BEETHOVEN’S “EROICA”
March 18 at 8:00 PM – Thursday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 19 at 2:00 PM – Friday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 20 at 8:00 PM – Saturday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski returns for a second week on The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2009-10 season. He is joined by Benedetto Lupo, bronze medalist at the 1989 Van Cliburn Competition, who makes his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in the concerto Schumann composed for his wife, Clara, in the 1840s. The year 2010 marks the birth-bicentennial of Robert Schumann, whose powerful Romantic stamp on music has been felt ever since his untimely death in 1856. Maestro Jurowski maintains the tone of high drama with the Tragic Overture of Brahms—a composer the Schumanns discovered and promoted—and Beethoven’s ruggedly defiant “Eroica” Symphony.
The Philadelphia Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski Conductor Benedetto Lupo Pia…
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
For more info visit www.philorch.org. John O’Conor, piano
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
Irish pianist John O'Conor has earned a worldwide reputation as a masterful interpreter of the Classic and early-Romantic repertoires. His program at the American Philosophical Society includes Berg, Beethoven and Schubert sonatas and three nocturnes by John Field.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 8:00 PM.
American Philosophical Society
427 Chestnut Street.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. BEETHOVEN’S “EROICA”
March 18 at 8:00 PM – Thursday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 19 at 2:00 PM – Friday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 20 at 8:00 PM – Saturday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski returns for a second week on The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2009-10 season. He is joined by Benedetto Lupo, bronze medalist at the 1989 Van Cliburn Competition, who makes his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in the concerto Schumann composed for his wife, Clara, in the 1840s. The year 2010 marks the birth-bicentennial of Robert Schumann, whose powerful Romantic stamp on music has been felt ever since his untimely death in 1856. Maestro Jurowski maintains the tone of high drama with the Tragic Overture of Brahms—a composer the Schumanns discovered and promoted—and Beethoven’s ruggedly defiant “Eroica” Symphony.
The Philadelphia Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski Conductor Benedetto Lupo Pia…
Friday, March 19, 2010, 2:00 PM.
Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
For more info visit www.philorch.org. DANILO PÉREZ
21st Century Dizzy
Price: $26-64
Danilo Pérez creates a deeply personal evening reminiscing about one of the 20th Century’s great jazz influences, Dizzy Gillespie. Pérez’s first big break came about when he was asked to join Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra, which he worked with from 1989 until Gillespie’s passing in 1992. Pérez has assembled an international band featuring David Sanchez, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Amir Elsaffar, Jamey Haddad, Ben Street and Adam Cruz to perform new arrangements of classic Gillespie tunes in addition to original group compositions.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Verizon Hall.
For more info visit www.kimmelcenter.org. The Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble
The Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble presents it's final concert series of the season, featuring works by Mozart, Pierne, Hindemith, Villa Lobos and Marinu.
All performers current or retired Philadelphia Orchestra members.
Friday evening, 8 PM and Sunday afternoon, 2 PM
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 412 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tickets - $25 at the door.
215-542-4890
www.pce.libertynet.org.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 412 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
For more info visit www.pce.libertynet.org. Tokyo Quartet-Benjamin Hochman, piano
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
If the Tokyo String Quartet isn't the world's greatest chamber music ensemble, says The Washington Post, it's hard to imagine which group is. For the second of their two PCMS appearances, the Tokyo will be joined.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Independence Seaport Museum
211 S. Columbus Blvd.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. BEETHOVEN’S “EROICA”
March 18 at 8:00 PM – Thursday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 19 at 2:00 PM – Friday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 20 at 8:00 PM – Saturday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski returns for a second week on The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2009-10 season. He is joined by Benedetto Lupo, bronze medalist at the 1989 Van Cliburn Competition, who makes his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in the concerto Schumann composed for his wife, Clara, in the 1840s. The year 2010 marks the birth-bicentennial of Robert Schumann, whose powerful Romantic stamp on music has been felt ever since his untimely death in 1856. Maestro Jurowski maintains the tone of high drama with the Tragic Overture of Brahms—a composer the Schumanns discovered and promoted—and Beethoven’s ruggedly defiant “Eroica” Symphony.
