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out and about continued appeared with Artist Series Concerts in 1997 as part of the organization’s very first season. Joining her in this musical ‘homecoming’ is the distinguished pianist and Colton’s frequent collaborator, Kayo Iwama. A versatile singer who performs repertoire from Baroque opera and oratorio to contemporary music, Colton’s program will feature English and American Art Song from the 20th Century. • April 30, 7 pm at State College of Florida Studio for the Performing Arts, 5840 26th Street W., Bradenton. Antonio Chen Guang, piano. Winner of the first Olga Kern International Piano Competition, the Scriabin Prize and the Rome Prize amongst other international awards, pianist Antonio Chen Guang combines extraordinary technique, a precociously mature musical sensibility and exceptional onstage charisma. Chen Guang is the first of three Artist Series Concerts season artists to take part in State College of Florida’s “Pianopalooza!” – their piano festival running April 30-May 8. Most festival concerts will be held in the recital hall of SCF’s new Studio for the Performing Arts. • May 4, 4 pm at Sarasota Opera House. Lin Ye, piano with Daniel Jordan and Samantha Bennett, violin; Rachel Halvorson, viola; Natalie Helm, cello; John Miller, double bass. Artist Series Concerts welcomes the return of pianist Lin Ye, a former winner of the organization’s 2017 National Piano Competition. Ye dazzled two sold-out pre-pandemic audiences in Sarasota last year with an all-Beethoven program. This time, Ye performs piano concerti by Bach, Mozart and Chopin with principal string players from the Sarasota Orchestra. Ye’s performance is part of State College of Florida’s Pianopalooza festival, taking place April 30-May 8. For more information, visit www. ArtistSeriesConcerts.org Venice Symphony Venice Symphony has Fantasy, Firebird, and Fabiola on April 22-23. Hailed by the New York Times as “playing with extraordinary precision and luminosity,” violinist Fabiola Kim solos on Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries and music from Chariots of Fire and How to Train Your Dragon lead to our season’s scorching finale, Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite. Rescheduled from 2020 at the VPAC, and not part of the subscription series is Songs from the Screen and Stage with Linda Eder May 6-7. Broadway and recording star Linda Eder joins The Venice Symphony for an unforgettable concert of classics from Broadway and Hollywood. Eder has been called “one of the greatest voices of our time” and routinely sells out performances all over the Country. Location: Venice Performing Arts Center, 1 Indian Ave, Venice. Tickets: https://www.thevenicesymphony.org/ t Sarasota Orchestra Pops 3: Unforgettable: The American Songbook April 8, 7:30 pm, April 9, 2:30 pm and 7:30 p.m. at the Van Wezel Sean O’Loughlin, conductor with Nick Ziobro & Julia Goodwin, vocalists. Ziobro and Goodwin serenade t with the tunes Nat King Cole was talking about when he crooned “Unforgettable.” Pops conductor Sean O’Loughlin leads this program of romantic anthems and cherished jazz standards from the early 20th century, including Frank Sinatra’s “Come Fly with Me” and Etta James’ “At Last.” • Chamber Soirée 8: Quintessential Clarinet April 10, 4 p.m. at Holley Hall. Inspired by the poem “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Program: Coleridge-Taylor – Clarinet Quintet; Brahms – Clarinet Quintet Sarasota Orchestra Principal Clarinetist Bharat Chandra champions his versatile instrument in a program of paired quintets, buoyed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life.” Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was inspired to write his own clarinet quintet after hearing Brahms’ masterful work for the same instrumentation. Although Brahms had announced his “retirement” from composing in 1890, hearing a performance by the phenomenal clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld led him to believe that perhaps he had more to say after all. Many consider the resulting chamber work to be Brahms’ most profound. Sad and wistful at its core, Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet is an exquisite gift from a mature artist near the end of his life to generations of clarinetists (and listeners). • Great Escapes 6: Saddles of the Silver Screen April 20-23 at Holley Hall with Enrico Lopez-Yañez, conductor. Grab your cowboy boots and hat for a ride through the soundtracks of beloved TV and movie Westerns. Enrico Lopez-Yañez leads the musical caravan of selections from The Lone Ranger, Annie Get Your Gun, Silverado, and more. • Outdoor Pops: Iconic Songs of the ‘70s May 6-7, 8 p.m. at Ed Smith Stadium with Christopher Confessore, conductor and Swearingen & Kelli, vocalists. Grab your bell bottoms and come out to the Orioles’ Ed Smith Stadium for a night of music from a time when “catch you on the flip side” referred to vinyl records. Sarasota Orchestra backs the vocals of Nashville-based duo Swearingen & Kelli, who recreate the magic of ‘70s singer-songwriters such as