HO HUM
So the Sarasota Orchestra's annual meeting --at which new board members are approved by those who have given the orchestra 50 bucks and have bought a season ticket for five performances or better. Only they can vote. There were none of the predicted fireworks. The buzz was that there was going to be a palace revolt, but that didn't happen. Various board members gave reports of their doings over the year. Chairperson Virginia Toulmin said in her remarks that the year had been a "nightmare" but no one from the floor asked her why she felt that. In fact, when it came time for voters to ask questions only one was forthcoming and that was an innocuous suggestion that more people be invited to sit on various committees.
Joe McKenna's presentation was well prepared and thorough, the accountants did their predictable slide show—all's well with the world---but no one talked much about the plans for the new season. That was too bad, because next year is far superior in concept and content than this year was. Also no one spoke about their vision for the orchestra's future. Not a word about building a hall or plans to replace the now million bucks draw down of the reserves. Strange. One could've stayed home. Oh, Marcia Penuce did make an introductory appearance as Chair-elect. She has a background in both music and business (she built her own, business that is) and we will see how she fares in the coming year. We all wish her luck. She will need it.
-Walker Meade
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
An Outing For a Sunday Afternoon
So the Snowbirds have flown and here we are left with each other, blue-sky days, balmy nights and music at its very best.
The Chamber Players of Sarasota have plans to delight you on Sunday, April 18 at four in the afternoon at Eckerd College. It's a lovely hall, easy to get to (see below) and a program of unusual and splendid pieces including Beethoven's great string quartet Opus 95, the "Serioso" and Shostakovich's dazzling Piano Quintet, Opus 57.
The program openers are the lively Mariel for Marimba and Violoncello by Osvaldo Golijov. If you've never heard his work, now's your chance. He's still alive,after all,and you'll be glad you discovered him early on. And the Divertimento for Two Clarinets and Piano by Amilcare Ponchielli –best known for his opera La Gioconda –will make you wish you were Italian.
This remarkable concert series began when Marshall Rousseau, acting Executive Director of the Ringling Museum and a faculty member of Eckerd College, contacted Daniel Jordan about a possible chamber music series. This is the last performance of the series this year.
Jordan, who is Concertmaster of the Sarasota Orchestra says, "Of all the music I get to play, chamber music is nearest and dearest to my heart. I believe it is the truest form of expression for classical musicians, and I'm delighted to be able to present these concerts in a venue such as Wireman Chapel, on the campus of Eckerd College. I hope you'll consider joining us for an eclectic program of music from four different time periods and nationalities."
So plan to have an invigorating and life-enhancing afternoon this Sunday. For your convenience the directions are right here:
http://www.eckerd.edu/about/index.php?f=directions
Walker Meade
So the Snowbirds have flown and here we are left with each other, blue-sky days, balmy nights and music at its very best.
The Chamber Players of Sarasota have plans to delight you on Sunday, April 18 at four in the afternoon at Eckerd College. It's a lovely hall, easy to get to (see below) and a program of unusual and splendid pieces including Beethoven's great string quartet Opus 95, the "Serioso" and Shostakovich's dazzling Piano Quintet, Opus 57.
The program openers are the lively Mariel for Marimba and Violoncello by Osvaldo Golijov. If you've never heard his work, now's your chance. He's still alive,after all,and you'll be glad you discovered him early on. And the Divertimento for Two Clarinets and Piano by Amilcare Ponchielli –best known for his opera La Gioconda –will make you wish you were Italian.
This remarkable concert series began when Marshall Rousseau, acting Executive Director of the Ringling Museum and a faculty member of Eckerd College, contacted Daniel Jordan about a possible chamber music series. This is the last performance of the series this year.
Jordan, who is Concertmaster of the Sarasota Orchestra says, "Of all the music I get to play, chamber music is nearest and dearest to my heart. I believe it is the truest form of expression for classical musicians, and I'm delighted to be able to present these concerts in a venue such as Wireman Chapel, on the campus of Eckerd College. I hope you'll consider joining us for an eclectic program of music from four different time periods and nationalities."
So plan to have an invigorating and life-enhancing afternoon this Sunday. For your convenience the directions are right here:
http://www.eckerd.edu/about/index.php?f=directions
Walker Meade
Saturday, March 27, 2010
ONE LAST CHANCE FOR THE GOOD STUFF
The Masterworks Season of the Sarasota orchestra will end with a dazzle of a program fit for the optimism that spring brings to everyone. Mozart's Symphony great Symphony 40 and Carmina Burana is it! The symphony is one of Mozart's last three and perhaps his most profound. It is a journey through darkness, sorrow, and anguish to a place of promise and hope. Brilliant in its orchestration, it has an incomparable degree of unity in which even the smallest alteration would bring down the whole exquisite work. It deeply influenced Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler. And you can bet your ticket it will influence you as well.
