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SUMMER
PREVIEW
The Philadelphia Orchestra's
summer season will delight audiences with music ranging from our annual
Mozart celebration and other classical favorites to the music of Broadway
and the silver screen, including music from the Oscar award-winning movie
The Lord of the Rings.
Sumi
Jo
Peter
Oundjian
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The summer season
begins with The Philadelphia Orchestra's 2004
Absolutely Mozart series (June17-22) at The Kimmel Center
for the Performing Arts. The Orchestra's Mozart concerts this year
showcases the cosmopolitan Mozart, echoing the sophistication of
18th-century Vienna and Paris. Mozart's intensely exotic side sparkles
in a program devoted to music in the "Turkish" style so
popular in Mozart's time. Taking on the role of artistic director
is Peter Oundjian, who returns to the podium in his third
year as conductor of the series. Featured soloists include Jonathan
Biss, a young pianist who will be making his Philadelphia Orchestra
debut, the outstanding young coloratura soprano Sumi Jo,
and the Orchestra's own concertmaster, David Kim.
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Joshua
Bell
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The Philadelphia
Orchestra's annual midsummer season at The Mann Center for the
Performing Arts (June 24-July 29) opens with Carl Orff's powerful
Carmina burana, beginning a 12-concert series with highly praised
classical artists - including violinists Joshua Bell and
Itzhak Perlman, and pianist Lang Lang - and evenings
inspired by great orchestral works written for theater and film.
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Bugs
Bunny |
The Orchestra
bids an emotional farewell to Luis Biava, who retires from
his position as conductor in residence at the end of this season,
with two celebratory concerts in the final week of its series at
the Mann. Maestro Biava conducts "Tchaikovsky with Fireworks,"
an annual family favorite, on July 27, and on the following evening
welcomes Lang Lang and Orchestra Principal Cello William Stokking
as soloists in a program of Verdi, Bloch, Strauss, and Rachmaninoff.
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Marvin
Hamlisch
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Other highlights
of the Orchestra's Mann series include a performance of the Lord
of the Rings Symphony, a lush, sweeping work conducted by
composer Howard Shore and based on the Oscar award-winning soundtrack.
Bugs Bunny On Broadway returns with the show's creator,
George Daugherty, conducting an endearing evening of a combination
of film and live music synchronized by a live symphony through the
brilliance of the classical music from the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes
and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Nancy Wilson headlines an evening
of Gershwin song, the Canadian Brass brings us an evening
of antics and virtuoso brass playing, Marvin Hamlisch leads
a night of Lerner and Loewe, and Bobby McFerrin closes the
Orchestra's Mann series with a program that showcases classical
masterpieces alongside his own distinctive style of vocal improvisations.
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Bobby McFerrin 
Charles
Dutoit
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Returning to
Saratoga Springs in up-state New York for its annual August
residency at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, The Philadelphia
Orchestra performs a series of concerts brimming with old world
ambiance and the great repertoire that for generations has defined
the "Philadelphia Sound." Charles Dutoit, artistic
director and principal conductor of the Orchestra's Saratoga season
since 1990, conducts such favorites as Mahler's First and Third
symphonies, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and Brahms's First and Sibelius's
Second symphonies. Maestro Dutoit and the Orchestra are joined by
some of today's most sought-after artists, including pianists
Martha Argerich, Yefim Bronfman, Jean-Yves Thibaudet,
and André Watts; violinist Leonidas Kavakos;
and cellist Truls Mørk. Conductor Erich Kunzel
and soprano Jami Rogers join the Orchestra for An Evening
in Old Vienna, featuring the works of Johann Strauss Jr., and Marvin
Hamlisch leads a program of "Music from the Movies."
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Tickets
and additional information:
- For The Philadelphia
Orchestra's Absolutely Mozart concerts and The Philadelphia Orchestra
series at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 215.893.1999 or www.philorch.org.
- For The Philadelphia
Orchestra series at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, 518.587.3330
or www.spac.org.
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