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Spice up a sedate Sunday with Latin rhythms

Hear the sultry "Serita Bonita" and an orchestra break loose with sambas and tangos on Feb. 6.

By BARBARA L. FREDRICKSEN
Published January 28, 2005

Richey Community Orchestra hopes to get the local area in the mood for Carnival with its upcoming concert, South American Carnivale.

The show on Feb. 6 features singer-dancer-actor Cindy Hite, who will play one of her many characters, the sultry Latin singer Serita Bonita.

Ms. Hite has a four-octave vocal range and has performed in French, German, Spanish and English. She has provided film narrations on the Discovery Channel and for PBS. She won the Green Eyeshade Award for writing and producing at WJNO radio in West Palm Beach while she was there from 1996-98. She was host of the Sunday Jazz Brunch Show on WRLX-FM in West Palm Beach.

The orchestra will play a range of sambas, tangos and other Latin rhythms. In the background will be a visual arts display to evoke the feeling of a Latin American street scene.

Directing the orchestra will be Deidre Reigel, who became a frequent guest conductor for the orchestra starting in 1998 and became permanent conductor in 2001.

She led the Sophia Philharmonic Orchestra playing St. Petersburg composer A. Paul Johnson's Serenade No. 4 on the CD The Dramatic last summer. In 2003, she conducted Johnson's Irish Serenade on Paul Johnson: The Art of Melody. Ms. Reigel has also conducted the Summit Orchestra and Chorale in Handel's Messiah and was music director for the Eight O'Clock Theatre production of The Goodbye Girl in 1999 at the Largo Cultural Center.

WHAT: South American Carnivale

WHERE: Center for the Arts at River Ridge, 11646 Town Center Road, New Port Richey

WHEN: 3 p.m. Feb. 6

TICKETS: $10. Call (727) 919-3866 or buy at the Richey Community Orchestra office, 6827 Amberjack Lane (off U.S. 19 north of Beacon Woods Drive), Hudson.

[Last modified January 28, 2005, 00:21:17]