Caramina Burana is another thing altogether. It is a rousing cantata of songs, lusty and vigorous are sung in lilting bastard Latin verse and mimic the form of medieval hymns It celebrates love, wine and the hippy life and includes an attack or two on the immorality of church life and church men….oh well, nothing ever changes does it. Most of the songs are anonymous—probably a good thing considering their content. There will be about 250 folks on stage for this one and it will make the rafters ring. You will stand and cheer at the end of it. I promise. Walker Meade
The Masterworks Season of the Sarasota orchestra will end with a dazzle of a program fit for the optimism that spring brings to everyone. Mozart's Symphony great Symphony 40 and Carmina Burana is it! The symphony is one of Mozart's last three and perhaps his most profound. It is a journey through darkness, sorrow, and anguish to a place of promise and hope. Brilliant in its orchestration, it has an incomparable degree of unity in which even the smallest alteration would bring down the whole exquisite work. It deeply influenced Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler. And you can bet your ticket it will influence you as well.
Caramina Burana is another thing altogether. It is a rousing cantata of songs, lusty and vigorous are sung in lilting bastard Latin verse and mimic the form of medieval hymns It celebrates love, wine and the hippy life and includes an attack or two on the immorality of church life and church men….oh well, nothing ever changes does it. Most of the songs are anonymous—probably a good thing considering their content. There will be about 250 folks on stage for this one and it will make the rafters ring. You will stand and cheer at the end of it. I promise. Walker Meade
ONE LAST CHANCE FOR THE GOOD STUFF
The Masterworks Season of the Sarasota orchestra will end with a dazzle of a program fit for the optimism that spring brings to everyone. Mozart's Symphony great Symphony 40 and Carmina Burana is it! The symphony is one of Mozart's last three and perhaps his most profound. It is a journey through darkness, sorrow, and anguish to a place of promise and hope. Brilliant in its orchestration, it has an incomparable degree of unity in which even the smallest alteration would bring down the whole exquisite work. It deeply influenced Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler. And you can bet your ticket it will influence you as well.
Caramina Burana is another thing altogether. It is a rousing cantata of songs, lusty and vigorous are sung in lilting bastard Latin verse and mimic the form of medieval hymns It celebrates love, wine and the hippy life and includes an attack or two on the immorality of church life and church men….oh well, nothing ever changes does it. Most of the songs are anonymous—probably a good thing considering their content. There will be about 250 folks on stage for this one and it will make the rafters ring. You will stand and cheer at the end of it. I promise. Walker Meade
The Masterworks Season of the Sarasota orchestra will end with a dazzle of a program fit for the optimism that spring brings to everyone. Mozart's Symphony great Symphony 40 and Carmina Burana is it! The symphony is one of Mozart's last three and perhaps his most profound. It is a journey through darkness, sorrow, and anguish to a place of promise and hope. Brilliant in its orchestration, it has an incomparable degree of unity in which even the smallest alteration would bring down the whole exquisite work. It deeply influenced Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler. And you can bet your ticket it will influence you as well.
Caramina Burana is another thing altogether. It is a rousing cantata of songs, lusty and vigorous are sung in lilting bastard Latin verse and mimic the form of medieval hymns It celebrates love, wine and the hippy life and includes an attack or two on the immorality of church life and church men….oh well, nothing ever changes does it. Most of the songs are anonymous—probably a good thing considering their content. There will be about 250 folks on stage for this one and it will make the rafters ring. You will stand and cheer at the end of it. I promise. Walker Meade
ONE LAST CHANCE FOR THE GOOD STUFF
The Masterworks Season of the Sarasota orchestra will end with a dazzle of a program fit for the optimism that spring brings to everyone. Mozart's Symphony great Symphony 40 and Carmina Burana is it! The symphony is one of Mozart's last three and perhaps his most profound. It is a journey through darkness, sorrow, and anguish to a place of promise and hope. Brilliant in its orchestration, it has an incomparable degree of unity in which even the smallest alteration would bring down the whole exquisite work. It deeply influenced Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler. And you can bet your ticket it will influence you as well.
Caramina Burana is another thing altogether. It is a rousing cantata of songs, lusty and vigorous are sung in lilting bastard Latin verse and mimic the form of medieval hymns It celebrates love, wine and the hippy life and includes an attack or two on the immorality of church life and church men….oh well, nothing ever changes does it. Most of the songs are anonymous—probably a good thing considering their content. There will be about 250 folks on stage for this one and it will make the rafters ring. You will stand and cheer at the end of it. I promise. Walker Meade
The Masterworks Season of the Sarasota orchestra will end with a dazzle of a program fit for the optimism that spring brings to everyone. Mozart's Symphony great Symphony 40 and Carmina Burana is it! The symphony is one of Mozart's last three and perhaps his most profound. It is a journey through darkness, sorrow, and anguish to a place of promise and hope. Brilliant in its orchestration, it has an incomparable degree of unity in which even the smallest alteration would bring down the whole exquisite work. It deeply influenced Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler. And you can bet your ticket it will influence you as well.
