Events: Music Classical

The Art of Protest - La Merced Chapel Corpus Christi

Friday, Oct 6, 2023 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - English

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Raise your voice and join us for a powerful concert of protest songs! Seraphic Fire and Funding Arts Network present songs from the Civil Rights, Women's Suffrage, Abolitionist movements, and more. Host Reginald Mobley will lead this concert and sing-along with 5 singers, guitar, and percussion.

This concert is FREE, please reserve a ticket in advance.

Join us immediately following each performance for a talkback with the artists.

Program to Include
Songs from the protests of the American Revolution, Abolition movement, Women's suffrage movement, Labor movement, Civil rights movement, independence movements in South America & the Caribbean, and LGBTQ+ rights movements.

Schumann and Shostakovich - The Gallery @ The Betsy Hotel

Saturday, Oct 7, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM - English

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• Schumann String Quartet No. 1 in a minor, Op. 41, No. 1 (1842)
• Shostakovich String Quartet #8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. In 1842 Schumann composed the Three String Quartets Op. 41, the Piano Quintet Op. 44 and the Piano Quartet Op. 47, a veritable 'Year of Chamber Music'. Influenced by the late quartets of Beethoven and the quartets of Haydn and Mozart, Schumann's string quartets are masterpieces in their own right, filled with musical inventiveness, youthful exuberance and intense poetic feeling.

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century and one of its most popular composers. His music is characterized by sharp contrasts, elements of the grotesque, and ambivalent tonality; he was also heavily influenced by the neoclassical style pioneered by Igor Stravinsky, and by the late Romanticism of Gustav Mahler.

The string quartet was written shortly after Shostakovich reluctantly joined the Communist Party. According to the score, it is dedicated "to the victims of fascism and the war"; his son Maxim interprets this as a reference to the victims of all totalitarianism, while his daughter Galina says that he dedicated it to himself, and that the published dedication was imposed by Soviet authorities. Shostakovich's friend, Lev Lebedinsky, said that Shostakovich thought of the work as his epitaph and that he planned to commit suicide around this time. The work was written in Dresden, where Shostakovich was to write music for the film Five Days, Five Nights, a joint project by Soviet and East German filmmakers about the bombing of Dresden in World War II. The quartet was premiered in 1960 in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet.

The Art of Protest - Lyric Theatre

Saturday, Oct 7, 2023 at 7:30 PM - English

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Reginald Mobley, Host
Raise your voice and join us for a powerful concert of protest songs!

Seraphic Fire and Funding Arts Network presents songs from the Civil Rights, Women's Suffrage, Abolitionist movements, and more. Host Reginald Mobley will lead this concert and sing-along with 5 singers, guitar, and percussion.

This concert is FREE, please reserve a ticket in advance.

Join us immediately following each performance for a talkback with the artists.

Program to Include
Songs from the protests of the American Revolution, Abolition movement, Women's suffrage movement, Labor movement, Civil rights movement, independence movements in South America & the Caribbean, and LGBTQ+ rights movements.

Herencia Cubana IV: Cuban Composers XIX

Sunday, Oct 8, 2023 at 5:00 PM - Spanish

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Marlene Urbay, with the Florida Chamber Orchestra, presents Herencia Cubana IV, featuring Cuban composers from the 19th century. As a part of the Cuban Heritage concert series the Florida Chamber Orchestra and its conductor, Maestro Marlene Urbay, will present a highlights of important composers of the 19th century with special attention to the music of Lico Jimenez. Cuban musicologist, Isidro Betancourt, has been researching and working for years to rescue the music of Lico Jimenez, whose career is unknown inside Cuba.

Maestro Urbay has joined the project to rescue Jimenez's music, presenting to the world another Cuban composer who shaped the greatness of Cuban music of the 19th century. This research work ended with the premier of a CD with his unpublished music which is part of the program of this concert and will be available at the concert.

Schumann and Shostakovich - Coral Gables Museum

Sunday, Oct 8, 2023 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM - English

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• Schumann String Quartet No. 1 in a minor, Op. 41, No. 1 (1842)
• Shostakovich String Quartet #8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. In 1842 Schumann composed the Three String Quartets Op. 41, the Piano Quintet Op. 44 and the Piano Quartet Op. 47, a veritable ‘Year of Chamber Music’. Influenced by the late quartets of Beethoven and the quartets of Haydn and Mozart, Schumann’s string quartets are masterpieces in their own right, filled with musical inventiveness, youthful exuberance and intense poetic feeling.

