Tea & Symphony: Holiday

December 4 at 5:45pm
Presbyterian Homes Chapel

Enjoy a cup of tea and venture inside the music with Tea & Symphony pre-concert lectures. During this special holiday edition, Maestro Mark Thielen takes audiences on a journey into the life & times of the featured composers, identifying themes in the music and offering insight into the processes that created familiar holiday favorites.

Held the Tuesday prior to concerts, the Tea & Symphony Series is held in the Chapel at Presbyterian Homes, 909 S. Lakeside Ave, Lakeland.

Mozart's The Magic Flute

Saturday, January 19, 2019 7:00 p.m.

Branscomb Auditorium, Florida Sothern College

The ISO annual opera production welcomes opera professionals to Lakeland for a two-week rehearsal and performance schedule including special workshops for students. The fantasy and fairytale of Mozart’s The Magic Flute have kept it an audience favorite for more than 225 years. Sung in English.

Starring
Wesley Morgan, Tamino
Maria Kanyova, Pamina
Eric Lindsey, Sarastro
Teresa Castillo, Queen of the Night
Visit LakelandOpera.com for information.

Southeastern University Masterworks Series

Franck Symphony in D

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 7:00 p.m.

Youkey Theatre, RP Funding Center for tickets starting December 14

Belgian Composer Cesar Franck’s most famous orchestral work, Symphony in D minor premiered on February 17, 1889, just one year before his death. The ambitious fusion of French and German musical traditions was considered rebellious at the time - so much so that even his conservative wife railed against its morally compromising passion!

Guest Artist Rita Fandrich
Pianist Rita Fandrich Is Professor Emerita at Florida Southern College, where she served as Artist-Teacher for 43 years. As a performer, she appeared as soloist and collaborative musician at festivals, conferences and summer clinics throughout the United States. As professor, she taught courses in piano performance, piano pedagogy, advanced music theory and composition. Prior to her post at Florida Southern, Fandrich was Artist-Teacher at the University of Wisconsin Summer Music Camp at the Indianhead Performing Arts Center.

Repertoire:
Offenbach, Orpheus in the Underworld
Saint Saens, Piano Concerto (Rita Fandrich)
Symphony in D minor, Cesar Franck

Southeastern University Masterworks Series

Italian Symphony

Tuesday, March 12, 2019 7:00 p.m.

Youkey Theatre, RP Funding Center for tickets starting January 11

March 12, 2019 7 p.m.
Italian Symphony
Youkey Theatre, RP Funding Center

Felix Mendelssohn’s tour of Europe inspired his Symphony No. 4 as he wrote to his parents, “This is Italy! And now, has begun what I have always thought… to be the supreme joy in life.”

Repertoire:
Overture to William Tell, Rossini
Cappricio Italien, Tchaikovsky

The Rotary Club of Lakeland South and Core Wealth Advisors present

Beethoven v. Coldplay

A Stereo Hideout Production 

Steve Hackman & Imperial Symphony Orchestra

May 9, 2019 at 7:30pm

Polk Theatre

A merging of musical giants, Beethoven V. Coldplay pairs two composer/artists that deal with universal and humanist themes in their music, and asks the musical question- would Beethoven have found meaning in the music of Coldplay? That notion, perhaps odd-sounding at first, becomes much more compelling when considering the events surrounding Beethoven’s creation of the Eroica Symphony- an artist desperate to solidify his position as the reigning musical genius in Vienna, but yet still misunderstood and criticized, and a young man in his thirties faced with the reality that he would indeed soon be completely deaf. How, then, would Beethoven have reacted to the Coldplay lyrics ‘Nobody said it was easy?’ or ‘When you lose something you can’t replace…. could it be worse?’

Beethoven V. Coldplay transforms the Eroica into an oratorio, weaving the melodies and lyrics of Coldplay into the original Beethoven, pairing them together based on content and context. It is the alternate Eroica Beethoven may have created had he known the music of Coldplay at the time. Three vocalists join the full symphony; many of Coldplay’s most well-known songs are interpolated, including ‘Yellow’, ‘Viva La Vida’ and ‘The Scientist’.