Sarasota Orchestra – Voices of Spring

The Great Escapes season ends outdoors in spirit, if not in fact, as the Sarasota Orchestra takes up Johann Strauss Jr.'s Voices of Spring waltz in Holley Hall. Copland's Variations on a Shaker Melody, his stand-alone reworking of the Simple Gifts section of Appalachian Spring, supplies the American counterweight, and selections from Richard Rodgers' State Fair, the one score Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote directly for the movies, add a dose of 1940s Midwestern nostalgia. Broadway conductor William Waldrop, whose credits include the Cats revival and a long association with The Phantom of the Opera, conducts.