Bust out your classy mask to see the Tampa Bay Symphony perform “Chamber Delights: Dvorak, Barber & Grieg” at the Palladium Theater’s Hough Hall.
If you are not familiar with chamber music, think of a high-end classical house party. Shows were usually played in someone’s home and therefore involved fewer musicians. And this is why Tampa Bay Symphony has chosen to play in this arrangement—to pay tribute—except these days there are less musicians performing on stage because of the whole social distancing issue.
Sunday’s show will have four movements, each one focusing on a different composer’s piece written for a section of instruments, i.e. Antonin Dvorak‘s “Serenade for Winds, Opus 44.” Still doesn’t make sense? Does anything make sense anymore? Just go, and enjoy some music outside of your own chamber.
This is the first show of the Tampa Bay Symphony’s season. The next in the series are in February and April 2021, and according to its season brochure Tampa Bay Symphony hopes to get back to having the usual 80-plus ensemble by then. Just 25% of the Hough Hall’s 831 available seats will be made available for this one.
Tampa Bay Symphony. Sunday, Nov. 15, 2 p.m. $20. Hough Hall at the Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg. mypalladium.org
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This article appears in Nov 12-18, 2020.