October 29, 2025 • 24 mins
We speak with Chief Curator at Vero Beach Museum of Art, Caitlin Swindell, about "Second Saturday," a FREE event with family activities, tours, film screening, art viewing, and even a performance by the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra. The next "Second Saturday" is November 8th at 11am at Vero Beach Museum of Art.
Staci Rosbury joins the show by phone to tell us about "Spooks and Spells," a special concert on Thursday, November 6th at 7pm, with an informal pre-show by 321 Jazz Orchestra at 6pm. "Spooks and Spells" is at Melbourne Auditorium at 625 East Hibiscus Blvd. We also discuss the New Horizons Band which is comprised of adults with beginning and intermediate musical skills, perfect for anyone who wants to learn or pick up that instrument they haven't played in years. Details can be found online at MelbourneMunicipalBand.org
Staci Rosbury joins the show by phone to tell us about "Spooks and Spells," a special concert on Thursday, November 6th at 7pm, with an informal pre-show by 321 Jazz Orchestra at 6pm. "Spooks and Spells" is at Melbourne Auditorium at 625 East Hibiscus Blvd. We also discuss the New Horizons Band which is comprised of adults with beginning and intermediate musical skills, perfect for anyone who wants to learn or pick up that instrument they haven't played in years. Details can be found online at MelbourneMunicipalBand.org
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Arts Blast on the Air. It's a podcast,
a radio show, and an Alexis skill presented by a
Ballet Vero Beach and Riverside Theater Arts supporting the arts
in Florida. I'm Willie Miller and every week I get
to talk to people in the arts about the arts
on the Treasure Coast and beyond. Arts Blast on the
(00:23):
Air is proud to be supported by a Ballet Vero Beach.
Subscriptions for the exciting new season are available online now,
with November one the magic date for single seats to
go on sale. Are you thinking holiday gifts and stocking
stuffers too? Maybe tickets for the Nutcracker on the Indian
River earlier and in a new venue this year December
(00:46):
eleventh to the thirteenth at Riverside Theater. And there is
a new VIP add on experience and Nutcracker for All
has some new options too. Learn about everything at Balletvererobeach
dot org. And now I'm with the show. My guest
today is Stacy Rossberry and the second segment, But first
(01:06):
I'm going to talk to Katelyn Swindell about one of
my favorite places in Vero Beach. Vero Beach Museum of Art. Hey, Kate,
And you've got a lot of stuff going on over
there as usual as usually.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes, nice to see Willie. We have just opened a
new exhibition this past Friday, which I'm very excited about,
and there's always a lot of programming that comes with that,
which is great. We have Second Saturday coming up on
November eighth, and that's going to be a really jam
packed day of things. So I'm programming around again. Double Portraits,
(01:43):
the exhibition that's just opened, And this was a show
that I curated. It's a photography show and it is
forty seven photographs drawn from one collection that I selected
from over eight hundred photos.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
WHOA, yeah, how long did that take you?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, so you know, I've been working on this show
for about a year, but I've had become familiar with
this collection in a previous role. The organizations called the
Do Good Fund and it's based in Columbus, Georgia, and
it is really a collection that's available to curators, to
(02:22):
different community organizers to be able to take photographs that
capture the American South and place them in museum shows
and you know, unconventional spaces gallery, you know, nonprofit gallery spaces,
and they do a lot of great work with artists
that have focused on the American South, and so I
(02:46):
got to know a lot of the artists and their
work previously working with that collection. And then as I
knew I wanted to present an original show with these photographs.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
There hadn't really been a group photography.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Show I think at the Vero Beach Museum of Art
in many, many years, if at all. That yeah, so
I wanted to focus on that.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
And as I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Became more and more familiar with the photographs, I noticed
how often two people were looking back at me in
the picture. And this concept of a double portrait is
one that I've been interested in, you know, for a
number of different types of exhibitions, as just a general
topic through art history. Some of the earliest examples of
(03:34):
the double portraits so simply two people pictured in an image,
whether it's ancient Egyptian sculpture or Roman frescoes, you know,
Mooughle Emperor painting and watercolor manage.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's all throughout our history.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I could go on and on, and so I've included
a timeline in the exhibition that spotlights some of these
art historical examples and so this show look said this
idea of the double portrait, and it moves from examples
that are pretty conventional of you know, two people centered
on frame, frontally focused. This idea that comes from original,
(04:13):
you know, early examples of photography when there are to
geatypes and amber types and people would only have a
few photos taken of themselves, so they often documented you know, married.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Couples, siblings, other groups.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And so I find that there's a lot of power
in a portrayal of two people, a bit more arguably,
i'd say, even than a singular portrait or a group image,
just because we're there's an inherent wanting to solve, you know,
what is the dynamic between these two people. And so
this collection of photographs goes from these more traditional types
(04:50):
of compositions to the snapshot esthetic, which is a you know,
American art movement largely that became well known in the
sixties and seventies. People had been taking snapshot style photos
all throughout the twentieth century, but it didn't become high
art until the sixties and seventies. And then it moves
(05:11):
through a section that's focused on connection and care, so
zooming in a bit more onto two setters. And then
the final section is what I would say are unconventional
double portraits.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So you might not necessarily see two people.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You might see a sculpture that's standing in for a sitter,
and there's a dynamic between the figure represented in the
sculpture or photos within photos, or shadows as representing figures,
or mirror reflection. So there's a bit of a play
on the double portraits at the end of the exhibition.
