Susan Giles Wantuck

3 weeks ago | wusf.org | Susan Giles Wantuck

Artist Christopher Still is known for his love of history and for representing Florida’s natural heritage across portraits, murals, landscapes and still life. He’s painted the portraits of important people, like the late governor of Florida, Lawton Chiles. And if you pass through Tampa International Airport, Airside C, you may see his sculpture "q" and his painting, “Final Boarding Call” that hints at TPA’s history.

1 month ago | wusf.org | Susan Giles Wantuck

The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg exhibition, “Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese Dress,” showcases more than 100 pieces of decorative clothing, as well as photographs and paintings, and books on kimono design. The objects come from three separate collections and are on loan from Sue Castner, Peter Kuhlmann and his partner Diane Gilmour, and William Roth, who shared kimonos from his late wife Norma Canelas Roth's collection.

1 month ago | wusf.org | Susan Giles Wantuck

The storytelling in “Disney’s The Lion King” is imbued with languages such as Zulu, Swahili, French, English and Xhosa. Its music also comes from instruments from across the world, like a Romanian pan flute, a Peruvian toyo and the Irish flute, which represents the story’s spiritual guide, a baboon named Rafiki. Broadway musical veteran Darlene Drew is in the orchestra pit for "The Lion King" at the Straz Center in Tampa now through April 20.

2 months ago | wusf.org | Susan Giles Wantuck

Florida has a long history of tourist attractions that stretch back before the highways were put in. Jim Clark, a senior lecturer in history at the University of Central Florida, said if the Jamestown colonists had only known, they could have had a better time of things in the new country. “If they had sailed a few 100 miles south, they could have checked into a hotel in St. Augustine and ordered room service. We don't realize Florida was first in everything,” he said.

Jan 7, 2025 | wusf.org | Susan Giles Wantuck

Florida Orchestra audiences will experience a work they’ve probably never heard before on the weekend of Jan. 11. Guest Conductor Nicholas Hersh is excited for people to hear William Dawson’s “Negro Folk Symphony.”Dawson wove spirituals throughout the symphony, and perhaps the most recognizable one is, “Go Down Moses.”“Dawson was one of the most important African American composers who lived and worked out of the Harlem Renaissance period in the in the early 20th century.