Symphony to host rock & roll-classical crossover concert
The Southwest Florida Symphony will bring a world premiere cross-over classical rock concert to Fort Myers on Friday, May 6, at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall at FSW at 8 p.m. The Southwest Florida Symphony, conducted by internationally renowned music director Nir Kabaretti, performs with Glen Phillips, lead singer and songwriter of the iconic ’90s band, Toad the Wet Sprocket. Phillips and the Southwest Florida Symphony will perform the band’s greatest hits with commissioned arrangements for the Southwest Florida Symphony by composer-arranger Timothy Berens.
This world premiere symphonic rock and roll event features Toad’s best-loved radio rock anthems, Walk On the Ocean, Good Intentions, Something’s Always Wrong and other smash hits along with new solo work by Glen Phillips and classical pieces by Mozart, Copeland, Barber and Tchaikovsky that were lauded as the rock and roll anthems of their day.