SOBE ARTS 2009/2010 EVENT SEASON (Under Construction)
Beginning January 1, celebrate a new space for the arts with the revival of the historic 1937
Little Stage Theater @ SoBe Arts
SOBE ARTS CABARET, Music, Theater, Multimedia - bar & tapas by Red Light
Premieres at 9:00pm on New Year's Day, January 1, 2010 and includes a VIP Champaign Reception at 8:30pm.
NOTE: All regularly scheduled performances were sold out! Two shows have been added by popular demand, Friday, January 22 and Saturday January 23. Reserved Seating only. If you wanted to see the production but could not get tickets this is your chance.
Under the direction of Executive Artistic Director Carson Kievman, SoBe Institute of the Arts will welcome the new year January 1st with a fresh and compelling multimedia arts cabaret to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Little Stage Theater @ SoBe Arts. The Grand Opening Cabaret will feature an innovative and stylized experience that incorporates musical and visual elements from the 1930s and 1940s, around the time the 1937 theater was first built. "We want to honor the historic nature of the theater," explained Dr. Kievman, "but at the same time we're looking to create a very contemporary experience. We've interspersed the original torch songs with theatrical vignettes from other eras, and together they make for a bizarre and compelling look at relationships." Kievman adds that there will also be scenes from the popular "Tunes 'N Toons" production that was commissioned by Miami Beach to close November's Sleepless Night event, combining esoteric live music from the 1930's with classic film animation and live action.
"A Funhouse Ride for Adults."
Featuring Montserrat Franco as Betty Boop, Andres Lefevre as Cab Calloway's Ghost and starring actors Ivette Viñas, Andres Lefevre, Philip de la Cal & Montserrat Franco. Created & Directed by Carson Kievman .
Conductor, Carson Kievman - Keyboards, Kiki Sanchez - Clarinet, Paul Gordillo - Tenor Saxophone, Juan Silveira - Drums, Tony Suarez - Bass, James Quinlan - Trumpet, Osvaldo Fleitas
SOLD OUT
TWO SHOWS ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND
Friday January 22, 2010 9:00PM (Theater opens at 8:30PM for Bar & Food)
Saturday January 23, 2010 9:00PM (Theater opens at 8:30PM for Bar & Food)
Grand Opening - Friday January 1, 2010 9:00PM
Friday & Saturday performances: January 2, 8, 9, 15, 16 - 9:00PM
Sunday performances: January 3, 10, 17 - 7:00PM
Tickets $10 General Seating, $25 Reserved Seating,
Grand Opening Night $50 (VIP Champaign Reception at 8:30pm included).
Click here to purchase tickets online
Tickets are available for Miami Beach residents until Friday, December 18, at which time they are available to the general public. For more information or to reserve seats: events@sobearts.org - (305) 674-9220
Special discounts are available for SoBe Arts Cabaret patrons at nearby Crest Group Hotels - call 305-531-3463 or go to www.southbeachhotels.com
Little Stage Theater Reopens - Miami Herald 1/7/10
An Old Friend Returns to SoBe - SoBe Institute of the Arts Grand Opening Cabaret - New Times 12/09
FUTURE PRODUCTION PLANS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
February/March 2010 - Music & Shakespeare
April/May 2010 - Music & Theater of Transcendence
SOBE ARTS in collaboration with SUBTROPICS.ORG
Present
FROZEN MUSIC ENSEMBLE
AUTONOMOUS SOUNDS I & II
Thursday, Dec. 3 & Friday Dec. 4. 7-11pm
Members of FM (Gustavo Matamoros-David Dunn-Rene Barge) will turn SoBe Institute of the Arts into a kaleidoscope of sound from 7PM to 11PM both nights.
Frozen Music's New Pieces For Art Basel Week
After the success of CANAL, the 13-hour-long piece that won the hearts of all who experienced it during Sleepless Night, subtropics.org brings back Frozen Music Ensemble with two new pieces titled Autonomous Sounds I & Autonomous Sounds II featuring FM's core member David Dunn.
Also, during FMs performances, the doors to the Little Stage Theater @ SoBe Arts will be opened giving attendees a sneak peak of the new state-of- the-art black box theater which will have its grand re-opening in the new year (See info below).
