Video: TFO goes international in May

About The Florida Orchestra
The mission of The Florida Orchestra is to enrich the life of the Tampa Bay area as it inspires, entertains and educates a wide and diverse audience with the unique experience of live symphonic music, ensuring that future generations will continue to enjoy this legacy that so magnificently celebrates the human spirit.

To learn more about The Florida Orchestra vist www.floridaorchestra.org

Rhythms of Cuba
In a Latin flavored program, Music Director of La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba Enrique Pérez Mesa is joined by Principal Timpanist John Bannon in James Lewis' Cubanitis for solo timpani and orchestra on a program with Carlos Fariñas' Penthesilea: Preludio, Guido López-Gavilán's Ritmotiv, José Pablo Moncayo's Huapango and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, Classical.

Friday, May 11th at 8:00 p.m.
David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa

Saturday, May 12th at 8:00 p.m.
The Mahaffey in St. Petersburg

Sunday, May 13th at 7:30 p.m.
Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater

Once Upon a Time
Featuring Ravel's Beauty and the Beast from Mother Goose Suite, Tchaikovsky's Waltz from Swan Lake, and Williams' ET: Adventures on Earth, Stuart Malina conducts this morning Coffee Concert, with complimentary coffee and doughnuts served before the performance.

Wednesday, May 16th at 10:00 a.m.
Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater

Thursday, May 17th at 11:00 a.m.
The Mahaffey in St. Petersburg

Postcards from Paris
Enjoy a celebration of the City of Lights with romantic French melodies, Edith Piaf classics, Josephine Baker hits, Parisian café music, Django Reinhardt's gypsy jazz, high-kicking can-cans, soaring film scores by Michel Legrand and more.

Friday, May 18th at 8:00 p.m.
David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa

Saturday, May 19th at 8:00 p.m.
The Mahaffey in St. Petersburg

Sunday, May 20th at 7:30 p.m.
Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater

Beethoven's Eroica
Singled out by The New York Times as "brilliant, sensitive and imaginative," Martina Filjak performs Ravel's gloriously coloristic Piano Concerto in G Major with its mix of jazz motifs, meditative melodies and sparkling energy...on a program with Chabrier's Habanera and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica.

Friday, May 25th at 8:00 p.m.
David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa

Saturday, May 16th at 8:00 p.m.
The Mahaffey in St. Petersburg