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By JOHN FLEMING
© St. Petersburg Times, published June 21, 2001
New string quartets
There's still some chamber music in the air before the summer heat blasts it all away until the fall. In St. Petersburg, the Tampa Bay Composers' Forum presents a program of new string quartets by members, including Joseph Ierna, Kendall Burnham, Vernon Taranto Jr. and Peter Blauvelt. They'll be played by Eugene Bazhanov and Kim Padgett, violins; Virginia Huchton, viola; and Theresa Villani, cello, at 8 p.m. Friday at the Palladium Theater. Tickets: $10. (727) 822-3590.
The Sarasota Music Festival winds up its 37th annual edition with three concerts. Flutist Carol Wincenc, pictured here, is featured in today's Artist Showcase concert, playing Daniel Paget's Romania, with pianist James Lent, at 4:30 p.m. in Holley Hall. Tickets: $17 and $22. Wincenc plays in Janacek's wind sextet Miadi on Friday in a program that also includes works of Rossini and Dvorak. Saturday's finale has a matched set of classics, Schumann's Op. 44 piano quintet and Mozart's Gran Partita. The Friday and Saturday programs are at 8 p.m. in Van Wezel Hall. Tickets: $20-$34. (941) 953-3434.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
Four one-act plays by Tampa teens are featured in the Young Dramatists Project at Gorilla Theatre. Mad Libs by Jennifer Malnic, Picture in Picture by Andrew Romaner, Anonymous by Chris Rutherford and Waiting Room by Makenzie Condon are being staged in performances at 7 p.m. today, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 and $12. (813) 879-2914. Pictured here, from left, are Condon, Romaner, Gorilla co-producer Aubrey Hampton, Malnic and Rutherford. Each young playwright received a $250 royalty and associate membership in the Dramatists Guild.