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2019-20 SEASON

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and members of the of the High School for Creative and Performing Arts at the Girard College Chapel following The Philadelphia ’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Tribute Concert in January 2019.

#YourPhilOrch “What a pleasure it is to invite you to my eighth season as music director of the fabulous, unique, truly best-in-the-world — Your Orchestra. Why do I say Your Orchestra? Because it is for you, our beloved audiences. Every week, we perform for you.” –Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Violinist Julia Li, bassist David Fay, and clarinetist Socrates Villegas at The Franklin Institute. Photo by Jeff Fusco. #YourPhilOrch Connect! Share your favorite memories and moments with us using the hashtag #MyPhilOrch, as we embark on an unforgettable musical journey together. Turn the pages to see the musicians of Your Orchestra photographed in the city that inspires us—with great appreciation to the Philadelphia photographers and organizations who contributed to the collaboration. Join us! BeethovenNOW “Beethoven’s music was groundbreaking, original, and provocative. To celebrate his legacy in 2020, we must pay attention to the VOICES OF TODAY through music that sheds a light on contemporary struggles and aspirations.” –Yannick Nézet-Séguin

The year 2020 marks the 250th birthday of Beethoven. The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates this milestone by performing music by of today in dialogue with Beethoven’s . -in- Residence Gabriela Lena Frank, and a diverse group of composers from her Creative Academy of Music, offer newly written works that inspire and push boundaries—to elevate the context in which Beethoven’s legacy is understood today.

The Symphonies: March 12-April 5 Revolutionary from the start and immensely popular 200 years later, Beethoven’s nine symphonies challenged musical norms at their creation and transformed the symphonic canon forever. Here is a rare chance to journey through all nine of these masterworks in a concentrated four-week period, and to listen with a fresh, bold perspective. See pages 28-29 for details. The Piano : January 23-February 8 All five piano concertos in three binge-worthy weeks—including a special one-week return to the Academy of Music, January 23-26—with three of the world’s greatest : Yefim Bronfman, Daniil Trifonov, and Emanuel Ax. See pages 20-21 for details. WomenNOW

Philadelphia Orchestra Composer-in-Residence, Marin Alsop Gabriela Lena Frank Valerie Coleman

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Vivian Fung Susanna Mälkki Zosha Di Castri Women innovators and creators take center stage in the 2019-20 season. Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra present composers, conductors, instrumentalists, vocalists, and thinkers in programs that showcase rarely heard works of the past and inspiring music of today. A world premiere by Valerie Coleman during opening weekend sets the stage for a season-long (and beyond) celebration of women’s voices, and Gabriela Lena Frank joins the Orchestra as composer-in-residence. The Philadelphia Orchestra is a Proud Partner of Vision 2020’s Women 100 initiative, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment granting women’s right to vote. Music that Transforms Experience the genius of and 16 other living composers who feature prominently in a season of distinctive, inspiring musical voices. Strauss’s revolutionary Elektra comes to life as Yannick leads a stunning symphonic staging. Be inspired by Bach’s Mass in B minor, one of the greatest choral works ever written. And re-live timeless films as the Orchestra performs live the extraordinary original scores to Fantasia, An American in , and Up. Welcome to the 2019-20 season! Enjoy exploring the over 100 concerts, featuring our main concert season, listed chronologically, along with our Special Events, Holiday, and Family concerts. This season, we honor our past with a one-week return to the Academy of Music and look to the future through a variety of innovative concert experiences. For those of you who enjoy traditional subscription packages, look for the icons to the right on the pages where concerts appear. New this season, enjoy a series of four consecutive Sunday afternoons in the month of March celebrating BeethovenNOW. A complete subscription package listing can be found in the center foldout, as well as beginning on page 51. For those of you who enjoy making your own selections, simply make note of all the concerts you wish to enjoy and create your own 6-concert package. Look for the icons throughout the pages for programs that feature organ repertoire as part of the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Experience, utilize LiveNote® — the Orchestra’s interactive concert guide for mobile devices, and celebrate women innovators and creators. Either way you choose to purchase, do so now! Make your selections right away and be among the first to guarantee your seats. Be sure to add on any additional concert tickets now to bring friends and family along with you as concerts do sell out. #YourPhilOrch Thurs 6 Thurs 6 Thurs 6 Thurs 6 A B C D

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Vision 2020 is a national women’s equality coalition headquartered at Drexel University’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership. In 2020, Vision 2020 will lead Women 100: A Celebration of American Women to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: women’s right to vote. Vision 2020 applauds The Philadelphia Orchestra, one of its early Women 100 Proud Partners—organizations committed to gender equality that have created their own programming in support of Women 100—on the Orchestra’s commitment to advancing women’s equality.

Assistant Principal Bass Joseph Conyers at Cherry Street Pier. Photo by Kriston Jae Bethel. Opening Night Concert and Gala Wednesday, September 18 7 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Plácido Domingo Tenor Plácido Domingo is a paragon of the opera world, continuing to add roles to his repertoire while amassing raves all over the world. The truly legendary Spanish tenor joins Yannick and the Orchestra, performing beloved highlights of Italian grand opera. Join us for this glamorous evening, celebrating a superstar of classical music, Yannick’s eighth fabulous season as music director, and the lush sounds of your Philadelphia Orchestra. Opening Night Co-Chairs Richelle Rabenou, Peter Shaw, and Assistant Principal Yumi Kendall, and the Opening Night Gala committee look forward to welcoming you to this celebratory evening with Philadelphia’s cultural leaders and arts patrons. Contact Dorothy Byrne in the Volunteer Relations office at 215.893.3124 or via e-mail at [email protected] to be sure you are on the invitation list.

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Hélène Grimaud Leila Josefowicz Yannick and Hélène John Adams Open the Season Conducts Adams Thursday, September 19 7:30 PM Thursday, September 26 7:30 PM Friday, September 20 2 PM Friday, September 27 2 PM Saturday, September 21 8 PM Saturday, September 28 8 PM Sunday, September 22 2 PM John Adams Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Leila Josefowicz Hélène Grimaud Piano Ravel Coleman Umoja, for orchestra Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission) Adams Scheherazade.2, Dramatic Bartók Piano No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra Dvořák Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) Composer, conductor, teacher, writer, thinker—John Adams is Umoja, a world premiere commission by American composer an American musical icon. His work—exciting and beautiful— Valerie Coleman, launches our 2019-20 season. Ms. Coleman’s unflinchingly confronts, defines, and embraces contemporary culture. spirited music draws from Afro-Cuban, jazz, and classical genres. He wrote Scheherazade.2 for the stellar violinist Leila Josefowicz, Umoja—meaning unity in Swahili—is alive with all these influences. inspired by an art exhibit about The Tales of the Arabian Nights and Bartók’s gorgeous Third Concerto, performed by Yannick’s Rimsky-Korsakov’s original. Josefowicz’s solo violin plays the role good friend Hélène Grimaud, is as vibrant today as the day The of a modern Scheherazade. Adams’s musical exploration of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy gave the world present-day struggle of women in a patriarchal society reverses premiere at the Academy of Music in 1946. This program, inspired the roles, putting the woman in a position of strength. These lyrical by music of American roots, concludes with Dvořák’s wondrous musical threads are further evoked in Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso “New World” Symphony. and Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale—signature works by superb composers, and each a showcase for The Philadelphia Orchestra.

