Maximilian Hornung, the 37-year-old German cellist, makes his living going from one city to another with his instrument, enjoying invitations from many of the world’s top orchestras and chamber groups.…
Nancy Chang might have the toughest job in town this week. As TFO’s associate concertmaster, she’s more than busy studying scores, rehearsing and performing with her colleagues. But for the…
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…
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…
It’s not often we hear music from a composer who lived more than 900 years ago, about the time of the Second Crusade and the building the Cathedral of Notre…