Coral Gables

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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/

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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/

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, … +

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 … +

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 … +

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, … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +