July 23, 2025 • 25 mins
Atlantic Classical Orchestra's Music Director David Amado introduces a new addition to the lineup for the holidays and talked about the Masterworks and Chamber series coming in the 2025-2026 season.
Then composer R. Michael Dougherty and the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra’s principal clarinetist, Jennifer Royals, talk about the upcoming Orchestral Firepower concert as well as SCSO’s new season. Details are online at SpaceCoastSymphony.org.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Arts Blast on the Air.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's a podcast, it's a radio show, and it's an
Alexis skill all presented by 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.
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Balletvererobeach dot org. And now on with the show. My
guests today are David Amato, Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Royals and R.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Michael Dougherty. First, David Amato, you are far far away
from Vero Beach at the moment and joined the cool
I would imagine weather in Maine.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm well, yes, I'm not that it's not that far.
I mean it's still on planet Earth.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well for now, you have such spirit who knows where
you'll be next?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I know where you will be this season though, coming.
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
January is the start of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra's programs.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Right actually December, we've got some holiday concerts. Oh, this
is a yeah. I don't know at what point something
becomes a tradition, but I think it's our third year
of doing it, and we're trying to make it a tradition.
So I'm very excited about that. And it's it's exactly
what you'd expect from holiday concerts, you know, all of it,
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all of your seasonal favorites.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Could I say that I.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Went to the website Atlantic Classical Orchestra dot com and
I did not see it, but I wasn't looking for it.
I was looking for the master Works and the Chambers Series,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, okay, I mean, I don't know, I don't have
the website up in front of me right now, but.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I will go and we're doing it.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
We're doing it, yay, yay.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Will that be at both at your regular venues, Lyric
Theater and Community.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Church of Buo Beach.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So there they are. We're not going to be at
Community Church for that. We're going to be at the
at the Wax Flax. Oh. I think, you know, I should,
I should really look this up. You know, I'm the
I'm a dumb conductor.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I just show up for the show up, so you
better to show up.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Right, That's right. But they do tell me that eventually
you have a little time. I'm going to go on
the website here and see what I see. But anyway,
we're in Vero, and you know, just just to come
check it out.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's a really I think it's a really nice way
to kind of ease into the season because, you know it,
I feel like it's such a great opportunity for the orchestrands,
for the community both to sort of ramp up to this,
you know, the sort of more traditional kinds of concerts
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that we do starting in January instead of just sort
of jumping, you know, headlong into that season, kind of
ease into it with this holiday concert. And it's it's
you know, it's not really entirely a Pops concert, but
there's a lot of sort of lighter weight stuff on it.
Last year we did Holiday, we did music from from
holiday movies, and you know, there's a thing along at
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the end. It's just sort of exactly what you'd expect.
And I think it really does put people in sort
of the spirit of the season, and it gets Atlantic
Classical Orchestra sort of up and going. And it's a
really wonderful thing to do. And I'm glad we're turning
into a tradition.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I'm going to steal something from you. You just said
you're going to ease into the season. Eas into the season.
I love that. Okay, may I use it?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Okay, all right, let's start talking about the master Works series,
even though it doesn't begin until later. Actually, you're the
Atlantic Classical Orchestra season is basically beginning in January, not
counting the holiday January.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Through through April through April. Yeah, and we have four
programs that we play in Vera and and Stuart. The
first one, I think is that third week of January,
like the twenty second or something, and then we play
in February, mid February, and we play again in mid March,
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and then relatively early April, if I remember right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Okay, Borrowed and Blue into the Night, Town and Country
themes and variations have to give the names of the
programs for the master Work series on it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Willie, Oh boy, I.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Gotta tell you, David, Okay, do you want to go
into any of the programs who who will be featured
or do you not have that in front of you
as well?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
No, I'm happy to I mean, I'm i I'm happy
to talk about it. I mean the we're doing, We're
doing something which I'm very proud we're able to do
that We've done a fair amount of the past too,
which is feature musicians from our own orchestra as soloists.
And I'm you know that our bench is so deep
and we have such wonderfully talented people on that stage
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who are you know, most of the time they they
use their talents to be part of the ensemble, not
to stand out in front of the ensemble. But but
I'm absolutely delighted that we're going to once again be
pulling our own out from the ranks and putting them
in front of the orchestra. So Cao Lynn are a wonderful,
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wonderful pianist orchestral pianist, will be playing sant fifth cant
of Concerto with us for that very first concert. We're
opening that concert with the music of Court Vile, the
guy that wrote Mac the Knife. We're going to play
a suite from the Threepenny Opera from which Mac the
Knife is drawn, and on the second half we're going
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to have more music from the opera stage. This is
a We're going to play a sort of a suite
of tunes from Porgy and best of George Virgua, so
that should be a lot of fun. On the second concert,
we're bringing in a solos from the outside, a very
wonderful young violinist named Hino Kung Yu who will she'll
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she's the winner of the Elmar Oliver International Violin Concerto
Violin Competition, and we've used winners from that competition in
the past. Serena Kwang, who played with us a bunch,
was a winner a few years ago. She'll be playing
for Coffee of Second Island Concerto, and we are couching
that in between two other Russian works, The Wonderful Night
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on Ball Mountain by Bazorski and Chekovovsky's Sleeping Beauty Suite.
More music from the stage, right, I mean, we started
with music from the opera and our third concert, we
feature our very own concertmaster at Lenny Segal, who will
be playing along with Julian Schwartz, a wonderful cellist, a
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relatively new concerto by a very fine composer named Paul
Fruch called Finding Religion, based on a song of that
name by Charles Eyes, and we will be couching that
between Copeland's Appelades in the Spring and Beethoven's sixth Ninthhonia
is Pastoral Symphony. And then finally, the last concert will
feature our very own Karen Suber principle Warren playing Mozart's
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fourth warn Concerto. We'll also be playing Brahms variations on
the theme of Heiden, even though it's not actually a
neame Heiden, but I guess the public shoudn't know that
way back in the day. And we'll be closing the
program with the Hindu myth symphonic metamorphosis on themes of Vapor.
And what's unusual about that concert is those themes of
Weabor that are metamorphosized by hinder Myth are going to
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be played by me and also Tall. Then yeah, we're
going to have a piano set at the front of
stage in concerto position and Tao and I will play
each of the original pieces Weber and then we'll play
Hinder Myths kind of riff on them. And it's really
fun to hear because you know the pieces, look, I
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love Weaber, but the pieces are dopey and you know
there's sweet little forehand parlor pieces, exactly what you'd expect
beginning of the nineteenth century. This is what people did
instead of like, you know, instead of playing video games,
you know, they sat down and played fourhand music together
and that's what that's what these pieces are. And then
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Hindu Myth, you know, puts them through this twentieth century
kind of prison matic you know, presto changeo kind of
crazy machine and comes out with these spectacular, you know,
over the top kind of reimaginings of these pieces, and
it's just breathtaking. I mean, they're great pieces on their own,
but to hear where they came from makes them even greater. Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So yeah, you make me want to be there.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Good to be there.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I will be That's I'll be there. That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's the fourth concert in the master Works series. And
let us say that they're at the Lyric Theater when
they're in Stewart, and that the Community Church.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Of Vero Beach, right, that's right, yep, okay at the.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Lyric three thirty and seven thirty and in Vero Beach
at seven o'clock on the appropriate days, and do go
to the website Atlantic Classical Orchestra dot com for all
the details. We're going to run out of time before
we get to talk too much about the Chambers series.
That's on Let's say Saturdays, is it that's a Blake
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Library at in Stuart.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
At eleven o'clock That sounds right, and.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Sunday at three at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Okay, and that's the Chamber Series. I just want to
say the Chamber Series is a really wonderful opportunity to
hear our incredible musicians in entirely different contexts, you know,
bearing a very different kind of musical I don't want
to say burden, but a musical load, you know that. And
I think it's a wonderful it's a wonderful opportunity for them,
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and it's a wonderful opportunity for the audience to for
they get to know our musicians in a different way
up close and personal, and you know, they're not part
of a section doing their own thing, and it's really
it's wonderful and empowering for everybody.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, Blake Librar in Stuart and the Vero Beach Museum
of Art in Vero Beach. I can't wait for the
second one, the Opo Quartet. That should be a lot
of fun.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Indeed, you know, it's not a piece that gets done
a lot, and we're delighted to be able to present it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Okay, all right, we've done it pretty much, except to
say that subscriptions and single ticket information would be on
the website, which again is Atlantic Classical Orchestra dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
David, great to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Still making bread, of course, I'm making bread.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You inspired me, so I bought I bought some bread cookbooks,
but I didn't cook the bread yet.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So oh that's next. David, great to talk to you. Likewise,
Thanks see you, Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
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And we are back with arts Plants on the air.