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12 Haochen Zhang Yannick Nézet-Séguin Rachmaninoff’s All Mozart with Yannick Thursday, October 10 7:30 PM No. 2 Sunday, October 13 8 PM Friday, October 4 8 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Saturday, October 5 8 PM Juliette Kang Violin Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Choong-Jin Chang Haochen Zhang Piano Mozart Symphony No. 35 (“Haffner”) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Mozart , for violin, viola, and orchestra Strauss An Alpine Symphony Mozart Symphony No. 40 Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 marked the composer’s Yannick leads an all-Mozart program displaying the seemingly infinite triumphant recovery from the disastrous premiere of his First range of his musical gifts. The “Haffner” Symphony, named for the Symphony. While some elements are familiar thanks to movie commissioning Salzburg family, began as a , but Mozart soundtracks and pop songs, the Concerto as a whole is a tweaked and enhanced it into its present form, now recognized as testament to Rachmaninoff’s brilliance as a composer and . a true breakthrough in his musical style. The Symphony No. 40, Haochen Zhang is a worthy interpreter of this masterwork: Not perhaps his most famous symphony, is also hailed as a turning point yet 30, he’s renowned for dazzling technique and thoughtful in composition. In the Sinfonia concertante, a hybrid of symphony and interpretation. Strauss’s Alpine Symphony was inspired by a trek concerto, Mozart beguiles with rich, brilliant music for both orchestra up a mountain, from pre-dawn darkness to deepening nightfall. and soloists—First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang and The extra large orchestra is heavy on woodwinds, brass, and Principal Viola Choong-Jin Chang. percussion, the better for Strauss to evoke waterfalls, grazing cattle, and even yodels. An extraordinary work by a master of the tone poem.

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin Nathalie Stutzmann Yannick and Mahler Bruch and Brahms Thursday, October 17 7:30 PM Thursday, October 24 7:30 PM Friday, October 18 2 PM Friday, October 25 8 PM Saturday, October 19 8 PM Saturday, October 26 8 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor Louis Lortie Piano David Kim Violin Schubert/Liszt Wanderer Fantasy, for piano Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture and orchestra Bruch No. 1 Mahler Symphony No. 5 Brahms Symphony No. 2 Mahler summons a large orchestra to explore the full range of Max Bruch may have struggled to write it, but Concertmaster David human emotions in his Fifth Symphony, a work that Yannick returns Kim calls this violin concerto “the perfect combination of beautiful to with the Philadelphians for the first time in nine years. Schubert melodies and themes, virtuosic yet accessible.” Brahms’s Second himself struggled to play the Wanderer Fantasy. More than just a Symphony, possibly his most popular, is said to be his personal technical challenge, the piece is an ingenious set of variations on favorite as well. Its pastoral aura surely accounts for some of its the composer’s song “Der Wanderer,” transformed by Liszt into appeal; but Brahms being Brahms, there is tension and drama a rarely heard piano concerto. The four movements are played as well, building to an extraordinary, triumphant finale. Conductor without a break, building intensity until the mesmerizing finale. Nathalie Stutzmann returns to demonstrate her superb chemistry Louis Lortie brings his “faultless pianistic sheen and mastery” with The Philadelphia Orchestra. (Gramophone) to this pinnacle of Schubert’s art.

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www.philorch.org / 215.893.1955 15 Violinist Jeoung-Yin Kim, violist Anna Marie Ahn Petersen, and First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo bySubscribe Michelle Gustafson today before our most popular concerts sell out!

November/December 2019

Kelley O’Connor Gil Shaham The Firebird BeethovenNOW: Thursday, November 21 7:30 PM Friday, November 22 2 PM The Violin Concerto Saturday, November 23 8 PM Friday, November 29 8 PM Saturday, November 30 8 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor Kelley O’Connor Mezzo-soprano Susanna Mälkki Conductor Gil Shaham Violin Auerbach Icarus for Orchestra Lieberson Neruda Songs Jolas A Little Summer Suite Stravinsky The Firebird (complete ballet) Beethoven Violin Concerto With these concerts our esteemed colleague Stéphane Denève ProkofievSymphony No. 5 begins his sixth and final season as our principal guest conductor. Beethoven’s only violin concerto is “an amazing trip,” says Soviet-born American composer Lera Auerbach says she was Gil Shaham, from the opening drumbeats, through some of drawn to the myth of Icarus because of “his wish to reach the “the most sublime, most beautiful violin passages ever,” to the unreachable, the intensity of the ecstatic brevity of his flight, and “perfect fiddling” of the final dance. Susanna Mälkki, renowned the inevitability of his fall.” Her adventurous musical palette exploits interpreter of new music, leads Betsy Jolas’s A Little Summer the full sonic range of the orchestra: shimmering, soaring, and Suite, written in 2015 on the eve of the composer’s 90th birthday. ultimately dying away. Stravinsky describes a different myth about The deceptively simple opening of Prokofiev’s rhapsodic Fifth feathered flight in hisFirebird . He mined everything from Russian Symphony gives way to a rich and complex display of his expansive folk music to his classical forebears (especially his teacher, Rimsky- talents, conceived, in the composer’s words, as “a symphony of the Korsakov) to tell this story of a prince, an evil king, and, of course, greatness of the human spirit.” a magical firebird. Peter Lieberson set five love poems by Pablo Neruda to music in this touching work written for his wife, mezzo- soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who gave the world premiere.

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18 Enjoy flexibility and savings by purchasing a Create-Your-Own subscription today. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Composer Bach’s Mass in B minor Wynton Marsalis’s Thursday, December 5 7:30 PM Friday, December 6 2 PM Blues Symphony Saturday, December 7 8 PM Thursday, December 12 7:30 PM Friday, December 13 2 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Saturday, December 14 8 PM Westminster Symphonic Choir Joe Miller Director Cristian Măcelaru Conductor Leonidas Kavakos Violin Bach Mass in B minor This work of towering musicality and deep spirituality is a fitting Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 summation of J.S. Bach’s epochal career; he finished it the year Marsalis Blues Symphony before he died. It’s “above and beyond every piece of music that’s Pulitzer Prize-winner Wynton Marsalis switches from jazz band to been created for liturgical purposes,” says Yannick Nézet-Séguin. symphony orchestra for his Blues Symphony. “Blues is affirmation A setting of the complete Latin Mass, it demands superlatives, with absolute elegance,” says Marsalis, and he uses the classic at the same time rendering them inadequate. Yannick’s mastery of 12-bar musical form as the basis for this work, which celebrates all vocal music, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, distinguished vocal types of American and African-American music, from spirituals to soloists, and the inimitable Philadelphia Orchestra will bring the Mass ragtime, from marches to bluegrass. This Philadelphia premiere is to life as a peak musical and spiritual experience for every listener. conducted by our long-time friend Cristian Măcelaru. Shostakovich’s emotional First Violin Concerto reveals the pure power and technical prowess of orchestra and soloist. Leonidas Kavakos, “a marvel of exactitude” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), describes the dialogues between the two as “absolutely breathtaking.”

