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Stage: Hot Ticket
By JOHN FLEMING
© St. Petersburg Times,
published July 19, 2001
A new note
Cellist Julie Newport is playing a collection of standard works by Beethoven, Schumann and Bloch in her concert Sunday with pianist Talia Dillahey, but there's also something different on the program. It's the aptly named Julie-o, a short piece for solo cello by the Turtle Island String Quartet, an amplified classical-jazz-bluegrass crossover group. "It's very syncopated and feels sort of improvised and offbeat," says Newport, 18, back home for the summer after her first year majoring in cello performance at Boston University. For three years, she was principal cello of the Pinellas Youth Symphony, as well as a longtime member of the Lied Trio, with whom she began performing at age 9. Sunday's concert is at 3 p.m. at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $8 and $10. (813) 942-5605.
LSO visits Daytona Beach
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The London Symphony Orchestra makes its biennial pilgrimage to Daytona Beach for the Florida International Festival, with a series of five classical programs beginning this weekend and continuing through July 27 in Peabody Auditorium. The repertoire is mostly mainstream -- John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine, conducted Saturday by Marin Alsop, pictured here, is as racy as it gets -- but the LSO has played some sensational concerts over the years in Daytona. Soloists include Lila Josefowicz in the Tchaikovsky violin concerto Friday and pianist Louis Lortie Saturday in Rachmaninoff's second concerto. Tickets: $20-$60. Call (904) 257-7790 or check the festival Web site at www.fif-lso.org.
All together now
Eight O'Clock Theatre is doing that golden oldie Sweet Charity in a summertime collaboration between the community theater and the theater program of the Pinellas schools. Students who work on the musical earn a high school credit. They also get a chance to work with music director Mark Jelks and choreographer Ronnie DeMarco, both of whom have Broadway experience. Direction is by Maria Gerakios, who heads the drama program at Countryside High School. The show opens Friday and and runs for three weekends at the Largo Cultural Center. Tickets: $6-$16.50. (727) 587-6793.
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