I'm Willie Miller and I'm welcoming two people I have
not met in the past, but I have heard them. Jennifer,
do you want to use your royals? Jennifer Royals? And
are Michael Doherty?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Call you? Michael? Sure works for me. Okay, And both of.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You are from the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra for this show.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's that's why we're here.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yep, Okay, you have Let's see people are They could
be listening to this after the fact, but we do
need to be talking about the the Orchestral Power Firepower Firepower.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah. Well you know, no, it's not the fourth of
July anymore. We miss that.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Did I read something about paper bags?
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Yes, I'm excited.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
I specifically said I don't want to play on that
piece so that I can sit in the audience with
my kids and family and bust some bags.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Okay, let's let's talk about the program of the Orchestral.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Firepower fire What is it is it firepower, fireworks, it's
fire something power, pastoral power.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You know what. Everybody needs to go to the website.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yes, find a Space Coastsymphony dot org. Yeah, okay, Jennifer, Yes,
go talk about talk about this concert.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What's so powerful about it?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Well? I get to play his clarinet concerto world premiere.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Yes, yes, and that's right. People can't see me. To Michael, yeah,
that's opening the concert. And you know that's a great,
really nice piece of nice contrast. I think to the
two other pieces, okay, which are eighteen twelve and sank
and then what was Shastakovich Symphony six?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Okay, great program? Yeah, okay, going over to Michael. You
are a composer, but you you also play something, right.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I am mostly a composer. I used to play piano
quite a bit. I started playing clarinet in junior and
high in high school. So that's part of the reason
that that's.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Probably why the piece is so nice, because he was
a clarinet player.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, yep, So you are mostly the composer.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yes, are you ever pressed into service in the orchestra?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Have not been and.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
To play, but now we know though we might. Yeah,
but We've played a lot of his other pieces before.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Though I saw something because actually, when I'm going to
talk to people I haven't met, I like to do
some online searching around and I saw something about Sean Sexton.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I did something with Sean Our Sean Sexton.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Our Sean Sexton several years ago. I'd met Sean at
his readings and I liked his poetry and he allowed
me to take the poetry and do songs for him.
So I've done several of those. And then I was thinking,
as the celebration of Viera Beach one hundredth anniversary came around,
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that it would be nice to do something. I missed it.
I was a couple of years late, but Sean agreed
to do things from Waldo Sexton's letters to his future
bride as narration for a big piece which I call
the Florida the Story, and really it was mostly about
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their romance.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Okay, you're talking now about a piece you composed earlier.
Is there some way to hear Is it recorded anywhere?
Can people listen to this and say, oh, I want
to hear that that music?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I wish it were I have I have copies personally,
but I haven't put them online yet.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
So yeah, I don't know if we recorded the concept
where we did?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Well, I recorded it, yeah, I don't think anybody else did.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Yeah, we don't usually professionally record.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I would imagine there are some legalities involved.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Probably exactly.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Yeah, it was a great piece though.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well that's that just seems seems like I really want
to hear it. Yeah, can we can we talk to
Aaron Collins about maybe bringing it back?
Speaker 8 (18:53):
I'm sure we could.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Okay, three to them, one, let's get them, Yeah, yeah,
we can take them. Okay. What else do you do?
You compose? You don't play in the orchestra much. What
do you do for fun? You surfer?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
But I love this area because I'm a music lover
and I taught for years at a community college in Jacksonville,
North Carolina, which is a military town home of the
second Marine Division at Camp pa June. So it was
not a very musical place. And when we've moved here
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in twenty fifteen, I was delighted. I mean, there are
three professional orchestras that do pairs of concerts here, and
there's a professional ballet, professional opera, opera, and an art museum.
It was like going to heaven.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
So the beach and the beach, and the beach and
the beach and the beach. Yes, you got to do.
This is such an amazing place we live in.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah. I've been covering the arts for twenty five thirty
years here and it has grown.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I met Aaron I won't say when he was a
little guy, but when he was just starting out, and
Adam Schnell from Ballet ver OBEs when he was just
getting things going. It is just amazing to me how
the culture and arts and the and the enjoyment appreciation
of them have just ballooned.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Here, have exploded. We are very very lucky.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Of course takes people like you to make it happen.
