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2019 2020 SEASON th Celebrating the 250 anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven. Experience the visceral quality of Beethoven's music and the depth of his humanity and compassion, LIMITLESS showcased throughout all five of our concert series. “There may be no other composer whose music has so consistently spoken to human beings all over the world, OPTIONS of every age, race, class and educational background.” Discounted Pricing. Preferred Seating. Free Ticket Exchanges. - Jeffrey Kahane, Artistic Advisor FLEX10 BUY 2 OR 3 CONCERTS SAVE 10% FLEX15 BUY 4 OR MORE CONCERTS SAVE 15% Offer expires December 31, 2019. Create your season experience your way, with Flex Pass. Explore artistic insights in Discover Beethoven, the beloved classics of Masterworks, the emotion and intimacy of Chamber Soirees, the spirit of Great Escapes, and the thrill of Pops.

Flex Pass not valid for Classical Conversations, Conductor Dinners, Thrill of a Lifetime, Outdoor Pops or Sarasota Music Festival concerts. Discount automatically tallies when 2nd item is added to your online cart. Box Office opens September 3.

2 3 INSPIRED SEASON Experience musical genius, passion, and devotion

Join Sarasota Orchestra for an unprecedented year of bold and brilliant concerts. Nine world-class Guest Conductors will arrive at the podium in Sarasota for our Masterworks and Discover Beethoven concerts during one of the most transformative seasons in our 71-year history, including our search for a new Music Director.

Deepen Your Experience with nine Guest Conductors: Classical Conversations Guest Conductor Dinners Hear from each Guest Conductor in a lively discussion Meet our Guest Conductors. Each evening 2019 prior to each Masterworks and Discover Beethoven features a short performance and delightful 2020 concert. These 75-minute concert previews are dinner, followed by insightful Q&A with SEASON informative and enjoyable. Tickets $11 - $16. the conductors. Call 941-953-3434 or go online. Call 941-487-2717 or go online.

4 Flex Pass: Choose from five unique concert series. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get free ticket exchanges. 5 DISCOVER BEETHOVEN - FALL Sarasota Orchestra starts the Beethoven anniversary ROSSINI celebration early with his Symphony No. 5. Don’t miss this BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH iconic symphony that epitomizes Beethoven’s powerful Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri musical style. Rossini’s delightful overture and a thrilling Beethoven piano concerto make this a not to be missed first BEETHOVEN September 28, 29 orchestral concert of the season. Piano Concerto No. 3 Saturday | 7:30 pm | Sarasota Opera House "The Fifth Symphony’s journey from darkness to light, from Sunday | 2:30 pm | Sarasota Opera House struggle to triumph, makes it one of the most thrilling musical BEETHOVEN Tickets from $27 journeys in the literature." - Jeffrey Kahane, Artistic Advisor Symphony No. 5

guest conductor “[Drew Petersen] MARCELO feels the music, he LEHNINGER can make it come Music Director Grand Rapids Symphony alive again.” - Lukas Foss, composer, conductor, pianist

ADD ON: Round out your concert experience with an informative lecture about the concert and/or an enjoyable “Lehninger… dinner gathering with the conductor.  Classical Conversation - Sept 26, DREW PETERSEN, piano kept sophistication 10:30 am, David Cohen Hall to the fore.  Marcelo Lehninger Dinner - ” Sept 27, 6:00 pm, Hyde Park Prime - Chicago Tribune Steakhouse

6 Flex Pass: Save 10% on 2 or 3 concerts. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get preferred seating. 7 MASTERWORKS 1 R. STRAUSS CLASSICAL ROMANCE Don Juan Richard Strauss’ revolutionary and exhilarating tone poem MOZART Don Juan anchors this concert. Soloist Lise de la Salle shines November 8,9,10 in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20. Written for the composer Piano Concerto No. 20 Friday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel to perform as a soloist, the work was also one of Beethoven’s Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel favorites. Dvořák’s lushly melodic Symphony No. 6 rounds out DVOŘÁK Sunday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel a concert experience rich in unforgettable melody. Symphony No. 6 Tickets from $35

guest conductor GERARD SCHWARZ “The exhilaration didn't Conductor Laureate let up for a second until Seattle Symphony her hands came off the keyboard.” - Washington Post

LISE DE LA SALLE, piano

“This was a ADD ON: Round out your concert performance in experience with an informative lecture about the concert and/or an enjoyable a thousand.” dinner gathering with the conductor. - Seen and Heard  Classical Conversation - Nov 7, International 10:30 am, David Cohen Hall  Gerard Schwarz Dinner - Nov 7, 6:00 pm, PNC Bank

