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Classical music takes on a Florida flavor
By JOHN FLEMING
Published February 8, 2007
Classical composers with Florida ties are not abundant, so Theodore and Constantine Grame have been resourceful to put together a program of songs by two of them. Englishman Frederick Delius is the best known, and his 19th century sojourn to run a plantation near Jacksonville influenced the 1888 Florida suite. The other composer, Sidney Homer (1864-1953), has fallen out of favor, but his songs used to be widely performed. Homer's Florida connection was his retirement to Winter Park with his wife, Louise, a famous contralto for whom he wrote many songs. "I think Homer was the best American songwriter ever," says Theodore Grame, onetime faculty member at the Yale School of Music and the University of Pittsburgh. The Grames - father Theodore at the piano; son Constantine, a tenor, singing as well as playing piano - will perform Homer settings of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti and others as well as three Delius songs. Also on the program are three songs composed by Constantine Grame, including a setting of verse by Sir Walter Scott. The concert is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, 101 S Pinellas Ave. $10, $12. (727) 942-5605.
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