The Philadelphia Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski Conductor Benedetto Lupo Pia…
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
For more info visit www.philorch.org. The Naughton Sisters
Concerts @ First
March 21, 2010
2:00 p.m.
Free Admission
The Naughton Sisters
(Appearing courtesy of the Curtis Institute of Music)
Venue: First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia
Walnut and 21st Streets
Christina and Michelle Naughton, Piano Duo
Christina and Michelle Naughton each began their piano studies at the age of 4. In the fall of 2007, both began studies at the Curtis Institute of Music on full merit scholarships. Christina was the bronze medalist at the quadrennial Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and most recently won the gold medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music competition. Michelle won first prize at the PianoArts Biennial National Piano concerto and solo competition and was the gold medal winner in the quadrennial Virginnia Waring International Piano competition. Both sisters have performed with Cleveland’s Red Orchestra, the Gulf Coast Symphony, the Madison Symphony, Chicago’s Ars Viva and Park Ridge orchestras. Each has performed e…
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:00 PM.
First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia
Walnut and 21st Streets.
The Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble
The Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble presents it's final concert series of the season, featuring works by Mozart, Pierne, Hindemith, Villa Lobos and Marinu.
All performers current or retired Philadelphia Orchestra members.
Friday evening, 8 PM and Sunday afternoon, 2 PM
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 412 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tickets - $25 at the door.
215-542-4890
www.pce.libertynet.org.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:00 PM.
Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 412 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
For more info visit www.pce.libertynet.org. MATTHEW BENGTSON, FORTE PIANO
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PERFORMS AT HAVERFORD COLLEGE
On Sunday, March 21st at 3 PM, the Haverford College Guest Artist Series presents Matthew Bengtson, fortepiano. His program will include Haydn’s Sonata in E-flat, and Andante with Variations in F minor, Johann Wilhelm Haessler’s Fantasia and Sonata in C major, CPE Bach’s Fantasia II in C major, JS Bach’s Prelude and Fugues Numbers 14, 19 & 20 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, and Mozart’s Sonata in B-Flat major. This concert will be held in Founders Great Hall on the Haverford College Campus at 370 Lancaster Avenue in Haverford, PA. Tickets are $15 (Gen), $12 (Sr), $8 (Students), $5 (7-17). For more information: (610) 896-1011
Critically acclaimed as a “musician’s pianist,” Matthew Bengtson has a unique combination of musical talents ranging from extraordinary pianist, to composer, analyst, and scholar of performance practice, and thus is in demand as both soloist and collaborator. As a La Gesse Fellow, he has been presented in concerts in France and I…
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Founders Great Hall on the Haverford College Campus at 370 Lancaster Avenue in Haverford, PA.
For more info visit www.haverford.edu. SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Laura Claycomb, soprano
Katarina Karneus, alto
The Westminster Choir
Price: $39-113
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (“Resurrection”)
Renowned for his interpretations of Mahler’s symphonies, the dynamic and innovative Michael Tilson Thomas leads his San Francisco Symphony through the “Resurrection,” an emotionally intense work featuring Princeton’s powerful Westminster Choir. An extraordinary symphonic and vocal feat, this huge, dramatic work marked Mahler’s introduction to fame as a composer.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Verizon Hall.
For more info visit www.kimmelcenter.org. Andrius Zlabys, piano
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
Winner of the 2000 Astral National Auditions in Philadelphia, Andrius Zlabys has since gone on to appear with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. His PCMS recital debut is an all-Bach affair with performances of six partitas (BWV 825-830).
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 8:00 PM.
American Philosophical Society
427 Chestnut Street.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. MOZART AND ELGAR-The Philadelphia Orchestra
March 25 at 8:00 PM – Thursday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 26 at 2:00 PM – Friday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 27 at 8:00 PM – Saturday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
The Philadelphia Orchestra welcomes the debut of the stellar American violinist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Stefan Jackiw, who has left critics grasping for superlatives since his debut in London in 2000. “The 14-year-old violinist took the London music world by storm,” wrote the Strad of that London concert, which made the front page of the Times. On the podium is British maestro Andrew Davis, music director and principal conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He leads the extravagant First Symphony by his fellow Brit Edward Elgar, which bears a heroic quality that has led some to call it the composer’s “Eroica.”
