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May 24, 2013 8:00 p.m. Open Friday Theater Concert - Quatuor pour la fin du temps, also known by its English title Quartet for the End of Time, by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. A masterwork from the 20th century. General Seating $10. / VIP $25. Also at 7:00 p.m. Arts Speaks, pre-concert talk by Artistic Director, Carson Kievman (a former student of Messiaen). Read the story behind this work of genius (below poster).

General Tickets ($10) includes free parking, concert and after-concert reception with the artists.

VIP Tickets ($25) includes the above plus pre-concert champagne party and reserved priority seating.

Purchase Tickets for Messiaen Theater Concert (5/24/13)

General Seating $10.00 USD VIP Reserved Seating $25.00 USD

 

Messiaen was 31 years old when France entered the war against Germany. He was captured by the German army during World War II in June 1940 and was imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp. While in transit to the prisoner of war camp, Messiaen showed the clarinetist Henri Akoka, also a prisoner, the sketches for what would become Abîme des oiseaux. Two other professional musicians were also among his fellow prisoners (violinist Jean le Boulaire and cellist Étienne Pasquier), and after he managed to obtain some paper and a small pencil from a sympathetic guard, Messiaen wrote a short trio for them; this piece developed into the Quatuor for the same trio with himself at the piano. 

The quartet was premiered in Stalag VIII-A in Görlitz, Germany (currently Zgorzelec, Poland) outdoors in the rain on January 15, 1941, with old, broken instruments before an audience of about four hundred fellow prisoners of war and prison guards. 

"This glorious and inspirational music completely transcends the horrific conditions from which it emerged." Carson Kievman, SoBe Institute of the Arts

"This is the music of one who expects paradise not only in a single awesome hereafter but also in the happenstance epiphanies of daily life. In the end, Messiaen’s apocalypse has little to do with history and catastrophe; instead, it records the rebirth of an ordinary soul in the grip of extraordinary emotion. Which is why the Quartet is as overpowering now as it was on that frigid night in 1941." Alex Ross, The New Yorker

"In the midst of chaos, Messiaen wrote about the apocalypse in a completely “unapocalyptic” manner. In the previous century, the Requiem Mass had given composers the opportunity to unleash all the thunder they could muster to depict the horrific details of God’s day of accounting. Berlioz and Verdi had both written depictions that chill—or more honestly perhaps, thrill—us to this day. And not too long after Messiaen’s quartet was completed, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Britten, and Penderecki would write pieces expressive of the horrors of the Nazis and their war, music full of screams, howls, and cries for righteous justice against the oppressor.

But Messiaen has no place for such neo-pagan hysterics. In the middle of a prison camp, a prisoner unsure if he would ever again see his family or home again, Messiaen composed a vision of heaven where anger, violence, vengeance, and despair are not so much repressed as irrelevant. This work has nothing to do with war, or prison, or “man’s inhumanity to man.” There is no darkness here. There is no bitterness. There is no rage. Instead there is power, light, transcendence, ecstasy, and joy eternal." Michael Linton, Tennessee State University

JUNE 28, 2013 8:30PM

JAZZ AT SOBE ARTS

Introducing Miami Jazz Project

Featuring an All-Star line-up of South Florida musicians:

Arthur Barron, Saxophones and Flute
Abel Pabon, Keyboards
Manny Patino, Bass
Rey Monorig, Drums

TBA - 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

TBA - 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.

TBA - Art of Transcendence - 3rd Music-Theater of transcendence Project

TBA - Cabaret of Curiosities - 2nd SoBe Arts Multimedia Cabaret

TBA - Music Unites event - Russian Folk Music. 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

PAST EVENTS:

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FIRST NIGHT AT SOBE ARTS / SUBTROPICS
a concert of world premieres!

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On Friday, March 15, 2013 at 8:00p.m, for the Subtropics Festival XXII (Experimental Music and Sound Art), SoBe Arts will present an all-world-premiere concert of music by composers from England, Ukraine, Canada, Sweden, France, Japan, Brazil and the USA.  The new works, performed by Mystery Park Arts Band (SoBe Arts professional new music ensemble). Art Speaks at 7:00p.m.: New Music, An Alternate Universe.  A pre-concert talk and discussion with Carson Kievman and Gustavo Matamoros.  Participants in Art Speaks receive priority seating for the concert. This concert has an interactive component. The Audience will vote on the best composition to present an award.

Reception with the artists following the concert sponsored by Sylvano's Restaurant

Free parking is available in the Miami Beach Convention Center north parking lot.  Enter the lot via Washington Avenue between the Convention Center and the 21st Street Recreation Center

MOZART Serende by Candlelight Jan. 19, 2013 at 8:00p.m.

FREE PARKING: Enter the Miami Beach Convention Center north  parking lot via Washington Avenue entrance

At 6:00PM a free Pre-Concert talk (Art Speaks) "Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin killed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" will be presented by Artistic Director, Carson Kievman.  Art Speaks participants receive priority seating for the concert.

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OTHER UPCOMING JANUARY EVENTS 

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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