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century and one of its most popular composers. His music is characterized by sharp contrasts, elements of the grotesque, and ambivalent tonality; he was also heavily influenced by the neoclassical style pioneered by Igor Stravinsky, and by the late Romanticism of Gustav Mahler.

The string quartet was written shortly after Shostakovich reluctantly joined the Communist Party. According to the score, it is dedicated "to the victims of fascism and the war"; his son Maxim interprets this as a reference to the victims of all totalitarianism, while his daughter Galina says that he dedicated it to himself, and that the published dedication was imposed by Soviet authorities. Shostakovich's friend, Lev Lebedinsky, said that Shostakovich thought of the work as his epitaph and that he planned to commit suicide around this time. The work was written in Dresden, where Shostakovich was to write music for the film Five Days, Five Nights, a joint project by Soviet and East German filmmakers about the bombing of Dresden in World War II. The quartet was premiered in 1960 in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet.

The Art of Protest - Homestead First United Methodist

Sunday, Oct 8, 2023 at 3:00 PM - English

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Reginald Mobley, Host
Raise your voice and join us for a powerful concert of protest songs!

Seraphic Fire and Funding Arts Network presents songs from the Civil Rights, Women's Suffrage, Abolitionist movements, and more. Host Reginald Mobley will lead this concert and sing-along with 5 singers, guitar, and percussion.

This concert is FREE, please reserve a ticket in advance.

Join us immediately following each performance for a talkback with the artists.

Program to Include
Songs from the protests of the American Revolution, Abolition movement, Women's suffrage movement, Labor movement, Civil rights movement, independence movements in South America & the Caribbean, and LGBTQ+ rights movements.

Spooky Symphony

Sunday, Oct 29, 2023 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM - English

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Spooky Symphony is a one-hour free performance of great music for young listeners by the Alhambra Orchestra and Greater Miami Youth Symphony. Families and children will enjoy movie themes from Frozen, Ghostbusters, Apollo 13 and Star Wars, plus excerpts of dramatic classics Night on Bald Mountain, Firebird Suite and Symphonie Fantastique.Video images will be projected behind the multi-generational orchestras. Musicians and audiences are invited to come in costume to enhance the supernatural experience. Sponsored by The Children's Trust, this is a popular annual event for kids.

Admission is free but tickets are required. Get your tickets at the MDCA box office (up to 6 per requestor) or get them online from Ticketmaster for a small service fee.

Gods and Mortals - St. Sophia Greek Orthodox

Thursday, Nov 2, 2023 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - English

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Seraphic Fire opens its 21st Season with scenes from Castor and Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Follow solo voices, chorus, and chamber orchestra through this dramatic story of mythological twins as they struggle with their love of the same woman, and a trip to the underworld.

Patrick Dupre Quigley, Conductor
Seraphic Fire opens its 21st Season with scenes from Castor and Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The 1737 opera depicts mythological twins, mortal Castor and immortal Pollux, as they struggle with their love of the same woman and a trip to the underworld. Follow solo voices, chorus, and chamber orchestra through this dramatic story and enjoy the harmonic complexity and dance-like rhythms that are a hallmark of Rameau. The program opens with Jean-Joseph de Mondonville's Dominus Regnavit, a triumphant and stately setting of Biblical text.

Join us 1 hour before each concert for a Pre-Concert Conversation!

Gods and Mortals - Church of the Little Flower

Friday, Nov 3, 2023 from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM - English

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Seraphic Fire opens its 21st Season with scenes from Castor and Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Follow solo voices, chorus, and chamber orchestra through this dramatic story of mythological twins as they struggle with their love of the same woman, and a trip to the underworld.

Patrick Dupre Quigley, Conductor
Seraphic Fire opens its 21st Season with scenes from Castor and Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The 1737 opera depicts mythological twins, mortal Castor and immortal Pollux, as they struggle with their love of the same woman and a trip to the underworld. Follow solo voices, chorus, and chamber orchestra through this dramatic story and enjoy the harmonic complexity and dance-like rhythms that are a hallmark of Rameau. The program opens with Jean-Joseph de Mondonville's Dominus Regnavit, a triumphant and stately setting of Biblical text.

Join us 1 hour before each concert for a Pre-Concert Conversation!

A Seraphic Fire Christmas - St. Boniface Episcopal

Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023 at 7:00 PM - English

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James K. Bass, Conductor
Let the gentle glow of candlelight and angelic tones of Seraphic Fire a cappella voices usher you into the holiday season. A Seraphic Fire Christmas provides a moment of reflection and peace to connect with friends and loved ones. Enjoy festive carols from varied traditions alongside newer takes on classics from contemporary composers. We hope this concert becomes the soundtrack of your season literally! since it marks the release of Seraphic Fire's newest Christmas album. Come hear this concert and bring all your favorites home with you.