The Philadelphia Orchestra Andrew Davis Conductor Stefan Jackiw Violin – PHILADELPHIA…
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Kmmel Center.
For more info visit www.philorch.org. MOZART AND ELGAR-The Philadelphia Orchestra
March 25 at 8:00 PM – Thursday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 26 at 2:00 PM – Friday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 27 at 8:00 PM – Saturday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
The Philadelphia Orchestra welcomes the debut of the stellar American violinist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Stefan Jackiw, who has left critics grasping for superlatives since his debut in London in 2000. “The 14-year-old violinist took the London music world by storm,” wrote the Strad of that London concert, which made the front page of the Times. On the podium is British maestro Andrew Davis, music director and principal conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He leads the extravagant First Symphony by his fellow Brit Edward Elgar, which bears a heroic quality that has led some to call it the composer’s “Eroica.”
The Philadelphia Orchestra Andrew Davis Conductor Stefan Jackiw Violin – PHILADELPHIA…
Friday, March 26, 2010, 2:00 PM.
Kmmel Center.
For more info visit www.philorch.org. FAMILY: THE FIREBIRD-Phila Orch
March 27 at 11:30 AM – Saturday morning –
Enchantment Theatre Company joins The Philadelphia Orchestra to bring to life this classic Russian folk tale of a magical bird with feathers that shine like fire. Follow the musical adventure of our hero, Prince Ivan, as he and the Firebird free 13 beautiful princesses from the evil Kastcheï the Deathless.
The Philadelphia Orchestra Danail Rachev Conductor John-Andrew Fernandez Baritone Enchantment Theatre Company
Prokofiev March from The Love for Three Oranges Korngold “Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen,” from Die tote Stadt - FIRST
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE Stravinsky Excerpts from The Firebird
Following the March 27 Family Concert enjoy a family photo with musicians and members of the Enchantment Theater Company. Bring your camera to capture this special moment!
The Philadelphia Orchestra Family Concerts are funded in part by the Zisman Family Foundation. Family Photo Day sponsored by Macy’s Foundation. Tickets: $7-$46, 215.893.1999 or www.philorch.org.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 11:30 AM.
Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
For more info visit www.philorch.org. Kimmel Center Youth Jazz Ensemble
In Honor of Music in Our Schools Month
Saturday, March 27, 2010 | 12:30pm
| Free at the Kimmel
FREE
This ensemble of young talented musicians, comprised primarily of middle school students, trains with accomplished jazz musicians and teachers to perform in the first regional ensemble specializing in jazz. These talented students are directed by Marc Johnson, and are performing in honor of Music in our Schools Month.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 12:30 PM.
Commonwealth Plaza.
For more info visit www.kimmelcenter.org. BROOKLYN RIDER AND 2 FOOT YARD
Price: $19-32
The vital and creative ensemble Brooklyn Rider is dedicated to both in-depth interpretation of existing quartet music and to the creation of new works. They are joined by the trio 2 Foot Yard featuring dynamic violinist and vocalist Carla Kihlstedt, who was recently hailed by Stereophile magazine as an artist who “inventively straddles the classical and vernacular worlds without compromise to either side.” These two groups will perform separately and then together for a new jointly written composition.
The Fresh Ink series is funded by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, through the Philadelphia Music Project.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Perelman Theater.
For more info visit www.kimmelcenter.org. MOZART AND ELGAR-The Philadelphia Orchestra
March 25 at 8:00 PM – Thursday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 26 at 2:00 PM – Friday afternoon – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
March 27 at 8:00 PM – Saturday evening – Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
The Philadelphia Orchestra welcomes the debut of the stellar American violinist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Stefan Jackiw, who has left critics grasping for superlatives since his debut in London in 2000. “The 14-year-old violinist took the London music world by storm,” wrote the Strad of that London concert, which made the front page of the Times. On the podium is British maestro Andrew Davis, music director and principal conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He leads the extravagant First Symphony by his fellow Brit Edward Elgar, which bears a heroic quality that has led some to call it the composer’s “Eroica.”
