2010/2011 Season
Raymond James Pops
Fridays in Tampa – 8 concerts
Time for Three
Fri, Oct 29, 8 pm, Straz Center
Hailed by The San Francisco Chronicle as “remarkable virtuosos” and The Washington Post as simply “dazzling,” Time for Three has jazz, pop, bluegrass, gypsy tunes, classics and more flying off their fiddles with great flair and an infectious sense of fun.
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Wicked Divas on Broadway
Fri, Nov 26, 8 pm, Straz Center
Treat yourself to hit tunes and best-loved songs from such Broadway blockbusters as Gypsy, Evita, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Ragtime, Music Man, Wicked and more...with two delightful divas from the hit musical Wicked.
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A Holiday Pops
Fri, Dec 10, 8 pm, Straz Center
Share in this wonderful time of the year with family and friends in a joyous concert of all-time favorite yuletide tunes, Christmas carols, musical chestnuts and heart-felt holiday hits.
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The One and Only Louis Armstrong
Fri, Jan 7, 8 pm, Straz Center
Revisit the magic and the music of the great Louis Armstrong with Byron Stripling, the star of the hit musical, Satchmo: America’s Musical Legend. Hailed by The Chicago Tribune as “a charismatic soloist,” Stripling plays Sweet Georgia Brown, Honeysuckle Rose, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and more.
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The Great American Songbook
Fri, Feb 11, 8 pm, Straz Center
Celebrate an evening of everybody’s favorite songs about love, joy, hope and dreams come true with hits by Johnny Mercer, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin and more...all with Broadway stars Teri Dale Hansen and Norm Lewis.
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Opera Goes Pops
Fri, Mar 4, 8 pm, Straz Center
It’s a pops parade of some of the best-loved opera hits that everybody knows from commercials, cartoons and favorite films…Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Bizet’s Carmen, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Puccini’s La Boheme and Verdi’s Force of Destiny, among others.
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Hot! Hot! Hot! A Night at the Copa
Fri, Apr 8, 8 pm, Straz Center
In a musical tribute to New York’s famed hot spot, The Copacabana, Grammy Award-winning arranger Victor Vanacore leads the orchestra in a night of sizzling Latin dance rhythms...cha cha, tango, salsa, samba, mambo, merengue and more.
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Totally Awesome 80s
Fri, May 20, 8 pm, Straz Center
From the decade that brought us MTV, big hair, and Michael Jackson’s sequin glove, it’s a salute to some of the best-loved pop and rock artists of the 1980s with your orchestra playing “like, totally rad” music by Madonna, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Prince, Chicago, Cyndi Lauper, Elton John, Peter Gabriel and more.
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