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Orchestrating A New Season

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By KATHY L. GREENBERG

Tribune correspondent

Published: February 8, 2009

The Florida Orchestra announces today its 2009-2010 season. Highlights include the Beatles-inspired "Magical Mystery Tour;" "A Tribute to Ray Charles," with Matt Catingub conducting and vocals by Ellis Hall; and "A Century of Broadway's Best," featuring hit songs by George M. Cohan and Andrew Lloyd Webber, among others.
James Bond fans will enjoy nearly four decades of 007's theme music in "Classic James Bond," while tried-and-true favorites include Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1," Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and works by Mahler, Ravel, Copland, Verdi and many more.

Prices and venues vary depending on performance dates. For information, call (727) 892-3337 or visit www.floridaorchestra.org.

Here's a look at the 2009-2010 Florida Orchestra Masterworks, Pops and Coffee Concert season:

Oct. 9-11 - Marquez: "Danzón No. 2," Falla: "El Amor Brujo" (Ballet Suite); Stefan Sanderling, conductor; Manuel Barrueco, guitar

Oct. 23-25 - Mahler: Symphony No. 3; Stefan Sanderling, conductor; Women's Chorus of The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay; Richard Zielinski, music and artistic director

Oct. 29 - Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake," Khachaturian: "Sabre Dance," Copland: "Rodeo: Hoe-down"; Alastair Willis, conductor

Oct. 31-Nov. 1 - The Tampa Bay Steel Orchestra; John Shaw, principal percussionist

Nov. 6-8 - Macmillan: "The Sacrifice: Three Interludes," Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Vaughn Williams: Symphony No. 4; James MacMillan, conductor; Jeffrey Multer, violin

Nov. 27-29 - "Classical Mystery Tour"; Martin Herman, conductor

Dec. 4 and 6 - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor, Bruckner: Symphony No. 6; Stefan Sanderling, conductor; Stefan Vladar, piano

Dec. 10 - Verdi: Traviata, Prelude to Act III, Puccini: "La Boheme," Rossini: Overture: "Italian Girl in Algiers"; Alastair Willis, conductor

Dec. 11-13 - "A Holiday Pops"; Jeff Tyzik, conductor; The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay; Richard Zielinski, music and artistic director

Jan. 8-10 - R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's "Merry Pranks," R. Strauss: "Death & Transfiguration," Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6; Stefan Sanderling, conductor

Jan. 21 - Sullivan: "Overture to HMS Pinafore," Elgar: "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1," Ives: "Variations on America" (God Save the Queen); Alastair Willis, conductor

Jan. 22-24 - "Cirque de la Symphonie"

Jan. 29-31 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 3; Stefan Sanderling, conductor; Mikhail Rudy, piano

Feb. 12 and 14 - Sibelius: "The Swan of Tuonela" and Symphony No. 5, Beethoven: Symphony No. 5; Stefan Sanderling, conductor

Feb. 18 - Sibelius: "Finlandia," Berlioz: "Hungarian March," Mendelssohn: "Hebrides Overture;" Grant Cooper, conductor

Feb. 19-21 - "A Tribute to Ray Charles"; Matt Catingub, conductor; Ellis Hall, vocalist

Feb. 26-28 - Dukas: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," Mozart: Symphony No. 38, Prague, Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1, Ravel: Bolero; Stefan Sanderling, conductor; Julie Albers, cello

March 5-7 - Webern: "Passacaglia," Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Unfinished; Ives: Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting," Gershwin: "Rhapsody in Blue"; Stefan Sanderling, conductor; George Gershwin, piano (Orchestra accompanies a piano roll performance by the composer from the 1920s)

March 11 - Smetana: "Moldau," Brahms: Hungarian Dances, Dvorak: Slavonic Dances; Alastair Willis, conductor

March 13-14 - Marvin Hamlisch, conductor and piano

March 19-21 - Mendelssohn: "Elijah"; Stefan Sanderling, conductor; The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay; Richard Zielinski, music and artistic director

April 8 - Tchaikovsky: "1812 Overture," Rimsky-Korsakov: "Russian Easter Overture," Rachmaninoff: Vocalise; Alastair Willis, conductor

April 10-11 - "A Century of Broadway"; Jeff Tyzik, conductor; Christiane Noll, vocalist; Doug LaBrecque, vocalist

April 17-18 - Part: Fratres, Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish, Prokofiev: "Cinderella": Suite; Eri Klas, conductor; Elena Urioste, violin

April 30-May 2 - Ives: "The Unanswered Question," Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste, Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, From the New World; Stefan Sanderling, conductor

May 14 and 16 - Golijov: "Last Round," Ginastera: Harp Concerto, Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Beethoven: Symphony No 1; Grant Llewellyn, conductor; Anna Kate Mackle, harp

May 20 - Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty," Rodgers: "Carousel," Strauss: "Blue Danube"; Alastair Willis, conductor

May 21-23 - "Classic James Bond"; Carl Davis, conductor; Mary Carewe, vocalist

May 28-29 - Schubert: Symphony No. 5, Brahms: Symphony No. 2; Gunther Herbig, conductor

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