The Soul Of Miami

Sunday, September 18 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL

Join us on Sunday, September 18 from 12pm to 6pm to get first access to more than 20 performances going on sale to the public for the first time. Get special gifts with purchase, cool giveaways and enjoy Miami’s favorite food trucks like Burger Beast, Latin Burger, The Rolling Stove and more!

Shows On Sale:
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Captiva by Christopher Demos-Brown – World Premiere!
Come Fly Away
Death and Harry Houdini
Garrick Ohlsson and the Wroclaw Symphony Orchestra
Idina Menzel in Concert
Jazz Roots: A Night in Rio starring Sergio Mendes with special guest Eliane Elias
Jazz Roots: Blues and Soul with Robert Cray and Shemekia Copeland
Jazz Roots: Down in New Orleans with Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Marcia Ball, Kermit Ruffins, Big Chief Monk Bourdreax and the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians and more!
Jazz Roots: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Roots: Jazz Meets Gershwin starring Michael Feinstein, Dave Grusin, Denyce Graves, Mark O’Connor, Terence Blanchard, Shelly Berg, The Mancini Institute Orchestra and more!
Jazz Roots: Larry Harlow’s La Raza Latina: A Salsa Suite with Adonis Puentes, Alfredo De La Fe and Federico Brito, Armando Peraza, Candido Camero, Bobby Sanabria, Mario Ortiz All Star Band and more!
Jean-Yves Thibaudet with Tschaikowski St. Petersburg State Orchestra
Lang Lang in Recital
Miami Symphony Orchestra
Midori and the Minnesota Orchestra
Million Dollar Quartet
Moscow by Michael McKeever – World Premiere!
NE 2nd Avenue by Teo Castellanos
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Raul Esparza in Concert
Salute to Vienna
Shrek the Musical
The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris

Opening Reception for Enrique Martínez Celaya: Schneebett
Featuring Miami Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, October 13, 6-8pm
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
MAM members free / non-members $10
RSVP@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.1704
Parking at 50 NW 2nd Ave. – $5 with Museum validation

Miami Art Museum presents the U.S. debut of Schneebett, a major installation inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven’s convalescence and death in Vienna, Austria in 1827. The reception will feature a performance of Beethoven’s late quartets by members of the Miami Symphony Orchestra. Schneebett, originally created for the Berliner Philharmonie in 2004, will be on view in the Museum’s permanent collection installation from October 14, 2011 through January 1, 2012.

Miami Art Museum will present the United States debut of Enrique Martínez Celaya’s Schneebett, a major installation inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven’s convalescence and death in Vienna, Austria in 1827, originally created for the Berliner Philharmonie. Enrique Martínez Celaya: Schneebett will be on view from October 14, 2011 through January 1, 2012 in the Museum’s Anchor Gallery, a space dedicated to large-scale works from the permanent collection. The exhibition opening will take place October 13, 2011 from 6 to 8pm and feature a performance by members of the Miami Symphony Orchestra.

Schneebett, which reflects on and transports the viewer into the final hours of Ludwig van Beethoven’s life, was the first work of art commissioned for and exhibited at the Berliner Philharmonie since its founding in 1882. It was presented in 2004, and was shown in juxtaposition to the music of the Berliner Philharmoniker with special programming at the American Academy in Berlin. Schneebett was presented again in 2006 at the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig where it offered a counterpoint to Max Klinger’s statue of the heroic Beethoven as the creative genius. The title, Schneebett (“Snow-bed”), is from a poem by Holocaust survivor Paul Celan, a meditation on death. To re-animate the spirit of those celebrated exhibitions, Martínez Celaya created a new version of the installation for Miami Art Museum, which opens with a performance of Beethoven’s late quartets by the Miami Symphony Orchestra. A video of the performance will be on view for the duration of the exhibition.

The three-part installation conveys Beethoven’s final moments in Vienna, far away from his native Bonn. In one room is a bronze bed, its surface covered in a thick layer of frost created by an elaborate compressor system. Behind it is a large tar-and-feather painting of a dense, snow-covered forest. The entry to the room is blocked by a pile of sticks and branches. On the other side of the blocked doorway is an “ante-chamber” with a solitary chair from which a viewer can peer into the inaccessible “bedroom,” and experience the environment as a memory of what was, or what might have been. The Leipziger Volkszeitung remarked that Beethoven’s presence “literally hovers in the air as sound.”

“Schneebett is a major work by an internationally-renowned artist,” said MAM Senior Curator Peter Boswell. “It will have a special resonance here in Miami since Martínez Celaya, who was born in Cuba, was inspired in part by the thought of Beethoven’s passing away far from Bonn, the city of his birth, which he left at age 21 never to return.”

Schneebett is a promised gift to the museum from German collectors Dieter and Si Rosenkranz.

Born in Habana in 1964, Enrique Martínez Celaya worked primarily as a scientist until 1992, when he decided to be an artist, an endeavor he had been pursuing since an early apprenticeship during his teenage years. Marie Louise Knott, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, which dedicated an entire issue to the artist, stated, “Martínez Celaya’s work reinvents the original magic of art.”

Martínez Celaya studied applied physics at Cornell University and, supported by a fellowship from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, pursued a Ph.D. in Quantum Electronics at the University of California, Berkeley. As a scientist he worked on superconductivity, lasers and laser delivery systems, research for which he was issued an often-cited patent. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine and received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work is represented in such public collections as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He has been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including most recently, the honor of being the second Visiting Presidential Professor in the history of the University of Nebraska, and the prestigious Anderson Ranch National Artist Award. Recently, the University of Nebraska Press released Enrique Martínez Celaya: Collected Writings & Interviews, 1990-2010, which traces the development of the artist’s thought throughout his twenty-year career as an artist, writer, and lecturer.

For a comprehensive archive that documents the making and reception of the work, please see www.schneebett.com.

David Trueba Recent Works Pre-Opening Celebration Presented by Nat Chediak
Tuesday, September 15 at 7:00 pm
Centro Cultural Español
1490 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132

Meet award-winning writer, director, screenwriter and columnist David Trueba, who will be presented by film and music expert Nat Chediak. CCEMiami is celebrating the beginning of this series with the pre-inauguration of its new downtown headquarters. Wine by Lizarran restaurant will be served. Free admission.
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Film Screenings
Starting Wednesday, September 16 Coral Gables Art Cinema will showcase three films directed by David Trueba:
Welcome Home (Bienvenido a casa)
Soldiers of Salamina (Soldados de Salamina)
What Ever Happened to Jorge Sanz? (¿Que fue de Jorge Sanz?)
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Book Signing
The conversation continues at Books & Book Coral Gables with Nat Chediak highlighting the literary work of David Trueba – one of Spain’s most celebrated contemporary writers – as he discusses his first novel, Learning to Lose, to be translated into English.
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