The Philadelphia Orchestra Andrew Davis Conductor Stefan Jackiw Violin – PHILADELPHIA…
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Kmmel Center.
For more info visit www.philorch.org. SRUTI-The India Music and Dance Society
in collaboration with Montgomery County Community College presents
The Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
Saturday, March 27 2010 at 8 P.M.
Book Tickets Online
Reserved Seating Tickets ($20, $25, $35)
Students and Senior citizens with valid ID receive $5 off on their ticket
Sruti Core Members receive $10 off on their ticket
Discounts may be redeemed at box office even for tickets bought online
For information contact: Venkat Kilambi at 610-631-2291, Raji Venkatesan at 610-630-1878.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Montgomery County Community College Science Center Theater
Blue Bell, PA.
For more info visit www.sruti.org. Eugene Albulescu and Friends
The Lehigh University Music Department presents Albulescu and Friends The award-winning pianist will be joined by Christopher Collins Lee on violin and Andrey Tchekmazov on cello as he returns to Baker Hall’s Steinway to perform in a program of solo piano and chamber music. Pieces include Turina: Circulo, Beethoven’s “Ghost” Piano Trio and Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor. Tickets are $15.
Romanian-born pianist Eugene Albulescu ia an award-winning Steinway Artist who combines a blazing technique with the artistic integrity and originality to express musical emotions at their most personal level. Albulescu started his piano studies in Romania at the age of six, at the Enescu Music School in Bucharest. His family moved to New Zealand in 1984 to escape Romania’s Communist regime.
Celebrated critic Harold C. Schonberg hailed Albulescu’s “power and infallible fingers of steel,” declaring that “nothing anywhere has any terrors for him.” Albulescu follows a distinguished line of “pianists tur…
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 3:00 PM.
Zoellner Arts Cente.
For more info visit www.zoellnerartscenter.org. Miró Quartet
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
www.pcmsconcerts.org
Hailed by The Seattle Post-Intelligencer for its flawless playing and richness of sound, the Miro Quartet is one of the finest young ensembles in classical music today. Known for their complete Beethoven Op. 18 recordings, they'll present an all-Beethoven program in their PCMS return.
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 3:00 PM.
American Philosophical Society
427 Chestnut Street.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. Wister Quartet-The German Society of Pa
The German Society of Pennsylvania will present a concert by the Wister Quartet on Sunday, 28 March 2010, at 3:00 pm at the Society in its newly and beautifully restored Albert and Hete Barthelme's Auditorium, at the German Society's headquarters, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia. The program includes Mozart's exuberant early Quartet K 160, Haydn's eloquent "Emperor" Quartet, and Mendelssohn's brilliantly extroverted Quartet in D. Major.
Since its founding in 1987, the Wister Quartet (Nancy Bean and Davyd Booth, violins, Pamela Fay, viola, and Lloyd Smith cello) has earned high praise from critics and audiences alike for its superb musicianship and memorable performances. Daniel Webster of the Philadelphia Inquirer has written that the Wister Quartet "has become the foremost (Philadelphia) chamber music ensemble." And David Patrick Stearns, also the Inquirer, recently wrote, "Fierce, satisfying...This was a long-cultivated group personality for which there should always be a place, no matter how b…
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 3:00 PM.
611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia.
