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Stage: hot ticket
By JOHN FLEMING, Times Performing Arts Critic
© St. Petersburg Times
published October 3, 2002
Eclectic contemporary
Composer Evan Chambers, above, is featured in the University of South Florida's New Music Festival Sunday through Wednesday. On Sunday, Deploration, Chambers' elegy to his University of Michigan colleague, the late composer and organist William Albright, will premiere on a program of contemporary works by the USF Chamber Singers at 4 p.m. in Theatre 1 on the Tampa campus; $3 and $4. At 8 p.m. Monday in Music Recital Hall FAH 101, the sextette Quorum will play an all-Chambers program, including one piece, Cold Water, Dry Stone, written specifically for the group's unorthodox instrumentation: violin, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, piano and percussion; $4 and $6.
The festival concludes with the USF Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William Wiedrich, in a program that includes Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Ferguson Hall of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center; $5 and $7. (813) 974-2323.
Marching from Sousa to Spike Jones
Keith Brion, above, has made a specialty out of Americana. The conductor is best known for his programs devoted to music of John Philip Sousa, in which he impersonates the famous bandleader. But this time around with the Florida Orchestra, Brion broadens his repertoire to include other American music standbys from Spike Jones to George Gershwin to George M. Cohan. Also featured in the orchestra's pops season-opener are the Tampa Bay Heralds of Harmony. Concerts are at 8 tonight at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m. Saturday at Mahaffey Theater and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Ruth Eckerd Hall. $20-$42. (813) 286-2403 or call toll-free 1-800-662-7286.
Chambers music
Composer Evan Chambers, above, is featured in the University of South Florida's New Music Festival Sunday through Wednesday. On Sunday, Deploration, Chambers' elegy to his University of Michigan colleague, the late composer and organist William Albright, will premiere on a program of contemporary works by the USF Chamber Singers at 4 p.m. in Theatre 1 on the Tampa campus; $3 and $4. At 8 p.m. Monday in Music Recital Hall FAH 101, the sextette Quorum will play an all-Chambers program, including one piece, Cold Water, Dry Stone, written specifically for the group's unorthodox instrumentation: violin, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, piano and percussion; $4 and $6.
The festival concludes with the USF Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William Wiedrich, in a program that includes Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Ferguson Hall of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center; $5 and $7. (813) 974-2323.
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