Gulf Coast Symphony’s Masterworks Series provides classical music lovers – and the uninitiated - with the rare opportunity to experience symphonic music viscerally. Maestro Andrew Kurtz explained.

“We have the brass and percussion on the stage and the strings in the dance floor area. The people who are sitting in the first row, they're so close, they could turn the pages on my score pretty much. The thing about sound is sound has a physical element to it. There's that physical force and when you're that present to the sound it's a very different experience.”

It’s the perfect setting for a trip through the centuries.

“Basically, I am going to take you on a journey from the beginning of classical symphonic music with Mozart and Haydn, then Beethoven, and go through some important mileston

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