3 weeks ago Share Where the Sarasota Orchestra lands will be a pivotal influence on the city of Sarasota’s cultural future. Oh, what a dilemma: Finding a home for the Sarasota Orchestra — and for Sarasota’s many other fine community music groups. A home that could be, should be, a premier music performing center. When you put serious thought into this issue, it’s not just some simple site search. In the grander scheme, this issue should be regarded as one of the most important generational decisions facing the city of Sarasota at this particular moment. It is not exaggerating to say where the orchestra lands will have a pivotal influence on the future of the city as the epicenter of the region’s philanthropy and the arts and its bragging rights as the cultural capital of Florida.