who is a grammy award winner a c m a award winner and it's amazing that we have a lot of premieres this month and he's going to take it off on every the fifth it's an eight o'clock show you know what's interesting on this show is that it's fifty one is one more gold silver and bronze medals in the circus when the national competitions that any other chinese acrobatic company that's i mean there's a lot of them out there they're so this is the best this is the best of what they do on stage is boston pops is on tour right this is the music of john williams music i played with john when i was fifteen years experience but he's still very active composing amongst the films over one hundred films one another amazing show boston pops are here it is so cool to see them and because of how iconic they are i'm probably the thirteenth though we have michael bolton coming back but he's a little twist this year right it's called the symphon sessions and i guess he's performing with the symphony orchestra so it's a little different little different yeah i think than you normally would think of him but yeah i've heard those are amazing because it's just a totally different take on him and his music and all that which is great right which is so so cool to see him and then on the fifteenth that decline is the famous dancing with the stars live that's right oh my gosh the energy that they bring with all the different stars that they bring and which they're still working on and you know on t v and now you can see them right here and right in front of you and all that and i think we have a little clip on the show to of african american citizens spaces and their stories are now on display at sarasota city hall throughout the month of february as we celebrate black history month i'm here with joseph mckenna president and c e o of the sarasota orchestra thanks for being here happy to be here before i ask you some questions i wanted to just share some information with our audiences about you and the orchestra he joined the orchestra in two thousand and one and during your tenure the endowment has increased by more than ten million dollars the york youth orchestra head of state do performance at carnegie hall and in two thousand and eight the orchestra rebranded itself with a name change from florida west coast symphony to sarasota orchestra and the orchestra was founded in one nine hundred forty nine making it seventy years old and has the longest continuous performing orchestra in the state of florida currently performing more than  hundred twenty five concerts proceeds and the ambitious educational program includes youth orchestra program with eight ensembles young people's concerts for all area fourth and fifth graders and a summer music camp  manages the sarasota music festival one of the world's finest teaching festivals for pre professional classical musicians so we have the band ways that are so proud to have the sarasota orchestra here as one of our community partners and i just got to tell you that i've been to a couple of concerts i heard the shots i heard the a coffee a fifth symphony and also the civilians fifth and i'm very impressed with the performance and you know tensity of the artists on stage so congratulations we have a great great orchestra or a very fortunate good well we know that the orchestra performs at several different venues throughout this area including the van weighs all as its main home does the orchestra plays play its full concert season here or its programming split up between the different venues it's a really great question it's actually split between six different venues we have our own facility which includes holly hall which is the basis for chamber music and some of our chamber  than the van ways and serves as a home if you will for a pops and masterworks but we also perform at the opera house the neil performing arts center in braden ten and also our education program actively uses review high school and the northport high school helps us with our young person's concept so we actually piece together the entire season not only with our own calendar but have to factor in the calendars of six other organizations to make our season come to life it's very innovative  it's very taxing in the vein of his one word much of the reason we're pursuing plans for our own home so we can sort of include all of our activities and have greater control over our schedule and improved acoustics but on things and mary and i really see our role as working together the better the better the community and we do that every day that's great so this was really your home from the very beginning in one nine hundred seventy i mean as far as the benway still goes as far as of in ways it goes actually it was of a concert master of the then florida west coast symphony david cohen actually we just became the mayor sarasota and several of his friends ultimately became the cell that created and were the thrust for the creation of the van ways of so the con master of the then orchestra played a lead role in the creation of the building sitting in right now prior to the van ways of the orchestra played at the municipal auditorium and some other venues around town so what we're really seeing is the v in ways all has been successful and expanded its program in the orchestra has grown and blossom at that next place where the community's now time to take that next step for investment in venues how does the orchestra musicians deal with the different acoustics at the various venues where we're  the most prolific touring orchestra in america without leaving about a thirty five mile radius so our musicians are really phenomenal with their ability to adapt part of our plan with an acoustically great concert hall is to give them the hall to really showcase even even more things that they can do you know this is a very important time this is the last and final season for your music director so is going to ask you how that works as far as getting a new music