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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…