Tickets to A Seraphic Fire Christmas on 12/17 at The Moss Center are sold separately through the venue. Visit The Moss Center's Website

A Seraphic Fire Christmas - Moorings Presbyterian

Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023 at 7:00 PM - English

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James K. Bass, Conductor
Let the gentle glow of candlelight and angelic tones of Seraphic Fire a cappella voices usher you into the holiday season. A Seraphic Fire Christmas provides a moment of reflection and peace to connect with friends and loved ones. Enjoy festive carols from varied traditions alongside newer takes on classics from contemporary composers. We hope this concert becomes the soundtrack of your season literally! since it marks the release of Seraphic Fire's newest Christmas album. Come hear this concert and bring all your favorites home with you.

Tickets to A Seraphic Fire Christmas on 12/17 at The Moss Center are sold separately through the venue. Visit The Moss Center's Website

A Seraphic Fire Christmas - St. Philip's Episcopal

Friday, Dec 8, 2023 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - English

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James K. Bass, Conductor
Let the gentle glow of candlelight and angelic tones of Seraphic Fire a cappella voices usher you into the holiday season. A Seraphic Fire Christmas provides a moment of reflection and peace to connect with friends and loved ones. Enjoy festive carols from varied traditions alongside newer takes on classics from contemporary composers. We hope this concert becomes the soundtrack of your season literally! since it marks the release of Seraphic Fire's newest Christmas album. Come hear this concert and bring all your favorites home with you.

Tickets to A Seraphic Fire Christmas on 12/17 at The Moss Center are sold separately through the venue. Visit The Moss Center's Website

A Seraphic Fire Christmas - All Souls Episcopal

Saturday, Dec 9, 2023 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - English

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James K. Bass, Conductor
Let the gentle glow of candlelight and angelic tones of Seraphic Fire a cappella voices usher you into the holiday season. A Seraphic Fire Christmas provides a moment of reflection and peace to connect with friends and loved ones. Enjoy festive carols from varied traditions alongside newer takes on classics from contemporary composers. We hope this concert becomes the soundtrack of your season literally! since it marks the release of Seraphic Fire's newest Christmas album. Come hear this concert and bring all your favorites home with you.

Tickets to A Seraphic Fire Christmas on 12/17 at The Moss Center are sold separately through the venue. Visit The Moss Center's Website

A Seraphic Fire Christmas - All Saints Episcopal

Sunday, Dec 10, 2023 at 7:00 PM - English

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James K. Bass, Conductor
Let the gentle glow of candlelight and angelic tones of Seraphic Fire a cappella voices usher you into the holiday season. A Seraphic Fire Christmas provides a moment of reflection and peace to connect with friends and loved ones. Enjoy festive carols from varied traditions alongside newer takes on classics from contemporary composers. We hope this concert becomes the soundtrack of your season literally! since it marks the release of Seraphic Fire's newest Christmas album. Come hear this concert and bring all your favorites home with you.

Tickets to A Seraphic Fire Christmas on 12/17 at The Moss Center are sold separately through the venue. Visit The Moss Center's Website

A Seraphic Fire Christmas - St. Sophia Greek Orthodox

Wednesday, Dec 13, 2023 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - English

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James K. Bass, Conductor
Let the gentle glow of candlelight and angelic tones of Seraphic Fire a cappella voices usher you into the holiday season. A Seraphic Fire Christmas provides a moment of reflection and peace to connect with friends and loved ones. Enjoy festive carols from varied traditions alongside newer takes on classics from contemporary composers. We hope this concert becomes the soundtrack of your season literally! since it marks the release of Seraphic Fire's newest Christmas album. Come hear this concert and bring all your favorites home with you.

Tickets to A Seraphic Fire Christmas on 12/17 at The Moss Center are sold separately through the venue. Visit The Moss Center's Website

A Seraphic Fire Christmas - The Moss Center

Wednesday, Dec 13, 2023 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - English

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James K. Bass, Conductor
Let the gentle glow of candlelight and angelic tones of Seraphic Fire a cappella voices usher you into the holiday season. A Seraphic Fire Christmas provides a moment of reflection and peace to connect with friends and loved ones. Enjoy festive carols from varied traditions alongside newer takes on classics from contemporary composers. We hope this concert becomes the soundtrack of your season literally! since it marks the release of Seraphic Fire's newest Christmas album. Come hear this concert and bring all your favorites home with you.

