Sarasota Orchestra – Moonlight

Debussy's Clair de lune, originally the third movement of his Suite bergamasque for piano, anchors Moonlight, a Sarasota Orchestra program in Holley Hall that drifts between the tender and the eerie. Around it, Matthew Troy leads music from Les Misérables, Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's Moon River and, for the night's darker side, the Ride of the Headless Horseman. Troy, music director of North Carolina's Western Piedmont Symphony and artistic director of the Piedmont Wind Symphony, made his debut with the orchestra on this same Great Escapes series, conducting a program that went ahead in the week after Hurricane Milton.