Reading and Roaming
MARVELOUS MUSIC Sarasota has a rich and wide-ranging music scene, and some of the best musical performances all year occur during the Sarasota Music Festival, sponsored by the Sarasota Orchestra. This three-week series in June brings together music students, now called fellows, from conservatories across the country and pairs them with first class music professors and …
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RECENT READING: Of Early Medicine and Botanical Gardens American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson. David Hosack was a citizen of the world, a man with wide ranging interests and connections who deserves to be better known. A physician by training, he was also a botanist who linked his interest in plants with …
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This was a fun week filled with theater, opera, dinners out and in, and long conversations with old and new friends. SMALL SCREEN After war in early 20th century Morocco, I’ve taken up a Kiwi crime series. The Brokenwood Mysteries (available on Acorn) are set on the North Island in a very small fictional …
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This week is the annual Sarasota Film Festival, a time when we see movies we know little about and dip our toes into unfamiliar waters (appropriate given that this year’s theme is Sea & Be Seen!). Also we make a point of trying some new downtown restaurants. CINEMA The Unknown Girl. A Belgian feature film …
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