Resonate

It’s not every day that a new orchestra pops up in this country, which is why I couldn’t help but get excited this morning when I learned that the Concert Association of Florida is creating a new ensemble called the Florida Symphony.

The symphony will perform in Miami and Broward, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and at Miami’s newly named Adrienne Arsht Center. The musicians will also perform as a pops group called the Miami Pops Orchestra.

The association said an in-house orchestra in Broward was necessary because people cited the lack of full-orchestra concerts as the reason they don’t subscribe to the hall’s subscription series.

For the orchestra’s first season, 2008-2009, three men will temporarily share the conducting podium: Jose Antonio Molina, Thomas Sanderling and Steven Mercurio.