Steve Hackman's Taylor Swift: The Symphony Era opens The Florida Orchestra's season on September 12 at the Mahaffey, with four vocalists splitting Swift's catalog across a full orchestral program. The production marks the third Hackman program to reach St. Pete.
Hackman trained at the Curtis Institute and has spent approximately a decade building these hybrid orchestral programs at venues worldwide. His productions have paired Beethoven with Beyoncé, Björk with Bartók, and Bon Iver with Copland; an earlier work placed Radiohead inside a Brahms symphony. Two prior programs in the series have already played St. Pete: one structured around Tchaikovsky and Drake, a second around Beethoven and Coldplay.
The four-vocalist format distributes Swift's catalog across multiple performers rather than building around a single lead, placing the weight of the production on Hackman's orchestral writing. The show is fan-sponsored and carries no endorsement from Taylor Swift or TAS Rights Management. Swift is not performing.
The season opener is scheduled for September 12 at the Mahaffey. The Florida Orchestra's programming for the remainder of the season has not been announced.