I'm looking at you, Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Well, and all the supporters you know, to come right,
to keep coming so that we can, you know, keep
making music for everybody, right.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, Yeah, that's so important. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I think maybe sometimes people will think of older folks
as the senior citizens who appreciate the music you're playing.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
But it's so important to.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Nurture the love of this in the young people because
they've got to come up, they've got to keep supporting. Yeah,
and you've done something. Did you do a zoo or
a petting zoo or something.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Yeah, we've done a lot, you know.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
We several years ago we received the Impact one hundred
grant and that started our children's program. So we've we've
played some of Michael's pieces for those we called it
Once upon an Orchestra. We've done them at McKey and
at the museum, so we get a smaller ensemble of
musicians and usually the piece or pieces we play has
some kind of narration, so it tells a story.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
You know.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
We play it and it's an outside, safe environment.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
The kids can run, they can play, they can be kids,
you know, and the parents don't have to wish you know,
they're going to disturb somebody because it's meant for them.
And then they can come up afterwards and you know,
try the instruments, play them, touch them. We had to
get a little creative during COVID with that, but you know,
we were outside so at least we could still do it.
There was just not as much of the petting zoo.
But it's really fun though. You know, when you see
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a little kid, the instrument is almost as huge as
them and they get to hold it and touch it,
and you know, the ones that was safe for them
to actually play, and their face lights up like, wow,
I made this sound a really cool thing.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Have you ever heard back any feedback a couple.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Of years later from a parent maybe who whose child
was introduced to that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
With Personally, I haven't, but I'm sure Aaron has probably
gotten some because I know, you know, we would see
because we haven't done one of those in a little while,
but you know, we'd see some families coming and then
we'd see them at our regular the full symphony concerts.
So that's you know, that's a good that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (22:36):
And we always have students are free at all of
our concerts to to encourage you know, high school, college,
middle school. We just want kids coming in and hearing music.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
The program, one of the programs that Aaron started, I
think you started it was the Your Symphony for everyone.
So you if you have what you can, yeah, if
you don't have the price of a ticket.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Come anyways, come anyway. Yeah, we want you to be there.
Bring it dollar. Yeah, if you have nothing, just bring
yourself and a pair of jeans and a shirt. You
don't have to dress up if you don't want to.
We just want you to, you know, because there's nothing
like experiencing live music. Yeah, you know when you feel
the wall of sound, you know. So I played clarinet.
I'm gonna go off a little bit. So usually trumpets,
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trombones are behind me. And let me tell you, there's
like nothing like we did one time. We did the
Planets Mars the Bringer of Wour and you just bow
this wall of sound. It's I have goosebumps just thinking
about it, you know. So we want everybody to experience that.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
How do you keep your hearing when you're sitting in
front of.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Well ear plugs?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Really?
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Yeah, and mind broke, and I keep forgetting and I'll
take them out to put one in, and then I
take it out and the piece is still stuck in
my mouth.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
All the while I have to get ready to play.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
So yes, I do need to order some new ones,
but yeah, there most of us have them in our case.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, well you know what.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
We're going to run out of time before I ask
you how a clarinet works, because my brother used to
play the colarinet in junior high school.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
You just blow and wiggle your fingers.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
But what's that thing that?
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Oh the reed bombs? Maybe how you make your mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And how does is it vibrate? Yep?
Speaker 8 (24:04):
The read vibrate. So there's a little tiny opening.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
The read vibrates, your sound goes through, will go your
fingers heda.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So we did very simple yep, and we ran out
of time. We have to do this again. Can you guess?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Can you?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Can you come back?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Well you?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Okay? Yeah, great to talk.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Thanks for having us. We hope to see everybody at
the concerts this weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, that's July twenty sixth and twenty seventh, Scott Center.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Up norm Melbourne and Community Church of Vero Beach at
three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Ye in August the music map. We are really out
of time now, Jennifer Royals, g Michael Dokerty, thanks for
coming in, great to talk to you, Thanks so much,
thanks my pleasure, and thanks again to David Tomato and
thanks as always to you for joining us again this
week for Arts Blast on the Air, a podcast, radio
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Speaker 1 (25:11):
Thanks for listening.