Caramina Burana is another thing altogether. It is a rousing cantata of songs, lusty and vigorous are sung in lilting bastard Latin verse and mimic the form of medieval hymns It celebrates love, wine and the hippy life and includes an attack or two on the immorality of church life and church men….oh well, nothing ever changes does it. Most of the songs are anonymous—probably a good thing considering their content. There will be about 250 folks on stage for this one and it will make the rafters ring. You will stand and cheer at the end of it. I promise. Walker Meade
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
SYBARITE 5 RETURNS!
3 GENRE-BUSTING ONCERTS ATTHE HUB INCUBATOR- MAY 14TH
HOLLEY HALL- MAY 15TH & 16TH,
Following a sold-out 2009 performance-- which the Sarasota Herald Tribune called “heartfelt and extraordinarily riveting…simply an exhilarating evening,” this extraordinary and very hot quintet is coming to town next month. Do Not Miss!
Double bassist Louis Levitt founded the group. He's a Sarasota native and grew up attending Pine View School and played in the Sarasota Youth Orchestra Program.
Greg Cahill, Strings Magazine, said,"Sybarite5 is a New York–based group of gifted young string musicians who have gained a reputation for juxtaposing the likes of Stravinsky with Radiohead, or Dvorák with Led Zeppelin. But that doesn't even begin to describe the range of their eclecticism or the depth of their repertoire." Or the vibe you will get when you hear them!
Joey Panek, and Jay Hunsberger, Principal Tuba of the Sarasota Orchestra host Friday's New Music Idol concert at the HuB Incubator in Sarasota's Rosemary district.
In addition to Sybarite5’s unique repertoire, the concert will feature a program of new works by New College composition students. Complete with a panel of local celebrity judges the concert will feature an American Idol style critique, audience vote, and the winner's composition will be performed at Saturday’s Gala Concert at Holley Hall. In a tribute to Radiohead’s “pay- what-you-want” CD release, Friday night’s ticket price will be “pay-what-you-want.”
Saturday night’s Gala Concert will be at Holley Hall, hosted by John Miller, Principal Double Bass of the Sarasota Orchestra, and takes place in an intimate living room setting created by Showcase Designs. In addition to general admission tickets, a limited number of VIP Tickets are available, which include preferred seating and a champagne reception with the musicians. Last year’s Gala Concert was voted Best of the Suncoast by Creative Loafing Magazine.
Saturday’s genre-busting program is set to include a WORLD PREMIERE of a new Radiohead Remix as well as the Florida premiere of Furioso: Vendetta for string quintet by Thomas Osborne.
The Gala Concert program will be repeated as a matinee on Sunday May 16th at 2:30pm. Will post performance details soon.
Walker Meade
3 GENRE-BUSTING ONCERTS ATTHE HUB INCUBATOR- MAY 14TH
HOLLEY HALL- MAY 15TH & 16TH,
Following a sold-out 2009 performance-- which the Sarasota Herald Tribune called “heartfelt and extraordinarily riveting…simply an exhilarating evening,” this extraordinary and very hot quintet is coming to town next month. Do Not Miss!
Double bassist Louis Levitt founded the group. He's a Sarasota native and grew up attending Pine View School and played in the Sarasota Youth Orchestra Program.
Greg Cahill, Strings Magazine, said,"Sybarite5 is a New York–based group of gifted young string musicians who have gained a reputation for juxtaposing the likes of Stravinsky with Radiohead, or Dvorák with Led Zeppelin. But that doesn't even begin to describe the range of their eclecticism or the depth of their repertoire." Or the vibe you will get when you hear them!
Joey Panek, and Jay Hunsberger, Principal Tuba of the Sarasota Orchestra host Friday's New Music Idol concert at the HuB Incubator in Sarasota's Rosemary district.
In addition to Sybarite5’s unique repertoire, the concert will feature a program of new works by New College composition students. Complete with a panel of local celebrity judges the concert will feature an American Idol style critique, audience vote, and the winner's composition will be performed at Saturday’s Gala Concert at Holley Hall. In a tribute to Radiohead’s “pay- what-you-want” CD release, Friday night’s ticket price will be “pay-what-you-want.”
Saturday night’s Gala Concert will be at Holley Hall, hosted by John Miller, Principal Double Bass of the Sarasota Orchestra, and takes place in an intimate living room setting created by Showcase Designs. In addition to general admission tickets, a limited number of VIP Tickets are available, which include preferred seating and a champagne reception with the musicians. Last year’s Gala Concert was voted Best of the Suncoast by Creative Loafing Magazine.
Saturday’s genre-busting program is set to include a WORLD PREMIERE of a new Radiohead Remix as well as the Florida premiere of Furioso: Vendetta for string quintet by Thomas Osborne.
The Gala Concert program will be repeated as a matinee on Sunday May 16th at 2:30pm. Will post performance details soon.
Walker Meade
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