(05:47):
And really I just wanted people to slow down and
look at photographs, you know, that's one of the goals,
because I looked at my I mean just thinking about
how many photos we take. I looked at my phone
of so many thousands of photos on my phone, and
it's really a radical thing now to stop and really
think through and take a portrait photograph. You know, I
(06:09):
can recall certain ones in my family, household growing up
that are like these iconic images in my family, and
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Know if that happens anymore. I hope it does, but
I do.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, there's a lot of I think opportunity for
just like empathy and connection as you move through this
space and see people from different walks of life, different
time periods, different styles. So I hope people are excited
about that. Again, we're inundated with photos constantly, but these
are an opportunity to slow down and really look at
(06:40):
at these images.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Okay, I'm going to ask you when you slow down,
what do you have a camera or do you have
you just use your phone?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, I would like to get into photography more. I
do really use my phone, but I mean for.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
My professional it's helpful.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
When you go to a museum and you're you're wanting
to document certain things or things that inspire you for
the future. So I use it as that, like recording
documentary focus. But yeah, I recently and I think this
is kind of a trend too. I've gotten some just
disposable cameras and like some old you know, uh I taught.
(07:21):
I just gave a lecture on this show for the opening.
And even though it's such a technological age, I do
see kind of a resurgence of people going to film
cameras or these disposable cameras or polaroids. This kind of
nostalgia for people that never really experienced when that was
really the main mode.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Of taking a photograph.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And so I one thing that I've noticed just in
my research on early portrait work in the scheme of
art history, you know, before the camera the most you know,
the best way that you could get your realistic likeness
other than painting, to get your silhouette taken, so you know,
really the outline of your profile and face. And I
(08:08):
found in my research from Kodak Camera in like nineteen
thirty nine or something, they were doing an advertisement to
buy a camera and then utilize you know, the screen
and basically to make your silhouette as like an old timey,
you know, way to make a photo, which was so
odd to me because it's like so much advancement has
(08:29):
happened with photography and people are echoing images before photos
using a camera. So it just made me think a
lot about how now people are putting filters on things
and they're experimenting with the photographic image. I have not
met him, but we have a great work of his
(08:49):
in the collection which is actually on view now. So yeah, great,
I mean stunning photographs, yep, yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean
the landscape photographs are just yeah, definitely meditative and like
get you to slow down. I think when looking at.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That, I'd like to get out to his studio in
the I don't know, in the swamp. I've seen pictures
of him online it too, is the top of his
boots in.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Swamp, right, Yeah, it's certainly. Yeah, that's an unconventional space
to be, you know, taking photos and being kind of
submerged into the landscape.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But yeah, and so a lot of these photographers.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
There's forty seven photos and I think thirty four artists
represented in the show, and some are using large format cameras,
and you know when that interaction is you're not even
looking through a let you know, looking through the camera,
you're above the camera. So there's this really interesting doubling.