Welcome to Arts Blast on the Air.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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the arts about the arts on the Treasure Coast and beyond.
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Ballet Vero Beach presenting the Riverside Dance Festival August first
and second at Riverside Theater. It's an unforgettable evening of
dynamic dance featuring the La Contemporary Dance Company and they're
doing a world premiere that they created during their residency
program at Riverside Theater this year. Tickets are online at
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Balletvererobeach dot org. And now on with the show. My
guests today are David Amato, Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Royals and R.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Michael Dougherty. First, David Amato, you are far far away
from Vero Beach at the moment and joined the cool
I would imagine weather in Maine.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm well, yes, I'm not that it's not that far.
I mean it's still on planet Earth.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well for now, you have such spirit who knows where
you'll be next?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I know where you will be this season though, coming.
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
January is the start of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra's programs.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Right actually December, we've got some holiday concerts. Oh, this
is a yeah. I don't know at what point something
becomes a tradition, but I think it's our third year
of doing it, and we're trying to make it a tradition.
So I'm very excited about that. And it's it's exactly
what you'd expect from holiday concerts, you know, all of it,
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all of your seasonal favorites.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Could I say that I.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Went to the website Atlantic Classical Orchestra dot com and
I did not see it, but I wasn't looking for it.
I was looking for the master Works and the Chambers Series,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, okay, I mean, I don't know, I don't have
the website up in front of me right now, but.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I will go and we're doing it.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
We're doing it, yay, yay.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Will that be at both at your regular venues, Lyric
Theater and Community.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Church of Buo Beach.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So there they are. We're not going to be at
Community Church for that. We're going to be at the
at the Wax Flax. Oh. I think, you know, I should,
I should really look this up. You know, I'm the
I'm a dumb conductor.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I just show up for the show up, so you
better to show up.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Right, That's right. But they do tell me that eventually
you have a little time. I'm going to go on
the website here and see what I see. But anyway,
we're in Vero, and you know, just just to come
check it out.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's a really I think it's a really nice way
to kind of ease into the season because, you know it,
I feel like it's such a great opportunity for the orchestrands,
for the community both to sort of ramp up to this,
you know, the sort of more traditional kinds of concerts
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that we do starting in January instead of just sort
of jumping, you know, headlong into that season, kind of
ease into it with this holiday concert. And it's it's
you know, it's not really entirely a Pops concert, but
there's a lot of sort of lighter weight stuff on it.
Last year we did Holiday, we did music from from
holiday movies, and you know, there's a thing along at
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the end. It's just sort of exactly what you'd expect.
And I think it really does put people in sort
of the spirit of the season, and it gets Atlantic
Classical Orchestra sort of up and going. And it's a
really wonderful thing to do. And I'm glad we're turning
into a tradition.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I'm going to steal something from you. You just said
you're going to ease into the season. Eas into the season.
I love that. Okay, may I use it?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Okay, all right, let's start talking about the master Works series,
even though it doesn't begin until later. Actually, you're the
Atlantic Classical Orchestra season is basically beginning in January, not
counting the holiday January.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Through through April through April. Yeah, and we have four
programs that we play in Vera and and Stuart. The
first one, I think is that third week of January,
like the twenty second or something, and then we play
in February, mid February, and we play again in mid March,
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and then relatively early April, if I remember right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Okay, Borrowed and Blue into the Night, Town and Country
themes and variations have to give the names of the
programs for the master Work series on it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Willie, Oh boy, I.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Gotta tell you, David, Okay, do you want to go
into any of the programs who who will be featured
or do you not have that in front of you
as well?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
No, I'm happy to I mean, I'm i I'm happy
to talk about it. I mean the we're doing, We're
doing something which I'm very proud we're able to do
that We've done a fair amount of the past too,
which is feature musicians from our own orchestra as soloists.
