Q&A With The Florida Orchestra Music Director On Elgar

Susan Giles Wantuck, WUSF Radio, 22nd October 2014

This weekend, concert goers can get better acquainted with the new Florida Orchestra Music Director Michael Francis. This will be the first time he’ll conducted the orchestra since he was named its music director this past June.

The program includes music by English Composer Edward Elgar, whom Francis said suffered such incredible mood swings as to virtually be considered bipolar. Elgar’s Symphony No. 1 is part of this weekend’s series of concerts from the Florida Orchestra. Francis said Elgar’s pendulous swings are reflected in that work…