Accent On Tampa Bay #213 Sept/Oct 2015 Sept/Oct 2015 | Page 35

Which Florida Orchestra
concerts fit you? A guide

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ife today is all about customization. You want it your way.
Buying a Florida Orchestra subscription is no different.
If you want to take advantage of the orchestra’s flexible
Compose Your Own series of at least three concerts for $25
each (see details below), here is a guide to make it easy. Hurry
before the season starts Oct. 2.
Hello Maestro: Get to know the orchestra’s dynamic new
conductor Michael Francis by choosing any of the 10 concerts
he is conducting in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater.
Pick from Beethoven to Rachmaninoff (see floridaorchestra.
org for schedule) and you’ll also get an intimate pre-concert
conversation with the maestro in the concert hall one hour before the performance. And don’t forget his A Night at the Oscars opening night Pops concert, too.
Mom made you take piano lessons: So you might
as well make the most of it. Consider these concerts with piano soloists: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (Valentina
Lisitsa; Oct. 2-4); Mozart & More! (Gilles Vonsattel; Jan. 2224); Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 (Shai Wosner; Feb.
19-20); and Ravel & Brahms (Javier Perianes; Feb. 26-28).
Shai Wosner

Michael Francis

Greatest hits: For all the music you know and
love – and sing in the shower -- try movie music
at A Night at the Oscars (Oct. 9-11), spend Halloween on Broadway (Oct. 30-Nov. 1), fly away
with a Sinatra celebration (Nov. 20-22) and wrap
yourself in your favorite yuletide tunes with Holiday Pops (Dec. 11-13).

How to Compose Your Own series: Premium seats – regularly $30 and $45 – are only $25 each
when you buy three or more concerts. Choose from 23 classical and pops programs at ComposeYourOwn.com. (Service charges apply.) Get single tickets at floridaorchestra.org or 727.892.3337 and
1.800.662.7286. The orchestra regularly performs at the Straz Center in Tampa, Mahaffey Theater in
St. Petersburg, and Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater.
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photos are by Marco Borggreve

See our local stars shine: The Master Chorale of
Tampa Bay is center stage for Handel’s Messiah (Dec. 4-6)
and The Bells & Pictures at an Exhibition (Nov.
6-8). The orchestra’s own concertmaster Jeffrey
Multer is the featured soloist for Mozart’s Violin
Concerto No. 3 (part of The Firebird Suite program April 15-17), and Principal English Horn
Jeffrey Stephenson solos on MacMillan’s The
World’s Ransoming (part of the German Requiem
program March 12-13).