8 Flex Pass: Save 15% on 4 or more concerts. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get discounted pricing. 9 MASTERWORKS 2 ELGAR In the South Travel to ancient Rome, without leaving your seat. Respighi's ROMAN FESTIVALS beloved symphonic poems, Fountains of Rome and Roman BRUCH Festivals, take the audience on a delightfully colorful tour of the Violin Concerto No. 1 legendary city. Elgar’s In the South connects the dots between December 6,7,8 a family vacation in Italy and ghosts of history past. Bruch’s Friday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel RESPIGHI touching and fiercely virtuosic Violin Concerto, featuring Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel young violinist Alexi Kenney—“a talent to watch,” according to Fountains of Rome Sunday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel The New York Times—complements this musical journey. Roman Festivals Tickets from $35

guest conductor JOANN FALLETTA Music Director Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

“One of the finest conductors of her generation” - The New York Times

ADD ON: Round out your concert experience with an informative lecture about the concert and/or an enjoyable dinner gathering with the conductor.  JoAnn Falletta Dinner - Dec 4, ALEXI KENNEY, violin 6:00 pm, Michael's On East  Classical Conversation - Dec 5, 10:30 am, David Cohen Hall “A spellbinding performance” - The New York Times

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The genius of Mozart and the profound depth of Mahler come MOZART & MAHLER together in one program. Among the most technically demanding MOZART of Mozart’s concerti, his Piano Concerto No. 21 was pronounced Piano Concerto No. 21 “astonishingly difficult” by the composer’s own father. Alongside this in C Major, K. 467 January 17, 18, 19 Classical treasure is Gustav Mahler’s spellbinding post-Romantic Friday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel Titan Symphony. Delight in the sounds of nature and snippets of Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel urban life, like street bands and klezmer, as you revel in Mahler’s MAHLER Sunday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel expansive and fascinating commentary on the human condition. Symphony No. 1 (The Titan) Tickets from $35

guest conductor STEVEN SLOANE Music Director Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

“Steven Sloane drew pulsing, feisty and textured playing from SHAI WOSNER “His fingers are at the service piano the orchestra.” - The New York Times of a keen and musical mind and deep musical soul.” - NPR All Things Considered

ADD ON: Round out your concert experience with an informative lecture about the concert and/or an enjoyable dinner gathering with the conductor.  Steven Sloane Dinner - Jan 15, 6:00 pm, Holley Hall  Classical Conversation - Jan 16, 10:30 am, David Cohen Hall

12 Flex Pass: Save 10% on 2 or 3 concerts. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get preferred seating. 13 MASTERWORKS 4 JANÁČEK The Cunning Little Vixen Suite Since her debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of CHANG PLAYS DVOŘÁK eight, Sarah Chang has become one of the most celebrated violinists of our time. She brings her emotional depth to Dvořák’s DEBUSSY Jan 30, 31, Feb 1, 2 Violin Concerto. Frogs, dragonflies and hens cavort through Ibéria, No. 2 from Images Thursday | 8:00 pm | Neel Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen Suite, an ode to Mother Friday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel Nature. Guest conductor Ludovic Morlot pays homage to his DVOŘÁK French heritage with one of Debussy’s most beloved orchestral Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel Legends Sunday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel works, Ibéria. Debussy offers vivid impressions of Spanish streets, festival mornings, and “the fragrance of the night.” Violin Concerto Tickets from $35

guest conductor LUDOVIC “The best violinist I have “A vibrant account, with full-bodied string heard in years, surely MORLOT tone, folkloric charm and lots of brio.” Conductor Emeritus one of the foremost - The New York Times Seattle Symphony virtuosi of her time.” - Toronto Globe and Mail

SARAH CHANG violin

ADD ON: Round out your concert experience with an informative lecture about the concert and/or an enjoyable dinner gathering with the conductor.  Ludovic Morlot Dinner - Jan 28, 6:00 pm, location TBA  Classical Conversation - Jan 30, 10:30 am, David Cohen Hall

14 Flex Pass: Save 15% on 4 or more concerts. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get discounted pricing. 15 DISCOVER BEETHOVEN - WINTER

This special concert will explore the work that signaled the start of BEETHOVEN'S EROICA Beethoven's revolutionary middle period. Sarasota Orchestra Artistic Advisor Jeffrey Kahane will present insights and musical examples that put Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, the "heroic" symphony, into 21st century context. A performance of the full symphony that changed the course of music completes this fascinating concert experience. BEETHOVEN "With the Eroica, Beethoven literally shattered the boundaries of February 6 Symphony No. 3 Thursday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel what the symphony as a form had been. Nothing like it had ever been done in terms of sheer scope." - Jeffrey Kahane, Artistic Advisor (Eroica) Tickets from $25

JEFFREY KAHANE Conductor and Commentator

“Jeffrey Kahane… is making it his mission to shed new light on some of the classical repertoire’s most important pieces of music.” - Los Angeles Magazine

16 Flex Pass: Choose from five unique concert series. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get free ticket exchanges. 17 MASTERWORKS 5