Tickets to A Seraphic Fire Christmas on 12/17 at The Moss Center are sold separately through the venue. Visit The Moss Center's Website

In Her Own Voice - hurch of the Little Flower

Friday, Jan 19, 2024 from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM - Other

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Elena Sharkova, Conductor
Guest conductor Elena Sharkova returns for a concert highlighting the creative expressions of women composers and poets. Enjoy a diverse program of music where the lives, experiences, passions, and pains of women are described in their own voices. From the Romaticera voices of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Clara Schumann to medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen and contemporary composers Svetlana Nesterova and Caroline Shaw, be captivated by these often overlooked contributors to music history. University of Miami Ensemble Artist Program students join the professional ensemble for this concert for a cappella chorus.

Join us 1 hour before each concert for a Pre-Concert Conversation!

In Her Own Voice - All Soul's Episcopal

Sunday, Jan 21, 2024 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM - English

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Elena Sharkova, Conductor
Guest conductor Elena Sharkova returns for a concert highlighting the creative expressions of women composers and poets. Enjoy a diverse program of music where the lives, experiences, passions, and pains of women are described in their own voices. From the Romaticera voices of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Clara Schumann to medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen and contemporary composers Svetlana Nesterova and Caroline Shaw, be captivated by these often overlooked contributors to music history. University of Miami Ensemble Artist Program students join the professional ensemble for this concert for a cappella chorus.

Join us 1 hour before each concert for a Pre-Concert Conversation!

Enlightenment Festival: A Scarlatti Family Affair - Miami

Thursday, Feb 15, 2024 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - English

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Father and son Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti were influential in the musical life of Naples, Italy in the Baroque period. Captivating and meditative, these intricate Baroque vocal works provide a pause from modern life.

Patrick Dupre Quigley, Conductor
Father and son Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti were influential in the musical life of Naples, Italy in the Baroque period. Most commonly recalled for his keyboard sonatas learned by piano students everywhere, Domenico's calm and reflective Stabat Mater will be performed by vocal ensemble and continuo. The elder Scarlatti, Alessandro, was known for his vocal works, and excerpts from his Missa Clementina will demonstrate his masterful part writing. Captivating and meditative, these intricate Baroque vocal works provide a pause from modern life.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation 1 hour before each concert!

Enlightenment Festival: A Scarlatti Family Affair - Coral Gables

Friday, Feb 16, 2024 from 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM - Other

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Father and son Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti were influential in the musical life of Naples, Italy in the Baroque period. Captivating and meditative, these intricate Baroque vocal works provide a pause from modern life.

Patrick Dupre Quigley, Conductor
Father and son Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti were influential in the musical life of Naples, Italy in the Baroque period. Most commonly recalled for his keyboard sonatas learned by piano students everywhere, Domenico's calm and reflective Stabat Mater will be performed by vocal ensemble and continuo. The elder Scarlatti, Alessandro, was known for his vocal works, and excerpts from his Missa Clementina will demonstrate his masterful part writing. Captivating and meditative, these intricate Baroque vocal works provide a pause from modern life.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation 1 hour before each concert!

Enlightenment Festival: A Scarlatti Family Affair - Ft. Lauderdale

Saturday, Feb 17, 2024 at 7:30 PM - English

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Father and son Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti were influential in the musical life of Naples, Italy in the Baroque period. Captivating and meditative, these intricate Baroque vocal works provide a pause from modern life.

Patrick Dupre Quigley, Conductor
Father and son Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti were influential in the musical life of Naples, Italy in the Baroque period. Most commonly recalled for his keyboard sonatas learned by piano students everywhere, Domenico's calm and reflective Stabat Mater will be performed by vocal ensemble and continuo. The elder Scarlatti, Alessandro, was known for his vocal works, and excerpts from his Missa Clementina will demonstrate his masterful part writing. Captivating and meditative, these intricate Baroque vocal works provide a pause from modern life.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation 1 hour before each concert!

Enlightenment Festival: A Scarlatti Family Affair - Miami Beach

Sunday, Feb 18, 2024 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM - Other

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Father and son Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti were influential in the musical life of Naples, Italy in the Baroque period. Captivating and meditative, these intricate Baroque vocal works provide a pause from modern life.

Patrick Dupre Quigley, Conductor
Father and son Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti were influential in the musical life of Naples, Italy in the Baroque period. Most commonly recalled for his keyboard sonatas learned by piano students everywhere, Domenico's calm and reflective Stabat Mater will be performed by vocal ensemble and continuo. The elder Scarlatti, Alessandro, was known for his vocal works, and excerpts from his Missa Clementina will demonstrate his masterful part writing. Captivating and meditative, these intricate Baroque vocal works provide a pause from modern life.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation 1 hour before each concert!

