Join the Frost School of Music’s Choral Studies Program for “A Musical Journey” on Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 5690 North Kendall Drive, in Coral Gables. Led by Donald Oglesby, the Frost Symphonic Choir takes us on a tour of great European capitals, including stops in Vienna, Paris, and London with music that includes Haydn’s Te Deum, the beautiful Cantique de Jean Racine by Fauré, and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs with baritone and Frost School of Music faculty member Mark Aliapoulis as guest artist. Joshua Habermann conducts the Frost Chorale in a program of Spanish and American repertoire as they prepare for their spring tour to Spain. The program will be repeated on Sunday, April 10 at 4 p.m. at Lakeside Presbyterian Church, 4601 South Flagler Drive, in West Palm Beach. Admission to both performances is free. For more information, please contact the Frost Choral Studies Program at 305-284-4162, via email at [email protected], or on the Web at www.music.miami.edu/choralstudies.

The Department of Art and Art History presents the Sixth Annual “Salon des Refuses” exhibition, named after the celebrated Salon des Refusés exhibition of 1863 in Paris in which the Impressionists exhibited their revolutionary new paintings that had been “refused” by the French Academy. The Department of Art and Art History will showcase the work of students who entered the Annual Juried Student Competition and were not accepted.

In celebration of the event, an opening reception will be held on Friday, April 1 at 5 p.m. along with the department’s annual barbecue.

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The College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Art History will present a Master of Fine Arts exhibition by Sean Smith beginning Saturday, April 9. Focusing on stimulating all five senses, Creativity Driven by Southern Hospitality is Smith’s attempt to create Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Art). Smith agrees with a Richard Wagner essay titled “The Artwork of the Future,” in which he mentions the combination of the arts through theater. He describes that this is the clearest and most profound way to present folklore or cultural identity. By exploring the creative process through performance, functional sculptures, contemporary abstract paintings, and postmodern ideas about art and its possibilities, Smith will entice and invite the viewer not only to enjoy his work as a spectator but also to participate in multiple creations displayed during his hospitable artistic happening. Creativity Driven by Southern Hospitality will be on view from April 9 to May 1 at UM’s Wynwood Project Space, 2200A NW 2nd Avenue, Miami. An opening reception for the artist will be held Saturday, April 9 at 6 p.m. A group painting will begin at 7 p.m.

For more information aboutthe artist, visit www.seansmithart.com. A full schedule of exhibitions can be viewed at www.as.miami.edu/art. For more information about the exhibition or Wynwood Project Space, call 305-284-2543 or email [email protected].