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Hot Ticket: Orchestra offers a taste of the season
By JOHN FLEMING
Published September 29, 2005
The official opening night of the Florida Orchestra's 2005-06 season is still a week or so away, on Oct. 8, but there are a pair of preseason concerts this weekend. One of the season's themes is to play all nine Beethoven symphonies, and his Eighth is the centerpiece of Saturday's performance at 7:30 p.m. at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. Also on the agenda: Stravinsky's Octet and Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Music director Stefan Sanderling is scheduled to be on the podium, though he probably will have to conduct while seated on a stool, or perhaps in a wheelchair, since he is recovering from a fall in August that resulted in fractures in both feet and his left shoulder. Tickets are $15.50 to $50.50.
Associate conductor Susan Haig leads a Sunday evening concert in downtown Clearwater's Coachman Park. The program ranges from pops selections - including The Phantom of the Opera and Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings symphonic suite - to more Beethoven a movement of the Fourth Symphony, a Strauss polka and Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. The concert is at 7 p.m. and is free. (813) 286-2403 or toll-free 1-800-662-7286; www.floridaorchestra.org
- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
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