For more info visit www.germansociety.org. Vox Ama Deus presents the Ama Deus Ensemble
Valentin Radu, Artistic Director and Conductor
What: Two Performances of…
JOHANNES BRAHMS REQUIEM and VIOLIN CONCERTO
Concerto for Violin in D Major, Op. 77
Thomas DiSarlo, violin Valentin Radu, conductor
Ein deutsches Requiem ( A German Requiem ), Op. 45
Tatyana Galitskaya, soprano Ed Bara, bass
Valentin Radu, conductor
1st Performance
When: Palm Sunday, March 28th at 7:00 PM
Where: Daylesford Abbey, 220 South Valley Road, Paoli, PA
Tickets: $25 General Admission / $20 Seniors / $10 Students
Available online, by phone or at the door subject to availability. For tickets,
group sales and information: www.VoxAmaDeus.org or 610-688-2800
2nd Performance
When: Good Friday, April 2nd at 8:00 PM
Where: Kimmel Center – Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA
Tickets: $60 / $40 / $20 Available online at KimmelCenter.org and VoxAmaDeus.org
by phone 215-893-1999 (Kimmel Box Office) and at the door, subject to availability.
For group sal…
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 7:00 PM.
Daylesford Abbey, 220 South Valley Road, Paoli, PA.
For more info visit www.voxamadeus.org. Vox Ama Deus presents the Ama Deus Ensemble
Valentin Radu, Artistic Director and Conductor
What: Two Performances of…
JOHANNES BRAHMS REQUIEM and VIOLIN CONCERTO
Concerto for Violin in D Major, Op. 77
Thomas DiSarlo, violin Valentin Radu, conductor
Ein deutsches Requiem ( A German Requiem ), Op. 45
Tatyana Galitskaya, soprano Ed Bara, bass
Valentin Radu, conductor
1st Performance
When: Palm Sunday, March 28th at 7:00 PM
Where: Daylesford Abbey, 220 South Valley Road, Paoli, PA
Tickets: $25 General Admission / $20 Seniors / $10 Students
Available online, by phone or at the door subject to availability. For tickets,
group sales and information: www.VoxAmaDeus.org or 610-688-2800
2nd Performance
When: Good Friday, April 2nd at 8:00 PM
Where: Kimmel Center – Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA
Tickets: $60 / $40 / $20 Available online at KimmelCenter.org and VoxAmaDeus.org
by phone 215-893-1999 (Kimmel Box Office) and at the door, subject to availability.
For group sal…
Friday, April 2, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Kimmel Center – Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA.
For more info visit www.voxamadeus.org. CHULRUA
Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Irish traditional music
“Adept at finding unusual tunes and variants, and in celebrating the individual
voice in the flow of traditional practice… a reminder of the things that matter
in Irish traditional music.” – Irish Music.
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Calvary United Methodist Church
Crossroads Music
801 South 48th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143.
For more info visit www.crossroadsconcerts.org. Rising Stars
Saeka Matsuyama, violin; Susan Babini, cello; Dísella Làrusdóttir, soprano; Symphony In C & Rossen Milanov, Music Director
Program:
Bruch Scottish Fantasy in E-flat Major, Op. 46, for Violin and Orchestra
Sibelius Luonnotar, Op. 70, for Soprano and Orchestra
Aaron Jay Kernis Colored Field for Cello and Orchestra (East Coast première)
Visit TicketPhiladelphia.org or call Ticket Philadelphia at 215-893-1999 after September 1, 2009 to reserve your tickets!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Broad & Spruce Streets.
For more info visit www.astralartists.org. Turtle Island String Quartet
Chamber Music with an
American Accent
Thursday, April 8, 2010
8:00pm
Cabaret: $39.50*
Regular: $25.00*
(Cabaret Reserved for Members until 2/8/10)
Multiple Grammy Winners Turtle Island Quartet have been a singular force in the creation of bold, new trends in cross-over music since 1985. The Quartet’s birth was the result of violinist David Balakrishnan’s brainstorming explorations & compositional vision with forays into folk, bluegrass, swing, be-bop, funk, R&B, new age, rock and hip-hop. They’ve contributed to film soundtracks and their radio & TV credits include the Today Show, All Things Considered, Prairie Home Companion & Morning Edition plus were featured in People & Newsweek. They’ll be performing their Grammy winning A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane.
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Sellersville Theater
Main & Temple Street
Sellersville, PA 18960.
For more info visit www.st94.com. Candelight Dessert Tea and concert
April 9, 2010, 6:30-8 pm
Candelight Dessert Tea and concert
Mindy Cutcher, harpist
$25 for dessert and autographed CD
Reservations: 215-997-8441.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:30 PM.
