Masterworks at the MACC: A Composer’s Travelogue Feb. 21

January 19, 2026

Saturday, February 21, 2026 | 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. | Music & Arts Community Center

Gulf Coast Symphony presents Masterworks at the MACC: A Composer’s Travelogue on Feb. 21, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., at the Music & Arts Community Center. 

With Maestro Andrew Kurtz and the Gulf Coast Symphony as musical tour guides, A Composer’s Travelogue takes the audience on a symphonic odyssey. From the fiery dances of the Iberian Peninsula to the twilight stillness of North Africa, from the moonlit deserts of Central Asia to the lush tropics of Brazil, this program celebrates how composers throughout history captured the sounds of places they visited, imagined or longed for.

Ravel, Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov bring Spain to life through three completely different lenses — elegant, mysterious and electrifying. Saint-Saëns creates a dreamy Algerian sunset, while Ibert sails the audience through three vivid ports of call. After intermission, the audience will arrive in Italy through Strauss and Tchaikovsky, drift eastward with Borodin, dance through Brazilian rhythms with Respighi and finish with Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture.”

To purchase tickets for Masterworks at the MACC: A Composer’s Travelogue, call (239) 277-1700 or visit MACCtickets.org. The Music & Arts Community Center is located off Daniels Parkway at 13411 Shire Lane, on the campus of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fort Myers. 

Gulf Coast Symphony’s Masterworks at the MACC series continues with Echoes of the Danube on March 14 and Passion & Fate: Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky on April 25.