Today’s guest on the Arts Alive! podcast is Chelsea Gallo, resident conductor for The Florida Orchestra. Gallo was hired a year ago as assistant conductor, by...
A 15-member band, a 36 song, three-hour concert and a trio of boyband heartthrobs. It can only be the Jonas Brothers’ 2023 touring extravaganza, visiting Amalie...
When Michael Cavanaugh performs out in front of The Florida Orchestra Saturday at the Mahaffey Theater, he brings not only tremendous talent and a site-specific expertise,...
If you’re reading this you’re not thinking about Hurricane Idalia, at least for a few moments, and that can only be a good thing, right? Let’s...
It was the power of music, Ignacio Barrón Viela contends, that caused him to pivot 180 from a successful career in engineering to the somewhat less-profitable...
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...