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Marco Jimenez prepares to practice as part of the July 6-24 Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival taking place at USF (Courtesy Photo)
There comes a time in every musician s life that becomes a turning point, an opportunity that separates them from the aspiring to promising. Such is the case for local St. Pete, Florida s Marco Jimenez (hee-men-ez), age 18, who is among this year s selected applicants participating in Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival (RPPF), July 6-24, at the University of South Florida (USF) School of Music.
Bringing together 36 of the world s aspiring collegiate pianists, Jimenez was selected from more than 100 applicants world-wide who applied to participate. Tuition for Jimenez and the other 35 selected students has been covered by Rebecca Penneys Friends of Piano, a non-profit 501c3 organization, supported entirely by private donations. The students are joined by 21 world-class faculty, who work closely with students over t
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A variety of familiar singers, along with some Sarasota newcomers, will star in rarely seen, intimate productions for Sarasota Opera’s revised winter/spring season.
The company announced in November that because of the coronavirus, it canceled plans for its traditional major productions (including “Tosca” and “The Pearl Fishers”) and will instead present four smaller-scale, one-act works, two of which have never been produced by the company before.
There will be 24 performances in all beginning Feb. 12 with Gioachino Rossini’s comic “The Happy Deception.” It will be followed, beginning Feb. 19, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s “La serva padrona (Maid to Mistress),” which was produced by the Sarasota Opera in 1967, long before the company moved to its home at the Sarasota Opera House in 1984.