Spend an evening with musical royalty. Sir William Walton’s BERLIOZ SOUNDS OF NOBILITY Symphony No. 1, long viewed as one of the greatest symphonies Rob Roy Overture of the modern age, is an emotionally searing, melodic commentary on love lost. Get acquainted with two emerging stars, violinist BRAHMS February 21,22,23 Simone Porter and cellist Joshua Roman, as they shine in one of Concerto for Violin and Cello Friday | 8:00 pm | Neel the most rapturous concertos ever composed. Berlioz’s Rob Roy Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel Overture, based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel, opens this program of WALTON Sunday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel high drama and heartfelt emotion led by world-renowned British conductor Bramwell Tovey. Symphony No. 1 Tickets from $35

guest conductor “Porter's “A cellist of bold character BRAMWELL virtuosity puts and poetic grace…” her right up – The Plain Dealer TOVEY there with Principal Conductor, the finest BBC Concert Orchestra interpreters of her generation.” - Chicago Classical Review

ADD ON: Round out your concert experience with an informative lecture about the concert and/or an enjoyable SIMONE PORTER JOSHUA dinner gathering with the conductor. violin ROMAN  Classical Conversation - Feb 20, “One of the most versatile and charismatic cello 10:30 am, David Cohen Hall musicians in the world, Bramwell Tovey is  Bramwell Tovey Dinner - Feb 20, 6:00 pm, Ritz-Carlton Beach Club a Grammy Award-winning conductor and a renowned composer.” - Musical America

18 Flex Pass: Save 10% on 2 or 3 concerts. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get preferred seating. 19 MASTERWORKS 6 Hear Bartók’s music alongside his idol Beethoven in a virtuosic showcase led by Keith Lockhart, longtime Boston Pops conductor KODÁLY BEETHOVEN & BARTÓK and Artistic Director of the Brevard Music Festival. The program Dances of Galánta features critically-acclaimed soloist Jeremy Denk,“a pianist you want March 12,13,14,15 to hear no matter what he performs,” according to The New York BEETHOVEN Thursday | 8:00 pm | Neel Times, in Beethoven’s famously challenging Piano Concerto No. 4. Piano Concerto No. 4 Friday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel The evening opens with Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, a nostalgic Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel trip down memory lane to the composer’s childhood in a Slovakian BARTÓK Sunday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel town. Bartók’s iconic and exhilarating Concerto for Orchestra, will provide a breathtaking end to this dazzling program. Concerto for Orchestra Tickets from $35

guest conductor “His conducting style is often KEITH likened to that of a young LOCKHART Leonard Bernstein. Conductor, ” Boston Pops Orchestra - Los Angeles Times

JEREMY DENK, piano ADD ON: Round out your concert “Denk's exquisitely subtle experience with an informative lecture about the concert and/or an enjoyable touch allowed the music’s dinner gathering with the conductor.  Keith Lockhart Dinner - Mar 10, play of light and shadow 6:00 pm, Selby Gardens to emerge poetically.  Classical Conversation - Mar 12, ” 10:30 am, David Cohen Hall - The Baltimore Sun

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Sometimes called the “greatest American symphony,” Aaron ABRAMS AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS Copland’s expansive, tuneful, and highly original Symphony No. 3 Overture in Sonata Form (2014) is the centerpiece of this exploration of American influence led by conductor Teddy Abrams. Twenty-five-year-old Canadian PROKOFIEV April 3,4,5 violinist Blake Pouliot brings his artistry to the fantastically dramatic Violin Concerto No. 2 Friday | 8:00 pm | Neel shifts and unbridled emotion of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel composed shortly after the composer’s return to the Soviet Union COPLAND Sunday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel following two decades in the West. Abrams kicks off the program with one of his own compositions. Symphony No. 3 Tickets from $35

guest conductor “Powerful authority on the podium” “One of those special TEDDY ABRAMS - Register Guard talents that comes along Music Director, Louisville Orchestra once in a lifetime.” - Toronto Star

BLAKE POULIOT, violin

ADD ON: Round out your concert experience with an informative lecture about the concert and/or an enjoyable dinner gathering with the conductor.  Teddy Abrams Dinner - Apr 1, 6:00 pm, The Ritz-Carlton, Ca d' Zan  Classical Conversation - Apr 2, 10:30 am, David Cohen Hall

22 Flex Pass: Choose from five unique concert series. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get free ticket exchanges. 23 DISCOVER BEETHOVEN - SPRING

BEETHOVEN'S SEVENTH The Beethoven celebration season culminates with Symphony No. 7, one of the master’s most joyous and exuberant works, most recently VIVALDI / recognized in the score to the movie The King's Speech. Vivaldi’s RICHTER ever-popular Four Seasons is the inspiration for Richter's homage in May 2, 3 this captivating, inspiring program. The Four Seasons Recomposed Saturday | 7:30 pm | Sarasota Opera House "Beethoven had a tremendous capacity for joy, and nowhere is BEETHOVEN Sunday | 2:30 pm | Sarasota Opera House that expressed any more thrillingly than in the Seventh Symphony." - Jeffrey Kahane Symphony No. 7 Tickets from $27

“Her violin sang with all the dark, sultry passion of a Carmen.” - Nottingham Post