(09:58):
I feel like that happens between the moment of photos
taken as it once was and then this new commemorative image,
and between looking of cider and artist. And there's just
a lot of doubles.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Okay, you know what, We're going to run out of
time before we talk about Saturday. Yes, let's talk about
November eight.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
November eighth, there's a lot going on. So that second
Saturday there will be family friendly activities, many tours art making.
There's going to be a film screening on Burke Uzzle,
who's one of the artists included in the show. And
then space CoA Symphony at eleven am will be performing.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That's gonna be great week, Pinocchio. Yes, absolutely, Okay is
there a charge for this?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
This is since it's free second Saturday, there is not. Okay,
get there early, I would say, Okay, who is Burke Suzzle?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
He is one.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
He has actually eight photos represented in the show. Started
out really in the documentary photojournalist practice and then has
you know, he's in his eighties now.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Still taking photos.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
He's originally from North Carolina and you can see a
lot of different styles of his including the show.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Okay, before we absolutely run out of time, because I
just want to say this word in anticipation is from
a preslease of our nation's semi quincentennial.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
The Varo Beach Museum of Arts presents American made paintings
and sculpture from the Demil Jacobsen collections. Yeah, okay, and
when is that? That's January?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That is the opening receptions are the first week of February.
But yes, it will it will be very close to
opening at the end of January.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Okay, you know what, we ran out of time. Caitlin,
so much to know about the Earu Beach Museum of Arts.
So what's the website.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
It is vbmuseum dot org. And thank you. I can
go on and on.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Well then you have to come back.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay, thanks Caitlin Swindell from Vero Beach Museum of Art.
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Speaker 1 (14:49):
And we are back with Artsplast on the air. I'm
Willie Miller talking with Stacy Roseberry is the second segment.
Stacey is a conduct of the Melbourne Municipal Band, among
other things, a concert band. Stacy, good to talk to
you this morning.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Hi, How are you doing okay?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I have on here that the concert band is presenting
spooks and spells. That's I'm taking it to be a
Halloween show.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Perhaps, well, it's definitely going to have some spooky overtones.
This is a one night only concert at the Melbourne
Auditorium here in Melbourne, Florida. We are on that's right
on High Discus, across from the Holmes Regional Hospital. Normally
we do every concert twice so we can accommodate our audiences,
(15:45):
but due to a conflict at the Auditorium, this time
is a one night only. So next week's Thursday, November
sixth is the date. And yeah, it's gonna be spooky,
and you know, we're going to be all uh dressed
up in our spooky garb and are encouraging our audiences
(16:06):
to do the same. And we're going to play some
some fun music that uh, you know, a little after Halloween,
but we're still in the spirit.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I think yes, I think so. People will still be
eating their candy. Indeed, maybe not in the audience.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Let me say, they can do whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, speaking of that, tell me about the Melbourne Auditorium.
I have not been there in all these years. I
have not been to a concert there. Tell me what
it's like I know.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Well, I mean this this is the city's auditorium, and
so we we have, uh, all of our concerts are there,
and the city is you know, sort of sponsors us.
Melbourne Municipal is in the name, so we are part
of the city's plan every year when it comes to
the Melbourne Auditorium. And you know, they have a nice
(16:55):
stage in uh, you know, a big area for the
audience with stadiums in the very back of the auditorium
which they can expand out, and they've got a little
cafe over there, and you know, it's conveniently located. And
our band the building is right behind the Melbourne Auditorium,
so it makes it real easiest for us to you know,
(17:15):
move all of our equipment and percussion stuff and everything
right over there. And that's where we've been having our
concert for years and years. So we have quite a
following and you know, we have buses of people from
the various assisted living centers.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
That like to come.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
But you know, it's right in the middle of Melbourne,
so it's a great place to have a concert.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Okay, the address six two five East right Hibiscus Boulevard.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
You got it, And so our concerts. Uh, the official
concert our Spooks and Spells concerts starts at seven, but
we often have and this time we do as well
a pre show, so as the audience is coming in
and getting seated, there's sort of an informal little concert
going on down in front of the stage as you
come in, and so the three to one Jazz Orchestra
(18:05):
is going to be performing as people are getting seated.
