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Alexander Bloch was the first full-time music director of the orchestra, from 1950 to 1962. [2] During the first six years of the orchestra, the orchestra did not have a single resident venue. In 1955, the Sarasota city commission approved construction of rehearsal space for the orchestra in the Sarasota civic center.
The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall is a performing arts venue located at 777 North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Florida neighboring the Sarasota Bay. The main theater of the 80,000 square feet (7,400 m 2) facility contains 1,741 seats. [2]
Sarasota Opera House, late March 2008. Initially bringing the Turnau Opera of Woodstock, New York to perform chamber-sized operas at the historic Asolo Theater on the grounds of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the guild then began mounting its own productions, also at the Asolo, in 1974, but when it acquired the Edwards Theatre in 1979, the company set about a rehabilitation of the ...
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Sarasota Orchestra is making a few changes and bringing in extra guest conductors in the wake of the July death of new music director Bramwell Tovey.
Guest conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados leads Sarasota Orchestra’s “Luminous Colors” concert with guest violinist Bomsori Kim.
The Sarasota Opera House (originally the Edwards Theatre) [3] is a historic theater building used as an opera house at 61 North Pineapple Avenue in Sarasota, Florida.The building was the vision of A.B. Edwards, the first mayor of Sarasota.
For its 28th season, Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota plans nearly two dozen classical music programs in a variety of local venues.