“A charismatic and dynamic podium presence” - Chicago Classical Review

ALEXANDRA SOUMM, violin guest conductor DAVID DANZMAYR ADD ON: Round out your concert Music Director experience with an informative lecture about the concert and/or an enjoyable ProMusica Chamber dinner gathering with the conductor. Orchestra  Classical Conversation - April 30, 10:30 am, David Cohen Hall  David Danzmayr Dinner - May 1, 6:00 pm, Hyde Park Steakhouse

24 Flex Pass: Save 10% on 2 or 3 concerts. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get preferred seating. 25 Chamber Soirées

TICKETS FROM CHAMBER SOIRÉE 2 CHAMBER SOIRÉE 3 CHAMBER SOIRÉE 4 CHAMBER SOIRÉE 5 $38 Mozart Titans of Two Life Beethoven's and More Centuries Affirmed Ghost September 22 October 10 October 13 October 31 Sunday | 4:00 pm | Holley Hall Thursday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall Sunday | 4:00 pm | Holley Hall Thursday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall

CASELLA PROKOFIEV HAAS ZEMLINSKY Serenata Sonata in C Major for Two Violins Wind Quintet, Op. 10 Humoreske (Rondo)

GRYC BEETHOVEN BRAHMS SCHOENBERG Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Béla Bartók Septet in E-flat Major Piano Quartet No. 1 Verklärte nacht (Transfigured Night) (1917 Version)

MOZART BEETHOVEN String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major, Op. 70 No. 1 (Ghost Trio) This program features glimpses into the genius of two The life affirming nature of music is on display in this Five is the magic number in this program featuring works of music history’s giants. Prokofiev's lyrical work shows program featuring works by Brahms and the Czech Spend Halloween with the bewitching sounds of for various quintets. Italian composer Alfredo Casella the beauty and variety that two solitary instruments composer Pavel Haas. Haas’ Quintet was composed Schoenberg and Beethoven. The concert opens with a composed his Serenata in 1927, the same year he took can produce when in the hands of a master composer. in 1929, some 15 years before the composer died in charming wind quintet by Austrian composer Alexander over as Music Director of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Beethoven’s Septet was first performed in 1800 and Auschwitz. The work is deeply rooted in Haas’ love of Zemlinsky. Verklärte nacht, heard here in its original This delightful piece is one of only a few chamber music was one of the composer’s most successful works to that folk music and Hebrew chant, and is infused with a sense version for string sextet, describes the conversation works to combine the trumpet with string and wind point. The large group, seven winds and strings, offers an of hope that permeates all his works. Brahms began work between a man and woman walking through a dark forest instruments. Gryc’s work is a showpiece for the oboe. almost symphonic approach to chamber music. This piece on his Piano Quartet No. 1 the year after the death of his at night. Beethoven's piano trio acquired its nickname Finally, Mozart is known to have been especially fond remained popular during his lifetime prompting patrons to friend Robert Schumann, and the premiere of the piece "Ghost" as a result of its eerie sounding second movement. of the viola, perhaps because he himself played it. occasionally request that the mature Beethoven revert to saw Robert’s widow Clara at the piano. The expansive His String Quintet No. 2 takes full advantage of the the “agreeable” musical style of the Septet. work was the first of Brahms’ chamber music to achieve rich sonorities that are possible when the middle of the wide success. string section is doubled.

26 Flex Pass: Save 15% on 4 or more concerts. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get discounted pricing. 27 Chamber Soirées

TICKETS FROM CHAMBER SOIRÉE 6 CHAMBER SOIRÉE - ADDED CONCERT! CHAMBER SOIRÉE 7 CHAMBER SOIRÉE 8 $38 Sarasota String Love Symphony to Guiding Quartet Triangle Serenade Principals January 5 February 9 Feb 27, Mar 1 April 19 Sunday | 4:00 pm | Holley Hall Sunday | 4:00 pm | Holley Hall Thursday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall Sunday | 4:00 pm | Holley Hall Sunday | 4:00 pm | Holley Hall HAYDN C. SCHUMANN KOETSIER PARKER String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 (Fifths) Three Romances for Violin and Piano Brass Symphony Mississippi Five

WEBERN R. SCHUMANN IBERT GOLIJOV String Quartet (1905) Three Romances for Oboe Trio for Violin, Cello and Harp Mariel

BEETHOVEN BRAHMS DVOŘÁK DVOŘÁK String Quartet, Op. 95 (Serioso) Sextet in G Major for Strings Serenade for Strings in E Major String Quintet in G Major, Op. 77

