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Advisory of Artist Change
Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch has withdrawn from his Philadelphia Orchestra performances scheduled for March 23-28, March 30-April 4, and April 6-8.
Conductor Hans Graf replaces Mr. Sawallisch in the concerts on March 23-28. Dvorak’s concert overture Othello replaces his Wood Dove on this program, which also includes Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Philadelphia Orchestra Associate Conductor Rossen Milanov replaces Mr. Sawallisch in the concerts on March 30-April 4. There are no changes to this program. Herbert Blomstedt replaces Mr. Sawallisch in the concerts on April 6-8. A revised program for this concert will be announced shortly.
Hans Graf is music director of the Houston Symphony and is currently in his sixth season as music director of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine in France. He recently completed his eighth and final season as music director of Canada’s Calgary Philharmonic. In the United States, Mr. Graf has led the orchestras of Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, St. Louis, Baltimore, Dallas, and Saint Paul, among others. He has also participated in many of this country’s prestigious festivals, including Blossom, Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, and Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center. Internationally, he has appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, and the St. Petersburg and Israel philharmonics, among others.
As associate conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Rossen Milanov regularly conducts concerts with that orchestra, while also serving as music director of both the Haddonfield Symphony in New Jersey and the New Symphony Orchestra in his native city of Sofia, Bulgaria. He was recently named chief conductor of the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Milanov’s North American guest conducting appearances have included concerts and tours with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Elgin Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, the Juilliard Opera Center, and the Curtis Opera Theater. Future engagements include the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Residentie Orchestra of the Hague in the Netherlands.
Herbert Blomstedt served as music director of the San Francisco Symphony from 1985 to 1995 and currently holds the title of conductor laureate. He recently concluded his tenure as music director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, a post he assumed in September 1998. During his time in Leipzig, he expanded the orchestra’s programming with Scandinavian works and compositions from the early Classical and Baroque periods and conducted the orchestra in a number of recordings, including Decca releases of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony and the Bruckner Ninth. Mr. Blomstedt was also music director of the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Danish Radio Symphony, and the Swedish Radio Symphony. From 1996 to 1998 he was chief conductor of Hamburg’s North German Radio Symphony. Currently, he is honorary conductor of Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra.
March 24 at 2:00 p.m. – Friday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 25*at 8:00 p.m. – Saturday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 26**at 2:00 p.m. – Sunday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 28 at 8:00 p.m. – Tuesday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Hans Graf, conductor
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Free PreConcert Conversations: Allen Krantz, professor of music,
*Sponsored by Lexus of
**Media support provided by the Philadelphia Inquirer
Tickets: $10-$87 (call for box seat prices),
March 30* at 8:00 p.m. – Thursday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 31 at 2:00 p.m. – Friday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
April 1 at 8:00 p.m. – Saturday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
April 4 at 8:00 p.m. – Tuesday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
The
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Joachim Violin Concerto (“Hungarian”) –
First
Brahms Symphony No. 1
Free PreConcert Conversations: Richard Freedman, professor of music,
*Sponsored by Verizon Foundation
Tickets: $10-$87 (call for box seat prices),
April 7 at 2:00 p.m. – Friday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
April 8* at 8:00 p.m. – Saturday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Free PreConcert Conversations: Richard Freedman, professor of music,
*Sponsored by Thompson Lexus
Tickets: $12-$87, Call for box seat prices,
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