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Yefim Bronfman

Bronfman Plays Concerto No. 4 Academy of Music Thursday, January 23 7:30 PM Friday, January 24 2 PM Sunday, January 26 2 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yefim BronfmanPiano Fung Dust Devils Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 Daniil Trifonov Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 The Orchestra returns to the Academy of Music for its first subscription concerts since moving to Verizon Hall in 2001. It’s a fitting venue for Rachmaninoff’s nostalgic, romantic Symphony No. 3, premiered by the composer’s cherished Philadelphians in 1936 on that very same stage, with . The gentle, lone piano chords that open the Fourth Concerto were a radical construct when Beethoven premiered the wide-ranging and emotional work in 1808. Yefim Bronfman says he’s always been drawn to its tenderness.

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TrifonovNOW Plays Ax Plays Concertos Concertos No. 1 and 5 No. 2 and 3 Thursday, January 30 7:30 PM Thursday, February 6 7:30 PM Friday, January 31 2 PM Friday, February 7 8 PM Saturday, February 1 8 PM Saturday, February 8 8 PM Sunday, February 2 2 PM Karina Cannelakis Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Emanuel Ax Piano Daniil Trifonov Piano Di Castri Lineage Boulanger Of a Sad Evening Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 (Thursday and Saturday) (Thursday and Friday) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”) (Friday) (Saturday and Sunday) Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra Farrenc Symphony No. 2 Beethoven composed “the most positive music ever written,” with every Daniil Trifonov, the Orchestra’s Grammy-winning recording partner, work containing “every emotion known to man,” says Emanuel Ax, who returns for four performances. Amplifying the programs are two completes our piano concerto cycle. Beethoven made his public debut underappreciated works by formidable women composers: with his Second Concerto, a dramatic, humorous, ebullient work that Lili Boulanger, the first woman to win, in 1913, the prestigious announced the young artist’s arrival. The muscular Third embodies Prix de Rome composition prize, and Louise Farrenc, whose Beethoven’s “proud Prospero-like assertion of his beloved C-minor Symphony No. 2 dialogues with Beethoven, and leaves us asking powers.” (Gramophone) Rising star and Curtis Institute of Music why her works are not a more integral part of the canon today. graduate Karina Cannelakis makes her Philadelphia Orchestra debut, also leading Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri’s 2015 tribute to her grandmother and Lutosławski’s fascinating showpiece for orchestra.

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Stéphane Denève Lise de la Salle Sorcerers, Spells, and Magic Symphonie fantastique Thursday, February 13 7:30 PM Thursday, February 20 7:30 PM Friday, February 14 2 PM Friday, February 21 2 PM Saturday, February 15 8 PM Saturday, February 22 8 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor Herbert Blomstedt Conductor Westminster Symphonic Choir Lise de la Salle Piano Joe Miller Director Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 Philadelphia Boys Choir Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Jeffrey R. Smith Artistic Director Mendelssohn wrote his Second Piano Concerto right after he Mozart Overture to The Magic got married and there’s plenty of joy expressed, especially in Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice the final movement, which the composer himself described as Williams Selections from Harry Potter “piano fireworks.” He was the soloist at the premiere in 1837. Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges The young French pianist Lise de la Salle (“For much of the concert, the audience had to remember to breathe…” –The Washington Post) The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates Valentine’s weekend with is a riveting choice to interpret this concerto. Berlioz’s Symphonie spellbinding music, beginning with Mozart’s bewitching The Magic fantastique is a tour de force of compositional color, a breakthrough Flute. Magic takes a darker turn in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Dukas’s that set the stage for his most assured writing. While said to depict immortalized by Mickey Mouse battling demonic the opium-inspired visions of a lovesick young artist, the music brooms in Fantasia. Stéphane Denève is a passionate exponent of John needs no libretto to communicate its passion. Who better to lead this Williams’s endlessly creative music for the cinema, represented here by celebration of youthful intensity than the ageless Herbert Blomstedt! his spookily charming Harry Potter scores. Youth and magic reappear in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Magic Spells), a one-act fairy tale opera with libretto by renowned French author Colette, and featuring talent from the ’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Enchanting!

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24 Subscribers get fee-free ticket exchanges all season long. Donald Runnicles Angel Blue Respighi’s Pines of Rome Thursday, February 27 7:30 PM Thursday, March 5 7:30 PM Friday, February 28 2 PM Friday, March 6 2 PM Saturday, February 29 8 PM Saturday, March 7 8 PM Donald Runnicles Conductor Marin Alsop Conductor Paul Jacobs Organ Angel Blue Soprano Elgar In the South Lester Lynch Baritone Daugherty Once Upon a Castle, Gershwin Highlights from Porgy and Bess for organ and orchestra This American classic is the story of a man trying to rescue a Elgar Introduction and Allegro woman from her distressing life. To help create his masterpiece, Respighi Pines of Rome immersed himself in African-American life and culture on Charleston’s Catfish Row, honoring the area’s folk Two journeys to Italy bookend this program. Respighi’s Pines of traditions with timeless melodies. Pioneering conductor Marin Alsop Rome is a sweeping pictorial of the Italian landscape. Edward leads our performances of this tale of oppression, struggle, hope, Elgar’s scintillating tone poem In the South commemorates a and love. The cast includes soprano Angel Blue (hailed by family holiday; the richly textured music conveys the Italian Riviera Plácido Domingo as “the next ”) and celebrated in all its warmth. Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro is a showcase baritone Lester Lynch. for strings. Inspired by the theater organ in William Randolph Hearst’s San Simeon (fictionalized as Xanadu inCitizen Kane), Michael Daugherty’s lush Once Upon a Castle brings out what the composer calls the “Technicolor” nature of the instrument. The esteemed Scottish maestro Donald Runnicles conducts; keyboard virtuoso Paul Jacobs returns to the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ.

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BeethovenNOW Symphonies 5 & 6 Symphonies 2 & 3 Thursday, March 12 7:30 PM Thursday, March 19 7:30 PM Saturday, March 14 8 PM Saturday, March 21 8 PM Sunday, March 15 2 PM Sunday, March 22 2 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Habibi Work in Dialogue with Beethoven Hunt Work in Dialogue with Beethoven (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission) (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission) Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) The indelible four-note opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony Beethoven was just beginning to go deaf when he wrote his lays the foundation for a truly fateful symphonic journey. Written in Second Symphony and though he was losing his hearing, he was 1804, and on the program when The Philadelphia Orchestra gave finding his voice. He could have composed a manifestation of its first concert in 1900, it’s an epic tour de force that resonates in despair, but instead gave the world one of his most ebullient and 2020. Following its rousing conclusion come the verdant valleys life-affirming works. The Third Symphony was groundbreaking, a and sweet smells of the woods and the Austrian countryside, an turning point in the composer’s oeuvre and a watershed in musical exposition of Beethoven’s love of nature. Composed and premiered history. A vast ode to heroism, revolution, and freedom, the “Eroica” at the same time, the “Pastoral” offers a striking contrast to the is considered by many to be the greatest not just of Beethoven’s assertive Fifth. symphonies, but of all time.