Enlightenment Festival: A Visit from Haydn

Friday, Feb 23, 2024 from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM - Other

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Patrick Dupre Quigley, Conductor

A special visit to the Esterházy palace by war hero Admiral Lord Nelson and his mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton, inspired this concert of works by Haydn. Amateur soprano and scandalous socialite Lady Hamilton struck up a friendship with Haydn and they performed together multiple times during her stay at Esterházy. The palace’s resident composer, Haydn provided entertainment for the diplomatic visit with the premier of the Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese and two works dedicated to Lord Nelson: Missa in angustiis (later coined the “Nelson” Mass) and the song “The Battle of the Nile,” with Emma singing. Step back in time to relive the political and social intrigue of Haydn’s time in a concert for chorus and chamber orchestra that will make you feel like you’ve stepped into a salon at the Austrian palace.

Featuring UCLA Ensemble Artist Program students.

Join us 1 hour before each concert for a Pre-Concert Conversation!

The Fountains of Israel - St. Sophia Greek Orthodox

Wednesday, Mar 20, 2024 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - Other

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Ruben Valenzuela, Conductor
Seraphic Fire welcomes guest conductor Ruben Valenzuela for a concert highlighting the music of German Baroque composer Johann Schein. Rarely performed, The Fountains of Israel is an uncommon example of German sacred madrigals. A predecessor to Bach even holding the same church position in Leipzig as Bach Schein was known for incorporating stylistic elements of Italian Baroque into his work. Fans of Monteverdi and William Byrd are sure to enjoy the expressive text painting and interlocking lines in Schein's works for chorus and continuo.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation 1 hour before each concert!

The Fountains of Israel - Vanderbilt Presbyterian

Thursday, Mar 21, 2024 at 7:00 PM - Other

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Ruben Valenzuela, Conductor
Seraphic Fire welcomes guest conductor Ruben Valenzuela for a concert highlighting the music of German Baroque composer Johann Schein. Rarely performed, The Fountains of Israel is an uncommon example of German sacred madrigals. A predecessor to Bach even holding the same church position in Leipzig as Bach Schein was known for incorporating stylistic elements of Italian Baroque into his work. Fans of Monteverdi and William Byrd are sure to enjoy the expressive text painting and interlocking lines in Schein's works for chorus and continuo.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation 1 hour before each concert!

The Fountains of Israel - St. Philip's Episcopal

Friday, Mar 22, 2024 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - Other

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Ruben Valenzuela, Conductor
Seraphic Fire welcomes guest conductor Ruben Valenzuela for a concert highlighting the music of German Baroque composer Johann Schein. Rarely performed, The Fountains of Israel is an uncommon example of German sacred madrigals. A predecessor to Bach even holding the same church position in Leipzig as Bach Schein was known for incorporating stylistic elements of Italian Baroque into his work. Fans of Monteverdi and William Byrd are sure to enjoy the expressive text painting and interlocking lines in Schein's works for chorus and continuo.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation 1 hour before each concert!

The Fountains of Israel - All Souls Episcopal

Sunday, Mar 24, 2024 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM - Other

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Ruben Valenzuela, Conductor
Seraphic Fire welcomes guest conductor Ruben Valenzuela for a concert highlighting the music of German Baroque composer Johann Schein. Rarely performed, The Fountains of Israel is an uncommon example of German sacred madrigals. A predecessor to Bach even holding the same church position in Leipzig as Bach Schein was known for incorporating stylistic elements of Italian Baroque into his work. Fans of Monteverdi and William Byrd are sure to enjoy the expressive text painting and interlocking lines in Schein's works for chorus and continuo.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation 1 hour before each concert!

Mid-Century Modern - Church of the LIttle Flower

Friday, Apr 26, 2024 from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM - Other

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James K. Bass, Conductor
Furniture or architecture might come to mind when one hears the phrase mid-century modern, but the creative style also impacted the music of the time. Inspired by rapid technological advancements and a post-war world, artists in the mid-20th century strove to predict and create the art of the future. Composers like Arnold Schoenberg experimented with new sounds and compositional techniques. At the same time, others like Alan Hovhaness and Samuel Barber returned to styles of the past with new understanding. You'll likely discover a mid-century work you've never heard before on this program for a cappella chorus.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation 1 hour before the concert with Dr. Brad Diamond, tenor!