director we've had  a music director search committee in place for about a year now so one of the things that our music director on telly gave us was time time is a very precious asset and anu wanted to be sure that the work that she had done here in sarasota was not compromised by an early exit or departure you know so she gave us ample time she wants to move on and pursue other things so our search committee is working next year will have a roster of guest conductors some who may be candidates some who may not be so this is a confidential search so to the audience our job each time is to make sure that we put on great concerts and then leave some anticipation of who the next music director might be one thing that's really interesting is with the music director search process sarasota is a really phenomenal arts community so the ability to attract interest in sarasota is helps us to actually further and promote the search so i am delighted with the work that on who has done she's been an audience and a sarasota favorite and as she said when she was hired you know the goal is you come in you develop and you grow and then you move on to keep growing so this is part of her professional plan and i know that we're going to have a great success and build on the things that ana has done while she's here wonderful want to share some upcoming concerts that might be happening in february and march that  concerts every week so just come to our website at sarasota orchestra dot org you can see everything but coming up we have clock rundle who will be at the viewing ways are with us next weekend for our fifth masterworks program and then master work six little later in february that will be on a news program with which she's described as to sarasota with love a program that she's designed that incorporates a number of musicians we have are side by side concert that we actually do with our orchestra education program  in early february a host of other programs we have a chamber soiree which will be performing the four seasons with several of the leadership players in our orchestra each playing a movement so great opportunity here a piece you love and  also have a chance to see different personalities with each movement so and then we have our pop series in march here back at the v a in ways all with our judy garland program and then just at the end of march into early april on his final con activities and programs and leave enough room for the orchestra to have a successful president so that's been part of the long tradition between the city and the hall and the orchestra well thank you so much for being here jill you know great to be here and good luck with the rest of our season thank you very much we'll be back with more  to talk a little bit more about what's coming up for the second half of february and it is packed with a lot of grammy award winners that are premiers and speaking of which the first premiere again is on the sixteenth at eight thirty it's the band weezer foundation's gala and its c e o he's never been here an amazing artist and really looking forward to him or grammy awards and he's still sold over thirty million albums which is amazing which is amazing  seven pm stop has been here before it's an amazing show it gets are selling fast oh my gosh it's amazing what they can do with if you will just redo things right you know they don't use any percussion it's you know but anything is a percussionist that's correct and you'll be amazed at what they will do in the use onstage it's it is it's just a lot of that a lot of energy on stage i love what the boston globe says if you haven't seen stomp go if you've seen it take someone else and share the pleasure stomp as you can see yeah it's unbelievable and i'm so amazed to be here every night there's something going on everything on great every single night and so then we leave that broadway and we go into another broadway show which is finding neverland you've seen the film seen this one this is a serious sort of premiere to you i've seen the show it is amazing it's for kids because the magic that on stage for the kids but for adults as we grew up with peter pan so this is a way to find out how peter pan came to be but it's a great great show it's good for the whole family and a lot of fun a lot of fun is happening on stage with this one so it's about the kid in the us that's all of us are kids oh yeah we are and peter pan of course then  twenty fifth we have the beach boys which is an amazing show when they come and it's just music that we all grew up with you know and it is that the energy they bring it just brings it back and it's so much fun it really is on yeah i get around california girl it's good vibrations and yes hello everyone it's amazing and you know sometimes they bring surprise guests you just never know who may appear that you know for that show but it's a lot of fun and the o'clock yet she's won three grammy awards and was recently inducted in the canadian hall of fame yes a lot of fame so she's a stylish herself as one of the best canadian songwriters going tree so that is very that then we go to a ballet the russian national ballet and the sleeping beauty is what they're performing it's up to the twenty seventh at seven thirty and it's the jewel crown of the ballet repertoire and then our final series for the premier for the month of february which is for every twenty eighth at eight pm it's a sixteen grammy award winner david foster and i am so anxious to see this i've never seen him line  show it's so so cool what he does is wonderful he really understands the artist the singer any creates songs that brings out the best in them yeah which is good starmaker is this is true it's true and and so it's you can see february is packed but right around the corner i think there's a little show a little show that's coming in march something with a line in the right and the like right so that's going for three weeks i think that's the first time we've ever had a three week