And I'm you know that our bench is so deep
and we have such wonderfully talented people on that stage
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who are you know, most of the time they they
use their talents to be part of the ensemble, not
to stand out in front of the ensemble. But but
I'm absolutely delighted that we're going to once again be
pulling our own out from the ranks and putting them
in front of the orchestra. So Cao Lynn are a wonderful,
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wonderful pianist orchestral pianist, will be playing sant fifth cant
of Concerto with us for that very first concert. We're
opening that concert with the music of Court Vile, the
guy that wrote Mac the Knife. We're going to play
a suite from the Threepenny Opera from which Mac the
Knife is drawn, and on the second half we're going
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to have more music from the opera stage. This is
a We're going to play a sort of a suite
of tunes from Porgy and best of George Virgua, so
that should be a lot of fun. On the second concert,
we're bringing in a solos from the outside, a very
wonderful young violinist named Hino Kung Yu who will she'll
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she's the winner of the Elmar Oliver International Violin Concerto
Violin Competition, and we've used winners from that competition in
the past. Serena Kwang, who played with us a bunch,
was a winner a few years ago. She'll be playing
for Coffee of Second Island Concerto, and we are couching
that in between two other Russian works, The Wonderful Night
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on Ball Mountain by Bazorski and Chekovovsky's Sleeping Beauty Suite.
More music from the stage, right, I mean, we started
with music from the opera and our third concert, we
feature our very own concertmaster at Lenny Segal, who will
be playing along with Julian Schwartz, a wonderful cellist, a
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relatively new concerto by a very fine composer named Paul
Fruch called Finding Religion, based on a song of that
name by Charles Eyes, and we will be couching that
between Copeland's Appelades in the Spring and Beethoven's sixth Ninthhonia
is Pastoral Symphony. And then finally, the last concert will
feature our very own Karen Suber principle Warren playing Mozart's
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fourth warn Concerto. We'll also be playing Brahms variations on
the theme of Heiden, even though it's not actually a
neame Heiden, but I guess the public shoudn't know that
way back in the day. And we'll be closing the
program with the Hindu myth symphonic metamorphosis on themes of Vapor.
And what's unusual about that concert is those themes of
Weabor that are metamorphosized by hinder Myth are going to
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be played by me and also Tall. Then yeah, we're
going to have a piano set at the front of
stage in concerto position and Tao and I will play
each of the original pieces Weber and then we'll play
Hinder Myths kind of riff on them. And it's really
fun to hear because you know the pieces, look, I
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love Weaber, but the pieces are dopey and you know
there's sweet little forehand parlor pieces, exactly what you'd expect
beginning of the nineteenth century. This is what people did
instead of like, you know, instead of playing video games,
you know, they sat down and played fourhand music together
and that's what that's what these pieces are. And then
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Hindu Myth, you know, puts them through this twentieth century
kind of prison matic you know, presto changeo kind of
crazy machine and comes out with these spectacular, you know,
over the top kind of reimaginings of these pieces, and
it's just breathtaking. I mean, they're great pieces on their own,
but to hear where they came from makes them even greater. Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So yeah, you make me want to be there.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Good to be there.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I will be That's I'll be there. That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's the fourth concert in the master Works series. And
let us say that they're at the Lyric Theater when
they're in Stewart, and that the Community Church.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Of Vero Beach, right, that's right, yep, okay at the.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Lyric three thirty and seven thirty and in Vero Beach
at seven o'clock on the appropriate days, and do go
to the website Atlantic Classical Orchestra dot com for all
the details. We're going to run out of time before
we get to talk too much about the Chambers series.
That's on Let's say Saturdays, is it that's a Blake
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Library at in Stuart.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
At eleven o'clock That sounds right, and.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Sunday at three at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Okay, and that's the Chamber Series. I just want to
say the Chamber Series is a really wonderful opportunity to
hear our incredible musicians in entirely different contexts, you know,
bearing a very different kind of musical I don't want
to say burden, but a musical load, you know that. And
I think it's a wonderful it's a wonderful opportunity for them,
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and it's a wonderful opportunity for the audience to for
they get to know our musicians in a different way
up close and personal, and you know, they're not part
of a section doing their own thing, and it's really
it's wonderful and empowering for everybody.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, Blake Librar in Stuart and the Vero Beach Museum
of Art in Vero Beach. I can't wait for the
second one, the Opo Quartet. That should be a lot
of fun.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Indeed, you know, it's not a piece that gets done
a lot, and we're delighted to be able to present it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Okay, all right, we've done it pretty much, except to
say that subscriptions and single ticket information would be on
the website, which again is Atlantic Classical Orchestra dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
David, great to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Still making bread, of course, I'm making bread.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You inspired me, so I bought I bought some bread cookbooks,
but I didn't cook the bread yet.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So oh that's next. David, great to talk to you. Likewise,
Thanks see you, Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
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And we are back with arts Plants on the air.
