Coral Gables

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, … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

“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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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/

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 … +

“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 … +

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 … +

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, … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +