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Stage: hot ticket
By JOHN FLEMING, Times Performing Arts Critic
© St. Petersburg Times
published February 14, 2002
Orchestra to pay tribute to Richard Rodgers
This is the centenary year of Richard Rodgers (born June 28, 1902), master of the Broadway showstopper, from Some Enchanted Evening to You'll Never Walk Alone. The Florida Orchestra will perform these and more, with singers Suzanne Ishee and Byron Nease, in a pops program conducted by Murray Gross, a candidate for the resident conductor post being vacated by Thomas Wilkins. Concerts are at 8 tonight at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m. Saturday at Mahaffey Theater and 7:30 p.m. Monday at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Tickets: $20-$38.
Another resident conductor candidate, Elizabeth Stoyanovich, is on the podium for a coffee concert of Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven at 11 a.m. Friday at Mahaffey Theater. Tickets: $17-$26. Stoyanovich conducts a similar program at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Center for the Arts at River Ridge. Tickets: $20-$24. For information, call the orchestra at (813) 286-2403 or toll-free 1-800-662-7286.
Dance to premiere at festival
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange premieres a work commissioned for Bernstein, Broadway, the Bomb -- the Age of Anxiety, the festival that continues this weekend at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Lerman's new dance is on a program with two other works: In Praise of Animals and Their People, inspired by the bond between humans and companion animals such as dogs, cats and horses; and Still Crossing, created in 1986 for the Statue of Liberty Centennial.
One of Lerman's trademarks is mixing dancers of different ages to make statements about the body and spirituality, and her program includes people from the community. The performance is at 8 p.m. Saturday at Ferguson Hall. Tickets: $24.50-$34.50.
Also in TBPAC's festival, Diane Elmeer moderates a panel discussion on arts and culture in the United States from the end of World War II to the assassination of President Kennedy, held at 7 p.m. Tuesday. It's followed at 8:30 by a poetry reading by James Tokley and other bay area poets, reading works of Anne Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Gwendolyn Brooks and others from the 1940s to the '60s. Both events are in Shimberg Playhouse and are free. For information, call (813) 229-7827; or visit www.tbpac.org.
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