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Featuring some of the best local jazz in the Tampa bay area! Every Friday from 6-9 pm, June 4-August 27, 2010. This is an ideal way to celebrate the beginning of the weekend in one of the most spectacular settings in the area. The groups will perform in the glass Conservatory, and listeners can also mingle on the terrace overlooking the bay.
2nd Annual Jazz at the MFA

Admission
Non-Members: $15.00
Members: $10.00

  • Admission to the Hazel Hough wing galleries
  • MFA Café will be open with an evening menu
  • Beer and wine cash bar
  • Reservations are recommended
Check back soon to see the 3rd Annual Jazz at the MFA Schedule. For more information please call, Ellen Rivera, (727) 896-2667 ext. 221.
 

Listening to Music in the Marly Room has been a tradition since 1975 and is a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Before the concert and during intermission, you may want to browse through the Museum's Permanent Collection in the original building or visit the Museum Store.

The Concert Series is funded in part by the estate of Mrs. Elvira Wolfe de Weil. The official media sponsor is the St. Petersburg Times. Ticket printing underwritten by Bert Smith Euro Collection. Rackcard underwritten by a freind of the Marly Music Society.

Concerts
Concerts are held on Sunday afternoons at 2:00pm in the Museum's Marly Room.
The Museum opens at 1:00pm. Seating is at 1:30pm.
View the Marly Music Society Concert Schedule.



Ticket Information
  • Tickets: $20.00
  • Student with valid ID: $10.00
  • Tickets will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis. No refunds, no exchanges.
 
SAVE! Marly Music Members receive a 10% discount on tickets.
Tickets: $18.00 each, Student with valid ID: $9.00
Limit of 4 tickets per concert

We invite you to call the Membership Department at (727) 896-2667, ext. 248. You must be a member of the Museum in order to join this wonderful music support organization. Join the Marly Music Society now! Click here to download the form.

The Marly Music Society is chaired by Dr. Richard Eliason and co-chaired by Mrs. Lorraine (Demi) Rahall, Mrs. Sheryl Plonka is corresponding Secretary, and Mr. James Mortensen is Treasurer, Mrs. Joan Gessler, Mrs. Mary Alice McClendon, Mr. Richard Minck, and Dr. Karen White are committee members. Director Dr. John E. Schloder is ex-officio of the committee, Vicki Sofranko is the Agent/Music Coordinator.

 

Marly Music 2010 Summer Series Schedule

June 13, 2010
Claire Huangci, 8th National Chopin Piano Competition winner
The talented Ms. Huangci just won this competition, which was juried by an international panel. She also won prizes for the best mazurka and polonaise. Only five days before her Museum performance, she will present a solo recital in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. In the summer, she will play at the Ravinia Festival near Chicago and at the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island.

June 27, 2010
Georgia Guitar Quartet
Their Museum program includes works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Villa-Lobos, Grieg, Prokofiev and Radiohead, as well as pieces by members of the Quartet. This is one of the most unusual concerts ever presented at the MFA.
**Free for Legacy Society members. Legacy Society reception to follow performance. Please RSVP to Judy Whitney at 727-896-2667, ext. 250 or judy@fine-arts.org.
Free valet parking for this concert only!


July 11, 2010
La Catrina Quartet
La Catrina Quartet will perform Haydn’s Quartet in D major, Opus 76, no.5. The program also features works by Emmanuel Arias y Luna, Eduardo Gamboa, Javier Alvarez, and Alberto Ginastera.

July 25, 2010
Scott Kluksdahl, cello
Noreen Cassidy-Polera, piano
They will play Three Choral Preludes by Bach (transcribed by Kodály); Brahms’ Second Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 99; Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65; and Cantos for Slava (2007) by the contemporary American composer Augusta Read Thomas.

August 8, 2010
Dan Franklin Smith, piano
The first half of his concert will be devoted to Spanish composers, performing Federico Mompou’s Canción y Danza No. 6, Joaquín Turina’s Sonata Sanlucar de Barrameda, and Manuel Infante’s El Vito (Variations).

He will turn to American composers for the second half, playing Gottschalk’s Polka de Salon and Ojos Criollos; Three Preludes by Gershwin; Copland’s Sentimental Dance, Blues, and Midsummer Nocturne; Dave Brubeck’s Blue Rondo a la Turk; and André Previn’s Three South American Sketches. These works will celebrate the special exhibition, Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870-1940.
**Marly Music Society’s annual member reception to follow the performance.

August 29, 2010
William Feasley, classical guitar
Fatma Daglar, oboe
They will play Marche and Scherzo by Napoléon Coste, The Mysterious Barricades by François Couperin (Le Grand), Louise-Claude Daquin’s Le Cou-Cou, Ferdinand Rebay’s First Sonata for Oboe and Guitar in E minor, the world premiere of Tres Piezas Bajo el Cielo del Sur (Three Pieces Under the Southern Sky) by Marcelo Ferraris, Las Campanas del Alba (The Bells of Dawn) by Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, and José Manuel Lezcano’s Sonata for Oboe and Guitar.

 
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