“When the King Center welcomed its first live show since the pandemic, it was not a big-name star that took the honor of helping get Brevard’s cultural life back in gear. It was the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, masked—except for the wind section—and six feet apart from each other while playing their hearts out on the main stage,” write Maria Sonnenberg in Wednesday’s (1/20) Florida Today (Brevard County, FL). “The orchestra’s genial artistic leader, Maestro Christopher Confessore, chose to make lemonade from the bitter drink the pandemic had dealt the cultural organization. ‘It was a huge adjustment, but now everyone is listening in a different way and it will be a positive for use when we get back to normal configuration,’ he said…. The next few months will be busy as the orchestra launches into a belated big Beethoven bash [on Jan. 23] to celebrate the composer’s 250th birthday last December…. All the concerts in this series … will be offered as a professionally produced delayed livestream, … ‘to allow our patrons to enjoy the performance at home,’ said executive director David Schillhammer.” Also planned are four classical programs from February through April, and a pops program in February.
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