So they'll get started around six o'clock. So if anybody
wants to come a little bit early and hear them,
that group has really come along and they are a
lot of fun to listen to. Kurt Schulenberg is the
director of that group, and you can get a little
taste of them and then maybe you know, come to
(18:28):
one of their concerts in the future.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I've noticed that there are there seems to be an
awful lot of orchestral or of jazz groups. Are they
all part of maybe the band?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
So the Melbourne Municipal Band is sort of the umbrella. Okay,
it's the umbrella for a lot of things. So we
have the concert band, which is what I'm the conductor of,
and that's the concert we're talking about Spooks and Spells
so that's like a I don't know, sixty piece band
made up of wind, percussion instruments. And then we have
(19:05):
the three two one Jazz Orchestra. They're going to be
doing our pre show, and that is it used to
be the swingtime big band, and they still do a
little bit of that music, but they're sort of morphing
into a little bit more modern and so they do
more jazz, they do things like TV tunes tonight. They
do a lot of fun and interesting music and their
(19:30):
director actually writes a lot of the arrangements that they do.
So then we have let's see, there's the Adagio sax Quartet,
there's the Sunshine Brass, we have a clarinet ensemble, there's
rock and Roll Review. So all of these things sort
of fall underneath the umbrella of the Melbourne Municipal Band.
So if you look on our website at mmband dot org,
(19:52):
you'll see all kinds of different things that you can
go to and enjoy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Where do all of these musicians come from.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Oh gosh, all over the place, And you would be
shocked at how many people actually moved to Melbourne in
retire to Melbourne in order to enjoy playing with all
these groups because I mean, besides our organization, there are
so many things that you can do around here. If
you are a musician, you have no reason to be
(20:20):
bored in retirement. Let me tell you so. I mean,
we have professional musicians, we have former military band musicians
in our groups, we have some teachers, and then we've
just got people that you know, maybe didn't touch their
instrument for twenty five, thirty forty years and then they
come back to it and pick it up. There's another
(20:41):
group that is not well. It rehearses in our space,
but it's a separate organization called New Horizons Band and
they meet on Tuesday mornings and they are an adult
beginning to intermediate band. So that group is intended for
people that maybe haven't touched their instrument in a long
time and they have aspirations to play with the Melbourne
(21:02):
Band or some other group, but they want to, you
know sort of How.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Can people get in touch with them? I have not
heard of New Horizons?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You have it?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Well, there's information about them on the MMB website, so
they can find it there and if you just google
New Horizons Band, it'll come up. There's one in Melbourne.
I know there's one in rock Ledge as well, so
you know a lot of times people will go and
play with them and sort of get their chops back
in order and then they come and play with us
or I've got a lot of people in my band
(21:30):
who play with both groups just because they're both fun,
so that's an option.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
This is such a great place I have found over
the years talking to people in the arts, because that
is such a common situation that people whether it's a
man or a woman, a husband or wife, who set
aside those personal arts goals and interests to raise their families,
(21:55):
make a living, get everybody out of the nest and
then come back to it. And yes, this is such
a great place for that.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
It really is. And I've had many many people, you know,
go through both organizations and it really it's a great community.
And I mean the reason why people keep playing in
the New Horizons band is because the people are fun.
I mean, you know, the more the merrier, and we
have a lot of fun making music together and it's
(22:26):
a great way to make friends and community, and you know,
those things are hard to do sometimes later in life
it's not so easy. You're not going to school and
making friends that way. But you know, this is a
great alternative for people.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, I have to say the picture I saw, in fact,
I put it in the arts Plast of the Sax Quartet.
They looked like such a jolly happy.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
They are fun. They are fun. Actually, they have a
concert this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Where is that I don't have that information.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
See Baptist Church here in Melbourne. They have a concert
this Sunday at let's see gosh, three o'clock in the afternoon,
so there's a there's a chance to see them too.
