A promotional photo for the 2013 Sarasota Music Festival.
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Paul Wolfe, the long-time music director of the Sarasota Orchestra, launched the New College Music Festival in 1965. The orchestra took over operations in 1985. Wolfe retired from the festival in in 2006 and died at age 90 in 2016.
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A scene from a 2013 Sarasota Music Festival concert.
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The late violinist Joseph Silverstein was a mainstay of the annual summer before his death in 2015.
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Clockwise from top left, Christopher Thompson, of St. Louis, Missouri, Daniel Cotter, 26, of Cleveland, Ohio, Carolyn Landis of Allentown, Pennsylvania and Michael Garza of Mission Texas, were fellows at the Sarasota Music Festival in the mid 1990s.
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Violinist Alexander Kerr instructs student Ann Cho during a 2019 Sarasota Music Festival master class
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Fellows at the 2013 Sarasota Music Festival perform in Holley Hall.
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Fellows at the 2017 Sarasota Music Festival compare notes about music they’ll be playing during the three weeks of concerts and masterclasses.
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