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin Symphonies 8, 4, & 7 Symphonies 1 & 9 Friday, March 27 2 PM Thursday, April 2 7:30 PM Saturday, March 28 8 PM Saturday, April 4 8 PM Sunday, March 29 2 PM Sunday, April 5 2 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Simon Work in Dialogue with Beethoven Angel Blue Soprano (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission) Mihoko Fujimura Mezzo-soprano Beethoven Symphony No. 8 Rolando Villazón Tenor Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Quinn Kelsey Baritone Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Westminster Symphonic Choir and Community Voices Joe Miller Director Buoyant and humorous, the Eighth Symphony belies none of the composer’s worsening health issues or what had to be the Frank Work in Dialogue with Beethoven devastating end of a love affair, detailed in a famous letter written (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission) around the same time to his “Immortal Beloved.” Perhaps the least Beethoven Symphony No. 1 known, the Fourth was widely admired: Schumann compared it Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (“Choral”) to “a slender Greek maiden” between the two “Norse giants” of the Third and Fifth; Berlioz insisted it was the work of an angel. Beethoven was just 25 when he wrote his First Symphony. Delightful and And Tchaikovsky described the triumphant Seventh as “full of high-spirited, floating on strains of Mozart and Haydn, it’s a fascinating unrestrained joy, full of bliss and pleasure of life.” The exhilarating glimpse of the greatness and genius to come—all on full, glorious display and familiar second movement is said to have been so inspiring at in the climactic Ninth. Written just a few short years before his death, the premiere, an encore was demanded instantly. Beethoven’s profound ode to brotherhood, salvation, and pure joy reminds us why we are here as an orchestra, says Yannick, and why we constantly try to make our world better by playing music.

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Thibaudet and Liszt Tchaikovsky’s Friday, April 17 2 PM Saturday, April 18 8 PM Fourth Symphony Thursday, April 23 7:30 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor Friday, April 24 8 PM Jean-Yves Thibaudet Piano Saturday, April 25 8 PM Clyne This Midnight Hour Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Conductor Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 Jeffrey Khaner Flute Strauss Stéphane Denève’s final subscription concerts as the Orchestra’s Šerkšnytė De Profundis principal guest conductor culminate with Strauss’s epic Ein Nielsen Flute Concerto Heldenleben—literally, A Hero’s Life—an extravagant, all- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 encompassing, semi-autobiographical tone poem that quotes After a compelling debut in 2018, the young conductor Mirga from his own prodigious masterpieces. Anna Clyne’s imaginative Gražinytė-Tyla returns to the podium with De Profundis, written by This Midnight Hour, highlighting the power of the lower strings, her Lithuanian countrywoman Raminta Šerkšnytė. This surging, evokes the journey of a mysterious woman “stripped bare, running brooding work exploits the richness and color of the Orchestra’s mad through the night.” Liszt’s heady Second Piano Concerto is strings to the fullest. Principal Flute Jeffrey Khaner is especially gorgeous and technically challenging. Jean-Yves Thibaudet brings pleased to be performing the Nielsen Concerto. “I love the back to it his intense power and quintessential flair. and forth in the orchestration; it’s a lot of fun to play and listen to!” Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony was written at a time of intense personal turmoil. He poured all his passion into the work, at times letting traditional symphonic structure take a back seat to his matchless gift for melody. From the fateful opening fanfare to the explosive, folkloric finale, the Fourth is a sonic spectacular.

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30 Subscribe today and secure your seats for this brilliant season. Principal Don Liuzzi and Principal Percussion Christopher Deviney at Eastern State Penitentiary. Photo by Jeff Fusco. April/May 2020

Tugan Sokhiev Tchaikovsky An American in Paris Thursday, May 7 7:30 PM and Shostakovich Friday, May 8 2 PM Thursday, April 30 7:30 PM Saturday, May 9 8 PM Friday, May 1 2 PM Ludovic Morlot Conductor Saturday, May 2 8 PM Gershwin An American in Paris (complete with film) Tugan Sokhiev Conductor Lukas Geniušas Piano George Gershwin’s Jazz Age tone poem An American in Paris both inspired the now-classic Hollywood movie and provides the Firsova The Garden of Dreams: score for its groundbreaking finale: a dreamy—and, at 17 minutes, Hommage to Shostakovich unheard of—ballet sequence starring and . Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 The 1951 film, directed by , swept the Academy Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Awards, winning six Oscars, including Best Picture. The music also features George and standards like “,” “’S Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto may be overshadowed by Wonderful,” and “.” See the film in its entirety his more famous First, but it’s the piece that earned Lukas with the lush sound of The Philadelphia Orchestra performing the Geniušas top honors at the Tchaikovsky Competition. Balanchine, score live. too, recognized its consummate beauty, choosing it as the score for his tribute to classical Russian ballet. The government decided what was art when Shostakovich wrote his vehement and complicated Fifth Symphony under an oppressive Soviet regime (and threat of the Gulag). Elena Firsova—blacklisted and exiled from the Soviet Union in the latter part of the 20th century—pays tribute to her compatriot with The Garden of Dreams. Tugan Sokhiev, music director of the Bolshoi Theatre, leads this incisive program.

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32 Christine Goerke Yannick Nézet-Séguin Elektra Friday, May 15 8 PM Sunday, May 17 2 PM Tuesday, May 19 7:30 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Christine Goerke Soprano (Elektra) Amber Wagner Soprano (Chrysothemis) Michaela Martens Mezzo-soprano (Klytämnestra) Mikhail Petrenko Bass (Orest) Jay Hunter Morris Tenor (Aegisth) Philadelphia Symphonic Choir Joe Miller Director Jonathon Loy Stage Director Strauss Elektra The reviews were rapturous for Yannick’s “blazing and urgent, yet richly nuanced account of Strauss’s still-shocking score” () when he led Elektra at the Metropolitan Opera in 2018. He reprises the triumph with these symphonically staged performances starring The Philadelphia Orchestra and a cast of vocal powerhouses. Christine Goerke sings the title role, a tormented daughter obsessed with avenging the death of her father, Agamemnon. Mikhail Petrenko portrays the brother she hopes will kill the murderous culprits: their mother and her lover. This is a hair-raising, harrowing, 100 minutes of electrifying music, heard in full, vivid detail with the Orchestra on stage.

