October 2013

October 15, 2013

Philadelphia Orchestra Commissions Micro-Festival: Hear Tomorrow’s Masterpieces Today

If you’re a fan of new music, you probably already have your tickets for the upcoming Philadelphia Orchestra Commissions Micro-Festival premiering several concertos commissioned specifically for Philadelphia Orchestra principal musicians. If you don’t have tickets (or maybe you tuned out at those very words “new music”), please read on. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin wants to change your mind. “I hope our audiences will learn … not to be too scared anymore about it!” he laughs.

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October 14, 2013

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos: 150 Concerts in Philadelphia and Counting

A fierce, paralyzing snowstorm blanketed the East Coast between February 8 and 10, 1969. It left approximately 6,000 travelers stranded at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.  More than 90 deaths were attributed to the storm.

Stuck in Montreal was Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, scheduled to make his conducting debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra on Friday afternoon, February 14.

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October 11, 2013

Free College Concert Set For Tuesday

The Philadelphia Orchestra is performing a concert and having an event for college students on Tuesday, October 15, at 8 PM at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

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October 07, 2013

The Philadelphia Orchestra Gets Out The Vote

As baseball legend Yogi Berra famously said, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.”

Bachtrack.com , the London-based classical music concert database and review site, is having a contest asking followers what is their favorite orchestra at http://www.bachtrack.com/worlds-favourite-orchestra-2013.

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October 03, 2013

Philadelphia Orchestra Pops Up

Neither snow, nor rain, or a strike by stagehands can keep the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra from playing.

Originally scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night concert on Wednesday, October 2, the Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin “popped up” in an unscheduled appearance at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall.

And more than 2,200 area residents popped into the Kimmel Center for a freewheeling and free concert.

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