You know, they play stuff like they do classical things,
they do movie music. They're going to do a Nightingale
thing in Berkeley Square and the Pink Panther Bohemian Rhapsody,
(23:22):
and then you know they'll throw in some JS box
so a little of everything.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, we're almost out of time. We're not going to
talk about this, but I do want to mention the
Melbourne Chamber Music Society. Well I'll talk about that on
Artsplast another time. They have a November seventh concert as well,
but the Melbourne Municipal Band November sixth, seven o'clock at
Melbourne Auditorium six two five East type Biscus Beulevard in
(23:50):
Melbourne and the website Melbourne Municipal band dot org.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Okay, you got it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
We are out of time. Happy Halloween and thank you. Thanks,
we will talk again. Stacy, good to talk to.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Take care than you too.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Bye bye yops. Okay that was Stacy Rospberry and I
want to thank Stacy and Caitlin Swindell as well, and
thank you as always for joining us again this week
for Arts Blast on the Air. It's a podcast radio
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(24:25):
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Join us again next week for another edition of Arts
Blast on the Air. I'm Willie Miller. Thanks for listening.
Welcome to Arts Blast on the Air. It's a podcast,
a radio show, and an Alexis skill presented by a
Ballet Vero Beach and Riverside Theater Arts supporting the arts
in Florida. I'm Willie Miller and every week I get
to talk to people in the arts about the arts
on the Treasure Coast and beyond. Arts Blast on the
(00:23):
Air is proud to be supported by a Ballet Vero Beach.
Subscriptions for the exciting new season are available online now,
with November one the magic date for single seats to
go on sale. Are you thinking holiday gifts and stocking
stuffers too? Maybe tickets for the Nutcracker on the Indian
River earlier and in a new venue this year December
(00:46):
eleventh to the thirteenth at Riverside Theater. And there is
a new VIP add on experience and Nutcracker for All
has some new options too. Learn about everything at Balletvererobeach
dot org. And now I'm with the show. My guest
today is Stacy Rossberry and the second segment, But first
(01:06):
I'm going to talk to Katelyn Swindell about one of
my favorite places in Vero Beach. Vero Beach Museum of Art. Hey, Kate,
And you've got a lot of stuff going on over
there as usual as usually.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes, nice to see Willie. We have just opened a
new exhibition this past Friday, which I'm very excited about,
and there's always a lot of programming that comes with that,
which is great. We have Second Saturday coming up on
November eighth, and that's going to be a really jam
packed day of things. So I'm programming around again. Double Portraits,
(01:43):
the exhibition that's just opened, And this was a show
that I curated. It's a photography show and it is
forty seven photographs drawn from one collection that I selected
from over eight hundred photos.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
WHOA, yeah, how long did that take you?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, so you know, I've been working on this show
for about a year, but I've had become familiar with
this collection in a previous role. The organizations called the
Do Good Fund and it's based in Columbus, Georgia, and
it is really a collection that's available to curators, to
(02:22):
different community organizers to be able to take photographs that
capture the American South and place them in museum shows
and you know, unconventional spaces gallery, you know, nonprofit gallery spaces,
and they do a lot of great work with artists
that have focused on the American South, and so I
(02:46):
got to know a lot of the artists and their
work previously working with that collection. And then as I
knew I wanted to present an original show with these photographs.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
There hadn't really been a group photography.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Show I think at the Vero Beach Museum of Art
in many, many years, if at all. That yeah, so
I wanted to focus on that.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
And as I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Became more and more familiar with the photographs, I noticed
how often two people were looking back at me in
the picture. And this concept of a double portrait is
one that I've been interested in, you know, for a
number of different types of exhibitions, as just a general
topic through art history. Some of the earliest examples of
(03:34):
the double portraits so simply two people pictured in an image,
whether it's ancient Egyptian sculpture or Roman frescoes, you know,
Mooughle Emperor painting and watercolor manage.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's all throughout our history.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I could go on and on, and so I've included
a timeline in the exhibition that spotlights some of these
art historical examples and so this show look said this
idea of the double portrait, and it moves from examples
that are pretty conventional of you know, two people centered
on frame, frontally focused. This idea that comes from original,
(04:13):
you know, early examples of photography when there are to
geatypes and amber types and people would only have a
few photos taken of themselves, so they often documented you know, married.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Couples, siblings, other groups.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And so I find that there's a lot of power
in a portrayal of two people, a bit more arguably,
i'd say, even than a singular portrait or a group image,
just because we're there's an inherent wanting to solve, you know,
what is the dynamic between these two people. And so
this collection of photographs goes from these more traditional types
(04:50):
of compositions to the snapshot esthetic, which is a you know,
American art movement largely that became well known in the
sixties and seventies. People had been taking snapshot style photos
all throughout the twentieth century, but it didn't become high
art until the sixties and seventies. And then it moves
(05:11):
through a section that's focused on connection and care, so
zooming in a bit more onto two setters. And then
the final section is what I would say are unconventional
double portraits.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So you might not necessarily see two people.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You might see a sculpture that's standing in for a sitter,
and there's a dynamic between the figure represented in the
sculpture or photos within photos, or shadows as representing figures,
or mirror reflection. So there's a bit of a play
on the double portraits at the end of the exhibition.