BOHEMIAN PENTAMETER
A Fasionable SoBe Arts Renaissance Event
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:30-9:00PM
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Click here to see the animated Evite
Miami Herald & SocialMiami Articles about Bohemian Pentameter
SLEEPLESS NIGHT
Saturday thru Sunday, November 7-8, 2009 6:00PM to 7:00AM
PREVIEW OF BOHEMIAN PENTAMETER
A Fashionable SoBe Arts Renaissance Event
Saturday, November 7, 2009 6:00-8:00PM
Stop by SoBe Arts on Sleepless Night, between 6:00-8:00PM and enjoy a complimentary drink (open bar), listen to some Renaissance Music and learn about our exciting upcoming event Bohemian Pentameter presented by SocialMiami.com and WLRN (scheduled for Tuesday, November 17 between 6:30-9:00. With this early evening event, the professional music and theater ensembles of SoBe Arts will take arts and fashion lovers back to the days of Elizabethan England as the sounds of violins, flutes and beautiful words fill the air in the subtle, secluded and charming grounds of the SoBe Institute of the Arts) -
see below
TUNES N' TOONS
Sunday, November 8, 2009 5:30AM
TRUST US...THIS IS THE ONE NOT TO BE MISSED!
Nov. 7 (8), 2009 - 5:30am - Tunes N' Tons, a quasi qwazy pre-dawn extravaganza of cartoons and live music. Lummus Park Main Stage (8th Street & Ocean Drive). Cartoons at dawn are a ritual American experience. SoBe Arts brings Sleepless Night to a colorful close by celebrating a visual art form that has long embraced both jazz and classical music. A blend of film projections and live performances opens with a late-late cabaret set – one that does not cater to children, veering from comic to provocative and hallucinatory. We welcome the Technicolor dawn skies with hues of the postmodern, orchestral standards twisted and re-imagined into the loony tunes, merry melodies, and irreverent reveries of a golden age of animation.
"It’s the perfect way to start the day – or end the night" www.sleeplessnight.org.
SPECIAL OPEN FRIDAY WEEKEND @ SOBE ARTS
A "Double Feature" Concert with Halloween Costume Reception
Friday, October 30 at 8:00PM & Saturday, October 31 at 7:30PM
Enjoy a two-night special sneak preview (open rehearsals) of music from our Sleepless Night production (see below).
First up on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 8:00PM is JAZZ IN THE 30s (& BEYOND). SoBe Arts Jazz Ensemble, featuring Montserrat Franco, vocals, Oscar Salas, drummer and Felix Gomez, keyboards. Enjoy the music of Raymond Scott, Cab Calloway, Joe Primrose, Duke Ellington and many more great jazz composers of this very creative era.
Next up on Saturday, October 31 at 7:30 is CLASSICAL HORSES OF WAR. SoBe Arts Chamber Ensemble, featuring several "warhorses" of classical music most often used in cartoons and in many symphony subscription concerts over the years. Only this time played in chamber ensemble versions in the intimate and beautiful Carl Fisher Clubhouse Hear the music you never thought you would hear like this, Edvard Grieg's Morning Music from Peer Gynt; Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2; Gioachino Rossini's William Tell Overture and more.
Han Bennink's Internationally Recognized Dutch Trio
Perhaps Europe's most coveted drummer, Han Bennink, the 2008 European Jazz Prize winner has performed with Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy and Dexter Gordon. Noted musicians Michael Moore (reeds) and Will Holshouser (accordion) complete this trio. Pyrotechnic improvisational journeys, whimsical tangents and blissful culminations come fast and furious when the Third Man Trio takes the stage.
"...from crisp Ellingtonian swing into cacophonous group improvisation"
— The Guardian,London, England
"Everybody should, before they die, see Han Bennink." — The Miami Herald
Music Unites!
A series of interactive family events on world music & culture (Season 3)
SEPHARDIC MUSIC - Romantic Songs of Spanish Jews
Montserrat Franco, Soprano
Claude Kadoch, Guitar & Darhukka
Sunday, September 27, 2009 12:00 p.m.
Free & Open to the Public
For centuries, the legacy and traditions of Sepharad (Spain in Hebrew) was transmitted through generations of Sephardic Jews on their Diaspora after they were ousted of Spain in 1492 and settled in several parts of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. They left Spain but never their language “Djudeo-Espanyol” also called “Ladino” (a language which defer from the Spanish or Castillan spoken by Christians at that time and which includes Hebrew elements and vocabulary from the local languages) neither the culture which includes an amazing oral tradition : tales, poems and songs or “Romanceros” just as the “Trovadours” will perform in the Middle Age.
The vast collection of Romances preserved and transmitted for generations will come back to life on September 27th when Singer “Montserrat Franco” will present in an unique venue accompanied by the Israeli Moroccan Artist Claude Kadoch. These songs express not only these historical changes but also the entire life-cycle of that people, with their moments of joy, sorrow and love, its festivities and celebrations. This rich and varied culture is the basis of the Ladino repertoire, a musical treasure that never ceased to grow in the new places where the Sephardic Jews settled.
