Punta Gorda Symphony regroups for Memorial Day concert with

COURTESY PHOTO It was hard to picture a future for Punta Gorda Symphony after its abruptly canceled Apr. 2 concert left concertgoers and musicians shaken. Rumors swirled around an uncertain “new direction” without charismatic former Music Director and Conductor Maestro Raffaele Livio Ponti. In scarcely a month — steered by Executive Director Jennifer Bitner and

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