(05:47):
And really I just wanted people to slow down and
look at photographs, you know, that's one of the goals,
because I looked at my I mean just thinking about
how many photos we take. I looked at my phone
of so many thousands of photos on my phone, and
it's really a radical thing now to stop and really
think through and take a portrait photograph. You know, I
(06:09):
can recall certain ones in my family, household growing up
that are like these iconic images in my family, and
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Know if that happens anymore. I hope it does, but
I do.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, there's a lot of I think opportunity for
just like empathy and connection as you move through this
space and see people from different walks of life, different
time periods, different styles. So I hope people are excited
about that. Again, we're inundated with photos constantly, but these
are an opportunity to slow down and really look at
(06:40):
at these images.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Okay, I'm going to ask you when you slow down,
what do you have a camera or do you have
you just use your phone?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, I would like to get into photography more. I
do really use my phone, but I mean for.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
My professional it's helpful.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
When you go to a museum and you're you're wanting
to document certain things or things that inspire you for
the future. So I use it as that, like recording
documentary focus. But yeah, I recently and I think this
is kind of a trend too. I've gotten some just
disposable cameras and like some old you know, uh I taught.
(07:21):
I just gave a lecture on this show for the opening.
And even though it's such a technological age, I do
see kind of a resurgence of people going to film
cameras or these disposable cameras or polaroids. This kind of
nostalgia for people that never really experienced when that was
really the main mode.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Of taking a photograph.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And so I one thing that I've noticed just in
my research on early portrait work in the scheme of
art history, you know, before the camera the most you know,
the best way that you could get your realistic likeness
other than painting, to get your silhouette taken, so you know,
really the outline of your profile and face. And I
(08:08):
found in my research from Kodak Camera in like nineteen
thirty nine or something, they were doing an advertisement to
buy a camera and then utilize you know, the screen
and basically to make your silhouette as like an old timey,
you know, way to make a photo, which was so
odd to me because it's like so much advancement has
(08:29):
happened with photography and people are echoing images before photos
using a camera. So it just made me think a
lot about how now people are putting filters on things
and they're experimenting with the photographic image. I have not
met him, but we have a great work of his
(08:49):
in the collection which is actually on view now. So yeah, great,
I mean stunning photographs, yep, yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean
the landscape photographs are just yeah, definitely meditative and like
get you to slow down. I think when looking at.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That, I'd like to get out to his studio in
the I don't know, in the swamp. I've seen pictures
of him online it too, is the top of his
boots in.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Swamp, right, Yeah, it's certainly. Yeah, that's an unconventional space
to be, you know, taking photos and being kind of
submerged into the landscape.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But yeah, and so a lot of these photographers.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
There's forty seven photos and I think thirty four artists
represented in the show, and some are using large format cameras,
and you know when that interaction is you're not even
looking through a let you know, looking through the camera,
you're above the camera. So there's this really interesting doubling.
(09:58):
I feel like that happens between the moment of photos
taken as it once was and then this new commemorative image,
and between looking of cider and artist. And there's just
a lot of doubles.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Okay, you know what, We're going to run out of
time before we talk about Saturday. Yes, let's talk about
November eight.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
November eighth, there's a lot going on. So that second
Saturday there will be family friendly activities, many tours art making.
There's going to be a film screening on Burke Uzzle,
who's one of the artists included in the show. And
then space CoA Symphony at eleven am will be performing.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That's gonna be great week, Pinocchio. Yes, absolutely, Okay is
there a charge for this?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
This is since it's free second Saturday, there is not. Okay,
get there early, I would say, Okay, who is Burke Suzzle?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
He is one.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
He has actually eight photos represented in the show. Started
out really in the documentary photojournalist practice and then has
you know, he's in his eighties now.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Still taking photos.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
He's originally from North Carolina and you can see a
lot of different styles of his including the show.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Okay, before we absolutely run out of time, because I
just want to say this word in anticipation is from
a preslease of our nation's semi quincentennial.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
The Varo Beach Museum of Arts presents American made paintings
and sculpture from the Demil Jacobsen collections. Yeah, okay, and
when is that? That's January?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That is the opening receptions are the first week of February.
