FIU music concert benefits local elementary schools

FIU Music proudly presents the CMENC Faculty Spotlight Concert Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, at 8 p.m. in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall. The concert will benefit the FIU Chapter of Collegiate Music Educators National Conference (CMENC) grant “Music in Need,” which was created and administrated by [...]

FIU professor to teach music appreciation in virtual world

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Second Life will begin offering the course in classical music Spring 2010. Luis Gomez, adjunct music professor in FIU’s School of Music, has been selected to teach a music appreciation online course in the virtual world called Second Life. The course, MUH 1011, will launch Spring 2010. Second Life is a virtual [...]

Music, art and architecture unite to create “Transcending Time”

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The FIU College of Architecture + The Arts has brought together the innovative and artistic minds of music, art and architecture to create a video opera entitled “Transcending Time,” premiering in the Music Biennale in Zagreb, Croatia, on April 22, 2009.  ”Transcending Time” is a non-narrative video opera with five [...]

Arturo Sandoval brings Afro-Cuban groove to FIU March 24

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On Tuesday, March 24, at 8 p.m., jazz legend Arturo Sandoval will be performing with the FIU Jazz Band in the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall, at University Park. Grammy-winner Sandoval is fluent in at least four musical languages. He can burn through an Afro-Cuban groove, tear up a [...]

Footlighters light up stage to raise scholarship dollars for FIU students

Join the College of Architecture + The Arts in A Salute to American Musical Theatre and experience an extraordinary event showcasing the remarkable Footlighters Club. An international organization of performers, the Footlighters Club showcases singers, dancers, entertainers and comedians, including prominent figures such as Gary Burghoff from the hit series M*A*S*H [...]