Thurs 6 Fri Sun A 8PMElektraMAT www.philorch.org / 215.893.1955 33 34Trumpet player Anthony Prisk at North Bowl. Photo by Jeff Fusco. www.philorch.org / 215.893.1955 35 BeethovenNOW Symphonies 5 & 6 Saturday, May 16 8 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) Yannick reprises a highlight of our season’s Beethoven celebration for a special, one-night-only performance of two masterpieces. The indelible four-note opening of the Fifth Symphony lays the foundation for a truly fateful symphonic journey. Written in 1804, and on the program when The Philadelphia Orchestra gave its first concert in 1900, it’s an epic tour de force that resonates in 2020. Following its rousing conclusion come the verdant valleys and sweet smells of the woods and the Austrian countryside, an exposition of Beethoven’s love of nature. Composed and premiered at the same time, the “Pastoral” offers a striking contrast to the assertive Fifth.

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Yuja Wang Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the The Season Finale Thursday, June 4 7:30 PM Brahms Piano Concertos Friday, June 5 2 PM Thursday, May 28 7:30 PM Saturday, June 6 8 PM Friday, May 29 2 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Saturday, May 30 8 PM Philadelphia Symphonic Choir Sunday, May 31 2 PM Joe Miller Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Bruckner Selected Motets Yuja Wang Piano Bruckner Symphony No. 3 (“Wagner Symphony”) Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (original version) (Thursday and Friday) Bruckner is “one of the great symphonists of all time,” says Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Yannick. His music is “spiritual, romantic, dreamy, imposing, (Saturday and Sunday) cataclysmic … music that excites all the emotions and magnifies Sibelius Symphony No. 3 the results of the symphony.” A Bruckner champion and world- renowned interpreter, Yannick’s deep affinity for the composer Brahms wrote just two piano concertos. He was 25 when he shines in passionate performances of the thrilling Third Symphony, completed his youthful and vigorous First Concerto. Two decades “an unquestioned masterpiece, a citadel that no critic can pull down. later he composed his tremendous Second; Yannick compares Bruckner’s invention is exuberant throughout: the finale confidently the final, fourth movement to playing in heaven, surrounded by transforms the tragic mood of the first movement into triumph.” angels. The fiery Yuja Wang, Curtis Institute of Music graduate (The New Yorker) A set of exquisite Bruckner motets, sung a and Philadelphia favorite, returns to her second home for four cappella, provides a contemplative opening to a program that aims performances, bringing her technical virtuosity and thoughtful depth to end the season’s musical journey in communion with the divine. of music-making to these two corresponding and harmonious works. Hear them both, paired with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 3, a masterpiece of the Finnish national hero.

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Special Events

Evgeny Kissin Orchestre Métropolitain BeethovenNOW: Solo Piano de Montréal Recital with Sunday, November 24 2 PM Thursday, May 14 7:30 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor and Piano Evgeny Kissin Piano Joyce DiDonato Mezzo-soprano Beethoven No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 Mozart “Ch’io mi scordi di te? ... Non temer, amato bene” (“Pathétique”) Mozart “Parto, ma tu ben mio,” from La clemenza di Tito Beethoven Fifteen Variations and a Fugue on an Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (“Romantic”) Original Theme in E-flat major, Op. 35 (“Eroica”) Yannick has been artistic director and principal conductor of the Beethoven Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 Orchestre Métropolitain in his hometown of Montreal since 2000. Beethoven Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 Hear him conduct the ensemble for the first time in Philadelphia, (“Waldstein”) leading a masterpiece by his beloved Bruckner. The radiant In a season presenting all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies, and all five Joyce DiDonato joins for two ethereal arias by Mozart. of his piano concertos, we can’t ignore his solo piano pieces, some of the most unforgettable music ever written. From the “Pathétique” with its echoes of Mozart to the “Eroica” Variations, using thematic material from his Third Symphony, to the innovative D-minor and the heroic and technically challenging “Waldstein,” this brief survey underscores yet again Beethoven’s monumental musical genius. The internationally acclaimed virtuoso Evgeny Kissin performs these masterpieces. Please note: The Philadelphia Orchestra does not perform on this concert. A co-presentation by the Kimmel Center and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

40 Add these special events to your package today! All prices online at www.philorch.org. The Phantom of the Opera Thursday, October 31 7:30 PM Peter Richard Conte Organ The Phantom of the Opera (silent film with organ accompaniment) The 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera is technically a silent movie … but not when the mighty Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ is unleashed! Verizon Hall’s magnificent instrument creates the perfect soundtrack for this Hollywood classic, a tale of doomed love in the spooky confines of the Paris Opera House. Known for his performances on the legendary Wanamaker Organ, Peter Richard Conte is master of the keyboard for this special Halloween presentation. Please note: The Philadelphia Orchestra does not perform on this concert.

Disney’s Fantasia—Live in Concert Friday, January 3 7 PM Saturday, January 4 7 PM Sunday, January 5 2 PM Fantasia is a pinnacle of cinematic art, and a landmark in The Philadelphia Orchestra’s incredible tradition of innovation. This groundbreaking 1940 collaboration between the visionary genius and the Orchestra’s commanding maestro Leopold Stokowski has never lost its capacity to move, delight, and astonish audiences all over the world. There is simply nothing like a live performance of this classic by your Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Up—Live in Concert Thursday, June 11 7 PM Friday, June 12 7 PM Saturday, June 13 7 PM A 78-year-old curmudgeonly balloon salesman is not your average hero. When he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America, he finally fulfills his lifelong dream of adventure. But after Carl discovers an 8-year- old stowaway named Russell, this unlikely duo soon finds themselves on a hilarious journey in a lost world filled with danger and surprises. This film is enhanced by Michael Giacchino’s Academy Award-winning original score performed live by the incomparable Philadelphia Orchestra.

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www.philorch.org / 215.893.1955 41 Horn player Shelley Showers beneath Big Cat Crossing, one of Philadelphia Zoo’s revolutionary Zoo360 animal exploration trails. Photo by Kriston Jae Bethel. Holiday Concerts Spend the most wonderful time of the year with #YourPhilOrch. Add these concerts on to your subscription today and share the spirit of the season with family, friends, and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Organ and The Glorious Brass Christmas Sound of Christmas® Sunday, December 1 2 PM Thursday, December 19 7 PM Musicians of The Philadelphia Friday, December 20 7 PM Orchestra’s Brass Section Saturday, December 21 7 PM Peter Richard Conte Organ Bramwell Tovey Conductor Hark the herald (and horns, , and tuba) sing! The Glorious Sound of Christmas has been a Philadelphia The unmatched sound and musicality of The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Orchestra tradition since the Philadelphians and Eugene legendary brass section usher in the holiday season on a high note. Ormandy released the now-iconic recording in 1962. Make And the glory of the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ adds another these concerts part of your holiday tradition with these jubilant heavenly voice to this collection of treasured Christmas music, and family-friendly concerts. with master organist Peter Richard Conte at the keyboard for this festive presentation. Messiah New Year’s Eve Sunday, December 22 2 PM Tuesday, December 31 7:30 PM Jane Glover Conductor Bramwell Tovey Conductor Philadelphia Symphonic Choir The popular Bramwell Tovey returns, bringing his inimitable flair Joe Miller Director and irrepressible joy to our New Year’s Eve concert. Bring on the bubbly and ring in 2020 with the Fabulous Philadelphians. Handel Messiah Shortly after sending Handel his libretto for a new oratorio, Charles Jennens wrote to a friend, hoping that the composer “will lay out his whole genius and skill upon it.” In 24 days of feverish writing, Handel did just that, creating his immortal Messiah. Pioneering conductor and Handel expert Jane Glover brings her decades of experience with opera and Baroque music back to the Kimmel Center for our holiday presentation of this masterwork, with the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir joining the Orchestra for a revelatory performance.

