By Helen French. This year’s BEACON dance performance features four world premieres, 20 dance artists, two local dance companies, two live musicians, one spoken word artist and one dance film…. Read More
BEACON ’24
Genre: Performing
Chamber Players pay tribute to often-ignored instrument
By Kurt Loft. If Rodney Dangerfield played the viola, he’d still use the same comic line – “I don’t get no respect.’’ Well, we say to hell with all that. And so did two famous composers, Mozart and Dvořák… Read More
The Florida Highwaymen – Down the Road Again
By Margo Hammond. The Florida Highwaymen returned to The Studio@620 in downtown St. Pete this month — or at least their spirits did, thanks to an exhibition of their paintings a reading of a play written and directed by Bob Devin Jones…. Read More
From Horror to Harmony
By Kurt Loft. The words of Ann Frank unfold through music when the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay presents Annelies, an adaptation of the diary as a large-scale choral work. “There are a million reasons to do this piece” … Read More
Can a performer get in the way of a composer?
By Kurt Loft. “I honestly feel that the music always goes first and our main goal as musicians is to be just a kind of translator of what we think the composer may want,’’ says pianist Javier Perianes, who joins The Florida Orchestra for Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto…. Read More
St Petersburg’s Living Room
By Margo Hammond. A sold-out crowd gathered at 620 1st Avenue S on February 10, the second night of a weekend-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Studio@620… Read More
Transitioning to “I Don’t Have a Day Job!”
It’s not easy to earn a living as a full-time artist. We asked a range of visual, literary and performing artists how they made the transition to a full-time career… Read More
Carole Lyles Shaw – Modern Quilter
Through March 2 Art Center Sarasota Details here As a contemporary African American artist, I joyously live and work at the intersection of multiple worldviews and cultural legacies. In my… Read More
The Science of Music
By Kurt Loft. “We’re translating trends of scientific data for the human ear,’’ says Heather O’Leary, a USF anthropologist who spearheads a project that’s creating music from marine science data. … Read More
Don Giovanni – Amorous Escapades and the Gates of Hell
By Kurt Loft. “Don Giovanni” is Mozart’s jocular drama about the amoral but often amusing adventures of an adulterous cad, but the opera is essentially about women and their reactions to male behavior…. Read More
