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Philharmonic Orchestra performs
at Festival of Fine Arts

LAKELAND, Fla. (Feb. 3, 2004) - Florida Southern College and the Festival of Fine Arts welcome The Philharmonic Orchestra of Pilsen to Branscomb Auditorium Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. The orchestra, with Michiko Otaki as piano soloist, is on its first North American tour. 

The Czech musicians perform an international program that extends from a symphony by their countryman Dvorak - who died 100 years ago this year - to a Chopin concerto with the gifted Japanese Otaki as soloist. 

Tickets are $20. FSC students are admitted free of charge; non-FSC students pay half price. For ticket information, please contact the Branscomb Auditorium box office at (863) 680-4296. 

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. 

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