Guest conductors and popular favorites fill new Sarasota Orchestra season

By Jay Handelman
Arts Editor

Posted Mar 28, 2020 at 7:01 AM

A second season of guests as orchestra continues search for new music director

Even if the Sarasota Orchestra chooses a new music director in the next few months after an abruptly curtailed concert series, next season will feature more guest conductors leading concerts of some of the most popular classical works.

Because of the coronavirus, Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart was able to lead only one of four scheduled performances earlier this month, and the April Masterworks concerts that were to be conducted by Louisville Symphony Music Director Teddy Abrams were canceled.

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Some of the Masterworks series conductors will be familiar, including Marcelo Lehninger, who led the opening Discover Beethoven concert in the fall, and Thomas Wilkins and Carl St. Clair, who both return after an absence of several years.