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• Emerging streams of new music: Walker West Music Academy presents the Aakash Mittal Quartet

  
  
  

  By Peter Legget, Walker West Music Academy

  This October, Walker West Music Academy welcomed emerging improvisor Aakash Mittal and his quartet. The group performed music from Aakash’s latest release entitled Videsh in addition to performing compositions from a forthcoming record. Aakash and his quartet are among [...]

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• Nautilus Music-Theater opens a can’t-miss production of ‘Joan of Arc’

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  When I made plans to see Nautilus Music-Theater’s adaptation of “Joan of Arc” — its first fully staged production in the company’s small, Lowertown loft studio space — I have to admit, I was a bit dubious. Thinking of the medieval French peasant girl-turned-soldier of [...]

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• Wells Fargo Community Celebration is a success

  
  
  

  Saturday, Oct. 29 started out grey with lingering wet on the ground. However, very quickly, a beautiful fall Carolina day blew in, and we were left with crisp, breezy air, along with sprays of contrasting yellows, reds and orange leaves against that perfect blue sky. [...]

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• Are you ready for a “Sleepless Night?”

  
  
  

  Featuring an almost overwhelming array of 150-plus performances, “Sleepless Night” (a Knight Arts grantee) returns to Miami Beach with 13 consecutive hours of cultural arts and entertainment scattered around the city at strategic locations from South Beach to North Shore. One of the best [...]

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• The Miami Music Project: Light at the end of the tunnel

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  By Sebastián Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer

  It was three years ago at the  Adrienne Arsht Center, with strong support of the Knight Foundation. It was a concert by the first “musical ambassadors of the 21st century,” that the Miami Music Project was [...]

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• Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia: Final Day to Apply!

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  Today is the final day to submit your best idea for the arts in Philadelphia to the Knight Arts Challenge!  Make sure you apply by midnight tonight.

  
  No idea is too large or too small, and everyone can apply.  Here’s a reminder [...]

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• Here’s your chance: write an encore for Hilary Hahn

  
  
  

  Hilary Hahn and Valentina Lisitsa. Photo by Sam Jones

  Here’s an idea I like a lot.

  Violinist Hilary Hahn, who comes to Fort Lauderdale next week as part of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ classical music series, is throwing a contest. [...]

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• Locust Project’s Smash and Grab is a steal

  
  
  

  Jim Drain, "Neweggs." Courtesy Greene Naftali Gallery

  There are several one-off art events every year that are must checks on the calendar for collectors, artists and art lovers. One such happening has become the time-honored fundraiser for the non-for-profit Locust Projects [...]

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• Random Acts of Culture™ hits the Mall of America

  
  
  

  By Brian Woods, The Schubert Club—a member of The Arts Partnership

  On a quiet Sunday morning at the Macy’s store at Mall of America in Bloomington, MN, soon after the store had opened, customers and employees were surprised by Random Acts of Culture® as they went [...]

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• Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture debuts its Arab music concert series

  
  
  

  By Hazami Sayed,  Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture

  Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture is thrilled to be awarded a Knight Arts Challenge Grant in 2011. This grant, along with matching funds from other supporters, has allowed us to implement an idea that was seeded two years ago: establishing [...]

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