Art, music create fairy-tale world for Ravel’s ‘Mother Goose’
This weekend The Florida Orchestra will present its fourth multimedia collaboration with Visual Artist-in-residence Geff …
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Pianist embraces intimacy of Covid concert world
Many years ago, when TFO was playing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the Mahaffey …
Watch The Florida Orchestra on WEDU TV this Friday
The Florida Orchestra debuts on WEDU-PBS television this Friday (Dec. 18) at 9 pm with Inside …
TFO streams annual Youth Concert on demand for Tampa Bay schools
TFO will not let the coronavirus pandemic stop our 50-year tradition of Youth Concerts for thousands of Tampa Bay students. For the first time, TFO is streaming its annual program on demand straight into the classroom.
Unmasking Mozart while playing it safe
For soloists Clay Ellerbroek and Anna Kate Mackle, the pandemic brings new challenges for Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp. But it’s worth it for “Mozart’s idea of heaven.”
For composer Jessie Montgomery, music is her voice
Juilliard-trained composer Jessie Montgomery finds her voice in music. Her engrossing work Strum opens our reimagined season this weekend. Read about how she composes on the TFO Blog.
Daniel Black named resident conductor
We are thrilled to announce that Daniel Black is our new resident conductor, our first in more than a decade. He conducts, composes and – new skill! – makes virtual orchestra videos during pandemics. Congratulations, Dan!
TFO goes virtual for free Prodigy violin lessons
TFO has not let the pandemic stop our free violin lessons for kids through the Prodigy Cultural Arts Program. We’ve gone virtual: “It’s a tough time right now, and any pocket of community or sense of belonging is so meaningful.”
TFO posts 100 free videos in TFO at Home series
We’ve hit 100 videos! That’s how many performance and education videos we’ve posted in our TFO at Home series since mid-March, when we vowed to keep the music going. All free.
Daniel Black named resident conductor
We are thrilled to announce that Daniel Black is our new resident conductor, our first in more than a decade. He conducts, composes and – new skill! – makes virtual orchestra videos during pandemics. Congratulations, Dan!
TFO goes virtual for free Prodigy violin lessons
TFO has not let the pandemic stop our free violin lessons for kids through the Prodigy Cultural Arts Program. We’ve gone virtual: “It’s a tough time right now, and any pocket of community or sense of belonging is so meaningful.”
TFO posts 100 free videos in TFO at Home series
We've hit 100 videos! That's how many performance and education videos we've posted in our TFO at Home series since mid-March, when we vowed to keep the music going. All free.
How the arts became essential in a pandemic world
Has the pandemic doomed orchestras and the arts, especially in the schools? No way. Not if we’re creative. A unique view from a TFO Teaching Artist during Teacher Appreciation Week.
Suffrage song gets new life through technology
Conductor and composer Daniel Black found inspiration in his great-grandmother, a prominent suffragette in Wisconsin in the early 20th century, for his arrangement of Daughters of Freedom. Learn more about how the video was created, today on the blog.
In isolation, listening to Beethoven with fresh ears
Some tips to listening to Beethoven’s Fifth in a new way, since we can’t listen to it live with TFO. Kurt Loft writes today on the TFO Blog.
We will keep bringing you music
A message from the maestro: We will keep bringing you music! Read Michael Francis' letter to our community.
We need a hero: TFO to air Beethoven’s Eroica on WSMR
TFO’s free live recording on WSMR radio is a truly heroic program: Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony and Strauss’ Don Quixote. Just what we need right now. Today on the TFO Blog.
Remembering famed composer Penderecki, TFO’s first-ever guest conductor
Kurt Loft remembers famed composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Not for his movie music, but as TFO’s first-ever guest conductor. Kurt takes us back to 1985.
I was really looking forward to Bach’s St. John Passion
As the isolation of the coronavirus continues, it’s a reminder of the magical moments – like Bach’s St. John Passion – that we’re missing in the concert hall. Kurt Loft writes, today on the TFO Blog.
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