Show Calendar, Featured concerts
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May
16
Rattle Conducts Beethoven
May 16, 2013 Verizon HallFeatured in Disney's Fantasia, the "Pastoral" Symphony paints vivid scenes of gathering thunderstorms, wandering brooks, and breezy countrysides.
May
23
Gil Shaham Plays Brahms
May 23, 2013 Verizon HallThe famous Violin Concerto of Brahms is performed by the incomparable Gil Shaham.
June 11, 2012
Inviting the Maestro
In my penultimate blog post for the June Stokowski Celebration Concerts, I share some of my ideas around inviting Leopold Stokowski himself to join us for these performances in the Academy of Music. My aim is to allow today’s audiences to hear some words of wisdom from the old Maestro. I want to share with you how, by inviting Stokowski to join us and literally pass the baton to the Orchestra’s new maestro, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, I convinced the Academy to give up one of its most famous ghosts!
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