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© St. Petersburg Times, published April 24, 2003
A little Sondheim music
It's a Stephen Sondheim weekend, with a college production of one of his musicals plus a concert by one of the songwriter's leading interpreters. A Little Night Music, inspired by Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night, includes Sondheim classics such as Every Day a Little Death and Send in the Clowns. Michael Staczar directed the University of Tampa show, which has performances at 8 p.m. today through Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Falk Theatre, 428 W Kennedy Blvd., Tampa. Tickets: $5, $10. (813) 253-6243.
Mandy Patinkin, above, who starred in Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, and pianist Paul Ford perform a program called Celebrating Sondheim at 8 p.m. Saturday at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. Tickets: $39-$49. (727) 791-7400.
Canadian violinist James Ehnes, above, is the soloist with the Florida Orchestra this weekend, playing the Sibelius Violin Concerto. Born in 1976, Ehnes has won three Juno Awards, Canada's version of the Grammys, including one this year for his recording of Bruch's Concerto No. 2 and Scottish Fantasy (CBC Records) with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
Joseph Silverstein conducts the program, which also has Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict overture, Mozart's Symphony No. 38 and Strauss' Til Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. Concerts are 8 p.m. Friday in Ferguson Hall of Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m. Saturday at Mahaffey Theater and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Tickets: $20-$42. (813) 286-2403 or toll-free 1-800-662-7286 or www.floridaorchestra.org.
Baroque keyboard works get a hearing this weekend in Andrew Rangell's piano recital, which includes Sweelinck's Variations on My Young Life Has an End and J.S. Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue. Rangell, above, will also play Chopin mazurkas, Beethoven's Sonata No. 7 and Poulenc's The Story of Babar the Little Elephant. The pianist has a doctorate from Juilliard and seven albums on the Dorian label to his credit, and his interpretation of Bach and Chopin was recently praised for its "idiosyncratic sweetness" by the New York Times.
Rangell performs at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. Tickets: $7, $15. (727) 896-2667.