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Mendelssohn's Elijah

A musical experience of dramatic and even operatic proportions, Mendelssohn’s Elijah takes flight with soaring lyrical arias and choral passages of overpowering beauty, reaching such levels of intensity that it blurs the lines between angelic qualities and pure savage power.

Coffee Concerts

Russian Extravaganza

Alastair Willis conducts this morning concert that features Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture, and Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise. Concertgoers are invited to attend a pre-concert conversation one hour before the concert. Complimentary coffee and donuts will be served.

Pops Series

A Century of Broadway

With hits spanning from George M. Cohan to Andrew Lloyd Web­ber, it’s a celebration of a century of Broadway’s best from Desert Song, Naughty Marietta, Showboat, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Chicago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd and more.

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Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5

Singled out for her “passionate” and “virtuosic” playing by The New York Times, Elena Urioste performs Mozart’s melody-rich Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish, in a night that includes Arvo Pärt’s mystical-toned Fratres and Prokofiev’s musical telling of Cinderella.

Park Concerts

Pops in the Park

Sit under the stars with your Florida Orchestra offering a fun mix of symphonic and pops favorites at this FREE outdoor concert. Program to be announced soon!

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The New World Symphony

Enjoy the celebratory themes and delightfully uplifting fanfares of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World, in a night with the whispering string chorale of Ives’ Unanswered Question and Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta with its inventive themes and unique staging.

Special Concerts

The Blue Planet Live!

Experience the magical world of some of the ocean’s most fascinating creatures accompanied by George Fenton’s glorious multi-award winning score performed live by The Florida Orchestra.

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Ginastera's Harp Concerto

Principal Harpist Anna Kate Mackle performs Ginastera’s virtuosic and rhythmically energetic Harp Concerto…on a program with Golijov’s Last Round, a homage to tango master Astor Piazzolla, Wagner’s tender and eloquent Siegfried Idyll and Beethoven’s sunny Symphony No. 1.

Coffee Concerts

Wonderful Waltzes

Featuring Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, Rodger’s Carousel, and Strauss’ Blue Danube, Alastair Willis conducts this morning Coffee Concert, with complimentary coffee and donuts served before the performance.

Pops Series

Classic James Bond

In a night of “symphonic espionage” relive the thrills, the spills and the ever-so-cool chills of 007…”Bond, James Bond”… with hits from Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, Thunderball, Casino Royale, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and other films.

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Günther Herbig Conducts

For the season finale, internationally renowned conductor Günther Herbig opens the evening with Schubert’s beautifully buoyant and joyful Symphony No. 5, chock full of wonderful melodies. It is paired with Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 with its idyllic pastoral mood and lyrical themes that transform into a spirited and fiery conclusion.

2010/2011 Season Announced

Looking for information on the 2010/2011 season? Click here to view available subscription packages, or scroll down to view the full 2010/2011 schedule.

2010/ 2011 subscriptions on sale now!  Single tickets go on sale August 9.

Masterworks

2010/2011 Season
Opening Night: Pines of Rome

Hometown favorite Thomas Wilkins returns to open the season with Respighi’s larger-than-life Pines of Rome along with Beckel’s Toccata for Orchestra, Faure’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances and Liszt’s Les Préludes.

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2010/2011 Season
Haydn's The Creation

Considered to be one of Haydn’s greatest works, this oratorio is a musical offering of piety, reverence and sublime inspiration that overflows with soaring arias, angelic multi-voice themes and explosively gorgeous choral passages.     

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Coffee Concerts

2010/2011 Season
Music, Mystery and Magic

Enjoy complimentary coffee and donuts at this morning concert featuring Dukas's Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Herrmann's Psycho Suite.

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Pops Series

2010/2011 Season
Time for Three

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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2010/2011 Season
Mahler's Symphony No. 6

This is Mahler with his powers to excite and even overwhelm at their highest, and in spite of the music’s many intensely dark moods, the symphony is exhilarating, offering listeners an extraordinarily  rewarding musical experience.

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2010/2011 Season
Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Principal Bassoonist Anthony Georgeson performs Mozart’s Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat major, K.191 on a program with the composer's spirited Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Ravel’s elegant and courtly Le Tombeau de Couperin and Stravinsky’s driving and highly rhythmic Symphony in Three Movements.

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2010/2011 Season
Wicked Divas on Broadway

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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2010/2011 Season
Dvorak's Cello Concerto

Hailed by Strings Magazine for his “stunning virtuosity,” Mark Kosower performs Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B minor with its deliciously visceral beauty and soaring melodies bursting with sunlight.  This concert opens with Brahms’ youthfully optimistic Serenade No. 1.

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Coffee Concerts

2010/2011 Season
Spirit of America

Alastair Willis conducts this morning Coffee Concert that features Gershwin's Porgy and Bess Suite, Copland's Billy the Kid Suite and Hindemith's Ragtime. Don't miss the pre-concert conversation and complimentary coffee and donuts one hour before the concert.

