Not many symphony orchestras are also in the book publishing business, but Tallahassee's Symphony is. The orchestra launched its very first book on Sunday, Nov. 19.
The book is entitled: "T is for Tallahassee: The ABCs of our Musical Community." It's illustrated by 26 local visual artists, including Eluster Richardson:
"This is a brilliant idea to bring Tallahassee artists, joined at the hip, and focus on how wonderful Tallahassee is through music."
And Marina Brown:
"It's all done under the auspices of the Tallahassee Symphony, that they would have the intuitive skill to bring together art and music and in a way literature, too, because that's covered in the book."
And the Symphony's CEO, Mandy Stringer, credited local arts promoter Amanda Karioth Thompson for putting the final project together.
"The stars aligned and Amanda came along and I called her and said, 'Hey! Do you want to look at this project we're interested in doing? Is is something you'd be interested in?' And the rest is history."
