The
Florida Orchestra’s February roster will delight their audiences with a
variety of musical programs.
Progress
Energy Masterworks:
The evening begins with Weber’s Overture to Oberon with David Alan Miller
as guest conductor. Then east meets west in this program with Chinese
erhu (two-string bowed Chinese instrument) virtuoso Betti Xiang performing a
concerto tribute to China’s
popular romantic tale of The Butterfly
Lovers. Tchaikovsky’s soaring Symphony No. 4 concludes the evening.
- Fri.,
Feb. 6, 8 p.m. at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center,
Ferguson Hall
- Sun.
Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m. at Ruth Eckerd Hall
Tickets: $19, $29,
$40, $50, $65
Raymond
James Pops: An Evening of Romance and Love Songs
Matt Catingub conducts his own one-man
show as he seamlessly switches back and forth between piano, vocals, sax, flute
and more. His Valentine’s Day salute features such romantic
classics as When I Fall In Love, Isn't It
Romantic, It Had To Be You, You Go To My Head, Tenderly, As Time Goes By, My
Romance, Unforgettable and other romantic favorites from the Great
American Songbook.
- Fri.,
Feb. 13, 8 p.m. at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center,
Ferguson Hall
- Sat.,
Feb. 14, 8 p.m. at Progress
Energy Center
for the Arts, Mahaffey Theater
- Sun.,
Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m. at Ruth Eckerd Hall
Tickets: $19, $29,
$40, $50, $65
Progress
Energy Masterworks: Blue Danube
Guest conductor Klauspeter Seibel is
joined by multi-award-winning German pianist Markus Groh performing
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 on a program with Mozart’s Haffner Symphony and a selection of Johann
Strauss, Jr. favorites, including On the
Beautiful Blue Danube, Gypsy Baron Overture and Emperor Waltzes.
- Fri.,
Feb. 20, 8 p.m. at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center,
Ferguson Hall
- Sat.,
Feb. 21, 8 p.m. at Progress
Energy Center
for the Arts, Mahaffey Theater
- Sun.,
Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m. at Ruth Eckerd Hall
Tickets: $19, $29,
$40, $50, $65
About The Florida
Orchestra
The Florida Orchestra presents the 14-concert Progress Energy
Masterworks Series and the 8-concert Raymond James Pops Series, both of which
are performed in Tampa, St.
Petersburg and Clearwater.
In addition, the orchestra performs the 6-concert Holland
America Line Coffee Concert
series at the Progress Energy Center
– Mahaffey Theater in St.
Petersburg. The orchestra’s concert
activities also include a selection of special concerts, a variety of free Pops
in the Park Concerts performed in parks around the Tampa Bay
area, and a Youth Concerts program reaching approximately 30,000 4th
and 5th graders annually.
The Florida Orchestra is supported in part by the State of Florida,
Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the Arts Council of
Hillsborough County and the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners;
Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Department and the Pinellas County Board of
County Commissioners; the City of Tampa; the City of St. Petersburg; the City
of Clearwater; and the School Districts of Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties.
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