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“Just reading Poe (builds that eerie feel),” says Gary Mazzu. “It can still affect me every time I read it ... It’s hard to read ‘Annabel Lee’ without choking you up.”

The Powel Crosley Estate is perfect for weddings, but it’s also perfect for the graphic and thrilling Poe stories this Halloween.

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The Powel Crosley Estate is perfect for weddings, but it’s also perfect for the graphic and thrilling Poe stories this Halloween.

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“People should attend because they’ll find it enjoyable and thought-provoking,” Gary Mazzu says. “And because it’s an example of work from an author who is one of the best classic authors in the history of the United States.” Actress Lauren Wood haunts in the background.

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// ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT Crosley’s theater program, Artistic Director Gary Mazzu, appreciates Poe more as a master of literature than for his horror-filled content. He sits at a table in the great room beneath the pecky cypress beams as he explains.

The windows aren’t yet covered with dark black curtains as they will be for the performance.

“Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most amazing authors in our history,” he says.

Mazzu should know, he read about 50 hours’ worth of Poe to choose the stories they’d read this year: “Mask of the Red Death,” “The Black Cat,” “The Conqueror Worm” and “Annabel Lee.” He reads this much each time he plans a Poe reading — this is the seventh or eighth time; he has lost count.

As artistic director, Mazzu always chooses the work the actors perform — he says they’ve done around 22 or 23 classics but, again, he has lost count: Shakespeare, Dickens, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Wilde are a few examples he rattles off before pausing to flash a big toothy grin.

“You can guess I love the classics,” he says.

Mazzu started as an actor and director. He was directing Renaissance festivals and performing as a traveling Celtic musician playing guitar and penny whistle. In 2001, he moved here to live seasonally. Shortly after moving here, Mazzu co-produced a Celtic show at the Bradenton Area Convention Center — the Visitor’s Bureau operates a second venue, the Powel Crosley Estate.

Lauren Wood will perform selected Poe readings at this year’s performance.

IF YOU GO ‘Poe at the Crosley’ and the House of Horrors Live theater performance with the Poe’s House of Horrors When: 6:30 and 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21 through Thursday, Oct. 24, and Sunday, Oct. 27, through Wednesday, Oct. 30 Where: Powel Crosley Estate, 8374 N. Tamiami Trail

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Last year’s room themed after Poe’s “HopFrog” (top) and “Mask of the Red Death” (left).

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Mazzu took a tour of the Powel Crosley with two of the tourism directors at the time. He stepped out into the courtyard and re-

marked that it would be the best place for Shakespeare. In 2004, he directed the first theater program: Shakespeare’s “Twelfth

Night.”

Mazzu prefers Christmas at the Crosley the most.

“I love the warmth of working with Charles Dickens,” he says.

When sitting in the great room, it’s easy to picture the grounds decorated in greenery; it would make a picturesque performance space for cheery Dickens. With a knockout view of the water, the grounds are also great for weddings and events.

But, this year — it’s a killer spot for murders.

“It’s going to be a mysterious year,” Mazzu says with a laugh.

In January, he’s planning “Murder at the Crosley” featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s work.

“Not many people know this, but Poe was the originator of the first detective story,” he says excitedly. “(His character) Auguste Dupin, was the first detective; it’s who Sir Arthur Conon Doyle modeled Sherlock Holmes on.”

Mazzu pictures Poe as a personable man — not some deranged author cooped up at late hours of the night getting drunk and smelling of opium.

Although many believe Poe died from alcohol, Mazzu thinks differently. He says Poe loved animals and has read studies that suggest Poe’s death was the result of being bit by a rabid dog.

Mazzu likes to believe Poe led a fairly clean life and harbored his tortures and torments, just like anyone else.

“I think I could have hung out with Edgar Allan Poe and chatted with him,” Mazzu says. “That would have been delightful.”

YOUROBSERVER.COM // See a video with artistic director Gary Mazzu and actress Lauren Wood.

Five things that inspire Gary Mazzu: 1. Actors I work with —Because the actors bring their own creative energies to anything we work on together; whether it’s Shakespeare, Dickens or Oscar Wilde. Everybody brings a sense and sensibility to it that’s just a Shakespeare delight.

2. Authors — The work of authors, most of them who are no longer with us.

3. Music — The wealth of music Poe I’ve had the opportunity to listen to and play is inspiring.

4. Athletes — I’m inspired by people who in sports can attain that highest level of focus, concentration and athleticism.

