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ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA, Vero Beach Florida, MUSIC IN VERO BEACH

Atlantic Classical Orchestra ready to celebrate 20th season

By Peter Pringle
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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Tom Poster

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Elmar Oliveira

ACO 2010 CONCERTS

Where: Waxlax Center for the Performing Arts, Vero Beach

When: 8 p.m. Jan. 7, Feb. 3, March 11, 25

Where: Lyric Theatre, Stuart

When: 4, 8 p.m. Jan. 8, Feb. 5, March 12, 26

Contact: (772) 460-0850

Online: www.acomusic.org

 

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VERO BEACH - In 1991 Andrew McMullan was retired, but he still had a goal: establishment of a professional classical music orchestra on the Treasure Coast.

McMullan raised his baton that November to signal the debut of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, in the Leonhardt Auditorium of the Vero Beach Museum of Art.

Now 86, the orchestra's founder - and first conductor and music director - plans to be in the audience for the launch of its 20th season, Jan. 7 at Vero Beach's Waxlax Center for the Performing Arts.

"My wife, Jean, and I had been visiting Vero Beach since 1950," McMullan said. "When we decided to move our principal residence there in the 1980s, we agreed that it had a great need - live classical orchestral music."

Even though the professional music performer and conductor had retired, he was not ready to sit back and do nothing. So he set about trying to fill the void.

"Orchestras were having a hard time financially, and I realized that Vero Beach alone would be unable to support an orchestra," he said. "I spent two years meeting with interested people in Vero Beach and Stuart, and determined that the two communities together could make it happen."

Initially, only half of the orchestra's 28 members were professionals.

But it took McMullan less than five years to realize his goal to make it fully professional. When he stepped down in 2004, to be succeeded by Stewart Robertson, it numbered 34.

The 2010 season will include works by, among others, Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Strauss and Schubert. Tchaikovsky Competition gold medalist Elmar Oliveira will perform Beethoven's "Violin Concerto."

Tom Poster will make his American debut as soloist in Schumann's "Piano Concerto," and young American composer Paul Dooley's "Pomo Canyon Air" will receive its Florida premiere.

"Establishing the Atlantic Classical Orchestra was one of the highlights of my music career," McMullan said. "When I handed over to Stewart, it was a very good orchestra. Now it's a great orchestra."

 

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