Coffee Concerts
Best-Loved Symphonies
Teddy Abrams conducts this morning Coffee Concert featuring select movements from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, and Haydn's Symphony No. 94 (Surprise). Enjoy complimentary coffee and doughnuts as well as a pre-concert conversation one hour before the concert.
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM
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Pops Series
A Night in the Tropics
with Charles Lazarus
Warm up during the winter with a musical getaway of soft sultry sambas, moving mambos, sizzling hot trumpet solos with a tropical flavor and hip-swaying rhythms from Cuba, Brazil, Hawaii and other exotic locales.
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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An Intimate Collaboration
The Florida Orchestra and The Studio@620 present the third season of “An Intimate Collaboration,” a series of entertaining and seriously fun happenings right in our own back yard.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Studio@620
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Studio@620
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Studio@620
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Masterworks
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
Hailed as “a gigantic talent” by The Baltimore Sun, Valentina Lisitsa reveals the rapturous beauty and rhapsodic themes of one of the most popular of all romantic concertos, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2...in a night with Nielsen’s Helios Overture and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1.
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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Special Concerts
Dennis DeYoung: The Music of Styx
With lead singer Dennis DeYoung, it’s a symphonic rock tribute to such classic Styx hits as Lady, Babe, Come Sail Away, Best of Times, Lorelei, Don’t Let It End, Show Me the Way, Rockin’ the Paradise, Light Up, Suite Madame Blue, Desert Moon and more.
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Coffee Concerts
Viennese Delights
This matinee concert features Strauss Jr's Tritsch Tratsch Polka, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Overture, Lehar's The Merry Widow Overture. Complimentary coffee and doughnuts will be served.
Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
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Rock On Broadway
It’s a rockin’ night on the Great White Way with peace, love and electric guitars…featuring music from the best rock musicals of the 70s, 80s and 90s: Rent, Chess, Hair, Little Shop of Horrors, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Godspell.
Friday, March 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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Masterworks
Voices of Spring
Embrace the promise of springtime, the spirit of renewal and the carefree days of warmer weather with Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, “Spring.”
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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Brahms' Symphony No. 4
Acclaimed simply as “one of the greats” by the Manchester Evening News, internationally renowned conductor Günther Herbig is joined by Principal Trumpet Robert Smith in Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto on a program with Brahms’ mighty Symphony No. 4.
Friday, April 13, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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Coffee Concerts
Celebrate Broadway
Stuart Malina conducts this morning concert that features Gershwin's Overture to Girl Crazy, Andrew Lloyd-Webber's The Phantom of the Opera Selections, and Sullivan's Overture to The Mikado. Complimentary coffee and doughnuts will be served.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM
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Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM
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American Songbook Encore
Get on board this hit parade of best-loved songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen and Cole Porter…I’ve Got Rhythm, Our Love Is Here to Stay, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, The Man I Love, I’ve Got the World on a String, Old Black Magic, Too Darn Hot, Night and Day, I Get a Kick Out of You and many more.
Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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A Musical Feast
James Tocco gives the United States premiere of 19th century composer Eduard Franck’s Piano Concerto No. 1 that has recently been rediscovered, as part of this musical feast of spirited overtures from Weber’s Oberon, Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lortzing’s Der Waffenschmied and Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, along with Wagner’s Die Meistersinger: Prelude.
Friday, April 27, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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Park Concerts
Pops in the Park
Pack a picnic basket and enjoy a free Pops in the Park Concert under the stars with The Florida Orchestra for a program of fun and familiar favorites.
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Curtis Hixon - TPA
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Special Concerts
Michael Cavanaugh:
The Music of Billy Joel
Hailed by The New York Times as simply “amazing,” Michael Cavanaugh belts out such show-stopping Billy Joel classics such as Movin’ Out, Just the Way You Are, It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me, New York State of Mind, We Didn’t Start the Fire, Piano Man, My Life, You May Be Right, Tell Her About It, She’s Got a Way, Uptown Girl and more.
Friday, May 4, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Rhythms of Cuba
In a Latin flavored program, Music Director of La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba Enrique Pérez Mesa is joined by Principal Timpanist John Bannon in James Lewis’ Cubanitis for solo timpani and orchestra on a program with Carlos Fariñas’ Penthesilea: Preludio, Guido López-Gavilán’s Ritmotiv, José Pablo Moncayo’s Huapango and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, Classical.
Friday, May 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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Coffee Concerts
Once Upon a Time
Featuring Ravel's Beauty and the Beast from Mother Goose Suite, Tchaikovsky's Waltz from Swan Lake, and Williams' ET: Adventures on Earth, Stuart Malina conducts this morning Coffee Concert, with complimentary coffee and doughnuts served before the performance.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM
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Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM
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Postcards from Paris
Enjoy a celebration of the City of Lights with romantic French melodies, Edith Piaf classics, Josephine Baker hits, Parisian café music, Django Reinhardt’s gypsy jazz, high-kicking can-cans, soaring film scores by Michel Legrand and more.
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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Beethoven's Eroica
Singled out by The New York Times as “brilliant, sensitive and imaginative,” Martina Filjak performs Ravel’s gloriously coloristic Piano Concerto in G Major with its mix of jazz motifs, meditative melodies and sparkling energy...on a program with Chabrier’s Habanera and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica.
Friday, May 25, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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