5. Patrick Murphy and Viola Spolin — He introduced me to her. She wrote “Improvisations for the Theatre” in the ’60s, and I worked with her in the ’70s.

Her work has been tapped into and used Spolin by everyone. All of the improv troupes you see first utilized her work or offshoots of her work.

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Sarasotans celebrate Giuseppe Verdi’s 200th birthday Giuseppe Verdi’s 200th birthday would have been Thursday, Oct. 10 — the day Sarasota Opera hosted a celebration and open house. The normally quiet Selby Public Library was filled with live opera performances. Then, patrons walked the red carpet from the library to the Sarasota Opera House where they could roam freely. There were backstage tours, wig-and-costume demonstrations, performances in the lobby and opera house, and a rehearsal room where attendees learned the familiar music “Va, pensiero” from Verdi’s “Nabucco.” At the end of the evening, guests enjoyed cake and a group singa-long of the song.

In 2016, Sarasota Opera will complete its Verdi Cycle — playing every note Verdi ever published. Sarasota Opera is the only company in the world pursuing such a feat.

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One young patron in line said, “I bet there’s one person for every year Verdi was born.” There were hundreds of people that attended the Sarasota Opera House for the celebration.

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Pam Bernstein and Carol Fraser walk the red carpet from the library to the Sarasota Opera House to continue the celebration.

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special celebration. Confessore conducted a sprightly reading of Nicolai’s overture to “The Merry Wives of Windsor” to get things going, followed by Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, in B minor, which was the longest work on the program.

Saint-Saens’ whirling Bacchanale from “Samson and Delilah” was followed by the well-known Hungarian March from Berlioz’s “Damnation of Faust.” And then came a nostalgic performance of part of the “Two Elegiac Melodies” by Grieg, the rollicking “Perpetual Motion” by Johann Strauss Jr., a dated but charming arrangement of Porter’s “In the Still of the Night” and, finally, an energetic reading of the Russian Sailor’s Dance from “The Red Poppy” by Gliere.

See what I mean about a hodge-podge?

Times were different when they programmed that way. Of course, there were also no cell phones to interrupt the music (as there were Saturday night) and there was no air-conditioning to cool the audience and keep the instruments in tune.

There was also probably no clue about the future of this ensemble that grew from a few music-loving instrumentalists to a fully professional orchestra that can stand among the finest in the country. As Confessore said at the conclusion of the planned program, “Back 65 years ago, they did encores.”

And so, we heard two more pieces. At the request of Sarasota Orchestra’s new music director, Anu Tali — who spoke to the audience via video — the ensemble played an excerpt from the slow movement of Dvorak’s symphony, “From the New World.” It was the portion that contains the reflective folk song, “Going Home,” evoking a sense of the new Estonian conductor’s feelings about coming to this new world.

But, rather than ending on that wistful note, the orchestra geared up for a stirring delivery of the finale from Stravinsky’s “Firebird,” proving that our orchestra is, indeed, at home with various styles and has an even brighter future ahead.

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As Cole Porter wrote in “Anything Goes,” “Times have changed and we’ve often rewound the clock … ” The clock was rewound Saturday night at the Opera House, when the Sarasota Orchestra celebrated its 65th anniversary with a recreation of its very first concert. The program, originally created by Dr. Lyman Wiltse in 1949 with the (then) Florida West Coast Symphony, was certainly different from the types of concerts we hear these days and, in a way, it was an anything goes sort of program; a musical hodge-podge of short pieces starting with an overture, going on to a well-known symphony and then making its way through short showstoppers and blockbusters that would please everyone from the serious concert-goer to the “bobbysoxers” in the audience.

Whether Wiltse chose the music 65 years ago because he thought it made a good program or because the pieces fit the musicians (and scores) he had on hand really doesn’t matter. The important thing to remember is, through his effort, music was born in Sarasota, and we’ve seen a grand evolution of an orchestra that’s grown in size, stature and sound.

Guest conductor Christopher Confessore, who led Saturday evening’s performance, told us he’d heard his first symphony orchestra concert in the mid-1970s, when he attended a program by the Florida West Coast Symphony and now, here he is, not only conducting ensembles around the world but also standing on the podium in front of this very same orchestra.

