Music

VIVALDI’S GLORIA: A JOURNEY TO JOY with the Civic Chorale of Greater Miami & the MDC Chamber Singers showcasing an 80+ voice choir anchored by the Draculean surround-sound of a pipe organ Sunday, April 7th St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 14260 Old Cutler Rd, Miami, FL 33158 https://www.civicchorale.info/tickets Exquisite choral works, cultivated over seven centuries in sacred spaces with vaulted ceilings and pipe organs, will envelope you with the rich vibrations emitted by the grandiose King of Instruments, the organ. A breathtaking musical journey promises to transport you from the depths of contrition to the heights of extasy. Experience a spiritual cleansing of the highest musical order! At the three-month mark of broken new year’s resolutions, spring presents the opportunity to expunge our souls from guilt. The sacred music of Lent and Eucharist offer musical audiences a rich auditory backdrop to express penitence and to beg for grace. In this concert, you will experience a powerful emotional voyage from grief to glory. We perform five pieces that give gravity to a journey that starts with remorse and ends with the blissful energy of Vivaldi’s Gloria. In the British sacred tradition, forgiveness from sins is sought both in Farrant’s 16th century a cappella motet, Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake and in Attwood’s 19th century psalm, Turn my Face from my Sins. In Howells’ 20th Century anthem, Like as the Hart Desireth the Waterbrooks, distress is expressed for war wreaking havoc on nature’s purity. In continental Europe, sacrifice is invoked in both Mozarts’ 18th Century chant, Ave Verum Corpus and in Aquinas’s 14th Century hymn, O Salutaris Hostia. These pieces both announce eternal joy in heaven & the start of summer on earth, when, at the feast of Corpus Christi, Vivaldi’s Gloria is also sung. After a five-piece musical journey of repentance, you will indulge in the happy pronouncement of Gloria. The pipe organ, masterfully commandeered by Matthew Steynor, will engulf you as the Chorale performs Vivaldi’s majestic twelve-section choral gem. By the end of the concert, your musical journey to overwhelming joy will be complete! ___________________ In fulfillment of CCGM’s commitment to bring high-quality choral music to residents across the Greater Miami area, the Chorale is partnering with this brand-s new outreach location to present this concert: Vivaldi’s Gloria Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 4 pm Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 3220 NW 7th Ave, Allapattah, FL 33127 $5 tickets available at the door

Chrysos (ages 9-12) presents a musical theater variety show that will encourage and delight audiences of all ages. Nuggets of GOLD (ages 6-9) will present their musical fun: "Journey." GOLD in Harmony (a teen girls' show choir) and the Vessels Vault (a teen video performance group) will present some highlights of their work this year.

All G.O.L.D. groups rehearse at Talents Unleashed studio in Kendall. This show is presented free to the community thanks to the generosity of the Redland Church of the Nazarene.

 

Frida by ROBERT XAVIER RODRIGUEZ
Thursday, March 21 at 8PM
Performance takes place at Miami-Dade County Auditorium

Robert Xavier Rodríguez’s colorful score is a perfect match for the passionate art of the legendary painter Frida Kahlo. Although the artist was wracked by agonizing physical pain and caught up in a stormy marriage to Diego Rivera, the flame that fueled Kahlo’s art just kept burning and never turned to ash. She created fifty-five self-portraits. But no portrait of her is quite as revealing as the one in Rodríguez’s opera.

 

Classical and traditional 2 piano concert.

THIS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ALL TICKET BUYERS WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE REFUNDED.

Turkuaz at the North Beach Bandshell is presented by Live For Live Music in partnership with GMP Live and the Rhythm Foundation. Energetic splashes of funk, alternative, rock, R&B, and psychedelia color the music of Turkuaz. Balancing male-female harmonies, strutting guitars, wild horn arrangements, and interminable grooves, this spirit takes shape in the color donned by each respective member on stage nightly via larger-than-life performances. The Brooklyn-based nonet —Dave Brandwein [guitar, vocals], Taylor Shell [bass], Craig Brodhead [guitar, keys], Michelangelo Carubba [drums], Chris Brouwers [trumpet, keys], Greg Sanderson [tenor sax], Josh Schwartz [baritone sax, vocals], Sammi Garett [vocals], and Shira Elias [vocals]—ignite an explosion of energy punctuated by neon hues, deft musicality, and show-stopping sing-alongs on their fifth full-length album, Life In The City. The album, which includes co-production work from Jerry Harrison of The Talking Heads, sees the band stretch their sonic palette and cover new ground lyrically as they grapple with reality and get personal, finding the light in what can sometimes be a dark world. Yet even in the midst of serious subject matter creeping in on this album, the musicianship of all nine band members and the group’s upbeat, fun-loving sensibility still shines through to give Turkuaz fans the joyous sound they’ve come to know over the last several years.

Young Pianists Concerts. Selected local piano students in an all-Chopin program

The Side-by-Side Concert is an extraordinary opportunity for young instrumentalists (grades 7-12) to perform alongside the New World Symphony Fellows. The students share the New World Center’s stage and develop musical relationships with the Fellows as they rehearse and perform music of the highest caliber. The students have been selected through auditions from different schools and organizations, including students from São Paolo, Brazil and from Medellín, Colombia.

 

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

 

 

 

One of America's leading chamber ensembles, Zéphyros Winds brings together the diverse voices of the Great American Landscape in a richly varied program featuring works by Samuel Barber, John Harbison, Elliott Carter, Valerie Coleman, and the premiere of a newly commissioned work by renowned composer and jazz bandleader David Sanford.

Nano Stern’s Indie-Folk-Rock-Jazz sound bridges Chilean tradition with fresh, global relevance. A social activist and timely poet, he agilely traverses a range of instruments, layering indigenous, African and European elements into a sound all his own. His humble virtuosity brings audiences to tears, to reverie and to their feet. His particular love for the natural world and concern for issues of ecology has included him in this year’s Climakaze celebration. 75 minutes with no intermission.

Internationally-acclaimed pianist Jooeun Pak presents Florida premieres of pieces by American composers Cherise Leiter and Caroline Kyunga Ahn, along with works by two of the most beloved composers of all time: Frederic Chopin and George Gershwin. These works are all linked by a remembrance of the past. Cherise Leiter reimagines one of the oldest forms of piano music, one that Chopin himself had revolutionized and mastered, in her 6 Etudes for piano. The nostalgic element continues with “Water Image, Reflection, and Memories” by Caroline Kyunga Ahn, the title of which invokes the theme of finding one’s own reflection in the past. In Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, American music found a new voice through the melding of things past and current; classical tradition with pioneering jazz. Few pieces evoke such nostalgia as this work, which calls us back to the golden era of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age.