Sarasota Orchestra musicians continue to deliver the bright light and healing of live classical music in their most recent series at Holley Hall titled “Inspirations.” Despite the distanced seating and required face masks, these concerts are a window to an earlier time of normal life when the communal enjoyment of live performances was taken for granted.
Although ushers attend to the strict adherence of safety measures and there is little to no interaction among separate parties attending the concert, the music does its job well by taking us to another place and time.
The shortened concert featured only two of the three works originally scheduled, but Antonin Dvorak’s Nocturne in B Major, Op. 40 and Josef Suk’s Serenade for Strings, Op. 6, were beautifully paired and performed. (Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s “Entr’Acte” was dropped from the program at the last minute because of what the orchestra said was “unexpected circumstances.”)