I'm Willie Miller and I'm welcoming two people I have
not met in the past, but I have heard them. Jennifer,
do you want to use your royals? Jennifer Royals? And
are Michael Doherty?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Call you? Michael? Sure works for me. Okay, And both of.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You are from the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra for this show.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's that's why we're here.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yep, Okay, you have Let's see people are They could
be listening to this after the fact, but we do
need to be talking about the the Orchestral Power Firepower Firepower.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah. Well you know, no, it's not the fourth of
July anymore. We miss that.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Did I read something about paper bags?
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Yes, I'm excited.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
I specifically said I don't want to play on that
piece so that I can sit in the audience with
my kids and family and bust some bags.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Okay, let's let's talk about the program of the Orchestral.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Firepower fire What is it is it firepower, fireworks, it's
fire something power, pastoral power.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You know what. Everybody needs to go to the website.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yes, find a Space Coastsymphony dot org. Yeah, okay, Jennifer, Yes,
go talk about talk about this concert.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What's so powerful about it?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Well? I get to play his clarinet concerto world premiere.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Yes, yes, and that's right. People can't see me. To Michael, yeah,
that's opening the concert. And you know that's a great,
really nice piece of nice contrast. I think to the
two other pieces, okay, which are eighteen twelve and sank
and then what was Shastakovich Symphony six?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Okay, great program? Yeah, okay, going over to Michael. You
are a composer, but you you also play something, right.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I am mostly a composer. I used to play piano
quite a bit. I started playing clarinet in junior and
high in high school. So that's part of the reason
that that's.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Probably why the piece is so nice, because he was
a clarinet player.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, yep, So you are mostly the composer.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yes, are you ever pressed into service in the orchestra?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Have not been and.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
To play, but now we know though we might. Yeah,
but We've played a lot of his other pieces before.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Though I saw something because actually, when I'm going to
talk to people I haven't met, I like to do
some online searching around and I saw something about Sean Sexton.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I did something with Sean Our Sean Sexton.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Our Sean Sexton several years ago. I'd met Sean at
his readings and I liked his poetry and he allowed
me to take the poetry and do songs for him.
So I've done several of those. And then I was thinking,
as the celebration of Viera Beach one hundredth anniversary came around,
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that it would be nice to do something. I missed it.
I was a couple of years late, but Sean agreed
to do things from Waldo Sexton's letters to his future
bride as narration for a big piece which I call
the Florida the Story, and really it was mostly about
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their romance.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Okay, you're talking now about a piece you composed earlier.
Is there some way to hear Is it recorded anywhere?
Can people listen to this and say, oh, I want
to hear that that music?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I wish it were I have I have copies personally,
but I haven't put them online yet.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
So yeah, I don't know if we recorded the concept
where we did?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Well, I recorded it, yeah, I don't think anybody else did.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Yeah, we don't usually professionally record.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I would imagine there are some legalities involved.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Probably exactly.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Yeah, it was a great piece though.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well that's that just seems seems like I really want
to hear it. Yeah, can we can we talk to
Aaron Collins about maybe bringing it back?
Speaker 8 (18:53):
I'm sure we could.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Okay, three to them, one, let's get them, Yeah, yeah,
we can take them. Okay. What else do you do?
You compose? You don't play in the orchestra much. What
do you do for fun? You surfer?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
But I love this area because I'm a music lover
and I taught for years at a community college in Jacksonville,
North Carolina, which is a military town home of the
second Marine Division at Camp pa June. So it was
not a very musical place. And when we've moved here
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in twenty fifteen, I was delighted. I mean, there are
three professional orchestras that do pairs of concerts here, and
there's a professional ballet, professional opera, opera, and an art museum.
It was like going to heaven.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
So the beach and the beach, and the beach and
the beach and the beach. Yes, you got to do.
This is such an amazing place we live in.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah. I've been covering the arts for twenty five thirty
years here and it has grown.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I met Aaron I won't say when he was a
little guy, but when he was just starting out, and
Adam Schnell from Ballet ver OBEs when he was just
getting things going. It is just amazing to me how
the culture and arts and the and the enjoyment appreciation
of them have just ballooned.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Here, have exploded. We are very very lucky.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Of course takes people like you to make it happen.
