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Westcoast Troupe follows the ‘Pipeline’
The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe combines live theater and video for the Sarasota premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s timely drama “Pipeline.” The play, which WBTT originally planned to present live in the fall, is being filmed inside the theater and will then be shown in outdoor screenings in the theater’s parking lot Friday through April 30. Home streaming will be available May 1-23. The roughly 90-minute play is about an inner-city public high school teacher whose son is threatened with expulsion from an elite private boarding school after he attacks a teacher. It is directed by L. Peter Callender, an actor and artistic director of the African-American Shakespeare Company of San Francisco. Tickets are $20. For more information: 941-366-1505; westcoastblacktheatre.org
The Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216, was composed by Mozart when he was only 19 for orchestra including pairs of flutes, oboes, and horns. The arrangement performed here folded the wind lines into the parts for string orchestra alone. On the surface, this seems like it should work well enough, and it does for much of the accompaniment. However, the lovely legato slow movement felt a bit colorless without the solo flute shining through with the urging counter line of the horn.
This concerto is ebullient and bounces with lively energy. Coucheron’s spirited performance, as well as Mulligan’s over-sized movements, played up these qualities. Mozart’s good humor was fully evident in the final movement of contrasting segments.
Video views of art in the world
In conjunction with its current show, “Janaina Tschäpe: Between the Sky and the Water,” the Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College is offering a video series tied to the career retrospective of the artist. On Saturday and Sunday, the museum will be showcasing some of Tschäpe’s video works that were created from 2000 to 2014 and touch on some of the painted and sculpted pieces featured in the exhibition. Showings start at the bottom of every hour and will be limited to 20 people on a first-come, first-served basis. The videos are included with museum admission. The exhibition continues through May 2 at 1001 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. For more information: 941-304-4300; sarasotaartmuseum.org
Mulligan, who had been scheduled to be a guest conductor this season before the pandemic upended the schedule, is a last-minute stand-in for the orchestra’s artistic advisor, Jeffrey Kahane, who was to have led an 11-member chamber ensemble in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major.
Unforeseen circumstances are preventing Kahane from performing, said Greenfield, and Mulligan, most recently associate conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, will instead take the podium for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216, and Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 9 in C Major.