Spend an afternoon with the Sarasota String Quartet The love triangle between Robert and Clara Schumann An abundance of riches awaits the listener in this This concert of high emotion showcases 12 Sarasota and three of music history’s great masters. Haydn and Johannes Brahms has fascinated historians for program featuring works for large ensembles. Dutch Orchestra principal musicians. The Sarasota Wind wrote 68 string quartets. Opus 76, Quartet No. 2, more than a century. Surviving letters reveal that composer Jan Koetsier's work challenges the power Quintet opens the concert with Jim Parker’s irrepressible has been given the nickname “Fifths” in reference Brahms fell deeply in love with Clara after Robert was and agility of today’s brass instruments as ten master Mississippi Five, a celebration of early 20th century to a pattern of falling intervals that dominates the institutionalized. Although historians disagree on whether players bring this tuneful work to life. Jacques Ibert’s Trio jazz greats. Golijov’s Mariel for cello and marimba was first movement. Webern’s 1905 String Quartet was Brahms and Clara ever acted on their feelings, we can for Violin, Cello and Harp provides moments of wit and written in memory of a friend of the composer who died inspired by the Italian painter Giovanni Segantini’s hear the depth of emotion in their music. Explore love in ethereal repose. Finally, nine string players take the stage suddenly and depicts the composer's shock at his sudden “Alpine Tryptich.” The program concludes with Clara's Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Robert's for Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, one of the sunniest the loss. Dvořák's string quintet features a double bass for Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11, the last of Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, and Brahms' Czech master ever penned. added warmth and serves as a glorious finale to this rich Beethoven’s heroic, middle period quartets. Sextet in G Major, written in 1864 while visiting his and diverse concert. beloved Clara. Double Performance

28 Flex Pass: Choose from five unique concert series. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get free ticket exchanges. 29 POPS 1 BUGS BUNNY •AT THE SYMPHONY II• George Daugherty, guest conductor January 3, 4 Join Bugs Bunny for a special concert honoring the Friday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel "Rasically Rabbit's" 80th anniversary. This popular concert Saturday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel was created for all generations and features a special Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel Looney Tunes screening of the cartoons that introduced classical music to much of the American public. Emmy Tickets from $37 Award-winning conductor George Daugherty joins Sarasota Orchestra for well-known classics like Wagner's The Valkyrie, Strauss' Die Fledermaus, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and so much more.

“The kids and their elders laughed along with the adventures, as kids (and their elders) have for 80 years.” - Huffington Post

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MARIA WIRRIES vocalist MY FAVORITE •THINGS•

Andrew Lane, Principal Pops Conductor March 6, 7 Maria Wirries, vocalist Friday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel Center Stage Singers, chorus Saturday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel Big vocals and iconic hits take center stage when Sarasota Orchestra's Principal Pops Conductor, Andrew Lane presents his Tickets from $37 all-time favorites with sensational Broadway actress Maria Wirries by his side. The energetic voices of the Center Stage Singers round out the sound for a joyful concert that includes great songs and scores from The Sound of Music, Mamma Mia!, Funny Girl, Les Miserables, Titanic, Schindler's List, Harry Potter and more!

“Wirries brought down the house with her beauty, charm and astonishing vocalism.” - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

ANDREW LANE Principal Pops Conductor POPS32 Flex Pass: Choose from five unique concert series. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex pass buyers get free ticket exchanges. 33 POPS 3

STORM LARGE “Large’s voice is a Swiss vocalist army knife, and she spent her show slicing through the limits of AMERICAN the Great American Songbook... no genre •PLAYLIST• is out of reach of her Sean O’Loughlin, guest conductor April 17, 18 flawless vibrato. Branford Marsalis, saxophone ” Storm Large, vocalist Friday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel - The Oregonian Saturday | 2:30 pm | Van Wezel Chanteuse Storm Large (from the popular group Pink Martini) and NEA Jazz Saturday | 8:00 pm | Van Wezel Master and musical icon Branford Marsalis, a saxophonist who has garnered legendary status, join forces for an electrifying Pops extravaganza that will Tickets from $37 have audiences swaying in their seats. Enjoy everlasting classics such as as I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Goin’ Out of My Head, It’s Alright with Me, Summertime, My Funny Valentine and more!

BRANFORD MARSALIS “Marsalis told stories with his breath saxophone and body, conjuring canyon- deep reverberations and seductive whispers from his instruments.” - The New Orleans Times Picayune

STEVEN JARVI December 11-15 guest conductor Wednesday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall Thursday | 7:30 pm | Holley Hall Friday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall NEW! Saturday | 8:00 pm | Holley Hall Sundays are great days Sunday | 2:30 pm | Holley Hall for Great Escapes! Tickets from $42 Our four new Sunday matinee MICHELLE MERRILL concerts begin at 2:30 pm guest conductor

Dec 15 Enjoy this homage to Arthur Fiedler, iconic former Jan 12 conductor of the Boston Pops. Celebrating the Jan 26 125th anniversary of Fiedler’s birth, the concert features delectable bites of musical joy: Saint Feb 16 Louis Blues March, theme from the Godfather, Mary Poppins, Seventy-Six Trombones, a snippet of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, Leroy SAMANTHA BENNETT Anderson’s Syncopated Clock and more. principal second violin Festive short works fill this holiday themed, heart-warming concert. Making her Sarasota debut, conductor Michelle Merrill ARTHUR FIEDLER leads Sarasota Orchestra in selections from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Bach’s Sheep May Safely Graze and Holiday Hoedown, as well as A Holly and Jolly Sing-a-long and the Hanukkah Festival Overture.

