February 24 (World Premiere) though March 11, 2012 - Music & Shakespeare Series:HAMLET Soundtheater (Opera) - Music & Libretto
by Carson Kievman. Conducted by John Yaffé, Commissioned by Joseph Papp for the New York Shakespeare Festival / Public Theater (1987-1992). Mr. Papp's final commission before his death in 1991. Based on: The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Cir. 1600-1601)
by William Shakespeare (World Premiere of Stage Concert Version): Click here for tickets and information. for Hamlet. Click here for PRESS RELEASE
Preview of our astonishing upcoming season 2011-12
Sunday, September 18, 2011 2pm - Music Unites Family Event - Scottish Music and Culture. Outdoors at SoBe Arts. Free & Open to the Public. Free Parking.
Music Unites promotes learning and experiencing other cultures through the power of music.
This special world music and dance event for everyone in the family is interactive,
allowing the audience to participate with part of the presentation.
Saturday, October 15, 2011 8:00pm - Open Friday at SoBe Arts – Harmony for Humanity, In honor of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days. Free & Open to the Public.
Friday, October 21, 2011 8:00pm - Franz Liszt/Rock Star - 200th Anniversary of Franz Liszt and SoBe Arts Fundraiser- Robert Chumbley, pianist.
Concert and Reception . Little Stage Theater.
Click for tickets and information.
Tigertail Productions and SoBe Arts present ART SPEAKS: CREATE YOUR OWN SOUND a FREE Interactive demonstration by Livio Tragtenberg
Thursday, November 3, 2011 7:30pm.
This interactive demonstration will be conducted by noted Brazilian composer Livio Tragtenberg. Tragtenberg will be in Miami Beach with his installation, The Cabinet of Dr. Strange, for Miami Beach's Sleepless Night on November 5. Livio twice wowed Miami audiences at the Byron Carlyle Theater in 2005 with his Nervous City Orchestra. More info at www.tigertail.org. This event is free & open to the public.
Saturday, November 5, 2011 9:00pm at SoBe Arts Bandshell - I'LL BE BACH - J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos nos. 3, 4 & 5 . Hosted by A. Schwarzenegger. Sleepless Night Miami Beach. SoBe Arts Chamber Ensemble. Free & Open to the Public.
An amazing six day festival of concerts, demonstration lectures and master classes in South Beach featuring Lara St, John, violin; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Anastasia Khitruk, violin; Matt Haimovitz, cello and John Corigliano, composer. Carl Fisher Clubhouse, Little Stage Theater and The Colony Theater. Click for Information on daily master classes for advanced string students or contact 305.674.9220
POSTPONED - DATE TBA Friday, January 20, 2012 - 8:00 p.m. - Open Friday Concert - J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 plus Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Wake (arranged for Strings and Harpsichord)- SoBe Arts Chamber Ensemble. Carl Fisher Clubhouse. Free & Open to the Public.
POSTPONED - DATE TBA Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 2:00 p.m. - Music Unites Event - South Asian Music & Culture (Sitar and Tablas). Outdoors at SoBe Arts. Free & Open to the Public. Music Unites promotes learning and experiencing other cultures through the power of music.
This special world music and dance event for everyone in the family is interactive,
allowing the audience to participate with part of the presentation.
February 23 - March 11, 2012 - Music & Shakespeare Series:HAMLET Soundtheater Opera - Music & Libretto
by Carson Kievman. Conducted by John Yaffé, Commissioned by Joseph Papp for the New York Shakespeare Festival / Public Theater (1987-1992). Mr. Papp's final commission before his death in 1991. Based on: The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Cir. 1600-1601)
by William Shakespeare (World Premiere of Stage Concert Version): Click here for tickets and information. for Hamlet.
