WOW! Sarasota Orchestra A Peep Behind the Scenes

 

See you Monday! We look forward to seeing you on Monday, November 11th for Concert Perspectives where Daniel Jordan, Concertmaster; Betsy Hudson Traba, Principal flute; and Nathan Frantz, viola will share their insights into the performance of Masterworks 1: Going Places in a moderated panel discussion with Chief Marketing & Communications Officer Gordon Greenfield. Event Details When: Monday, November 11, 2024, 10:30 am Where: Holley Hall, Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center What a pleasure to be at this event (jmp) These musicians spoke about their experience of playing for the first time under Sarasota Orchestra's new Music Director Designate, We gained important insights and information as just what it means to be an Orchestra and not a cohort of prima donnas, I had a brief conversation with Betsy Hudson Traba.  I told her that my eyes and ears are attuned to her and her wonderful focus and energy.  ;;;;;;;Giancarlo Guerrero He is getting rave reviews from the musicians It's been a tough row to hoe for S.O. There was the covid hiatus.  Then in 2022 newly appointed director of music Bramwell Tovey died soon after his inaugural concert. There is the venue problem.   S.O. usually performs at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center, Along came the Hurricanes and the bayfront V.W. was flooded. The Orchestra was shoehorned into the Sarasota Opera House for Guerro's first Concert, Opera stages are not designed for Orchestral performances! S.O's next concert will be at Sarasota's Church of the Palms. With fair seas and a following wind the Sarasota Orchestra will have its very own Concert Hall is (say) two or three years.    I hope that I will live that long.