About the Artist:
Montserrat Franco, a graduated Vocal Professor, ethnomusicologist and grantee of several scholarships by the European Parliament in Madrid, Spain and the State of Israel researched about the Sephardic Romances and Traditions from 1999 to 2002.
She was commissioned by the State of Israel to perform around the world as a truly sephardic artist during International Literature Fairs and Symposiums of the Spanish Language always sponsored by the AECI (Spanish Agency of International Cooperation)
Food will be provided by El Patio Andaluz (Tazin) an authentic Spanish Moroccan Restaurant.
Beverages will be provided by Terra Espana
Coffee provided by Starbucks 
SOBE ARTS NEWS
SOBE INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS / GRASSROOTS PROGRAM FARMS TALENT IN OUR OWN BACKYARD - MB MAGAZINE 08/09
SOCIALMIAMI.COM - SOBE INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS CONTINUES TO GROW 7/09
DANCE FOR A CAUSE - MIAMI NEW TIMES 8/09
MIAMI HERALD - SOBE INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS SEEKS FUNDS FOR NEEDY KIDS 6/09
SOBE ARTS BROADWAY MUSICAL THEATER WORKSHOP FOR TEENS
SOBE ARTS - AMERICAN IDO: POP QUIZ ON WSVN TV (Ch. 7)
MIAMI NEW TIMES "A CHILD WILL LEAD THEM": STARVING ANGELS
NBC MIAMI: RAISING MONEY FOR ARTS EDUCATION
MIAMI HERALD: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: CLASSICAL MUSIC 12/21/08
CHECK OUT THIS REVIEW FROM THE ROTHKO CHAPEL PERFORMANCE!
CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE IN SOUTH FLORIDA CLASSICAL REVIEW
REVIEW/ARTICLE-"GIVE YOUNG CONSERVATORY A CHANCE"
THIS WEEK AT SOBE ARTS
SOBE ARTS FALL/SPRING PROGRAMS 2009/10
ARTS FOR YOUTH - ARTS FOR ADULTS
.SOBE ARTS SUMMER PROGRAMS 2009
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SOBE ARTS 2008/2009 EVENT SEASON
AN EVENING OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS - Friday, May 22 - 8:00PM
SPECIAL TO SOBE ARTS
FRIDAY MAY 15, 2009 6:00-10:00PM
JOIN US THURSDAY AT CLUB 50 - MIAMI'S HAPPY HOUR WITH A CAUSE
May 15, 2009 6:00-1000PM RSVP to generationcocktail@gmail.com
VIOLINIST ANASTASIA KHITRUK CONCERT AND NAXOS CD RELEASE - Friday, May 8 - 8:00PM
AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC - Saturday, May 2 - 11:00AM
Source: www.miaminewtimes.com
Even though the audience for classical music is about 70 behind the times, at least the good folks over at SoBe Arts aren't. Proof is in the program for tonight's "Starving Angels", when their String Quartet ...
STARVING ANGELS (MUSIC OF TRANSCENDENCE) - Friday, April 17 - 8:00PM
SOUTH POINTE PARK GRAND RE-OPENING - Sunday, March 22 - 3:00PM
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BENEFIT CONCERT FOR SOBE MUSIC INSTITUTE - Friday, March 20 - 8:00PM
TICKETS ( $25) AVAILABLE AT THE LINCOLN THEATER BOX OFFICE
541 LINCOLN ROAD, MIAMI BEACH (305) 673-3330
BUY VIP TICKETS ONLINE $100 - SPECIAL SEATING AND ENTRANCE TO
A TERRIFIC AFTER-PARTY SPONSORED BY W HOTEL
100% of box office proceeds go to SoBe Music Institute
for education & Performance programming
SPECIAL ART SPEAKS EVENT: MARK o'CONNOR- SATURDAY FEB. 21 - 3:00PM
MIAMI HERALD: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: CLASSICAL MUSIC 12/21/08
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HOLIDAY CONCERT - SUNDAY DEC. 14 - 6:00PM
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MUSIC & ART
(An exhibition & concert in celebration of the Art Basel Miami Beach 2008)
CHECK OUT THIS REVIEW FROM THE PERFORMANCE!
