The greatest film scores weren’t made for speakers — they were made for orchestras. The Florida Orchestra’s movie and pops nights at the Straz Center put 87 musicians under the big screen, performing beloved scores live to picture while Tampa audiences rediscover favorite films at symphonic scale.
The format has become the orchestra’s friendliest gateway: costumes encouraged on fantasy nights, pre-show festivities on the Riverwalk terraces, and a hall full of first-time concertgoers discovering that the music they love was orchestral all along. The pops calendar adds rock tributes, holiday spectaculars and Broadway evenings across the season.
Check the Straz calendar for this season’s titles — the best seats for film nights move at trailer speed.
Lights down, screen up, orchestra live. This is how movies were meant to sound.
