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 FLORIDA
ARTS FESTIVAL 2007
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YOU MAY NOW PURCHASE TICKETS
ONLINE.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS MEMBER AND NON-MEMBER PRICING.
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Each Concert - $25 for Members & $35 for
Non-Members
Entire Series - $100 Members & $150
Non-Members
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ENTIRE SERIES
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Expressions in Primetime
Please join us for the opening of
Expressions in Primetime. The Grand Opening reception
of the 2007 Florida Arts Festival begins with a stunning
visual art show featuring more than 20 of Southwest
Florida's finest local artists featured on WGCU's "Arts
Edition Primetime." This group exhibition, including
new works from nationally famous artists Jonathan Green,
Kathy Spalding, and Jud Nelson, opens with a reception
February 24th from 6 to 10 PM at the new Sidney & Berne
Davis Art Center and continues through the festival
ending March 10. Come see what is the future of the
arts in downtown.This show will be on view during each
festival event and art pieces are available for
purchase. Proceeds will benefit the restoration of the
new Art Center.
Saturday, February 24, 6-10PM
FREE OF
CHARGE!
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American
Virtuosi
The Florida Arts Festival Ensemble in Residence,
American Virtuosi, is co-directed by violinist Anton
Miller, pianist Brandt Fredriksen, and violist James
Griffith. The first of three chamber music programs
features special guest concert violinist Tai Murray who
was featured in EBONY as one of "The New Child
Prodigies." Today, the sophisticated New Yorker is a
diva of distinction. Tai has performed extensively as a
soloist with orchestras and in recitals throughout the
United States, and she made her New York concerto debut
at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in May 2002. The
February 26 program includes music by Mendelssohn,
Dvorak, Prokofiev, and Bartok and begins at 8PM at the
new Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center.
Monday, February 26, 8PM
$25 MEMBER
$35 NONMEMBER
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Romances
The Florida Arts Festival Ensemble in Residence,
American Virtuosi, features the beautiful voice of
mezzo-soprano Janelle McCoy performing the Seven
Romances by Dmitri Shostakovich. She is joined by two
members of the American String Quartet, Peter Winograd
and Wolfram Koessel. Ms. McCoy will also perform
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 For Soprano And Eight Cellos
by Heitor Villa Lobos. International superstar cellist
Andres Diaz will spice things up with his Grand Tango by
Astor Piazzolla then everyone joins together to conclude
the program with Edvard Greig's "Holberg Suite." This
March 3rd program begins at 8PM at the new Sidney &
Berne Davis Art Center.
Saturday, March 3rd, 8PM
$25 MEMBER
$35 NONMEMBER
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Battleworks
Dance Company
When it comes to movement, Battleworks Dance Company has
no boundaries in creating imagery. Established in 2003
under the direction of founder and artistic director
Robert Battle, the company's works employ innovative
technique and dramatic flair. The New York Times
described Battleworks as "Electrifying.a terse, powerful
explosion of transformative energy." A choreographer in
high demand, Battle has been commissioned by the Parsons
Dance Comapany, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,
Hubbard Street Repertory Ensemble, Ailey II, and
PARADIGM. "Mr. Battle makes an audience sit up and take
notice, marvel, even laugh. His work reaches over the
edge of the stage and communicates with people." -The
New York Sun. This special March 4th performance takes
place at the Florida Repertory Theater in the Arcade
Theatre at 8PM.
Sunday, March 4th, 8PM
$25 MEMBER
$35 NONMEMBER
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Chamber Music
New York
The final American Virtuosi performance showcases the
finest concert artists currently performing on the
stages of Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Violinist
Caterina Szepes and violist Mary Hammann from the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, American String Quartet's
Peter Winograd, Wolfram Koessel, and cellist Andres Diaz
join festival director Jim Griffith for an evening of
brilliant music making. Included in this program is
Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence. This performance
begins at 8 PM at the new Sidney & Berne Davis Art
Center. "The wonderful rapport clearly showed the
camaraderie and sheer joy these musicians engender when
playing together." -Sanibel Islander
Monday, March 5th, 8PM
$25 MEMBER
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Raul Midon
It's rare that an artist
arrives onto the pop music scene so fully loaded with
the kind of hit-making potential that
singer-composer-guitarist Raúl Midón possesses. The New
Mexico-born, New York-based Midón, recently performed on
Late Night with David Letterman. "I like to celebrate
the possible, the highest, the best of possibilities for
human beings," says Midón, who has been blind since
birth and is the son of an African American mother and
an Argentinean father. "It's easy to be pessimistic
given the state of the world. But I'm inspired by people
like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi who had the
ability to transform." - Raúl Midón "His style is a
febrile amalgam of Stevie Wonder vocals, feel-good pop
songwriting, sophisticated jazz harmonies and a
ferociously aggressive way of playing acoustic guitar."
- Washington Post. This March 10th program begins at 8PM
at the new Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center.
Saturday, March 10th, 8PM
$25 MEMBER
$35 NONMEMBER
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