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• Seraphic Fire new CD, a perfect summer cocktail

  By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer

  Seraphic Fire has just launched a CD and, like the group’s previous Grammy-nominated recording, it’s a winner. The new album brings together some of the hits performed by the Miami-based group as it continues to achieve success at home and abroad. The [...]

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• Delivering the New World School of the Arts College commencement speech

  Last week I had the good fortune of being asked to deliver the commencement address for the New World School of the Arts College.

  New World School of the Arts is a Miami-based, dual enrollment arts-centric institution that has been named one of the nation’s top 100 schools numerous times. [...]

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• Miami Piano Fest’s 16th season has lots of surprises

  Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy.

  Miami is currently in the throes of its annual celebration of piano music, the Giselle Brodsky’s Miami International Piano Festival, which began its 16th incarnation last night with a concert by the young Russian pianist Nikolai Khozyainov, who played music by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev.

  Tonight, it’s a [...]

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• New York dominates new Miami shows

  Justin H. Long at Emerson Dorsch Gallery.

  In many parts of the culture world, summer has set in – the number of performances, concerts and dances have dwindled to a trickle, most groups have moved on to plotting their fall seasons. But in the visual arts world, it may as [...]

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• The “Force” is strong at Start Gallery

  Jason Reed, owner/operator of Start Gallery.

  Taste in art is such a personal matter, often the best one can do as an art and culture blogger is to attempt to provide some kind of context for art through the frame of one’s own perspective. The subject of fan art can be [...]

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• Hannah Thomas sings at Akron Civic Theatre event

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  South Main Street was bustling in the Akron Civic Theatre the other night.

  The theater, a Knight Arts grantee, knows how to throw a party, especially when the aim is to thank supporters of all kinds for all the help that they have given to the arts presentation group.

  At [...]

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• The evolution of Rudi Goblen

  Rudi Goblen’s engaging one-man show, PET, examined the costs and consequences of that four-letter word we call love. Staged in a support-group-like setting, PET’s mission statement was conceived “with the purpose of sharing, listening, learning from and being supportive of each other—while teaching preventetive tactics to protect your heart, love [...]

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• Celebrate the museums of Charlotte with International Museum Day

  “Artistic Relationships: Partners, Mentors, Lovers” at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.

  This coming Saturday, May 18, is International Museum Day. The Levine Center for the Arts’ partners are all participating; this means the Mint Museum of Art, the Harvey B. Gantt Center and the Bechtler Museum [...]

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• Variety, function and experimentation at The Clay Studio

  At Old City’s Clay Studio, the gallery is brimming with diverse and unique creations from dozens of artists. This Knight Arts grantee is in the midst of three different but equally abundant shows in their exhibition spaces: “Small Favors VIII,” [...]

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• Little Richard receives honorary degree from Mercer University

  Macon’s musical heritage is the city’s claim to fame. Otis Redding refers to it in his hit “Dock of the Bay” when he sings, “I left my home in Georgia headed for the Frisco Bay.” Capricorn Records was founded in Macon. The Allman Brothers Band formed here, and a [...]

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