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Make plans now for a year of music and fun with The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Family Concert Series! Ignite your child’s imagination and love of music with delightful, kid-sized concerts, designed with a captivating blend of storytelling and classical music. Enhance your family’s experience with Pre-Concert Adventures, free for all ticket holders, beginning one hour before the concert. A wonderful world of musical discovery for the whole family awaits!

Halloween Spooktacular Carnival of the Animals Saturday, October 26 11:30 AM Saturday, March 7 11:30 AM Aram Demirjian Conductor Dancers from the Rock School for Dance Education Put on your best Halloween costume and the Orchestra will put on Bojan Spassoff Director theirs! We’ve got plenty of musical treats to fill up your goodie bag. Lions and tigers and ... pianists? Oh, my! Camille Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of The Philadelphia Orchestra explores the spooky and the silly in this the Animals is a musical journey through the animal kingdom that’s fun for orchestral adventure, an annual audience favorite! all ages. Verizon Hall will be magically turned into a zoo through your child’s imagination as animals are conjured up by the musicians of the Orchestra. Christmas Kids’ Spectacular The Life and SPECIAL ADD-ON Saturday, December 14 11:30 AM Times of Beethoven Saturday, May 2 11:30 AM Aram Demirjian Conductor Michael Boudewyns It’s the start of the holiday season! Join us for a festive celebration of all Actor your favorite Christmas sounds and sing-alongs. Listen closely for those Professor Nigel Taproot, the affable and learned classical music aficionado, jingle bells, too—you never know who might pay a special visit to Verizon invites you to an original Really Inventive Stuff program for families celebrating Hall. Add these tickets on to your subscription today as this one sells out Beethoven’s 250th birthday, his remarkable age, and four famous notes. each year! Featuring the music of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, with a playful peppering of fascinating facts and timely trivia. (Did you know Washington was president during Beethoven’s lifetime? Roller skates were invented, too!) This enlightening performance is a splendid introduction to Beethoven’s musical genius.

44 Piccolo player Erica Peel at Reading Terminal Market. Photo by Jessica Griffin. www.philorch.org / 215.893.1955 45 Academy of Music 163rd Anniversary Concert and Ball Saturday, January 25, 2020 Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Join The Philadelphia Orchestra in celebrating the 163rd birthday of the Academy of Music—the Orchestra’s original home and the place where the famous Philadelphia Sound was created. How amazing, says Yannick, that after all these years, “the Grand Old Lady of Locust Street is not a museum, but a muse,” still inspiring the most beautiful music. The annual Anniversary Concert and Ball is the premier musical and social event on Philadelphia’s calendar, a star-studded gala featuring an array of the world’s best artists, performing beneath the Academy’s glittering chandelier. Recent guest artists have included Sting, Steve Martin, Al Pacino, Hugh Jackman, and Helen Mirren. Save the date and join the invitation list by calling the Academy of Music Restoration Fund Office at 215.893.1978 or visiting theacademyball.org. Proceeds from the Anniversary Concert and Ball benefit the ongoing preservation and restoration of the Academy of Music, an important National Historic Landmark Building, and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

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48 For questions or comments, please e-mail [email protected]. Violinist Philip Kates at Citizens Bank Park, home of the Phillies. Photo by Jessica Griffin. www.philorch.org / 215.893.1955 49 Principal Daniel Matsukawa at Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Autumn Revisited mural by David Guinn on the Fleisher Art Memorial. Photo by Jeff Fusco. Thursday 7:30 PM

Thurs 6 Thurs 6 Thurs 6 Thurs 6 A B C D All Mozart with Yannick Yannick and Hélène John Adams Conducts Adams Yannick and Mahler Thursday, October 10 7:30 PM Open the Season Thursday, September 26 7:30 PM Thursday, October 17 7:30 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Thursday, September 19 7:30 PM John Adams Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Juliette Kang Violin Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Leila Josefowicz Violin Louis Lortie Piano Choong-Jin Chang Viola Hélène Grimaud Piano Ravel Alborada del gracioso Schubert Wanderer Fantasy, Stravinsky Mozart Symphony No. 35 (“Haffner”) Coleman Umoja, for orchestra Song of the Nightingale for piano and orchestra Mozart Sinfonia concertante, K. 364, (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission) Adams Scheherazade.2, Dramatic Mahler Symphony No. 5 Symphony for Violin and Orchestra for violin, viola, and orchestra Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 The Firebird Mozart Symphony No. 40 Dvořák Symphony No. 9 Bach’s Mass in B minor (“From the New World”) Thursday, November 21 7:30 PM Thursday, December 5 7:30 PM Wynton Marsalis’s Stéphane Denève Conductor Blues Symphony Bruch and Brahms Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Kelley O’Connor Mezzo-soprano Thursday, December 12 Thursday, October 24 7:30 PM Westminster Symphonic Choir 7:30 PM Auerbach Icarus for Orchestra Joe Miller Director Cristian Măcelaru Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor Lieberson Neruda Songs Leonidas Kavakos Violin David Kim Violin Bach Mass in B minor Stravinsky The Firebird (complete ballet) Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture BeethovenNOW: BeethovenNOW: Bronfman Marsalis Blues Symphony Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Brahms Symphony No. 2 Ax Plays Concerto No. 2 Plays Concerto No. 4 Sorcerers, Spells, and Magic Thursday, February 6 7:30 PM Academy of Music Thursday, February 13 7:30 PM BeethovenNOW: Trifonov Karina Cannelakis Conductor Thursday, January 23 7:30 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor Plays Concerto No. 1 Emanuel Ax Piano Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Westminster Symphonic Choir Thursday, January 30 7:30 PM Di Castri Lineage Yefim BronfmanPiano Joe Miller Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 Philadelphia Boys Choir Daniil Trifonov Piano Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra Fung Dust Devils Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 Jeffrey R. Smith Artistic Director Boulanger Of a Sad Evening BeethovenNOW: Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Farrenc Symphony No. 2 Symphonies 2 & 3 Respighi’s Pines of Rome Thursday, March 19 7:30 PM Williams Selections from Harry Potter Thursday, February 27 7:30 PM Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges Symphonie fantastique Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Thursday, February 20 7:30 PM Donald Runnicles Conductor Porgy and Bess Hunt Work in Dialogue with Beethoven Paul Jacobs Organ Herbert Blomstedt Conductor (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra Commission) Thursday, March 5 7:30 PM Elgar In the South Lise de la Salle Piano Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Daugherty Once Upon a Castle, Marin Alsop Conductor Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) for organ and orchestra Angel Blue Soprano Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Lester Lynch Baritone Tchaikovsky Elgar Introduction and Allegro Respighi Pines of Rome Gershwin Highlights from BeethovenNOW: and Shostakovich Porgy and Bess Symphonies 5 & 6 Thursday, April 30 7:30 PM Tchaikovsky’s Thursday, March 12 BeethovenNOW: 7:30 PM Tugan Sokhiev Conductor Fourth Symphony Symphonies 1 & 9 Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Lukas Geniušas Piano Thursday, April 23 7:30 PM Habibi Work in Dialogue with Beethoven Firsova Thursday, April 2 7:30 PM The Garden of Dreams: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Conductor (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission) Hommage to Shostakovich Jeffrey Khaner Flute Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 Šerkšnytė De Profundis Angel Blue Soprano Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Mihoko Fujimura Mezzo-soprano Nielsen Flute Concerto Rolando Villazón Tenor An American in Paris Yuja Wang and Brahms’s Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Quinn Kelsey Baritone Thursday, May 7 7:30 PM Piano Concerto No. 1 The Season Finale Westminster Symphonic Choir Ludovic Morlot Conductor Thursday, May 28 7:30 PM Thursday, June 4 7:30 PM Joe Miller Director Gershwin An American in Paris Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Frank A Work in Dialogue with Beethoven (complete with film) Yuja Wang Piano Philadelphia Symphonic Choir (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra Commission) Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 Joe Miller Director Beethoven Symphony No. 1 Sibelius Symphony No. 3 Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Bruckner Selected Motets (“Choral”) Bruckner Symphony No. 3 Elektra Tuesday, May 19 7:30 PM (please note day) Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Christine Goerke Soprano (Elektra) Amber Wagner Soprano (Chrysothemis) Michaela Martens Mezzo-Soprano (Klytämnestra) Mikhail Petrenko Bass (Orest) Jay Hunter Morris Tenor (Aegisth) Jonathon Loy Stage Director Strauss Elektra For complete program information see pages 12-37. 51 Friday 2 PM & 8 PM

