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Volume 4 No.13 | April 15, 2022 | |
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We're continuing our observation of National Jazz Appreciation Month and Poetry Month, but, although it's worth a mention, there will be no features for National Soft Pretzel Month. I will say, however, that I am definitely a no-mustard girl.
Last week, poet cowboy Sean Sexton gave us a beautiful poem, Yesterday Morning, and this week, his name popped up in a press release about a Space Coast Symphony Orchestra concert. It turned out to be quite an interesting story!
We're wishing everyone a peaceful and joyous Easter or Passover.
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This week on Arts Blast on the Air, hear Crystal Bujol talk about her years with the Gifford Youth Orchestra and the Diamonds and Crystals gala. Then Bobbee Larsson and Jacob Craig look forward with the Vero Beach Choral Society, in concert April 24 at First Presbyterian Church, Vero Beach. Listen to or download the podcast now or turn on the radio — 101.7FM ON THE TREASURE COAST — 7 p.m. Sundays. | Bookmark On the Calendar at WilliMiller.com for frequent updates. Calls for Artists, Auditions, & Volunteers are now online.Catch up with events at Willi Miller's Arts Blast on Facebook and pick up some laughs and interesting info on the Willi Miller's Arts Blast Extras page. And now there's a Facebook Arts Blast on the Air! | |
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Jazz Appreciation Month w/Dick Golden - Brubeck!
Poetry Month Notes
Sean Sexton & the Space Coast Symphony
Zahava Misshula - TC Youth Symphony
Art Walk in Fort Pierce
Marie Jureit-Beamish, The Symphonia, Lindsay Garritson
Susan Miller's Art at ELC
MartinArts - Marvin S. Cone - Student Social
Arts Council Updates
Full Calendar in Brevard County
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TIDBITS
Riverside Dance
Garden Club of Fort Pierce
Bluegrass in the Pavilion
Countertenor Terry Barber
VB Choral Society
Delray Beach Historical Society
A Remarkable Gathering at the Norton
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Visit Janet Bird Fuller's 2nd Street Art gallery at 131-B N. 2nd Street, downtown Fort Pierce, tonight. This gallery showcases the extraordinary art of 29 local artists. | |
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Tonight in Fort Pierce!
(April 15)
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BRUBECK! - Jazz Appreciation Month with Dick Golden | |
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Dick Golden, an award-winning, long-time producer of radio shows devoted to jazz and the Great American Songbook, agreed to be an Arts Blast guest contributor in April as we celebrate the musical phenomenon that is jazz in this National Jazz Appreciation Month.
“You can't understand America without understanding jazz. And you can't understand jazz, without understanding Dave Brubeck.”
President Barack Obama
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On the day he celebrated his 89th birthday, December 6, 2009, Dave Brubeck was one of the five Kennedy Center Honorees celebrated at a pre-awards ceremony White House reception. President Barack Obama, in his introduction of Mr. Brubeck said, “I know personally how powerful his performances can be. I mentioned this to Dave backstage. In the few weeks that I spent with my father as a child -- he came to visit me for about a month when I was young -- one of the things he did was to take me to my first jazz concert, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1971, and it was a Dave Brubeck concert. And I've been a jazz fan ever since. The world that he opened up for a 10-year-old boy was spectacular.” For 7 decades Dave Brubeck’s artistry helped to open the ears, hearts, and minds of an international audience to America’s great music creation, jazz.
On the American Songbook program this week, as we continue our celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, we’ll include a segment honoring Dave. You’ll hear one of the highlights of an August 1961 performance with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and Tony Bennett requested by President John Kennedy and held at the base of the Washington Monument on the National Mall.
We’ll also include a track from the The Real Ambassadors a jazz musical written by Dave and his wife, Iola Brubeck and inspired by the artistry of Louis Armstrong that addressed racism in America, the music business, and the power of music to bring people together. The jazz musical pointed out the absurdity of segregation and makes the case those artists and jazz musicians are the best and "real" ambassadors to demonstrate a nation's ideals.
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Brubeck and Armstrong began their only collaboration in September 1961 with a cast album recording of "The Real Ambassadors” released by Columbia Records in 1962, just before the show's premiere — and only live performance with the original cast, including the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Louis Armstrong, Carmen McRae, and Lambert, Hendricks, and Baven — at the 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival.
