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Don't miss these arts and entertainment events around Sarasota and Manatee counties this week.

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There’s nothing like an uplifting classical mass with full choral and orchestral forces to uplift the soul after a year of pandemic restrictions and for some social isolation. Key Chorale’s new online program “Coronation: Mozart & Haydn” is a crowning achievement and well worth pulling up more than once. Josef Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were contemporaries, friends, mentor and mentee. The younger Mozart composed his Coronation Mass, KV 317 in 1779 for an Easter service at Salzburg Cathedral, although the mass got its name from a second performance for the coronation of the Ho...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Joseph Haydn were close friends in Austria in the late 18th century, often playing string quartets together and, as friends will do, exchanging ideas about music. Two pieces of liturgical music, Mozart’s Mass in C Major from 1779, nicknamed the Coronation Mass, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, composed in 1798, will showcase the two composers in a performance by Key Chorale to be streamed in March. Soprano Suzanne Karpov will join baritone Jamal Sarikoki, tenor Matt Morgan and mezzo soprano Amy Connours for the performance, which was recorded at First Presby...

Arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 31-Jan. 6 Dancing into a new year The Sarasota Ballet kicks off the new year with its third digital program of excerpts from a wide variety of pieces by six different choreographers. The company announced in December that it would continue its online presentations through the rest of the season. The latest offering, available Friday through Tuesday features Peter Darrell’s “Othello,” Christopher Wheeldon’s “The American,” Sir Matthew Bourne’s “The Infernal Galop,” Sir Peter Wright’s “The Mirror Walkers” and “Summertide,” Sir ...