Category Archives: Music

Tidy Tidbits: The Local Scene

CONCERT EXPERIENCE Frisson Ensemble We ventured to Sarasota for a Christmas musical performance in the Sarasota Opera House last Sunday evening. We felt comfortable going since the production was following the SafeArtsSarasota protocols requiring masks and either a negative Covid test or showing your Covid vaccine card.  We thought there might be a line to get …

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Diversions: Reading & Viewing

ETA This is the hurricane season that just doesn’t want to quit. It was a wild week with tropical storm Eta bearing down on Florida’s southwest coast. In our area, we experienced torrential rain (8 inches total) and wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour. At high tide, the surge brought brought water and …

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Tidy Tidbits: Literature & Music

RECENT READING The Dutch House by Ann Patchett I thoroughly enjoyed Patchett’s new novel about two siblings, Maeve, and her younger by seven years brother, Danny.  Set in the Philadelphia suburbs and New York, it takes place over many decades.  This brother and sister are linked together, joined at the hip one might say, by the house they …

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