On this week’s program we’ll include a very poignant performance by Louis and Dave of “Summer Song” from the score of The Real Ambassadors. In discussing this track with Dave Brubeck in 2010 when he received an honorary degree from the George Washington University, he told me that on the morning of July 6, 1971, while driving in his car near his home in Wilton, Connecticut, he heard on the car radio tuned to the local NPR station the sad news that Louis Armstrong had died. Dave said the announcer paused a moment and played the recording of Summer Song and Dave said, “I was so overwhelmed by the memories I’d had of Louis that I had to pull over to a rest area on the highway and I sat in my car for a half hour and wept.”
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Another jazz icon included in our Saturday evening program will be a member of jazz royalty, William James “Count” Basie. This segment will feature music from the Basie Band with Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, and saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Frank Foster talks about composing and recording one of the most popular Count Basie tracks, “Shiny Stockings.”
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Golden's American Songbook on WQCS/WQCP has been a staple for fans of the genre since 1999 and "for over twenty years the month of April’s broadcasts have included portions that commemorate the annual celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month." This month is no exception. Listen Saturday evening at 8 p.m. Arts Blast will have more from Golden coming up.
Photos courtesy of Dick Golden.
Left: Dave Brubeck with President and Mrs. Obama.
Right: Brubeck and Golden at GWU
| Ray Adams, recently retired from Indian River Charter High School and many decades of working with local music organizations, recalled his own experience with Dave Brubeck. "Brubeck was terrific to work with. One of the kindest and keenest musicians I have had the pleasure to work with. After our two concerts at Riverside (Theatre) back in the late '80s he kept in contact with me and would ask me questions about choral compositions he had composed. He even wrote a special piece for the VBCS to take with us for the Bridges of Song Festival that took place in Tallinn, Estonia in 1993. I saw him last backstage at the Sunrise Theatre in Ft. Pierce, (where) he was having to tape up his fingers so they won't bleed and he was wearing a back brace. In the middle of the show, he stopped and spoke out to the audience and said he was going to play a solo work for an old friend and the band would know when to come back in. My wife leaned over to me and said, "You must feel special." I will never forget his beautiful voicing of chords on the piano that evening. As he was older, he wasn't able to play the fast passages like he could in his earlier years, but boy could he still find beautiful and unique voicings of chords." | |
The Treasure Coast Jazz Society presents Memories of Louis Armstrong April 16.
2022 Season concerts are at the Vero Beach Yacht Club at 12:30 p.m. Members are $40 each and Non Members are $45. Register in advance.
Jazz Jams with the Fort Pierce Jazz & Blues Society at Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens every other week. (Check for updates)
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Weekends Are Back at Riverside Theatre! | |
Sean Sexton Joins the Symphony | |
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Once in a while, the stars get all their ducks in a row and something sweet just drops into my Arts Blast lap. That happened this week, when I was preparing to upload the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra's April 23 and 24 Coast to Coast concert information for this issue.
The program was sounding pretty terrific, and then I got to the name Sexton, as in Waldo and Sean. It began:
"Vero Beach is celebrated during Daugherty's A Florida Story, a work for narrator and orchestra that recounts the story of Vero Beach pioneer, Waldo Sexton. Narrating the work is its author, Indian River County Poet Laureate (and grandson of Waldo Sexton), Sean Sexton. ..." I had to know what was behind this collaboration. So, as I do when I'm curious, I asked.
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From Sean:
"I met Michael Daugherty after one of our Poetry and Organ Concerts at Community Church as he came up when it was over and said he was a composer and he liked a certain poem I’d written, (read during that program) and would like to base a piece of music on it. I said that would be wonderful, and he later approached me with a grander idea of writing poetry for a suite of movements about Florida he was preparing. We decided to choose portions of a poem, “Album,” I’d already published in my first Volume of Poetry, about my family and early Vero Beach. As I’d been reading and researching my Grandfather’s love letters to my Grandmother, ca. 1918, I suggested I select and edit several of them for the project and conclude the offering with another of my poems.
"We first were not able to find an open venue in the SCSO schedule for several years after Michael’s piece was finished, for various reasons, but are now pleased to present this collaborative production in the third weekend in April in Brevard and Indian River County, which should be an exciting debut for all acquainted with our history and region."
