Patti Smith's songs supply the power
TAMPA -- Following Patti Smith on stage is a sap's game, but Ralph Nader managed to pull it off Saturday at the Sun Dome on the University of South Florida campus.
Guest conductor persuasive with Rachmaninoff
ST. PETERSBURG -- Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony has never got much respect, so it was a pleasure to hear such a persuasive account of it by the Florida Orchestra, under guest conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Saturday night at Mahaffey Theater. To be sure, it boasted Rachmaninoff's trademark sweeping string passages that can come uncomfortably close to Hollywood movie music, but it also had a lot of tricky time changes and shifts in mood that proved to be engrossing.
