A musical family
Johan Sebastian Bach created some of the world’s best-known and loved music. As the father of 20 children, he also launched a small family musical dynasty, which the Sarasota Orchestra acknowledges in its “All in the Family” program. It features music by J.S. Bach, as well as pieces by his fifth child Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who was considered the most successful of his offspring, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, J.S. Bach’s second child and first son. The concert will be presented today through Sunday at Holley Hall in the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center, 709 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. It will be recorded live and then offered for home streaming March 18-23. For ticket information: 941-953-3434; sarasotaorchestra.org
The concerto, written in 1753 by Johan Sebastian Bach’s fifth child and second son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), sits astride the transition between the Baroque and Classical eras.
“Something you’d expect from a Bach concerto is there, but the drama of it is much more than what one would expect,” said Helm, who will perform the concerto as the final composition of the orchestra’s “All in the Family” program March 11-14 (streaming March 18-23). The concert also includes W.F. Bach’s Sinfonia in F Major (Dissonances) and J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor (Double).
Safety and logistics force cancellation of 2021 Sarasota Music Fest heraldtribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldtribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By:
Addison Independent staff AFTER MANY YEARS holding the Addison town meeting in the nearby elementary school, municipal officials decided to hold this year’s annual gathering in the Addison Town Hall building off Route 22A at the four corners next to the Baptist church. Selectboard members believe the historic building has enough room for meeting participants to safely social distance. Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy THE PANTON TOWN shed off Panton Road is in poor condition, and officials will ask residents on Town Meeting Day to spend $270,000 to build a new shed for salt, sand and equipment.
Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy
Gayle Williams, Correspondent
The coronavirus pandemic has created many obstacles for performing arts organization, particularly in limiting how live shows can be presented. But it has also provided them with new opportunities.
“One of the silver linings of this pandemic is that we are bringing our music and our outdoor beauty together,” said Elisabeth Spahn about the Sarasota Orchestra’s series of outdoor concerts presented this season as SO on the Road: Parks & Partners.
Five of these concerts are scheduled now through the end of the season at locations as varied as G.T. Bray Park and Nathan Benderson Park in Manatee County and the Ringling Museum courtyard and Bay Preserve at Osprey in Sarasota County.