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From the Space Coast Symphony:
The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra will travel Coast to Coast in a program that celebrates Vero Beach, the great outdoors-- and the power of love. On Sunday, April 24 at 3:00 PM, the orchestra presents Coast to Coast, at the Waxlax Center for the Performing Arts, 1895 St Edwards Drive in Vero Beach. Conducted by Aaron T. Collins, the concert will include three of the most popular and rousing works in American repertoire, Grofe's"On the Trail" from The Grand Canyon Suite, Aaron Copland's stirring An Outdoor Overture, and George Gershwin's romp, Cuban Overture. An orchestral showpiece by Kenneth Fuchs, Atlantic Riband evokes the struggle and victory of ocean-crossing immigrants to America, inspired by the SS United States‘ record-breaking maiden voyage. The program's two world premieres, from composers Christopher Marshall and R. Michael Daugherty, are a testament to the SCSO's commitment to new music. Audience favorites, sopranos Mary Anne Kruger and Amy Cofield, will return to the stage together to present Marshall’s evocative, Cancó Del Mar. Vero Beach is celebrated during Daugherty's A Florida Story, a work for narrator and orchestra that recounts the story of Vero Beach pioneer, Waldo Sexton. Narrating the work is its author, Indian River County Poet Laureate (and grandson of Waldo Sexton), Sean Sexton. From notes and correspondence,the love story of Waldo Sexton and his bride Elsebeth comes to life in a bygone Florida one hundred years in the past -- and amidst struggles in the small "frontier town."
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April 23, 7 p.m. - Eau Gallie HS Performing Arts Center, Melbourne.
April 24, 3 p.m. - Waxlax Center for the Performing Arts at Saint Edward's School, Vero Beach.
Concertgoers aged 18 and under or with a college ID are admitted free to every SCSO concert. Toll free 855-252-7276 or SpaceCoastSymphony.org.
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Zahava Misshula, Rising Star | |
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With only two more performances in its spring series of concerts, the Treasure Coast Youth Symphony will end its season showcasing a talented young woman with a very promising future. Fifteen-year-old Zahava Misshula is on her way to fulfilling her dreams of a solo performing career, with a side of music production. The young violinist is home schooled, with dual enrollment at Indian River State College, and anticipates “both high school graduation and Associate's degree completion Spring 2023. In the fall I plan on looking into Bachelor's programs and conservatory options.”
The Jupiter resident began her violin studies when she was five years old with teacher Cynthia Hinkelman, graduating Suzuki Violin Book 10 last year. Violin is her primary instrument but she plays cello and viola and is teaching herself piano. Misshula also has studied with Kathryn Krueger.
It was Hinkelman who suggested the Treasure Coast Youth Symphony’s Summer Strings program as a good move for the young student five years ago, and it turned out to be just that. “At the end of that program Dr. John Enyart had me audition for TCYS, and I was seated in the 1st violins,” Misshula said. As the winner of the 2022 TCYS Concerto Competition, she is featured in the current series, Genius, with the music of Ravel, Borodin, and Saint-Saens on the program.
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While her parents and brother aren’t currently involved in the arts, Misshula does come from a talented family: “My older brother, Maxwell, had played alto and tenor saxophone while in school. My mother was a sculptor and art teacher. My father was a photographer.”
Her preferred playlist is topped by classical music but Misshula also enjoys other genres, she said. “I always have a great time playing Beatles and Led Zeppelin with the Academy Orchestra, conducted by Tom Servinsky.” For relaxation, “my friends and I like to play K-pop...we try. I enjoy taking ballet classes and performing in annual shows, and, for fun, I also crochet handbags, clothing, and toys.”
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The remaining concerts in the TCYS series:
April 18, 7 p.m. - Lyric Theatre, Stuart.
April 25, 7 p.m. - Church of the Good Shepherd, Tequesta
Hear Zahava's performance of Wieniawski's Violin Concert No. 2, 1st Mov., on YouTube.
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Kick Back, Put Your Feet Up, and Watch On Line
Enjoy the latest 'Watch at Home' performance from Ballet Vero Beach online through May 1.
Click on the image to purchase access - from $10!
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Countertenor Terry Barber returns to Florida with a new venture, EleMenTrio — April 21 at the Lyric Theatre in Stuart and April 22 at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, Aventura.