36 Flex Pass: Save 15% on 4 or more concerts. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get discounted pricing. 37 GREAT ESCAPES 5 GREAT ESCAPES 6 GREAT ESCAPES 3 european heart latin grooves and soul beats February 12-16 March 18-21 GREAT ESCAPES 4 Wednesday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall Wednesday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall January 8-12 Thursday | 7:30 pm | Holley Hall Thursday | 7:30 pm | Holley Hall Wednesday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall Friday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall Friday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall Thursday | 7:30 pm | Holley Hall space and Saturday | 8:00 pm | Holley Hall Saturday | 8:00 pm | Holley Hall Friday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall Sunday | 2:30 pm | Holley Hall Tickets from $42 Saturday | 8:00 pm | Holley Hall Tickets from $42 Sunday | 2:30 pm | Holley Hall beyond The Great Escapes season Tickets from $42 wraps up with this high- January 22-26 energy, deeply-passionate Wednesday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall JACOMO BAIROS concert with a Latin guest conductor Thursday | 7:30 pm | Holley Hall twist. Exotic beats Friday | 5:30 pm | Holley Hall from salsa, rumba, Saturday | 8:00 pm | Holley Hall tango and bossa Sunday | 2:30 pm | Holley Hall CHRISTOPHER nova genres inspire Tickets from $42 CONFESSORE this energizing mix guest conductor of thrilling sounds. JACOMO BAIROS Get ready to swoon and sway with Enjoy guest conductor your heart and soul at our coveted music from Valentine’s themed concert. From Carmen, Take a seat and keep the beat Gershwin’s Crazy for You to Williams’ the Girl from with great music from across the Far and Away to the ever-popular Impanema, pond. On the classical side, enjoy music from Titanic, Carousel and DeFalla’s Ritual rhapsodies and dances by Dvořák, ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ Saturday Night Fever, each romantic Fire Dance, Rodrigo’s guest conductor Brahms and Liszt, as well as an melody will provide a special spark for beautiful flute excerpt from Beethoven’s Ninth a memorable week of love. concerto, Charbier’s Symphony and a waltz by Strauss. Fly Me to the Moon captures the spirit of the España and more. Popular standards include music by repertoire in this program of celestial-inspired the Beatles, James Bond through the selections. Enjoy classical works featured years, Chariots of Fire and William in 2001: A Space Odyssey and popular Tell Overture. scores from Star Wars, Star Trek and Apollo 13. Other favorites include When You Wish Upon a Star, Moonglow and excerpts from Mozart's Jupiter Symphony.

Programs subject to change 38 Flex Pass: Choose from five unique concert series. Box Office:SarasotaOrchestra.org | 941-953-3434 Your music. Your way. Flex Pass buyers get free ticket exchanges. 39 SPECIAL EVENTS Celebrating Thrill of a Lifetime February 29 Saturday | 7:30 pm | Riverview High School Tickets from $15 Share in this “Thrill of a Lifetime” for the members of the Youth Philharmonic. The first half of the program showcases the student winners of the 2019 Edward and Ida Wilkof Young Artists Concerto Competition, performing their winning pieces with the professional Sarasota Orchestra. The second half of the concert features the professionals and students performing together. years Outdoor Pops May 8,9 Friday | 8:00 pm | Ed Smith Stadium Saturday | 8:00 pm | Ed Smith Stadium Tickets from $15 Join Sarasota Orchestra for a fan-friendly outdoor Pops concert at the Orioles’ Ed Smith Stadium. This seventh annual concert showcases stirring music, big vocals, and popular music. Get yourself some ballpark fare, sit back in the stands and enjoy the Sarasota Orchestra’s Youth Orchestra Program celebrates its 60th anniversary this season. That’s 60 years of not just Orchestra performing from the field. A spectacular educating the area’s youth about the joys of classical music-making and appreciation, but also the development of fireworks display closes out an evening of hits and curious, creative, dedicated, and successful people. home runs. Attend these free Youth Orchestra Concerts Tickets will be sold by the Orioles at Ed Smith Stadium beginning in December. Eight different ensembles of the Youth Orchestra, comprised of Youth Orchestra (941) 893-6300 - Orioles.com/Sarasota students from third grade through high school and representing 50+ Alumni Performance schools, display their talents on stage during these free concerts at the As part of the Youth Orchestra’s year- Riverview High School Performing Arts Center. long 60th Anniversary Celebration, • Youth Philharmonic, Youth Symphony, Symphonic alumni from decades of Youth Orchestra Winds perform Mondays at 7:00 pm, November 18, 2019 participation will perform together. and February 10, 2020 2:00 pm, Saturday, December 21, 2019 through May 30 • String Orchestras perform Tuesdays at 6:30 pm, November – Riverview High School Performing Arts June 20 2020 19, 2019 and February 11, 2020 Center. Free to the public. • Year-End Showcase: Saturday, April 18, 2020, 11:00 am and 2:00 pm 40 41 PARTNERS in Performance Sarasota Orchestra provides live music for these productions. TITLE Sponsors