Fri Fri MAT 8PM A Rachmaninoff’s Piano Yannick and Hélène BeethovenNOW: Trifonov BeethovenNOW: Concerto No. 2 Open the Season Plays Concerto No. 1 Symphonies 8, 4, & 7 Friday, October 4 8 PM Friday, September 20 2 PM Friday, January 31 2 PM Friday, March 27 2 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Haochen Zhang Piano Hélène Grimaud Piano Daniil Trifonov Piano Simon Work in Dialogue with Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Coleman Umoja, for orchestra Boulanger Of a Sad Evening Beethoven (world premiere—Philadelphia Strauss An Alpine Symphony (world premiere—Philadelphia Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 Orchestra commission) Bruch and Brahms Orchestra commission) Farrenc Symphony No. 2 Beethoven Symphony No. 8 Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Friday, October 25 8 PM Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 Dvořák Symphony No. 9 Sorcerers, Spells, and Magic Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor (“From the New World”) Friday, February 14 2 PM David Kim Violin An American in Paris Stéphane Denève Conductor Friday, May 8 2 PM Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture The Firebird Westminster Symphonic Choir Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Friday, November 22 2 PM Joe Miller Director Ludovic Morlot Conductor Brahms Symphony No. 2 Stéphane Denève Conductor Philadelphia Boys Choir Gershwin An American in Paris BeethovenNOW: Kelley O’Connor Mezzo-soprano Jeffrey R. Smith Artistic Director (complete with film) Auerbach Icarus for Orchestra Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute The Season Finale The Violin Concerto Lieberson Neruda Songs Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Friday, June 5 2 PM Friday, November 29 8 PM Stravinsky The Firebird (complete ballet) Williams Selections from Harry Potter Susanna Mälkki Conductor Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Gil Shaham Violin Wynton Marsalis’s Philadelphia Symphonic Choir Respighi’s Pines of Rome Joe Miller Director Jolas A Little Summer Suite Blues Symphony Friday, February 28 2 PM Beethoven Violin Concerto Friday, December 13 2 PM Bruckner Selected Motets ProkofievSymphony No. 5 Cristian Măcelaru Conductor Donald Runnicles Conductor Bruckner Symphony No. 3 Paul Jacobs Organ BeethovenNOW: Ax Leonidas Kavakos Violin Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 Elgar In the South Plays Concerto No. 3 Marsalis Blues Symphony Daugherty Once Upon a Castle, Friday, February 7 8 PM for organ and orchestra Karina Cannelakis Conductor Elgar Introduction and Allegro Fri MAT Emanuel Ax Piano Respighi Pines of Rome Di Castri Lineage B Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra John Adams Conducts Adams BeethovenNOW: Bronfman Thibaudet and Liszt Tchaikovsky’s Friday, September 27 2 PM Plays Concerto No. 4 Friday, April 17 2 PM Fourth Symphony John Adams Conductor Academy of Music Stéphane Denève Conductor Leila Josefowicz Violin Jean-Yves Thibaudet Piano Friday, April 24 8 PM Friday, January 24 2 PM Ravel Alborada del gracioso Clyne This Midnight Hour Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 Jeffrey Khaner Flute Yefim BronfmanPiano Adams Scheherazade.2, Dramatic Strauss Ein Heldenleben Šerkšnytė De Profundis Symphony for Violin and Orchestra Fung Dust Devils Nielsen Flute Concerto Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Yannick and Mahler Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 Friday, May 1 2 PM Friday, October 18 2 PM Elektra Symphonie fantastique Tugan Sokhiev Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Lukas Geniušas Piano Friday, May 15 8 PM Friday, February 21 2 PM Louis Lortie Piano Firsova The Garden of Dreams: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Herbert Blomstedt Conductor Schubert Wanderer Fantasy, Hommage to Shostakovich Christine Goerke Soprano (Elektra) Lise de la Salle Piano for piano and orchestra Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 Amber Wagner Soprano (Chrysothemis) Mahler Symphony No. 5 Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Michaela Martens Mezzo-Soprano Berlioz Symphonie fantastique (Klytämnestra) Bach’s Mass in B minor Yuja Wang and Brahms’s Porgy and Bess Mikhail Petrenko Bass (Orest) Friday, December 6 2 PM Piano Concerto No. 1 Jay Hunter Morris Tenor (Aegisth) Friday, March 6 2 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Friday, May 29 2 PM Jonathon Loy Stage Director Westminster Symphonic Choir Marin Alsop Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Strauss Elektra Joe Miller Director Angel Blue Soprano Lester Lynch Baritone Yuja Wang Piano Bach Mass in B minor Gershwin Highlights from Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 Porgy and Bess Sibelius Symphony No. 3

