Program Notes

Detailed and informative program notes authored by Kurt Loft, freelance writer and former music critic for The Tampa Tribune, will be available on our website before each of our Tampa Bay Times Masterworks concerts as they become available.

Beethoven’s Fifth with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Sept 24 – 26, 2021
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Symphonie Fantastique with Joël Vaisse on Trombone Concerto
Oct 23 & 24, 2021
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Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
Nov 6 & 7, 2021
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Pictures at an Exhibition with Augustin Hadelich on Prokofiev
Nov 13 & 14
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Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23
Dec 4 & 5
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Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with Gershwin’s Piano Concerto
Jan 8 & 9
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Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
Jan 22 & 23
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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay
Jan 28 – 30
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Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring Stravinsky’s The Firebird
Feb 19 & 20
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Time for Three
Mar 26 & 27
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Miloš Plays Concierto de Aranjuez
Apr 1 – 3
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Mozart’s Requiem
May 13 – 15
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Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5
May 21 & 22
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