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Music

Chamber music with instrumental variety

By Times staff writer
Published March 29, 2007


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There's plenty of chamber music on the agenda this weekend. The Florida Orchestra plays a pair of chamber orchestra concerts in intimate venues: at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg, and 2 p.m. Sunday at Tampa Theatre, Tampa. Featured are trumpeters Rob Smith, left, and Ken Brown in Vivaldi's concerto for two trumpets, along with Schubert's Overture in the Italian Style and Mozart's Serenata Notturna and the Linz Symphony. Stefan Sanderling will conduct. $25. (813) 286-2403 or toll-free 1-800-662-7286; www.floridaorchestra.org.

A concert of music by composer Duncan MacMillan will be performed Friday morning at 10 as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Roberts Music Center 104, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg. For Love of Odysseus, a song cycle, will be premiered, and there will also be three other MacMillan works, including In Memoriam, Sept. 11, 2001 for solo piano.

Pianist John Pickett plays Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Mussorgsky at 8 p.m. Friday at the St. Petersburg College Music Center, 66th Street and Fifth Avenue N, St. Petersburg. Free. (727) 341-4301.

Canadian classical guitarist Jerome Ducharme, 2005 winner of the Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, gives a recital of works by Luis Milan, Jacques Hetu, Joaquin Rodrigo and others at 8 p.m. Friday at the Student Services Auditorium on the Dale Mabry campus of Hillsborough Community College. $7.

[Last modified March 28, 2007, 10:02:29]


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