The circus will ‘Prevail’
The show goes on for the Circus Arts Conservatory, which has put together a new circus production that will be presented in front of live audiences and be available for home streaming. “Prevail” features a number of veterans of Cirque du Soleil shows who have been unable to perform for the last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some have been working as coaches with the Sarasota Sailor Circus. “Prevail” will be presented Friday through Sunday and March 12-14 in the Sailor Circus Arena, 2075 Bahia Vista St., Sarasota. The lineup of talent includes aerial artist Alanna Baker, aerial strap artist Darren Trull, Native American hoop dancers Eric Hernandez and Shandien LaRance, slack wire artist Evgeny Vasilenko, silk artist Giulia Piolanti, Chinese pole artist Oli Poitras and unicyclists and acrobats Marie-Lee and Philippe, who competed in 2016 on “America’s Got Talent.” All are donating their time and performance to support CAC. In pe
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Joseph Haydn were close friends in Austria in the late 18th century, often playing string quartets together and, as friends will do, exchanging ideas about music.
Two pieces of liturgical music, Mozart’s Mass in C Major from 1779, nicknamed the Coronation Mass, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, composed in 1798, will showcase the two composers in a performance by Key Chorale to be streamed in March. Soprano Suzanne Karpov will join baritone Jamal Sarikoki, tenor Matt Morgan and mezzo soprano Amy Connours for the performance, which was recorded at First Presbyterian Church in Sarasota.
The Haydn Mass was originally titled Mass In Troubled Times, as Napoleon’s army marched toward Vienna, and Key Chorale artistic director Joseph Caulkins thought it was an appropriate composition during the pandemic, dealing as it does with “a sense of anxiety, grave distress,” he said.