With performances at Branscomb Auditorium and the AGB, the 2026-2027 LSO season will honor traditions and engage Polk County youth.
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Lakeland Symphony Orchestra Showcases Broadway Favorites in Final Season Performance
Lakeland Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is bringing the magic of Broadway to Branscomb Auditorium to close out their 60th season. For one night only on April 4, “Defying Gravity: Bewitching Broadway” showcases acclaimed vocalists and the full symphony orchestra performing an evening of beloved Broadway hits. “The LSO’s versatile musicians will dazzle you with this performance […]
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Kennedy Davenport, Young Artist Winner, Joins the LSO This Saturday, March 7
Davenport, a senior at Harrison School for the Arts, is the recipient of a $3,000 scholarship in honor of Beth Mason.
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Jason Thomas Aylward Appointed Interim Lead of the Lakeland Symphony Orchestra
Aylward will serve as interim music director following Mark Thielen, who departed in 2025 after more than 40 seasons with the organization.
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CPS Investment Advisors Ends 50 Year Anniversary By Giving Back
The weather may be cooling down, but the firm is just getting warmed up with giving back to the community.
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LSO Names New Executive Director: Lakeland Native Ashley Miller
Ashley Metts Miller, a Lakeland native, has been named executive director of the Lakeland Symphony Orchestra.
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Spectacular Finale: Pianist Rita Fandrich to Perform with Imperial Symphony Orchestra
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 […]
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Imperial Symphony to Present Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’
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 […]
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City’s Funding for Arts: Stable and Fair?
Arts are generally regarded as important to the health and economic climate of a city, and Lakeland city commissioners devote a quarter of a million dollars a year to helping non-profit arts organizations stay afloat. But like all questions of using taxpayer funds, commissioners have to make tough decisions about which organizations are supported. In […]
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Symphony, Choral Society Collaborate for Handel’s ‘Messiah’
There are numerous stories about George Frideric Handel’s majestic oratorio, “Messiah.” By Handel’s own account, he wrote it in 24 feverish days. After a performance, a nobleman remarked that the audience had enjoyed the work. “I should be disappointed, my lord, if I merely entertained them,” Handel is said to have replied. “I desired to […]