But yes, it will it will be very close to
opening at the end of January.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Okay, you know what, we ran out of time. Caitlin,
so much to know about the Earu Beach Museum of Arts.
So what's the website.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
It is vbmuseum dot org. And thank you. I can
go on and on.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Well then you have to come back.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay, thanks Caitlin Swindell from Vero Beach Museum of Art.
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Speaker 1 (14:49):
And we are back with Artsplast on the air. I'm
Willie Miller talking with Stacy Roseberry is the second segment.
Stacey is a conduct of the Melbourne Municipal Band, among
other things, a concert band. Stacy, good to talk to
you this morning.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Hi, How are you doing okay?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I have on here that the concert band is presenting
spooks and spells. That's I'm taking it to be a
Halloween show.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Perhaps, well, it's definitely going to have some spooky overtones.
This is a one night only concert at the Melbourne
Auditorium here in Melbourne, Florida. We are on that's right
on High Discus, across from the Holmes Regional Hospital. Normally
we do every concert twice so we can accommodate our audiences,
(15:45):
but due to a conflict at the Auditorium, this time
is a one night only. So next week's Thursday, November
sixth is the date. And yeah, it's gonna be spooky,
and you know, we're going to be all uh dressed
up in our spooky garb and are encouraging our audiences
(16:06):
to do the same. And we're going to play some
some fun music that uh, you know, a little after Halloween,
but we're still in the spirit.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I think yes, I think so. People will still be
eating their candy. Indeed, maybe not in the audience.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Let me say, they can do whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, speaking of that, tell me about the Melbourne Auditorium.
I have not been there in all these years. I
have not been to a concert there. Tell me what
it's like I know.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Well, I mean this this is the city's auditorium, and
so we we have, uh, all of our concerts are there,
and the city is you know, sort of sponsors us.
Melbourne Municipal is in the name, so we are part
of the city's plan every year when it comes to
the Melbourne Auditorium. And you know, they have a nice
(16:55):
stage in uh, you know, a big area for the
audience with stadiums in the very back of the auditorium
which they can expand out, and they've got a little
cafe over there, and you know, it's conveniently located. And
our band the building is right behind the Melbourne Auditorium,
so it makes it real easiest for us to you know,
(17:15):
move all of our equipment and percussion stuff and everything
right over there. And that's where we've been having our
concert for years and years. So we have quite a
following and you know, we have buses of people from
the various assisted living centers.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
That like to come.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
But you know, it's right in the middle of Melbourne,
so it's a great place to have a concert.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Okay, the address six two five East right Hibiscus Boulevard.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
You got it, And so our concerts. Uh, the official
concert our Spooks and Spells concerts starts at seven, but
we often have and this time we do as well
a pre show, so as the audience is coming in
and getting seated, there's sort of an informal little concert
going on down in front of the stage as you
come in, and so the three to one Jazz Orchestra
(18:05):
is going to be performing as people are getting seated.
So they'll get started around six o'clock. So if anybody
wants to come a little bit early and hear them,
that group has really come along and they are a
lot of fun to listen to. Kurt Schulenberg is the
director of that group, and you can get a little
taste of them and then maybe you know, come to
(18:28):
one of their concerts in the future.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I've noticed that there are there seems to be an
awful lot of orchestral or of jazz groups. Are they
all part of maybe the band?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
So the Melbourne Municipal Band is sort of the umbrella. Okay,
it's the umbrella for a lot of things. So we
have the concert band, which is what I'm the conductor of,
and that's the concert we're talking about Spooks and Spells
so that's like a I don't know, sixty piece band
made up of wind, percussion instruments. And then we have
(19:05):
the three two one Jazz Orchestra. They're going to be
doing our pre show, and that is it used to
be the swingtime big band, and they still do a
little bit of that music, but they're sort of morphing
into a little bit more modern and so they do
more jazz, they do things like TV tunes tonight. They
do a lot of fun and interesting music and their
(19:30):
director actually writes a lot of the arrangements that they do.