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The O, Miami Poetry Festival runs the entire month of April with the goal "for every single person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem. Mixing site-specific events, community gatherings, and poetry-in-public-places projects, the festival strives to be a celebration of Miami and its people." | The Miami-Dade College Miami Book Fair Online is celebrating National Poetry Month with a long lineup of online events. | |
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Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation is gearing up for the Eleventh Annual Poetry Barbecue on Saturday, May 14 at the LRJ Pole Barn on the Indian River State College campus in Vero Beach. This year the theme is Best of the West, "featuring three awesome poets from our western states--Andy Wilkinson, Jerry Brooks Prescott, and Shadd Piehl."
Photo: Cowboy poet Shadd Piehl
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Susan Miller at Environmental Learning Center
Environmental Learning Center is pleased to present a Nature-Inspired Artists Series Solo exhibition of Susan Miiller: “Sand and Shadows” March–May 2022 in the Tidal Gallery Showcase.
About her artwork, Miiller states: “My oil paintings are infused with the energy of the oceans, rivers, estuaries, lagoons, mangrove swamps, wildlife, aquatic life, birds, and beaches of Florida. I want to instill in the viewer, an understanding and appreciation of the natural world; to enrich and inspire people in their lives to engage with the surrounding natural resources. I am a trained artist, receiving a BFA and an MFA in painting, drawing and printmaking. As for my passion, I love oil painting and nature itself. I hope that the viewers and collectors of my work can be touched in the same way.”
The exhibit can be seen in the Tidal Gallery Showcase at Environmental Learning Center, 255 Live Oak Drive, Vero Beach, FL. Hours: Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm, Sat & Sun, 8am-4pm. For more information, call (772) 589-5050 email: info@discoverELC.org, or visit www.DiscoverELC.org
| Congratulations to Marie Jureit-Beamish | |
Congratulations to Marie Jureit-Beamish and to The Symphonia as the Martin County music maven is appointed to the chamber orchestra's board of directors. In a recent email, she noted that she was Principal Conductor Alastair Willis' first conducting teacher.
The April 24 Poetic Mysteries concert at the Roberts theatre, featuring Jureit-Beamish's daughter, pianist Lindsay Garritson, will mark the return of Willis' pre-concert conversations at 2 p.m. Music begins at 3 at the Roberts Theater at Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton.
From The Symphonia:
Dr. Marie Jureit-Beamish is a life-long supporter of the arts and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Martin County Arts Council for her outstanding contribution to the community. Jureit-Beamish is founder and director of The Jureit Musicales, presenting national, international, and local musical talent within the Treasure Coast.
Jureit-Beamish was the Charles Stewart Distinguished Professor of Music at Principia College where she also served as Chair of the Music Department until July 2009. A classically trained musician, she has performed as a pianist and a flutist, appearing in some of the finest concert halls in the United States, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.
Jureit-Beamish has received numerous accolades and awards throughout her career, including the prestigious St. Louis Artists Presentation Society Competition, the Stanley Knight Memorial Scholarship at Yale for outstanding performance, a full scholarship to attend the Tanglewood Music Festival, a full scholarship to pursue graduate studies at Stanford University, and election to Phi Beta Kappa national honors society from the University of California, Berkeley.
“Music has been my passion all my life. I am so grateful to be appointed to The Symphonia’s Board of Directors, and I intend to support its important mission to share the world of classical music with much enthusiasm,” Jureit-Beamish said.
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Brevard Cultural Alliance Update
A Chorus Line continues at Titusville Playhouse and Cash on Delivery is up at Melbourne Civic Theatre through April 24.
Apr 20 & 21: Celebrating Women Concert, Melbourne Municipal Band, Melbourne Auditorium
Apr 21: Wishbone Ash, King Center
Apr 22: Four80East, King Center
Apr 22: British Invasion Concert, Indialantic Chamber Singers, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Palm Bay
Apr 22-24: Central Brevard Art Association Art Show and Sale, Catherine Schweinsberg Rood Central Library, Cocoa, CBAAartists.com
Apr 23: Il Divo: Greatest Hits Tour, King Center
Apr 23: Chris Standring, King Center
Apr 23: Coast to Coast Concert, Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, Eau Gallie High School
Apr 23 & 24: 37th Annual Melbourne Art Festival, Wickham Park, Melbourne
Apr 24: British Invasion Concert, Indialantic Chamber Singers, Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Indialantic
Apr 24: Greater Palm Bay Senior Activity Center Indoor/Outdoor Craft Fair
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St. Lucie Cultural Alliance
Treasure Coast Arts & Mindfulness Fest returns as ZAM Fest (Zen, Arts, and Music) on April 23rd and 24th.