The Talking Tea Cup
301 W. Butler Ave.
Chalfont, PA 18914.
SILENT PARTNERS-Network For New Music
Sometimes words speak the loudest when they can't be heard. Finding inspiration in text that’s sometimes intimate, sometimes sublime, composers Michael Hersch and Stephen Jaffe take words as silent partners in sensitive and eloquent musical explorations of the worlds they find in the language of Bruno Schulz and others.
Program: Network for New Music commission by Michael Hersch
Network for New Music commission by Stephen Jaffe
Lines from Poetry by Ronald Caltabiano
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 7:30 PM
Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College (free).
Friday, April 9, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Philadelphia Ethical Society
1906 S. Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia.
For more info visit www.networkfornewmusic.prg. Yefim Bronfman, piano
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
Grammy Award-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman is widely regarded as one of the most talented virtuosos performing today. His commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts have won him consistent critical acclaim, and both will be present at the Perelman Theater in a program featuring Beethoven, Schumann, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Perelman Theater — Kimmel Center
Broad and Spruce Streets.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. Mindy Cutcher, harpist
April 10, 2010, 2-4 pm
Afternoon Tea performance
Mindy Cutcher, harpist
Reservations: 610-971-0390.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
A Taste of Britain, Eagle Village Shops
503 W. Lancaster Ave.
Wayne, PA 19087.
Jupiter Quartet
Jupiter Quartet w/ Michael Tree, viola & Peter Wiley, cello
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
One of America's best young quartets teams up with two classical veterans for a memorable spring concert. They'll be joined by Michael Tree and Peter Wiley of the Guarneri Quartet for Strauss's Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85 and will also present works by Haydn, Janacek and Schoenberg.
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 3:00 PM.
Independence Seaport Museum
211 S. Columbus Blvd.
For more info visit www.blackpearlco.org. SILENT PARTNERS-Network For New Music
Sometimes words speak the loudest when they can't be heard. Finding inspiration in text that’s sometimes intimate, sometimes sublime, composers Michael Hersch and Stephen Jaffe take words as silent partners in sensitive and eloquent musical explorations of the worlds they find in the language of Bruno Schulz and others.
Program: Network for New Music commission by Michael Hersch
Network for New Music commission by Stephen Jaffe
Lines from Poetry by Ronald Caltabiano.
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Marshall Auditorium, Haverford College (free).
For more info visit www.networkfornewmusic.prg. KALEIDOSCOPE
KALEIDOSCOPE - A CONCERT FEATURING
JOHANNES BRAHMS’ ZIGEUNERLIEDER
GWYNETH WALKER’S I’VE KNOWN RIVERS (A PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE)
GEORGE SHEARING’S SONGS AND SONNETS
and several Cole Porter Jazz classics
PRESENTED BY THE PHILADELPHIA CHORUS, Raquel García, Artistic Director
SUNDAY, April 18, 2010- 4 PM, AT THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
With
Judith Large, pianist
The Philadelphia Chorus presents its concert entitled Kaleidoscope.
Inspired by Hungarian culture and music, Brahms wrote Zigeunerlieder, or Gypsy songs, over two years using verses derived from traditional Hungarian texts by his friend Hugo Conrat. These songs, full of the joys and agonies of love, were published in 1888 as Opus 103.
The chorus will also present an arrangement of Langston Hughes poems as set to music by Gwyneth Walker. In this particular collection, Walker took four of Hughes’ poems and worked them into a group entitled I’ve Known Rivers. The universally understandable sentiments in Hughes’ poems and…
Sunday, April 18, 2010, 4:00 PM.
Church of the Holy Trinity
19th and Walnut Streets on Rittenhouse Square.
