In Sarasota Orchestra's Concert Companion to Masterworks: Heroic Spirit (January 30, Neel Performing Arts Center; January 31 - February 2, Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall), we hear from Nicholas Arbolino, who has played oboe and English horn with Sarasota Orchestra since 2014.
Every professional orchestra musician may not live in the spotlight; however, they all pour astonishing amounts of time, energy, sweat, and soul into their position. We talk with Nick about the athleticism and performance psychology inherent to being a musician and invite him to tell us about his music heroes. Nick's preview of the Heroic Spirit concert program explores other acts of musical heroics in Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, as well as Anne Akiko Meyers' performance of Fandango for violin and orchestra, a Latin GRAMMY®-winning work she recently commissioned from Arturo Márquez.
Tickets are available online at SarasotaOrchestra.org!
Music in this episode:
Fandango by Arturo Márquez
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Los Angeles Philharmonic
From the album Fandango, released September 15, 2023 (Platoon)
 
Symphony No. 5 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor
Sarasota Orchestra
Recorded live at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, January 2005
Coriolan Overture by Ludwig van Beethoven
Case Scaglione, conductor
Sarasota Orchestra
Recorded live at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, January 7, 2017