Announcing TFO’s new podcast for program notes
The Florida Orchestra is now one of the first orchestras in the country to provide our audio program notes as a podcast. “SoundWaves with The Florida Orchestra” is available on…
A blazing, unforgettable performance of world-premiere concerto and more
Visceral is an apt one-word description of The Florida Orchestra’s Masterworks performance last weekend, which included a world premiere by a Tampa Bay composer and a blazing rendition of Tchaikovsky’s…
Tampa native delves into the creative process for TFO’s new Violin Concerto
The Florida Orchestra gives a birth of sorts during its upcoming Masterworks program, a musical child who enters the world on stage right before your ears. The father is Michael…
Pianist Alexandra Dariescu champions women composers, their legacy
For centuries, classical music has been akin to a private men’s club. Yes, many gifted performers and composers in the past were women, but the male monopoly and misogyny into…
Swan Lake meets Dracula: Top 10 classical masterpieces in movies
Growing up in Los Angeles as a kid, I was hooked on all the Hollywood monster movies that my liberal parents allowed me to watch on late-night television. My traditional…
Carmina Burana Afterthoughts: A rousing start to the season
If you attended the Tampa Bay Bucs game and a TFO concert over the weekend, you got a supercharged dose of the same music. Both football and orchestra fans felt…
TFO goes fully digital with concert program pages
As we open our 55th season this week, The Florida Orchestra is making a bold and exciting change that will improve your access to a wealth of concert information while…
Amadeus Live: The genius of Mozart comes alive with TFO
Not everyone got to know Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by listening to his masterpieces through concerts and recordings. Millions met him in Miloš Forman’s 1984 film Amadeus, a fictionalized vision of…
An extraordinary gift: Nearly 100-year-old Steinway piano starts new life with student
The nearly 100-year-old Steinway & Sons piano stood quiet and alone in the living room of Mari Reive’s empty childhood home in St. Petersburg, where it had been the center…
Afterthoughts: Enthralling, creative night of Mozart’s Requiem and so much more
Florida Orchestra listeners went back in time over the weekend, visiting music dressed in Medieval, Renaissance, Classical and 20th century garb. This was no ordinary program: Teaming up with the…