So then we have let's see, there's the Adagio sax Quartet,
there's the Sunshine Brass, we have a clarinet ensemble, there's
rock and Roll Review. So all of these things sort
of fall underneath the umbrella of the Melbourne Municipal Band.
So if you look on our website at mmband dot org,
(19:52):
you'll see all kinds of different things that you can
go to and enjoy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Where do all of these musicians come from.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Oh gosh, all over the place, And you would be
shocked at how many people actually moved to Melbourne in
retire to Melbourne in order to enjoy playing with all
these groups because I mean, besides our organization, there are
so many things that you can do around here. If
you are a musician, you have no reason to be
(20:20):
bored in retirement. Let me tell you so. I mean,
we have professional musicians, we have former military band musicians
in our groups, we have some teachers, and then we've
just got people that you know, maybe didn't touch their
instrument for twenty five, thirty forty years and then they
come back to it and pick it up. There's another
(20:41):
group that is not well. It rehearses in our space,
but it's a separate organization called New Horizons Band and
they meet on Tuesday mornings and they are an adult
beginning to intermediate band. So that group is intended for
people that maybe haven't touched their instrument in a long
time and they have aspirations to play with the Melbourne
(21:02):
Band or some other group, but they want to, you
know sort of How.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Can people get in touch with them? I have not
heard of New Horizons?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You have it?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Well, there's information about them on the MMB website, so
they can find it there and if you just google
New Horizons Band, it'll come up. There's one in Melbourne.
I know there's one in rock Ledge as well, so
you know a lot of times people will go and
play with them and sort of get their chops back
in order and then they come and play with us
or I've got a lot of people in my band
(21:30):
who play with both groups just because they're both fun,
so that's an option.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
This is such a great place I have found over
the years talking to people in the arts, because that
is such a common situation that people whether it's a
man or a woman, a husband or wife, who set
aside those personal arts goals and interests to raise their families,
(21:55):
make a living, get everybody out of the nest and
then come back to it. And yes, this is such
a great place for that.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
It really is. And I've had many many people, you know,
go through both organizations and it really it's a great community.
And I mean the reason why people keep playing in
the New Horizons band is because the people are fun.
I mean, you know, the more the merrier, and we
have a lot of fun making music together and it's
(22:26):
a great way to make friends and community, and you know,
those things are hard to do sometimes later in life
it's not so easy. You're not going to school and
making friends that way. But you know, this is a
great alternative for people.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, I have to say the picture I saw, in fact,
I put it in the arts Plast of the Sax Quartet.
They looked like such a jolly happy.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
They are fun. They are fun. Actually, they have a
concert this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Where is that I don't have that information.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
See Baptist Church here in Melbourne. They have a concert
this Sunday at let's see gosh, three o'clock in the afternoon,
so there's a there's a chance to see them too.
You know, they play stuff like they do classical things,
they do movie music. They're going to do a Nightingale
thing in Berkeley Square and the Pink Panther Bohemian Rhapsody,
(23:22):
and then you know they'll throw in some JS box
so a little of everything.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, we're almost out of time. We're not going to
talk about this, but I do want to mention the
Melbourne Chamber Music Society. Well I'll talk about that on
Artsplast another time. They have a November seventh concert as well,
but the Melbourne Municipal Band November sixth, seven o'clock at
Melbourne Auditorium six two five East type Biscus Beulevard in
(23:50):
Melbourne and the website Melbourne Municipal band dot org.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Okay, you got it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
We are out of time. Happy Halloween and thank you. Thanks,
we will talk again. Stacy, good to talk to.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Take care than you too.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Bye bye yops. Okay that was Stacy Rospberry and I
want to thank Stacy and Caitlin Swindell as well, and
thank you as always for joining us again this week
for Arts Blast on the Air. It's a podcast radio
show and Alexis Skill, all presented by Riverside Theater and
(24:25):
Ballet Vero Beach. We're covering the arts online and in
Arts Blast. That's the free emailed weekly Florida arts news magazine.
Join us again next week for another edition of Arts
Blast on the Air. I'm Willie Miller. Thanks for listening.
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