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Hot Ticket: 'Unfinished' brings glorious season finish
By JOHN FLEMING, PHILIP BOOTH
Published May 19, 2005
Florida Orchestra music director Stefan Sanderling winds up the season with Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, two movements of musical bliss, followed by Mahler's Symphony No. 4. Trombones and tuba get the week off in Mahler's most intimate, accessible symphony. Soprano Nicole Cabell, above, is the soloist in the finale's song, Das Himmlisches Leben Life in Heaven. Performances are Saturday at Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg; Sunday at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater; and Monday at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa, all at 7:30 p.m. $15.50-$50.50. (813) 286-2403 or toll-free 1-800-662-7286; www.floridaorchestra.org
- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
Getting better with time
Southern rockers or jam band? The Allman Brothers Band has leaned in the latter direction since reuniting in 1989. Other bands as durable as the ABB, organized in 1969, have become mere nostalgia acts. Not the Allmans. Despite a painful parting of the ways with founding member Dickey Betts and regular fluctuation in several key positions, the group has grown musically, drawing from its stockpile of great tunes - they played Melissa, Dreams and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed at a recent Santa Barbara, Calif., show - to turn in expansive pieces built from blues, soul, jazz and country-fried rock influences.
For this tour's model, original members Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks and Jaimoe Johanson are joined by on-again, off-again guitarists Derek Trucks (Butch's nephew, the former child prodigy) and Warren Haynes; electric bass wizard Oteil Burbridge; and percussionist Marc Quinones.
Lynyrd Skynyrd, slated to play 10 shows with the ABB, is another Southern-based rock band (with deep Florida roots) that has survived umpteen incarnations. Johnny Van Zant, younger brother of late Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant, assumed leadership of the group in 1987, and the band still includes original members Gary Rossington on guitar and Billy Powell on keyboards. The group's latest CD, a 2004 live disc, includes Sweet Home Alabama, Free Bird, Gimme Three Steps and other favorites.
Both bands perform at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ford Amphitheater, Tampa. $20-$59.50. 813 740-2446 or www.fordamp.com
- PHILIP BOOTH, Times correspondent
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