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Dranoff 2 Piano will give a live two-piano performance of top black jazz composers with the screening of the 1927 silent classic Siren of the Tropics starring one of America’s most successful black artists of international stages and screens, Josephine Baker.
The event will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m., at the Coral Gables Art Cinema.
Miami‘s newest jazz piano duo, Angel Perez and Devin Shaw, will present their new jazz score for Siren of the Tropics featuring Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Hazel Scott, Billy Strayhorn, Dizzy Gillespie, and Nina Simone on two Steinway concert grands with original works by renowned jazz composer and pianist Martin Bejerano in front of this iconic silent film and a live audience at the Cinema.
The screening will be followed by a talk back with local leaders in film, music, and dance on historical representation of black artists in the performing arts, “Can we continue to accept and present these works as great art in the context of today’s culture and audiences?”
Siren of the Tropics live concert and screening is a silent film featuring one of our greatest American performance artists, Josephine Baker, who had to leave the American Jim Crow South to become one of the greatest stars of the 20th Century. The silent classic showing will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, located at 260 Aragon Avenue in Coral Gables. Tickets include a 6 p.m. patron reception with concert, film screening, and discussion on the presentation of past and future black artist characterizations will follow the hour and 15-minute film.
Siren of the Tropics tickets for live concert and reception are $50 with a limited number of $5 student tickets available only at the box office.
For more information, visit www.Dranoff2Piano.org or call 786-385-9689.
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