There are plenty of reasons to catch the Doobie Brothers Friday at the Mahaffey Theater, especially the welcome appearance of Michael McDonald, the great pop/R&B vocalist...
The final Masterworks concert series in The Florida Orchestra’s 55th season brings forth music by German composer Richard Wagner, whose musical innovations, in classical music and...
Just as The Florida Orchestra was announcing its 56th season, Music Director Michael Frances dropped by the studio for an Arts Alive! podcast. It was a...
Music director Michael Francis and The Florida Orchestra will salute the iconic American composer George Gershwin with several concerts in the 2023-2024 season, which will begin...
It’s been a good couple of measures, thus far into 2023, for classical music in our midst. Two weeks ago the vaunted Juilliard String Quartet brought...
First emerging into the public consciousness as contestants on Rupaul’s Drag Race, Trixie Mattel (Brian Firkus) and Katya Zamolodchikova (Brian McCook) has become perhaps the best-known...
Mark Cantrell, who became the CEO of the St. Petersburg-based Florida Orchestra in 2019, has announced his resignation, effective in May. TFO reports that Cantrell will...
The Florida Orchestra’s chamber concert series begins Friday at a new venue – Clearwater’s 98-year-old Church of the Ascension, an imposing white monument to classic gothic...
Consider the tuba, the Rodney Dangerfield of brass instruments. When it comes to powerhouses of the orchestra, there’s just no respect there. There are, in fact,...
The Florida Orchestra, to be sure, attracts big audiences for its entire October-to-May season. Still, the most well-attended concert every year is Holiday Pops. It’s such...