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Pops Series

2010/2011 Season
A Holiday Pops

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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2010/2011 Season
A Musical Tour:
St. Petersburg, Russia

Featuring Tchaikovsky's Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, Shostakovich's Tahiti Trot/Tea for Two and Prokofiev's Balcony Scene from Romeo and Juliet, Alastair Willis conducts the morning Coffee Concert, with complimentary coffee and donuts served before the performance.

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Pops Series

2010/2011 Season
The One and Only Louis Armstrong

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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2010/2011 Season
Hello Dali

Celebrate the new Salvador Dalí Museum with a dose of eccentricity and fun: Beethoven’s Consecration of the House, Heinz Karl Gruber’s Frankenstein!! A Pan-Demonium for Chansonnier & Ensemble, Darius Milhaud’s Le boef sur le toit, Debussy’s orchestration of Eric Satie’s Gymnopedies, and Manuel de Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2.

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2010/2011 Season
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto

Hailed by The Cleveland Plain Dealer as a “prodigious and aristocratic violinist,” concertmaster Jeffrey Multer performs Tchaikovsky’s rhapsodic Violin Concerto on this all-Tchaikovsky program featuring his Symphony No. 2, Little Russian, full of rich colors and spirited Ukrainian folk tunes.
 

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Coffee Concerts

2010/2011 Season
Orchestra Showcase

Alastair Willis conducts this morning Coffee Concert featuring Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, R. Strauss' Serenade and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Enjoy complimentary coffee and donuts as well as a pre-concert conversation one hour before the concert.

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Pops Series

2010/2011 Season
The Great American Songbook

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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2010/2011 Season
Gershwin's Concerto in F

Lauded by the San Francisco Chronicle as simply “breathtaking,” Stewart Goodyear plays Gershwin’s high-energy and blues-laced Concerto in F on a program with a new work by Osvaldo Golijov and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 with its sparkling Bohemian-inspired melodies.

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2010/2011 Season
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Opening  with Arnold Schoenberg’s ethereal hymn for eternal peace, Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth), the orchestra and chorale join forces for one of the most life-affirming works of music in its celebration of hope and the human spirit: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

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Coffee Concerts

2010/2011 Season
A Musical Tour: Paris, France

This matinee concert features Debussy's Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun, Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess and Faure's Masques et Bergamasques. Concertgoers are invited to attend a pre-concert conversation one hour before the concert. Complimentary coffee and donuts will be served.

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Pops Series

2010/2011 Season
Opera Goes Pops

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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2010/2011 Season
Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No. 4

Acclaimed German pianist Peter Rösel performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 on this program with Luciano Berio’s orchestration of Contrapunctus XIX from Bach’s The Art of Fugue.  The evening concludes with Shostakovich’s final symphony, No. 15.

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2010/2011 Season
Elgar's Enigma Variations

Lauded by the Los Angeles Times for a “first-rate technique,” Alexander Mickelthwate is joined by Principal Second Violinist Sarah Shellman for Thomas Adès’ Violin Concerto with its devilishly difficult high melodic lines on a program with Haydn’s Symphony No. 59 and Elgar’s beloved Enigma Variations.

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Coffee Concerts

2010/2011 Season
A Musical Tour:
Vienna, Austria

Alastair Willis conducts this morning concert that features Principal Clarinet Brian Moorhead on a program with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, Beethoven's Egmont Overture, and  J. Strauss, Jr's  Tales from the Vienna Woods. Concertgoers are invited to attend a pre-concert conversation one hour before the concert. Complimentary coffee and donuts will be served.

2010/ 2011 subscriptions on sale now! 
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Pops Series

2010/2011 Season
Hot! Hot! Hot!
A Night at the Copa

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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2010/2011 Season
Rachmaninoff's
Piano Concerto No. 3

Acclaimed by The Boston Globe as a “dazzling Russian pianist,” Lilya Zilberstein performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with its cascading luscious melodies and thundering chords.  The program includes the melancholic beauty of Sibelius’ Symphony No. 7 as well as his melody-rich tone poem En Saga.

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2010/2011 Season
Bruckner's Romantic Symphony

The evening opens with John Adams’ Doctor Atomic Symphony with its pervasive sense of fear about the atomic bomb.  This is followed by Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, “Romantic,” with its luscious colors, glittering melodies and triumphant symphonic exultations.

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Coffee Concerts

2010/2011 Season
Alastair's Choice

Featuring Verdi's Forza del Destino Overture, Gliere's Russian Sailors Dance, and Piazzolla's Tango No. 2, Alastair Willis conducts this morning Coffee Concert, with complimentary coffee and donuts served before the performance.

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Pops Series

2010/2011 Season
Totally Awesome 80s

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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2010/2011 Season
Brahms' Violin Concerto

Acclaimed by The New York Times  as “a brilliant violinist,” Augustin Hadelich performs Brahms’ Violin Concerto on a program overflowing with gorgeous music: Berlioz’ Béatrice et Bénédict Overture, Barber’s symphonic prayer Adagio for Strings and Stravinsky’s lyrical Pulcinella Suite.

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