Join Music Director Courtney Lewis for a deep dive
into Florida Blue Classical Series programming!

Each season, Music Director Courtney Lewis invites you deeper into the music through Insight, a series of short videos created for ourĀ Florida Blue Classical SeriesĀ concerts. In each episode, Lewis explores the program, sharing context about the composers, highlighting what to listen for and offering fresh perspective before you experience the music live in Jacoby Symphony Hall!

2025/26 Season

Copland’s Clarinet Concerto

Joel Thompson
To See the Sky: an exegesis for orchestra

Aaron Copland
Clarinet Concerto

Serge Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100

Mozart & Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Flute & Harp in C major, K. 299

Francis Poulenc
Gloria

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

Appalachian Spring

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring Suite (Original 1944 version)

Aaron Copland
Lincoln Portrait

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

The Nutcracker &
Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Claude Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Maurice Ravel
ShƩhƩrazade

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker

Claude Debussy
La mer (The Sea)

Bruckner’s Majestic Eighth

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 8 in C minor

Romeo and Juliet:
Tchaikovsky & Bernstein

Nino Rota
ā€œLove Themeā€ from Romeo and Juliet

Serge Prokofiev
Selections from Romeo and Juliet

Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy

Mozart & More:
Concertos for Two Pianos

Hector Berlioz
Overture from BƩatrice and BƩnƩdict

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat major, K. 365

Camille Saint-Saƫns
Carnival of the Animals

Francis Poulenc
Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor

Barber & Mendelssohn

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Toward the Unknown Region

Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, ā€œScottishā€

Beethoven’s Fifth

Richard Wagner
Prelude from The Meistersinger of Nuremberg

Anna Clyne
Woman of the Mountain
(World Premiere, Jacksonville Symphony Commission)

Edward Kennedy ā€œDukeā€ Ellington
Celebration (Selections)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Beethoven’s Triple & Brahms

Tarik O’Regan
Trances

Ludwig van Beethoven
Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Rachmaninoff’s Third

Carlos Simon
Fate Now Conquers

Arnold Schoenberg
Transfigured Night, Op. 4

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

2025/26 Season

Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto

Brittany J. Green
TESTIFY!
(World Premiere, Jacksonville Symphony commission)

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

Richard Strauss
Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), Op. 40

Sibelius’ Violin & Elgar’s Enigma

Benjamin Britten
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
(Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra)

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Richard Strauss
Enigma Variations, Op. 36

Alexei Plays DvořÔk

Angel Lam
Please let there be a paradise…
(Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Consortium Partner)

AntonĆ­n DvořÔk
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Gershwin & Tchaikovsky

Carlos Simon
Motherboxx Connection

George Gershwin
Piano Concerto in F

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Beethoven & Rachmaninoff

Guillaume Connesson
Flammenschrift (Flame Writing)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Beethoven’s ā€œEmperorā€

Samuel Barber
Overture from The School for Scandal

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, ā€œEmperorā€

Conrad Tao & Rite of Spring

Claude Debussy
Nocturnes

Conrad Tao
Clang and Shudder
(World Premiere, Jacksonville Symphony Commission)

Igor Stravinsky
Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

DvořÔk’s ā€œNew Worldā€

Valerie Coleman
Seven O’Clock Shout

Aaron Copland
The Tender Land Suite

AntonĆ­n DvořÔk
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, ā€œFrom the New Worldā€

Mozart’s Requiem
& Double Concerto

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K. 364

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem (Robert Levin completion)

Gershwin & Copland

George Gershwin
An American in Paris

Carlos Simon
Zodiac
(World Premiere, Jacksonville Symphony Commission)

Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 3