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Magicians pull a wand from their jackets to produce hat tricks.
Ramón Tebar pulled a baton from his suitcase to produce proof for U.S. customs agents that he should be allowed into this country. I guess he thought, oh, the guy must be in charge of something, and he let me in, Tebar said, reliving the shock of it. He admitted he was panicked when he did it. I thought when you got on the plane you were safe!
Tebar, music and artistic director for Opera Naples, was on his way here to conduct the outdoor Festival Under the Stars March 10-13 at Baker Park in Naples (see information box). It had taken a grueling month just to get where he was. And that where was Detroit, a city he had not planned to land in on Feb. 27, 10 days after he was supposed to be here.
If you re a baby boomer, you are the chosen one, with three concerts singing your tunes.
Music Director Andrey Boreyko will not conduct any of the three classical concerts. Associate Conductor Radu Paponiu conducts at least one of those and two pops concerts as well. Paponiu also guides an educational LinkUp with Carnegie Hall and the philharmonic, exploring how music affects people and he ll field a class on the architecture of music for its Lifelong Learning Series.
Beethoven s Ninth is back on the shelf. Originally scheduled for May 2020, the symphonic masterpiece was cancelled when COVID-19 restriction prohibited gatherings. Artis Naples penciled it in for this season, along with another choral titan, Carmina Burana. But the pandemic hung on, and both were axed. Next potential date: spring 2022.