Orchestra Nostalgico

The first Friday of each month feautres live music and cocktails from 5 to 8 p.m. Bring your friends to enjoy diverse live performances, cocktail selections, and the opportunity to dine in Café Modern by night. A docent-led, 20-minute focus tour of the galleries is available at 6:30. The tour is free for Modern members and Fort Worth Star-Telegram Press Pass holders.

Tonight's featured cocktail: Prosecco Per Favore.

In honor of the retrospective of Federico Fellini’s films, Tutto Fellini, the Modern proudly presents composer/singer/guitarist Steve Kirk and the San Francisco–based Orchestra Nostalgico. Critically acclaimed, the Orchestra specializes in jazzy arrangements of Nino Rota’s capricious and complex scores from Fellini’s finest films. Dancing shoes are mandatory.

From its birth in San Francisco’s swanky Bruno’s nightclub, the nine-piece Orchestra Nostalgico has received rave reviews for its blend of faithful and eclectic interpretations lovingly drawn from the Golden Age of film music. The Orchestra was originally commissioned to bring the classic cinematic compositions of Nino Rota – from Fellini’s La dolce vita, 8 1/2 and Amarcord, as well as Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy – to the eager ears of San Francisco’s young hipsters. Orchestra Nostalgico features musicians Steve Kirk, Myles Boisen, Tom Yoder, Sheldon Brown, and Chris Grady.