For the musical lineup and the full list of activities please visit zamfestpsl.com
ZAM Fest starts at 11 AM both days
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Tips from the Trenches, Navigating the Grant-writing Process
Tuesday, April, 26. 10 a.m.-Cultural Alliance Gallery
111 Orange Avenue, Fort Pierce.
Danila Coppola, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Grant Program Manager will discuss the grant programs and walk through each of the components. Grant writer Diane Kimes and Alyona Ushe, Executive Director and frequent panelist for DCA will be there to answer specific questions.
Free to Cultural Alliance Members
$15 fee for non-members
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MartinArts Update
A fun “Student Social,” hosted by MartinArts, invites students to celebrate the arts with an afterschool party and exclusive preview of its newest exhibition, the Marvin S. Cone 36th Annual High School Juried Art Show. The student-created, student-led event takes place 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 at MartinArts’ Court House Cultural Center Gallery, 80 S.E. Ocean Blvd. in Downtown Stuart. Admission: FREE and open to all high school students attending schools in Martin County.
Marvin S. Cone Annual High School Juried Art Show - April 26-May 26, 2022
Awards Reception - Thursday, May 5th, 5:30-7PM
Each year the Arts Council presents the Marvin S. Cone Annual High School Juried Art Show to recognize the artistic talents of Martin County high school students. The art teachers at each school select each piece of artwork for entry in the exhibit. It is a highly competitive process; the categories for cash awards are photography, painting, sculpture, mixed media/assemblage, printmaking, and drawing. The awards reception is held at the Court House Cultural Center Gallery. Additionally, each high school principal and the school superintendent select pieces to purchase that become a part of a permanent collection at their respective high schools and the superintendent's office.
For more information about the Arts In Education programs, please feel free to contact us.
About Marvin S. Cone:
Marvin S. Cone, a local writer, poet, art collector, entrepreneur, and educator was inspired by the creativity of art students in Martin County. He sought to encourage young people to pursue even greater achievements by transforming the annual high school art exhibit into an event that truly recognized student's artistic accomplishments. Established in 1987, the Marvin S. Cone Annual High School Juried Art Show honors its founder and his unrelenting enthusiasm for young people, for the arts, and for his timeless efforts in making this event what it is today.
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Cultural Council of Indian River County
For members only. New members welcome!
Call for Art in Public Places
Location: Intergenerational Recreation Center (IG Center) 1590 9th Street SW, Vero Beach
Theme: Favorite Activities or Pastimes
Exhibit Title: Fun Under The Sun
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 27
Notification of Selection Date: Thursday, April 28
Delivery Date and Time: Wednesday, May 4, 11am to 12 noon
Exhibit Dates: May 4 to August 3, 2022
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The county’s premier cultural arts and events publication, 2022-2023 Cultural Arts Guide, is just starting to come together and now is the time to reserve your advertising space.
The deadline to reserve your advertising space in the 2022-2023 Cultural Guide and post your events to the Cultural Calendar is June 20.
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The Riverside Dance Festival is now accepting applicants (age 10-college) for Summer 2022. This year's invited company is Chicago Dance Crash. | The Tim Raybon Band, High Fidelity perform at Bluegrass in the Pavilion at the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, April 23, 3 p.m. | |
At the Norton:
A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Family Collection runs through Sept. 11.
Also opening for the same run is Dürer, Rembrandt, and Piasso: Three Masters of the Print.
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The Garden Club of Fort Pierce has scheduled, Plants in the Park, a multi-club sale, for April 23, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Glidden Park Center. Fort Pierce | Delray Beach Historical Society's fundraiser, Twilight in the Garden, is scheduled for April 22, 6 p.m. | |
Countertenor Terry Barber returns to Florida with a new venture, EleMenTrio — April 21 at the Lyric Theatre in Stuart and April 22 at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, Avenura. | The Vero Beach Choral Society will premiere a concert entitled A Little Night Music on Sunday, April 24, 2022, at 4:00 pm in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church at 520 Royal Palm Boulevard in Vero Beach. Admission is free; the suggested donation is $10. | |
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