CHECK OUT ARTICLE ON THIS MULTIMEDIA EVENT
ROTHKO CHAPEL MIAMI BEACH - HORST KOHLEM PAINTINGS & SCULPTER
Opening Reception Sunday, November 30, 2008 @ 7:30PM
Exhibition runs November 30 through December 7
CONCERT on FRIDAY DECEMBER 5, 2008 - 4:00PM
MUSIC UNITES: AMERICAN JAZZ- SATURDAY NOV. 22 - 11:00AM
MUSIC & LITERATURE
(in celebration of the 2008 Miami Book Fair International)
DIDO & AENEAS - Next Friday November 14, 2008
BRITTO KIDS CONCERT - SATURDAY OCTOBER 18, 2008 - 4:00PM
MUSIC UNITES: SEPHARDIC MUSIC - SATURDAY OCTOBER 11, 2008 - 11:00AM
Sephardic music was born in medieval Spain, with cantigas being performed at the royal courts. Since then, it has picked up influences from across Spain, Morocco, Argentina, Turkey, Greece and various popular tunes from Spain and further abroad. There are three types of Sephardic songs -- topical and entertainment songs, romance songs and spiritual or ceremonial songs. Lyrics can be in several languages, including Hebrew for religious songs, and Ladino.
These song traditions spread from Spain to Morocco (the Western Tradition) and several parts of the Ottoman Empire (the Eastern Tradition) including Greece, Jerusalem, the Balkans and Egypt. Sephardic music adapted to each of these locales, assimilating North African high-pitched, extended ululations; Balkan rhythms, for instance in 9/8 time; and the Turkish maqam mode.
Songs which are song by women are traditionally sung while performing household tasks, without accompaniment or harmony. Tambourines and other percussion instruments are sometimes used, especially in wedding songs. Men have added oud and qanún to the instrumentation, and more modern performers incorporate countless other imported instruments.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Sephardic Jews, or Sephardim in Hebrew, is the general term used to refer to the descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula for many centuries and who in 1492, during The Inquisition, were forced to either convert or go into exile. Some went to Portugal, Italy and France (from where they were later expelled, many went to establish communities in the Ottoman Empire, in what we know today as Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and parts of Hungary, Rumania and the Balkans and yet others made their home in the north of Africa, mainly in Morocco and Algeria and some in Tunisia. They had left behind their material possessions but took with them their religion and their culture, their customs and traditions and of course, their beautiful language, the Judeo-Spanish, which continued to develop and take from the different areas where they lived. The Judeo Spanish as we know it today, includes archaic forms of Spanish, Castilian, Catalan, Galician and Portuguese with elements of Hebrew, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and more recently, Italian, French and modern Spanish.
FRIDAY September 26, 2008 - 8:00PM
SOBE MUSIC INSTITUTE SPECIAL EVENT
POLITICAL NOTES
Friday September 26, 2008
Concert 7:30-8:30PM - Viewing Party 8:30-11:00PM
SoBe Music Institute. 2150 Washington Avenue (between 21st & 22nd Street) Miami Beach, Florida 33138 (305) 674-9220
This free concert by Tai chi Akutsu, violin and Ryoji Yamaguchi, guitar will include the music of Piazzola, de Falla, Yamaguchi, and more. The concert will conclude by 8:30PM giving everyone a chance to go anywhere they like to watch the debate which begins at 9:00PM, or stick around and we will have a casual non-partisan potluck viewing party at the institute (debate on a TV in the chorus room). If you are staying for the debate viewing party please bring food or beverage to share. [Note: SMI/Mystery Park Arts Company is a nonprofit tax-exempt arts & education organization and endorses no political campaign]
PS: OUR UPCOMING CONCERT & EVENT SEASON WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THIS EVENT! STAY TUNED - WE HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMING A FANTASTIC SEASON OF OPEN FRIDAY @ SOBE MUSIC INSTITUTE, MUSIC UNITES & MUCH MORE - OUR SEASON BEGINS ON OCTOBER 17!
A NEW series of classic silent films with LIVE accompaniment! A collaboration between KINO, The Miami Beach Cinematheque and SoBe Music Institute. The Second in this new series is this Sunday August 24, 2008 8:00PM
Photo: Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen©, 1924
SILENTS PLEASE! Gloria Swanson in ''Queen Kelly.''The KINO score of the film will be supplemented by a
LIVE performance by guitarist Ryoji Yamaguchi from SoBe Music Institute
LOCATION: MBC 512 Española Way at Plaza España, Miami Beach - TICKETS: $12 or $10 MBC Members/Students/Seniors Online Ticket Sales - Miami Beach Film Society: (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567)
QUEEN KELLY (Erich Von Stroheim/USA/1928)
Starring Gloria Swanson as “Queen Kelly”
In 1928, after years of struggles within the studio system, master director Erich Von Stroheim found the opportunity to create his crowning achievement: a romance of intoxicating beauty, counterbalanced with moral corruption. Gloria Swanson, powerful in 1928 enough to be both star and producer, stars as an innocent convent girl who falls under the spell of a handsome prince on the eve of his marriage to a diabolical queen. Kino presents the critically-acclaimed restoration of Von Stroheim’s epic, which incorporates many of the scenes that caused Swanson to shut down the film.
“A true artist—My God, he had talent” - Orson Welles
