Topic: Arts and Humanities
Dolphins star Jaelan Phillips pays it forward musically
Former University of Miami Hurricane and Frost School of Music student Jaelan Phillips came to campus this weekend to surprise the teenage musicians studying audio engineering through his sponsorship of the Frost School’s MusicReach program.
Changing the world, one word at a time
April is National Poetry Month, and while poets and poetry lovers the world over are celebrating the buzz for the craft they revere, for many the genre is a Rubik’s cube, a baffling, arcane puzzle.
Shaping the University of Miami’s artistic landscape
The official unveiling of the sculpture Lady, a gift from the Palley family, prominently enshrines their legacy of elevating the arts on the Coral Gables Campus.
Connecting with top educators teaching the next generation
The annual Super Teacher Weekend brings leading high school music educators to the Frost School campus to showcase the program’s benefits to potential applicants.
Health and well-being tips from the Middle Ages
A millennium before Tik-Tok and podcasts added an express lane to the self-help industry superhighway, “regimen sanitatis”—the genre of handwritten texts prescribing health and wellness tips—circulated during the late Middle Ages.
Research “à la mode”
Students in a French course curated an exhibit on fashion in turn-of-the-century France.
A musical changemaker moves to the next stage
Dean Shelton G. “Shelly” Berg, the transformative leader who made the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami into one of the top music schools in the country, will step down from his position next spring. Berg, who has led the Frost School for 19 years, plans to focus on his musical career.
Celebrating a vital musical resource
This week, the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library celebrated 20 years of providing indispensable resources to Frost School music students and faculty, from rare scores to state-of-the-art recording facilities.
From Hollywood to the University of Miami
Actors Carlos Gomez, Nestor Carbonell, and Shannon Carbonell shared industry wisdom with theatre arts students.
Electrifying concert captures the centennial spirit
Generations of Frost School alumni artists celebrated the centennial of the school that shaped them in a grand, emotional concert for a crowd of thousands at the University of Miami campus on Tuesday evening.
Comic pulls no punches to get a laugh
Whether on stage as a stand-up comic or now with ‘Pollo Punch,’ a first short film in the Miami Film Festival, alumnus Mike Menendez loves to make you laugh.
The future of the Fourth Estate
Student filmmaker’s world premiere at the Miami Film Festival aspires to rehabilitate journalism as a vital institution of democracy.
