by Gayle Williams | Apr 2 | Music
It was a historic evening, the first Masterworks of Bramwell Tovey’s tenure as the music director of the Sarasota Orchestra. There was laughter, honor and, for some, tears. It was a masterful display of all the many ways that an orchestra and its music can touch each...
by Gayle Williams | Mar 13 | Music
You might be surprised by the turn of events in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Attila,” Sarasota Opera’s fourth and final production of the 2022 Winter Season. Yes, it is THE Attila the Hun and his pillaging hordes, but we see none of that. Instead, in Verdi’s only...
by Gayle Williams | Feb 6 | Music
Something old, something new was the theme of the Sarasota Orchestra’s Masterworks 4 concert, which delivered contemporary pieces along with two well-burnished favorites of the classical canon. While the orchestra was in full bloom in works by Beethoven and...