For more info visit www.thephiladelphiachorus.org. Curtis Chamber Orchestra II
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
This New York-based composer/performer collective is committed to the notion that contemporary music can and should be both accessible and challenging. Works by Xenakis, Dusapin and Crumb highlight a program that also includes the world premiere of a new quintet by Kyle Bartlett.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Perelman Theater
Broad and Spruce Streets.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. Richard Goode, piano
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
www.pcmsconcerts.org
Hailed for the tremendous emotional power, depth and sensitivity of his playing, Richard Goode is acknowledged as one of the leading pianists of his time. His annual sold-out recitals always rank among the highlights of any season.
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Perelman Theater — Kimmel Center
Broad and Spruce Streets.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. Hagen Quartet
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
Consisting of three siblings and the violinist Rainer Schmidt, this Salzburg quartet is one of the top groups on the international scene. Their triumphant return to Philadelphia features a colorful program of works by Beethoven, Webern and Grieg.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Perelman Theater — Kimmel Center
Broad and Spruce Streets.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. Belcea Quartet
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
The Belcea Quartet has gained an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the new generation. Their eagerly-anticipated PCMS return features a program of works by Beethoven, Szymanowski and Bartok.
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Independence Seaport Museum
211 S. Columbus Blvd.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. Roberto Díaz, viola/Meng-Chieh Liu, piano
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
Don't miss the Curtis Institute president - and former Philadelphia Orchestra principal violist- in a rare intimate recital at Benjamin Franklin Hall. Local favorite and Curtis faculty member Meng-Chieh Liu provides accompaniment for a program of Paganini, Hindemith and Shostakovich.
Friday, April 30, 2010, 8:00 PM.
American Philosophical Society
427 Chestnut Street.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, Op. 37
The Philadelphia Singers will close its subscription season on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 8:00pm with a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, Op. 37 at the Church of the Holy Trinity, 19th and Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. Vespers is a fifteen movement a cappella work requiring an expanded chorus of forty singers. It is often praised as one of Rachmaninoff’s finest. It was also one of the composer’s favorites among his own works and has been called the crowning masterpiece of Russian sacred music.
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 19th and Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia.
For more info visit www.philadelphiasingers.org. Network For New Music- SPECIAL EVENT
SPECIAL EVENT
25th Anniversary Celebration
For twenty-five years, Network for New Music has commissioned, performed and presented over 550 new works, by composers as varied as music itself. What better way to celebrate than to invite a few of those composers to write a variation on one of the most storied themes in Western classical music?
Artistic Director Linda Reichert has asked twenty-five composers to each write a variation on the simple waltz by Anton Diabelli, made famous by Beethoven in his masterful 33 variations on that theme. These composers, most of whom are from the Philadelphia area and all of whom have had an affectionate and fruitful relationship with Network over the years, will write one- or two-minute variations. When they’re all performed together, these variations will create a sparkling microcosm of the artistic voices that Network for New Music has encouraged and performed for twenty-five years.
Composers writing variations for this special event include: Ingrid Arauco, Kyle…
Sunday, May 2, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Settlement Music School
416 Queen St. Philadelphia.
For more info visit www.networkfornewmusic.prg. Soovin Kim, violin/Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
Violinist Soovin Kim has been warmly received around the world since capturing first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition. A PCMS favorite as a recitalist and as a member of the Johannes Quartet, he'll be joined by pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute for a program of Schubert, Debussy, Prokofiev and Beethoven.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Perelman Theater — Kimmel Center
Broad and Spruce Streets.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. Musicians from Marlboro III
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
Called “a virtual guarantee of musical excellence” by The Washington Post, the Musicians from Marlboro touring program was created as an extension of the Marlboro Music Festival. The season's third Marlboro concert features an all-star quintet – David Bowlin, violin; Hiroko Yajima, violin; Rebecca Albers, viola; Amir Eldan, cello; and Marcy Rosen, cello – performing works by Boccherini, Stravinsky and Schubert.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 8:00 PM.
Perelman Theater — Kimmel Center
Broad and Spruce Streets.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. Ensemble ACJW
John Adams, conductor
Jeremy Denk, piano
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
Ensemble ACJW is made up of Fellows of the Academy - a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Insitute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. The group's only Philadelphia appearance features Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Adams conducting his "Son of Chamber Symphony" and the New York pianist Jeremy Denk joining the group for a performance of Stravinsky's "Concerto for Piano and Winds". Louis Andriessen's "De Staat" concludes the program.