I'm looking at you, Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Well, and all the supporters you know, to come right,
to keep coming so that we can, you know, keep
making music for everybody, right.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, Yeah, that's so important. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I think maybe sometimes people will think of older folks
as the senior citizens who appreciate the music you're playing.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
But it's so important to.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Nurture the love of this in the young people because
they've got to come up, they've got to keep supporting. Yeah,
and you've done something. Did you do a zoo or
a petting zoo or something.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Yeah, we've done a lot, you know.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
We several years ago we received the Impact one hundred
grant and that started our children's program. So we've we've
played some of Michael's pieces for those we called it
Once upon an Orchestra. We've done them at McKey and
at the museum, so we get a smaller ensemble of
musicians and usually the piece or pieces we play has
some kind of narration, so it tells a story.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
You know.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
We play it and it's an outside, safe environment.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
The kids can run, they can play, they can be kids,
you know, and the parents don't have to wish you know,
they're going to disturb somebody because it's meant for them.
And then they can come up afterwards and you know,
try the instruments, play them, touch them. We had to
get a little creative during COVID with that, but you know,
we were outside so at least we could still do it.
There was just not as much of the petting zoo.
But it's really fun though. You know, when you see
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a little kid, the instrument is almost as huge as
them and they get to hold it and touch it,
and you know, the ones that was safe for them
to actually play, and their face lights up like, wow,
I made this sound a really cool thing.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Have you ever heard back any feedback a couple.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Of years later from a parent maybe who whose child
was introduced to that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
With Personally, I haven't, but I'm sure Aaron has probably
gotten some because I know, you know, we would see
because we haven't done one of those in a little while,
but you know, we'd see some families coming and then
we'd see them at our regular the full symphony concerts.
So that's you know, that's a good that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (22:36):
And we always have students are free at all of
our concerts to to encourage you know, high school, college,
middle school. We just want kids coming in and hearing music.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
The program, one of the programs that Aaron started, I
think you started it was the Your Symphony for everyone.
So you if you have what you can, yeah, if
you don't have the price of a ticket.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
Come anyways, come anyway. Yeah, we want you to be there.
Bring it dollar. Yeah, if you have nothing, just bring
yourself and a pair of jeans and a shirt. You
don't have to dress up if you don't want to.
We just want you to, you know, because there's nothing
like experiencing live music. Yeah, you know when you feel
the wall of sound, you know. So I played clarinet.
I'm gonna go off a little bit. So usually trumpets,
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trombones are behind me. And let me tell you, there's
like nothing like we did one time. We did the
Planets Mars the Bringer of Wour and you just bow
this wall of sound. It's I have goosebumps just thinking
about it, you know. So we want everybody to experience that.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
How do you keep your hearing when you're sitting in
front of.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Well ear plugs?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Really?
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Yeah, and mind broke, and I keep forgetting and I'll
take them out to put one in, and then I
take it out and the piece is still stuck in
my mouth.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
All the while I have to get ready to play.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
So yes, I do need to order some new ones,
but yeah, there most of us have them in our case.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, well you know what.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
We're going to run out of time before I ask
you how a clarinet works, because my brother used to
play the colarinet in junior high school.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
You just blow and wiggle your fingers.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
But what's that thing that?
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Oh the reed bombs? Maybe how you make your mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And how does is it vibrate? Yep?
Speaker 8 (24:04):
The read vibrate. So there's a little tiny opening.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
The read vibrates, your sound goes through, will go your
fingers heda.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So we did very simple yep, and we ran out
of time. We have to do this again. Can you guess?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Can you?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Can you come back?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Well you?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Okay? Yeah, great to talk.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Thanks for having us. We hope to see everybody at
the concerts this weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, that's July twenty sixth and twenty seventh, Scott Center.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Up norm Melbourne and Community Church of Vero Beach at
three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Ye in August the music map. We are really out
of time now, Jennifer Royals, g Michael Dokerty, thanks for
coming in, great to talk to you, Thanks so much,
thanks my pleasure, and thanks again to David Tomato and
thanks as always to you for joining us again this
week for Arts Blast on the Air, a podcast, radio
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show and Alexis Skill, all presented by Riverside Theater and
Ballet Vero Beach covering the art. It's online and in
Arts Blast the free emailed weekly Flarta Arts news magazine.
Join us again next week for another edition of arts
Plast on the air. I'm Willie Miller.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Thanks for listening.
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