James Taylor, Carole King, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, and more. Get yourself some ballpark fare, kick back in the stands, and enjoy the Orchestra performing from the field. A spectacular fireworks display closes out an evening of hits and home runs. Tickets available now at the Orioles’ Box Office, by phone at 941-893- 6312, or at Orioles.com/arts. For the other concerts, www.SarasotaOrchestra.org La Musica International Chamber Music Festival has events through April 13. The season kick-off event, and the first concert with special guest pianist Wu Han, will celebrate the legacy of co-founder and associate artistic director Derek Han, who passed away in April of 2021. Photo By Lisa-Marie Mazzucco At Fogartyville Coming up; • Denise King “Falling In Love With You” South Arts Jazz Road Southeastern Tour is on April 24. Influenced by Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Frank Sinatra, and Aretha Franklin, Denise King is an expressive, big-voiced vocalist that combines jazz with elements of R&B, Blues and Gospel. Tickets: https://wslr.org/event/ denise-king-falling-in-love-withyou-south-arts-jazz-road-southeastern-tour/ • Poets Unplugged #3: An Evening of Spoken Word and Music is on April 9. Local poets are invited to participate in the Open Mic prior to the featured poet performance. Featured performers will be the members of Black on Black Rhyme Tampa Chapter. Doors open at 7 p.m.; open mic at 8 p.m.; featured performer at 9 p.m. Tickets: https://wslr.org/event/ poets-unplugged-an-evening-of-spoken-word-music/ • Lily Topples The World Documentary Film Screening on April 26 follows 20-year old sensation Lily Hevesh – the world’s most acclaimed domino toppler and the only girl in her field – as she rises as an artist, role model, and young woman. Filmed for over 3 years across countless cities and featuring appearances by Jimmy Fallon, Katy Perry, Will Smith, YouTuber Casey Neistat, and a steady stream of Gen-Z creators, this is a coming-of-age story cloaked within a unique portrait of an artist, a story of how passion and creativity can make dreams come true, and an unlikely American tale of a quiet Chinese adoptee. Tickets: https://wslr.org/event/lilytopples-the-world/ Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center, Kumquat Ct. Sarasota. Perlman Music Suncoast The Perlman Music Program Suncoast presents PMP Alumni: t Around Town featuring the Ariel Quartet on April 9 at 7 pm at Temple Sinai, 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge Rd, Sarasota. Distinguished by its virtuosity, musical insight, and impassioned performances, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than twenty years. Its members first met in Israel in 1998 and in 2000, officially formed as a quartet in Jerusalem as part of a chamber music class at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School for Music and Dance. The Ariel Quartet first visited the Suncoast in 2009 to present education outreach programs in Sarasota and Manatee schools. During the 2013- 2014 season, the Quartet - its members not even 30 years old - delighted audiences with a performance of the complete cycle of Beethoven String Quartets, presented in six concerts over three months. They returned for a concert at the Sarasota Opera House in 2015 and their last live performance in the area was at the Venice Performing Arts Center in 2016. In 2021, Perlman Suncoast presented a virtual recital featuring the Quartet as part of our PMP Alumni: At Home series. Repertoire for the evening will include Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 74, (“Harp”) and Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 5. A Q&A with the artists will follow the performance. Tickets: $40 (plus a $2 service charge). The Perlman Music Program Suncoast also presents “Strings in the Garden” – A Special Evening with the Ariel Quartet on April 7 at 6:30 p.m. at Michael’s on the Bay at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. Tickets are $125 and may be purchased at PerlmanSuncoast.org/Strings . To celebrate the patronage and generous support it receives from the community, Perlman Suncoast invites the public to this springtime special event featuring the world-renowned Ariel Quartet. “Strings in the Garden,” at Michael’s on the Bay, begins at 6:30pm with wine, champagne and hors d’oeuvres served on the outdoor terrace and on the patio below, with unobstructed views of Selby’s gardens and the sun setting over the bay. Guests will then be seated in the ballroom for a private performance by the Ariel Quartet at 7:30pm. A dessert reception will follow the concert, where guests may meet with the artists and with each other. Repertoire for the evening will include Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade for String Quartet, and selections from Beethoven, Bartok and Dvorak string quartets. Tickets: $125 sold at PerlmanSuncoast.org/Strings At The Ringling On exhibit is “As long as there is sun, as long as there is light.” Selections from the Bring Gift and The Ringling Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition t runs through Aug. 13, 2023, in the museum’s Searing Wing. Highlights include an important minimalist work by Anne Truitt and a monumental work on canvas by Gene Davis, both artists affiliated with the Washington Color School, an art movement during the 1950s to 1970s in Washington D.C., made up of abstract expressionist artists. Additional work represent a generation of prominent artists who work, or have worked, in abstraction, including Clement Meadmore, Jules Olitski, Beverly Pepper, Rebecca Salter, Kenneth Snelson, and Yuriko Yamaguchi, among others. Also on view are sculptures and paintings by African American and Latin American artists from The Ringling collection, including William Edmondson, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Omar Rayo, Baruj Salinas, and Joyce de Guatemala. The Ringling has Haitian-Canadian artist Rhodnie Désir for the world premiere of her first gallery installation, Rhodnie Désir: Conversations in the Ringling’s Monda Gallery. In her multidimensional choreographic career, dancer/choreographer Rhodnie Désir created BOW’T TRAIL, a choreographic-documentary journey in which she has conducted research throughout the Americas since 2015. Her work included visits to countries such as Martinique, Brazil, Haïti, Canada, Mexico, and the United States to immerse herself within the African and afro descendant cultures and rhythms generated from the ingenuity of her ancestors since the Slave Trade. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art also has Eleanor Merritt: Remembrance, running through Aug. 21. The exhibition celebrates the life and artwork of Merritt who was a volunteer at The Ringling for many years as a docent and board member. She also served as president of the Venice Art Center and was active in other arts organizations as well. Eleanor died in 2019 leaving a legacy of art and public service. This exhibition is dedicated to her spirit and creativity and represents a small sample of a significant body of work the artist created over her long career. The exhibition highlights her creative use of materials, movement between figuration and abstraction, and her commitment to women’s rights. Arriving in Sarasota in the 1980s, Eleanor exhibited widely in Florida. Her final exhibition in 2017 at the Arts & Cultural Alliance celebrated her 60 years of painting. In 2013, she received national recognition with an exhibition at the Houston Museum of African American Culture. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd., Sarasota. Info: www.ringling.org. Theatre Asolo Rep has the world premiere of Knoxville (April 15-May 11). This moving and innovative musical features lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty (songwriting team behind Anastasia and Once on this Island) and is adapted and directed by Frank Galati, reuniting the Tony Award-winning creative team behind the musical Ragtime. Knoxville is based on James Agee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel A Death in the Family and based, in part, on the play All The Way Home by Tad Mosel. t continued on page 13 10 WEST COAST WOMAN APRIL 2022
Saluting Unsung Heroes 40th Women in Power Event A celebration of women who have made a positive impact on the lives of others in Sarasota and Manatee Counties O n May 4, National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) Sarasota Manatee Section will honor the “Unsung Heroines” who kept us going through the Covid-19 Pandemic. These women have given their time, energy and skills to help others by providing childcare, teaching, preparing and distributing food, caring for the home bound, and addressing the medical needs of many underserved communities, and more. Team (a coalition of nonprofits in Sarasota and Manatee counties) represented by Jo-oni Jones and Odessa Ammons, Multi Health Institute, Annaliese Camino- Klingener, Unidos Now, Rebecca Forero, Gulf Coach Latin Chamber of Commerce, Evelyn Almodovar, Manatee Healthy Teens Coalition, Stacey Campo, New College, Lavergne Green, the Links Janice Booher from Resilient American Communities and Michelle Jones, the Howard Club. We follow #SafeArtsSarasota health and safety protocols Adriana Perez Angela Perez-Garcia Elyse Gordon Katressa Wilson Maria Somera Teresa Martin The Women In Power Luncheon is scheduled for Wednesday, May 4 at 11:30 a.m. at Michael’s on East, in Sarasota. The event will mark NCJW’s 40th annual celebration of women who have made a positive impact on the lives of others in Sarasota and Manatee Counties. Honorees include: Adriana Perez, Unidos Now, Angela Perez- Garcia, Bay Shore Elementary School in Bradenton, Katressa Wilson and Maria Somera, Children First, Teresa Martin and Elyse Gordon, Aviva Senior Living, Multicultural Action National Council of Jewish Women strives for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families. For more information, to purchase tickets and/or to become a sponsor, call (941)342-1855 or go to ncjwsarasota-manatee.org. The deadline for reservations is Monday, April 25. APRIL 2022 WEST COAST WOMAN 11
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