There were other nostalgic stories told, thanks to various videos shown between the pieces of music. Dan Jordan, the orchestra’s concertmaster since the late 1990s, shared the incredible story of his violin, an instrument more than 300 years old that he spotted in a shop in Boston before he moved to Sarasota. He fell in love with the instrument but couldn’t afford it. But fate stepped in. He won the position as concertmaster in Sarasota and the violin, which had been in the hands of Florida West Coast Symphony concertmasters before him, made its way back to Sarasota and into his hands, thanks to the generosity of Ernest and Alisa Kretzmer, who purchased the violin for Jordan and future concertmasters.

Verbal nostalgia is moving, but it was the music that really set the tone for this

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RINGLING INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Read excerpts from reviews below and full reviews online at YourObserver.com. // Stephen Prutsman & The Aeolus Quartet This season’s Ringling International Arts Festival was smaller than in past years but still offered some stunning — and unusual — performances that ran the gamut from dance and theater to chamber music and films. The event that came closest to what we think of these days as a concert, was a showing of Buster Keaton’s 1924 silent film, “Sherlock, Jr,” a clever, rollicking, imaginative, creative bit of small-screen movie-making that proves the 21st century doesn’t have quite the lock on innovation we think it has.

Pianist/composer Stephen Prutsman put together a charming score that he and the Aeolus Quartet performed, live, as we were sent hurtling through time to a gentler, funnier and, yes, more ingenious way of life ...

— June LeBell

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// Leev Theater Group’s ‘Hamlet, Prince of Grief’ When you think “Hamlet,” you tend to think big. Vast historical recreations on stage and screen. Big performances. Rolling words by John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier. Rolling eyes by Mel Gibson. The play’s the thing, after all. And it’s a very big play.

But Iran’s Leev Theater Group thinks small.

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— Marty Fugate

// Rocío Molina ‘Danzaora y Vinática’ Rocío Molina’s flamenco performance at the Ringling International Arts Festival, “Danzaora y Vinática,” was hypnotizing with the rhythms created by Molina’s movements, the traditional Spanish ballads, strums of the guitar and hand clapping that kept the beat.

Molina is truly passionate about the flamenco style and has been awarded for her skill and creativity in the dance style.

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The Ringling International Arts Festival held its fifth annual Opening Night celebration “RIAF Inspires: Timeless Style” Wednesday, Oct. 9. The evening began with a cocktail reception on the newly designed Gatehouse Patio.

Executive Director Steven High made a few announcements before the guests made their way to Mertz Theatre for an Opening

Night performance by Rocío Molina.

“This celebration of contemporary art is truly a unique experience for Sarasota,” says High, expressing the significance of this festival to the guests.

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Fiancé Ethan Biter made his romantic debut at the end with flowers for his mother, future mother-in-law and bride-to-be. The couple will be married in the spring at The Ringling.

Sarasota Ballet’s Mary Anne Servian got engaged to John Simon over a romantic dinner Sept. 20. The couple initially met when Servian was mayor and Simon was working on Pineapple Square. They later re-

connected at a DSA meeting, during which Simon announced that Pineapple Square had space on Lemon Avenue for a non-profit to use. Before he finished the sentence, Servian claimed the space for Sarasota Ballet’s Studio 20. The couple will be married May 17, at Church of the Redeemer.

Local news anchor Lauren Dorsett also got engaged Sept. 20 — fiancé Brian McDonnell proposed at Paradise Cove in Malibu, the same spot his father proposed to his mother. The couple has known each other since Dorsett was 16 — they even dated in high school. Sadly, the ABC 7 anchor will be leaving the station next month.

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ocal designer Camilyn Leavitt hosted her first runway collection at New Orleans Fashion Week Sept. 28 through Oct. 5. Leavitt, who launched her first collection in 2012, named Camilyn Beth, featured 23 looks during the show. This is the third collection for the designer, who specializes in dresses.

The setting for Leavitt’s show was a raw abandoned building in downtown New Orleans. The rooftop of the creole-style building was a perfect match for debuting Leavitt’s chic line of dresses, and music by Passion Pit, Robyn and MIA really pulled the downtown fashion week feel together.

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as they arrived and took their seats. The 23 looks were modeled by 12 models, one of whom was Leavitt’s sister, Ashten Weniger.

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Among the attendees at the show was Hattie of Hattie Sparks Boutique — the first boutique to carry Leavitt’s line.

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Coming out at the end of my runway show and seeing my best friends and family beaming with excitement and seeing the same tears of happiness that I had in my eyes was absolutely priceless. I know they share the same excitement of dreams coming to life, and I share the same excitement every time I see them make big career moves and see them reach their goals.

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