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Spectacular Finale: Pianist Rita Fandrich to Perform with Imperial Symphony Orchestra

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Rita Fandrich will perform the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Camille Saint-Saens in her last big performance.

If you have one last big performance to give, you might as well perform something memorable.

When pianist Rita Fandrich was asked by the Imperial Symphony Orchestra to be a guest soloist, the longtime Lakeland resident chose to perform Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2.

The fiendishly difficult Saint-Saëns concerto, one of the French master’s best and most popular works, is one that she taught often during her 43 years as associate professor of music at Florida Southern College. But this is the first time she has ever performed it, and as the shoe is on the other foot, Fandrich has come to a realization. More

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Live Music in Lakeland This Weekend

Swan City JazzJazz comes to two locations in downtown Lakeland at 9 p.m. Friday.  At Fresco’s, Swan City Jazz is being joined by active musician friends from LHS Band days  and former jazz bands director Ron Wilder. Around the corner, Lakeland Loft has been strangely shy about publicizing their musical guests lately, but the Jazz Phools let their fans know they’ll be playing there. Keep scrolling for our updated live music calendar. More

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Live Music in Lakeland This Weekend

Michael McArthur, Robert PhillipsTwo well-known Lakeland musicians — singer-songwriter Michael McArthur and guitarist Robert Phillips — are performing in separate downtown venues this week in support of their recording projects.

Phillips will perform selections from his forthcoming “Night/Dances” album at 8 tonight at Revival cocktail lounge. The performance is a fund-raiser for the release and international distribution of the album, a collection of dances and nocturnes composed for him. Donations can be made here.

McArthur returns to the Polk Theatre for his third show there Saturday at 8 to release his first full-length album, “Ever Green, Ever Rain.” (Listen to it here | Also, view videos from his September 2016 Polk Theatre concert with ISO musicians here and here.) McArthur fronts a full band Saturday. Opening are singer-songwriters Kit Allen Wiley (aka Hannah Dobson) and Van Plating (aka Rachel Plating). Keep scrolling for the full music calendar. More

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Imperial Symphony to Present Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’

Tom Hagerty
Wesley Morgan as Tamino in “The Magic Flute” presented by the ISO and Lakeland Opera

The symbolic struggle between light and darkness is employed by numerous world religions, as well as in Freemasonry – a society to which the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) belonged. So it’s fitting that in his last opera, “The Magic Flute,” he brings this struggle to life in a fantastical story that has charmed audiences for centuries.

This week, the Imperial Symphony Orchestra’s annual production of a Night at the Opera, a fundraising gala, will feature “The Magic Flute.” Polk County audiences may see and hear for themselves how the hero Tamino overcomes the temptations of the evil Queen of the Night and emerges on the side of right. More

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