SEASON TITLE SPONSORS: 71st Season Title Sponsors: Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood Foundation Rigoletto Masterworks Season Title Sponsor: Music by Giuseppe Verdi Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Chamber Soirées Individual Title Sponsor: Love Is Dangerous Paul and Sharon Steinwachs A protective father. A lecherous Duke. A Chamber Soirées Corporate Title Sponsor: naive girl discovers that love isn’t always Muirhead, Gaylor, Steves & Waskom, PA true. One of Verdi’s greatest works returns to BRUNCH TITLE SPONSORS: Sarasota Opera. Individual Title Sponsor November 1, 3, 6, 12, 14, 17, 2019 Angele Christine and William M. Isaac Foundation Title Sponsor: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Corporate Title Sponsor: BMO Wealth Management DINNER SERIES TITLE SPONSORS: Tickets from $30 at Corporate Title Sponsor: SARASOTABALLET.ORG OR 941-359-0099 PNC Bank Foundation Title Sponsor: Community Foundation of Sarasota County MAESTRO SOCIETY TITLE SPONSOR: Symphonic Tales Romeo & Juliet Williams Parker Attorneys at Law November 22-23 | Sarasota Opera House March 27-28 | Van Wezel CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS TITLE SPONSOR: Featuring George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations Experience the bold characterization and musicality Williams Parker Attorneys at Law (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) and Western Symphony of Sir Frederick Ashton's choreographic take on (Hershy Kay), and Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Las William Shakespeare's iconic romantic tragedy, GRANT SUPPORTERS: wsmr89.1 Hermanas (Frank Martin). Romeo & Juliet (Sergei Prokofiev). Charles and Margery Lela D. Jackson Foundation for the Arts classical Barancik Foundation The Koski Family Foundation Community Foundation Publix Super Markets Charities John Ringling’s Beyond Words of Sarasota County Sarasota County Tourist MEDIA SPONSORS: April 24-25 | Sarasota Opera House Cordelia Lee Beattie Foundation Development Grant Herald Tribune Media Group Circus Nutcracker Designing Women Boutique Service Club of Manatee County December 20-21 | Van Wezel Featuring Jerome Robbins’ In the Night (Frédéric Observer Group The Exchange Roberta Leventhal Sarasota Magazine Chopin), Sir Frederick Ashton’s Dante Sonata Run away to the Circus with Matthew Hart’s uniquely Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Sudakoff Foundation SCENE Magazine Sarasota twist on the quintessential traditional holiday (Franz Liszt), and David Bintley’s The Spider’s Florida Division of Cultural Affairs SunTrust Foundation WSMR Classical Radio 89.1 FM ballet, The Nutcracker (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky). Feast (Albert Roussel). Gulf Coast Community Foundation Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation The Vera and Imre Hecht Foundation 42 43 Dates in pink are eligible for Flex Pass. 2019 Dates in green are special events or add ons. ______2020 DECEMBER ______SEASON 4 SE - JoAnn Falletta Dinner 6:00 pm MoE FEBRUARY 1 MW - Chang Plays Dvořák 8:00 pm VW 5 SE - Classical Conversation MW2 10:30 am DC 2 MW - Chang Plays Dvořák 2:30 pm VW 6 MW - Roman Festivals 8:00 pm VW ______6 DB - Beethoven's Eroica 8:00 pm VW 7 MW - Roman Festivals 8:00 pm VW 9 CH - Love Triangle 4:00 pm HH APRIL Calendar 8 MW - Roman Festivals 2:30 pm VW 1 SE - Teddy Abrams Dinner 6:00 pm Ritz 11 GE - Sounds of the Season 5:30 pm HH 12 GE - Heart and Soul 5:30 pm HH 2 SE - Classical Conversation MW7 10:30 am DC 12 GE - Sounds of the Season 7:30 pm HH 13 GE - Heart and Soul 7:30 pm HH 3 MW - American Impressions 8:00 pm NE 14 GE - Heart and Soul 5:30 pm HH MW - Masterworks PO - Pops 13 GE - Sounds of the Season 5:30 pm