SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER

Saturday, July 20, 2019

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing with the Gulf Coast Symphony. Enjoy clips of the historic landing and commentary from astronauts involved in the extraordinary mission that displayed man’s ingenuity and resolve. The program will feature music that celebrates space in cinema, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30), Star Trek, Apollo 13, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Holst’s The Planets.

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HOGWART’S HALLOWEEN

Sunday, October 27, 2019

A not-so-spooky Halloween concert that’s sure to be fun for the whole family. At 1:00 pm come dressed in costume for a costume contest, try different orchestra instruments in our Musical Discovery Zone, and enjoy safe trick-or-treating. At 2:00 pm hear the orchestra perform a concert with music from the Harry Potter series and Halloween favorites.

Deck the Halls

Sunday, December 8, 2019

The Gulf Coast Symphony & Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers team up to present a favorite Southwest Florida holiday tradition. 

To Whitney with Love with Lakisha Jones

Friday, January 31, 2020

(Available as a Subscription Concert)

American Idol finalist and Fort Myers favorite, LaKisha Jones brings her mentor’s sound to the symphony with a new show “To Whitney With Love.”  The evening celebrates the power of Whitney Houston’s music, and tributes to other great chanteuse, including Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer and Tina Turner.

BEETHOVEN AT 250

Sunday, March 1, 2020

(Available as a Subscription Concert)

The Gulf Coast Symphony and the Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers celebrates the 250^thBirthday of one of the symphonic world’s greatest composers, Ludwig van Beethoven, with his ultimate masterpiece, his Symphony No. 9.  This all Beethoven program also features the winner of the Virginia Warring International Piano competition.

Music Man

Saturday, March 28 & Sunday, March 29, 2020

(Available as a Subscription Concert)

The Music Man was the sensation of Broadway when it opened in 1957 and scored six Tony® Awards including Best Musical (beating out West Side Story). Sixty years later it’s still an American institution with its one-of-a-kind score including rousing marches (“Seventy-Six Trombones”), soaring ballads (“Till There Was You”), and Willson’s famous snap-crackle-pop vocal arrangements that could be considered the Broadway precursors to rap. Fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill brings trouble to River City, Iowa when he cons the townspeople into buying instruments for an imaginary band – but his plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when his heart is stolen by the town librarian.

Verdi’s Rigoletto

Saturday, May 9, 2020

(Available as a Subscription Concert)

There’s no character in opera more powerfully dramatic than the court jester Rigoletto, whose acid tongue and all-consuming desire for revenge lead to catastrophe for himself and his sweet, love-struck daughter Gilda. Of all the great Verdi works, none boasts more unforgettable tunes than this one. You’ll thrill to the licentious Duke of Mantua’s “La donna è mobile” and Gilda’s stunning “Caro nome,” not to mention the most celebrated quartet in all opera. Dominating the story, though, is Rigoletto himself, one of Verdi’s greatest characterizations—a complex and tragic figure, both pitiful and ferocious, with stupendous music to match.