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Enjoy 14 world-class concerts with this Florida Orchestra Masterworks Imperial Subscrition!

This gift certificate entitles you to two tickets to each of 14 Florida Orchestra Masterworks concerts at the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa.

The Florida Orchestra’s 2019/2020 season will celebrate the greatest composer in classical music, Ludwig van Beethoven, in honor of the 250th anniversary of his birth. Led by Music Director Michael Francis, TFO’s 52nd season explores the life and music of Beethoven as well as his influence on the modern American masters of today. Concerts included in this subscription are:

Opening Night - Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, 8 p.m.
Gershwin: Cuban Overture
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Mason Bates: Mothership
Ravel: Bolero

Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony - Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, 8 p.m.
R. Strauss: Don Quixote
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” (arr. Mahler)

Deep Field: A Cosmic Experience - Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, 8 p.m.
Whitacre: Lux Aurumque
Whitacre: Equus
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Copland: Quiet City
Whitacre: Deep Field (with video)

Winter Dreams: Tchaikovsky & Sibelius - Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, 8 p.m.
Vivian Fung: Fanfare
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, “Winter Dreams”

Mozart & Tchaikovsky - Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, 8 p.m.
Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathetique”

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 - Friday, Jan 17, 2020, 8 p.m.
Rimsky-Korsakov: Golden Cockerel Intro/ Wedding March
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Stravinsky: Pulcinella (Ballet in One Act)

American Masters featuring Raschèr Saxophone Quartet - Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, 8 p.m.
Bernstein: Candide Overture
Christopher Theofanidis: Symphony No. 1
Philip Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet
Gershwin: An American in Paris

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto - Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 8 p.m.
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 - Friday, Mar. 6, 2020, 8 p.m.
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3

Bach’s St. John Passion* - Sunday, Mar. 22, 2020, 2 p.m. 
J.S. Bach: St. John Passion
*No Straz performance. Your alternate venue will be Sunday afternoon at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg.

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons - Friday, Apr. 3, 2020, 8 p.m.
Osvaldo Golijov: Last Round
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Beethoven & Paganini - Friday, Apr. 17, 2020, 8 p.m.
Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

Beethoven’s Fifth: Darkness to Light - Friday, May 1, 2020, 8 p.m.
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (arr. Mahler)
Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 - Friday, May 22, 2020, 8 p.m.
TFO Student Composer Competition Winner
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

The Florida Orchestra is recognized as Tampa Bay's leading performing arts institution, one of the leading professional symphony orchestras in Florida, and one of the best orchestras in America.

Item Special Note

Winning bidder must pay a flat fee of $10 for postage and shipping of this item or pick it up at the Tampa Bay Times downtown St. Petersburg Bureau, 490 1st Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.

Images courtesy of the Florida Orchestra (c) JM Lennon.