at Gusman Hall-UM; this special event will honor Doreen Marx and Byron Krulewitch for their remarkable contribution for the ... +

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The event is focused on FGO’s dynamic General Director & CEO, Susan T. Danis. Her over 20 years experience in the opera industry makes her an interesting subject for a Susan’s Salon, since not many people know what it takes to run an opera company. Danis will share her experiences and humorous anecdotes while audiences are entertained by FGO’s Young Artists performing ... +

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The Greater Miami Youth Symphony will present a special concert of Taiwanese and Chinese symphonic works and folk melodies. The themed feature work will be the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, to be performed by Ms. Huifang Chen, GMYS Music Director and Symphony Orchestra Conductor. The Concerto, written in the western orchestra style and premiered in 1959, is based on an ancient Chinese ... +

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This thrilling program opens with Paul Hindemith’s energetic Symphony in B-flat, written in 1951 for the United States Army Band and beloved ever since by wind bands worldwide for its triumphant glory. Next up, the world premiere of Rage Against the Machine by faculty composer Scott Stinson. The second half of the program features Ingolf Dahl’s enduring Concerto for Alto Saxophone featuring ... +

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Now in its 32nd year, the Miami International Film Festival is 10 days of provocative cinema and fabulous parties attended by guests from around the globe. Love the red carpet? See a CINEDWNTWN gala screening . Like films about food? Sink your teeth into one of our mouth-watering Culinary Cinema pairings. Can’t get enough of the Oscars? Attend a master class with ... +

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The Brazilian-born Muniz is known for the startling materials he uses in the production of his stunning images. By employing diverse materials such as toys, diamonds, garbage and magazine clippings, the artist creates tableaux, which are then photographed. Poetics of Perception includes elements of several of his renowned bodies of work, including Diamond Divas, Pictures of Chocolate, Pictures of Junk, Pictures of ... +

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The University of Miami Libraries and Books & Books invite you to a presentation of the book ESCAPE: THE HEYDAY OF CARIBBEAN GLAMOUR by Hermes Mallea In his latest book, Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour, author and architect Hermes Mallea celebrates the well-preserved glamour of warm-weather destinations in the Caribbean and Florida, from the great estates of ambitious patrons to the ... +

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Recognized worldwide as one of China’s most innovative artists, Wang Qingsong is based in Beijing and was born in 1966 at the start of the Cultural Revolution. The artist has been invited to Miami for the opening reception and will speak at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 8. ADinfinitum features giant photographic masterpieces the artist stages in huge spaces such as movie ... +

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Alma de Tango cordially invites you to join as we celebrate five years at the Biltmore Hotel with our annual Night of Glitz & Glamour. Ladies come dressed in all things glamorous, and gentlemen in formal tuxedo. The grand extravaganza will be held at no other than in the iconic Biltmore Hotel of Coral Gables grand Country Club Ballroom. It will be ... +

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Woody Allen brings his always "magical touch" to his Gables Cinema smash-hit romantic comedy, Magic in the Moonlight. Set in the south of France during the 1920s, this delightful film with a "supernatural twist" tells the story of a master magician trying to expose a psychic medium as a fake. Colin Firth plays an egotistical Englishman who moonlights as a world famous ... +

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