Friday, March 30 , 2012 - Open Friday Concert - Mozart Serenades & Divertimenti - An outdoor sunset concert / picnic. - SoBe Arts Chamber Ensemble
April 26 - May 13, 2012 - Art of Transcendence - 2nd Annual Music-Theater of transcendence Project
June 14 - July 1, 2012 - Cabaret of Curiosities - SoBe Arts Summer Multimedia Cabaret
IT'S RAINING MUSIC & THEATER IN APRIL/MAY 2011 AT SOBE ARTS
April 1 (8pm) & April 3 (7pm) A Rare Staged Concert: Ancient Voices of Children music by George Crumb, text by Federico Garcia Lorca
plus music by Amy Beach, Maurice Gardner, Lansing McLoskey and Igor Stravinsky
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April 2 Music Unites: Bollywood at SoBe Arts (4pm)
Bollywood Dance Concert and Bollywood Dance Class by "My Bollywood Girls"
*NEW* Indian Cooking Demonstration by Ayesha D'Mello of Ayesha's Kitchen
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April 15 Concert: Liszt Bicentennial Concert - Hyojin Ahn, pianist (8pm)
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April 29 Concert: American Piano - Robert Chumbley and Adam Chefitz, pianists
(American Masterworks Series) (8pm)
Music by Michal Colegrass, Robert Chumbley and William Bolcom
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May 5-May 15 Tales of Power - a multimedia theater experience
inspired by Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda, music by Michael Colgrass
Adapted & Directed by Carson Kievman, Virtual Set Design by Sean McClelland Tales of Power Press Release - Buy Tickets
Announcing: American Masterworks Series (February 25 - December 10, 2011)
Concerts, Theater Productions, Visiting Artists, Lectures, Masterclasses and more...
Ceci Velasco's Birthday Bash to Benefit SoBe Arts on March 29!
Jellybean Benitez WMC event to benefit SoBe Arts on March 12!
SoBe Arts Presents Staged Readings of ACAPULCO
by Jacquelyn Reingold
(writer for HBO's In Treatment)
Starring Evan Handler
(from Californication & Sex and the City)
& Nadia Dajani
( from The Big C &Ugly Betty) Directed by Michael Leeds
“Poignant, funny and moving -
A magical evening of intimate live theater on South Beach!”
Sunday, January 30 - 6:30pm - Little Stage Theater - Art Speaks
Sunday, January 30 - 7:30pm - Little Stage Theater - Reading
Monday, January 31 - 7:30pm - Little Stage Theater - Reading
Free & Open to the Public
Accomodations for Evan Handler, Nadia Dajani and Jacquelyn Reingold
generously provided by Riviera South Beach Hotel
January 14 - SoBe Arts Cocktail Party - Sponsored by our Board of Directors, and celebrating our 5th Anniversary and the announcement of our Spring performance season (by invitation only) - 5:30-7:30PM
January 15 - SoBe Arts Fall Youth Gala 4:00PM - Potluck feast 6:00pm
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1. OPEN FRIDAY @ SOBE ARTS (CONCERT) - "RENAISSANCE CHAMBER MUSIC"
SoBe Arts Chamber Ensemble
Robert Chumbley, conductor
March 12 - 8:00pm
Carl Fisher Clubhouse @ SoBe Arts
Free & Open to the Public
2. ART SPEAKS (LECTURE/TALK) "MUSIC & SHAKESPEARE"
Robert Chumbley & Carson Kievman
Friday, March 19 - 6:30pm
Carl Fisher Clubhouse @ SoBe Arts
Free & Open to the Public
3. SOBE ARTS PRESENTS (PRODUCTION) "TWELFTH NIGHT or What You Will" by William Shakespeare
Directed by Carson Kievman Includes Renaissance Music written for Twelfth
Night by Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes & Others
Little Stage Theater @ SoBe Arts (Miami New Times 2010 Mastermind Award Winner)
PREVIEWS: Thurs & Fri March 18 & 19 - 8:00pm OPENING NIGHT: Sat March 20 - 8:00pm OPENING WKND MAT: Sun March 21 - 3:00pm PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE through April 4:
Friday & Saturdays 8:00pm, Sundays 3:00pm
Ticket Prices:
Previews $15.00
Friday & Saturdays $25.00
Sundays $20.00
Student tickets for all shows $12.50 (Must show student id.)
Rush Tickets for all shows: $12.50 (1/2 hour prior to show based on availability).
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
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
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 isCLASSICAL 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.
Tigertail Productions and SoBe Arts present 
Saturday, November 5, 2011 9:00pm at SoBe Arts Bandshell - 
Friday, March 30 , 2012 - Open Friday Concert - Mozart Serenades & Divertimenti - An outdoor sunset concert / picnic. - SoBe Arts Chamber Ensemble 
April 26 - May 13, 2012 - 
June 14 - July 1, 2012 - Cabaret of Curiosities - SoBe Arts Summer Multimedia Cabaret
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