HH 4 MW - American Impressions 8:00 pm VW CH - Chamber Soirées GE - Great Escapes 15 GE - Heart and Soul 8:00 pm HH 14 GE - Sounds of the Season 8:00 pm HH DB - Discover Beethoven SE - Special Event 5 MW - American Impressions 2:30 pm VW 16 GE - Heart and Soul 2:30 pm HH 15 GE - Sounds of the Season 2:30 pm HH ______17 PO - American Playlist 8:00 pm VW 20 SE - Classical Conversation MW5 10:30 am DC SEPTEMBER JANUARY 18 PO - American Playlist 2:30 pm VW 20 SE - Bramwell Tovey Dinner 6:00 pm RBC 12 CH - Musical Mélange 5:30 pm HH 3 PO - Bugs Bunny at the Symphony 8:00 pm VW 18 PO - American Playlist 8:00 pm VW 21 MW - Sounds of Nobility 8:00 pm NE 22 CH - Mozart and More 4:00 pm HH 19 CH - Guiding Principals 4:00 pm HH 4 PO - Bugs Bunny at the Symphony 2:30 pm VW 22 MW - Sounds of Nobility 8:00 pm VW 26 SE - Classical Conversation DB Fall 10:30 am DC 4 PO - Bugs Bunny at the Symphony 8:00 pm VW 30 SE - Classical Conversation DB Spring 10:30 am DC 23 MW - Sounds of Nobility 2:30 pm VW ______27 SE - Marcelo Lehninger Dinner 6:00 pm HYD 5 CH - Sarasota String Quartet 4:00 pm HH 27 CH - Symphony to Serenade 5:30 pm HH MAY 28 DB - Beethoven's Fifth 7:30 pm OH 8 GE - European Grooves 5:30 pm HH 29 SE - Thrill of a Lifetime 7:30 pm RV 1 SE - David Danzmayr Dinner 6:00 pm HYD ______29 DB - Beethoven's Fifth 2:30 pm OH 9 GE - European Grooves 7:30 pm HH ______MARCH 2 DB - Beethoven's Seventh 7:30 pm OH 10 GE - European Grooves 5:30 pm HH OCTOBER 3 DB - Beethoven's Seventh 2:30 pm OH 1 CH - Symphony to Serenade 4:00 pm HH 11 GE - European Grooves 8:00 pm HH 10 CH - Titans of Two Centuries 5:30 pm HH 8 SE - Outdoor Pops 8:00 pm ED 6 PO - My Favorite Things 8:00 pm VW 12 GE - European Grooves 2:30 pm HH 13 CH - Life Affirmed 4:00 pm HH 9 SE - Outdoor Pops 8:00 pm ED 15 SE - Steven Sloane Dinner 6:00 pm HH 7 PO - My Favorite Things 2:30 pm VW 16 GE - Salute to Arthur Fiedler 5:30 pm HH 30 SE - SMF Opening Night 7:30 pm HH 7 16 SE - Classical Conversation MW3 10:30 am DC PO - My Favorite Things 8:00 pm VW ______17 GE - Salute to Arthur Fiedler 7:30 pm HH 10 SE - Keith Lockhart Dinner 6:00 pm SG 17 MW - Mozart and Mahler 8:00 pm VW JUNE 18 GE - Salute to Arthur Fiedler 5:30 pm HH 12 18 MW - Mozart and Mahler 8:00 pm VW SE - Classical Conversation MW6 10:30 am DC 1-20 SE - Sarasota Music Festival various 19 GE - Salute to Arthur Fiedler 8:00 pm HH 19 MW - Mozart and Mahler 2:30 pm VW 12 MW - Beethoven and Bartók 8:00 pm NE 31 CH - Beethoven's Ghost 5:30 pm HH ______22 GE - Space and Beyond 5:30 pm HH 13 MW - Beethoven and Bartók 8:00 pm VW NOVEMBER 23 GE - Space and Beyond 7:30 pm HH 14 MW - Beethoven and Bartók 8:00 pm VW DC - David Cohen Hall 15 MW - Beethoven and Bartók 2:30 pm VW ED - Ed Smith Stadium 3 SE - Brunch 10:30 am SG 24 GE - Space and Beyond 5:30 pm HH HH - Holley Hall 7 SE - Classical Conversation MW1 10:30 am DC 18 GE - Latin Beats 5:30 pm HH 25 GE - Space and Beyond 8:00 pm HH HYD - Hyde Park Steakhouse 19 GE - Latin Beats 7:30 pm HH 7 SE - Gerard Schwarz Dinner 6:00 pm PNC 26 GE - Space and Beyond 2:30 pm HH MoE - Michael's On East 20 NE - Neel Performing Arts Center 8 MW - Classical Romance 8:00 pm VW 28 SE - Ludovic Morlot Dinner 6:00 pm TBA GE - Latin Beats 5:30 pm HH OH - Sarasota Opera House 21 9 MW - Classical Romance 8:00 pm VW 30 SE - Classical Conversation MW4 10:30 am DC GE - Latin Beats 8:00 pm HH ______PNC - PNC Bank MW - Classical Romance 2:30 pm VW RBC - Ritz Beach Club 10 30 MW - Chang Plays Dvořák 8:00 pm NE ______Ritz - The Ritz Carlton, Ca d'Zan room 31 MW - Chang Plays Dvořák 8:00 pm VW ______RV - Riverview High School SG - Selby Gardens VW - Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall TBA - To Be Annouced

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