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The Florida Orchestra's music director and resident conductor will serve as "artists-in-residence" this season at the University of South Florida's School of Music.

Bax has been performing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 for more than 30 years and said he is still discovering more in the work.

Opera Tampa features this work as part of a season filled with the supernatural and the unexplained. "Love v. Death" performances are Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 at The Straz Center.