Sunday, May 9, 2010, 3:00 PM.
Perelman Theater — Kimmel Center
Broad and Spruce Streets.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. counter)induction
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
215-569-8080
counter)induction is a composer/performer collective committed to the notion that contemporary music can and should be both accessible and challenging. It celebrates the diversity of contemporary music by presenting the best, most innovative new music to both new and established audiences. The program for the group’s PCMS debut includes works by Xenakis and Crumb and the world premiere of a new quintet by New York composer Kyle Bartlett.
Sunday, May 16, 2010, 3:00 PM.
American Philosophical Society
427 Chestnut Street.
For more info visit www.pcmsconcerts.org. The Flute Society of Greater Phila Presents
The Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia Presents
Maron Khoury - Flutist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Music for Flute and Piano
Works by Faure, Reinecke, Prokofiev, Jolivet, Borne and Bolling
Tickets in advanced - $10, $7.50 (seniors and students)
After May 7th and at the door - $15, $10 (seniors and students)
Information and tickets - 215 576-7056 or FLUTESOC@voicenet.com.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 7:30 PM.
The Ethical Society of Philadelphia,
Rittenhouse Square.
Tempesta di Mare
Brandenburg IV & VI, plus Telemann and Dall’Abaco
Friday, May 21 at 8 pm, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Saturday, May 22 at 8 pm, St Mark’s Church, Philadelphia
With pre-concert talk by Steven Zohn at 7 pm
American Premiere: Suite in G Minor, TWV 55:g1 by Georg Philipp Telemann.
Tickets and Information: Preferred $35, General $25, Senior $20, Student $10, Children (grades 3-12) free,. Pre-concert talk $5. Order tickets at www.tempestadimare.org, call 215-755-8776 or purchase at the door.
Friday, May 21, 2010, 8:00 PM.
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill,
8855 Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill, PA.
For more info visit www.tempestadimare.org. Unplug!
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 3 PM, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 3 PM, The First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia
The annual children concert is always highly anticipated by kids and parents alike. The live sound and song journey through Philadelphia winds up with Richard Wargo’s The Music Shop, a hilarious mini-opera. With Motet Choir of the Keystone State Boychoir directed by Steven Fisher.
Tickets and Information: Call 215-438-1702. Tickets can be pre-ordered by phone or purchased at the door. General $20, Student $5. Season Subscriptions now available at 15% off regular admission. For more information visit www.LyricFest.org.
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 3:00 PM.
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill,
8855 Germantown Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA, 19118.
For more info visit www.lyricfest.org. Tempesta di Mare
Brandenburg IV & VI, plus Telemann and Dall’Abaco
Friday, May 21 at 8 pm, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Saturday, May 22 at 8 pm, St Mark’s Church, Philadelphia
With pre-concert talk by Steven Zohn at 7 pm
American Premiere: Suite in G Minor, TWV 55:g1 by Georg Philipp Telemann.
Tickets and Information: Preferred $35, General $25, Senior $20, Student $10, Children (grades 3-12) free,. Pre-concert talk $5. Order tickets at www.tempestadimare.org, call 215-755-8776 or purchase at the door.
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 8:00 PM.
St Mark’s Church, 1625 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA.
For more info visit www.tempestadimare.org. Unplug!
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 3 PM, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 3 PM, The First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia
The annual children concert is always highly anticipated by kids and parents alike. The live sound and song journey through Philadelphia winds up with Richard Wargo’s The Music Shop, a hilarious mini-opera. With Motet Choir of the Keystone State Boychoir directed by Steven Fisher.
Tickets and Information: Call 215-438-1702. Tickets can be pre-ordered by phone or purchased at the door. General $20, Student $5. Season Subscriptions now available at 15% off regular admission. For more information visit www.LyricFest.org.
Sunday, May 23, 2010, 3:00 PM.
The First Presbyterian Church, 21st and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA, 19103.