52 For complete program information see pages 12-37. Thibaudet and Liszt Friday, April 17 2 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet Piano Clyne This Midnight Hour Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 Strauss Ein Heldenleben Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich Friday, May 1 2 PM Tugan Sokhiev Conductor Lukas Geniušas Piano Firsova The Garden of Dreams: Hommage to Shostakovich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Yuja Wang and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Friday, May 29 2 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yuja Wang Piano Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 Sibelius Symphony No. 3

Oboist Jonathan Blumenthal at Bachelors Barge Club on Boathouse Row, where he is a member. Photo by Kriston Jae Bethel. Saturday 6 8 PM

Sat 6 Sat 6 Sat 6 Sat 6 A B C D Rachmaninoff’s Piano Yannick and Mahler John Adams Conducts Adams Yannick and Hélène Concerto No. 2 Saturday, October 19 8 PM Saturday, September 28 8 PM Open the Season Saturday, October 5 8 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor John Adams Conductor Saturday, September 21 8 PM Louis Lortie Leila Josefowicz Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Piano Violin Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Haochen Zhang Piano Schubert Wanderer Fantasy, Ravel Alborada del gracioso Hélène Grimaud Piano Stravinsky Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra Song of the Nightingale Coleman Umoja, for orchestra Mahler Symphony No. 5 Adams Dramatic Strauss An Alpine Symphony Scheherazade.2, (world premiere—Philadelphia BeethovenNOW: Symphony for Violin and Orchestra Orchestra commission) The Firebird Bach’s Mass in B minor Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 Saturday, November 23 8 PM The Violin Concerto Dvořák Symphony No. 9 Saturday, November 30 8 PM Saturday, December 7 8 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor (“From the New World”) Yannick Nézet-Séguin Kelley O’Connor Mezzo-soprano Susanna Mälkki Conductor Conductor Gil Shaham Violin Westminster Symphonic Choir Bruch and Brahms Auerbach Icarus for Orchestra Joe Miller Director Saturday, October 26 8 PM Lieberson Neruda Songs Jolas A Little Summer Suite Bach Mass in B minor Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor Stravinsky The Firebird (complete ballet) Beethoven Violin Concerto ProkofievSymphony No. 5 Symphonie fantastique David Kim Violin BeethovenNOW: Trifonov Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Saturday, February 22 8 PM Plays Concerto No. 5 BeethovenNOW: Ax Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Saturday, February 1 8 PM Plays Concerto No. 2 Herbert Blomstedt Conductor Brahms Symphony No. 2 Saturday, February 8 8 PM Lise de la Salle Piano Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Wynton Marsalis’s Daniil Trifonov Piano Karina Cannelakis Conductor Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 Emanuel Ax Piano Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Blues Symphony Boulanger Of a Sad Evening Saturday, December 14 8 PM Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 Di Castri Lineage Porgy and Bess (“Emperor”) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 Saturday, March 7 8 PM Cristian Măcelaru Conductor Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra Leonidas Kavakos Violin Farrenc Symphony No. 2 Marin Alsop Conductor BeethovenNOW: Angel Blue Soprano Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 Respighi’s Pines of Rome Marsalis Blues Symphony Saturday, February 29 8 PM Symphonies 2 & 3 Lester Lynch Baritone Donald Runnicles Conductor Saturday, March 21 8 PM Gershwin Highlights from Sorcerers, Spells, and Magic Paul Jacobs Organ Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Porgy and Bess Saturday, February 15 8 PM Elgar In the South Hunt Work in Dialogue with BeethovenNOW: Stéphane Denève Conductor Daugherty Once Upon a Castle, Beethoven (world premiere—Philadelphia Symphonies 8, 4, & 7 Westminster Symphonic Choir for organ and orchestra Orchestra Commission) Joe Miller Director Saturday, March 28 8 PM Elgar Introduction and Allegro Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Philadelphia Boys Choir Respighi Pines of Rome Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Jeffrey R. Smith Artistic Director Thibaudet and Liszt Simon Work in Dialogue with Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute BeethovenNOW: Beethoven (world premiere—Philadelphia Dukas Saturday, April 18 8 PM The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Symphonies 1 & 9 Orchestra commission) Williams Selections from Harry Potter Saturday, April 4 8 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor Beethoven Symphony No. 8 Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges Jean-Yves Thibaudet Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Piano Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Angel Blue Soprano Clyne This Midnight Hour Beethoven Symphony No. 7 BeethovenNOW: Mihoko Fujimura Mezzo-soprano Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 The Season Finale Symphonies 5 & 6 Strauss Ein Heldenleben Saturday, March 14 8 PM Rolando Villazón Tenor Saturday, June 6 8 PM Quinn Kelsey Baritone Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Westminster Symphonic Choir BeethovenNOW: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Symphonies 5 & 6 Philadelphia Symphonic Choir Habibi Work in Dialogue with Beethoven Joe Miller Director (world premiere—Philadelphia Saturday, May 16 8 PM Joe Miller Director Frank Work in Dialogue with Orchestra Commission) Bruckner Beethoven (world premiere—Philadelphia Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Selected Motets Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Bruckner Orchestra Commission) Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Symphony No. 3 Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) Beethoven Symphony No. 1 Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Tchaikovsky’s (“Choral”) Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky Saturday, April 25 8 PM Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Conductor and Shostakovich Jeffrey Khaner Flute Saturday, May 2 8 PM Šerkšnytė De Profundis Tugan Sokhiev Conductor Nielsen Flute Concerto Lukas Geniušas Piano Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Firsova The Garden of Dreams: Hommage to Shostakovich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

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Sat 7 A Yannick and Hélène Yannick and Hélène Wynton Marsalis’s BeethovenNOW: Symphonies 5 & 6 Open the Season Open the Season Blues Symphony Saturday, March 14 8 PM Saturday, September 21 8 PM Saturday, September 21 8 PM Saturday, December 14 8 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Cristian Măcelaru Conductor Habibi Work in Dialogue with Beethoven Hélène Grimaud Piano Hélène Grimaud Piano Leonidas Kavakos Violin (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra Commission) Coleman Coleman Umoja, for orchestra Umoja, for orchestra Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 Beethoven Symphony No. 5 (world premiere—Philadelphia (world premiere—Philadelphia Marsalis Blues Symphony Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) Orchestra commission) Orchestra commission) Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 Sorcerers, Spells, and Magic Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony Dvořák Symphony No. 9 Dvořák Symphony No. 9 Saturday, February 15 8 PM Saturday, April 25 8 PM (“From the New World”) (“From the New World”) Stéphane Denève Conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Conductor Bruch and Brahms Westminster Symphonic Choir Jeffrey Khaner Flute Bruch and Brahms Joe Miller Director Saturday, October 26 8 PM Šerkšnytė De Profundis Saturday, October 26 8 PM Philadelphia Boys Choir Nielsen Flute Concerto Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor Jeffrey R. Smith Artistic Director David Kim Violin Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 David Kim Violin Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Yuja Wang and Brahms’s Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Williams Selections from Harry Potter Piano Concerto No. 2 Brahms Symphony No. 2 Brahms Symphony No. 2 Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges Saturday, May 30 8 PM Wynton Marsalis’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Blues Symphony Yuja Wang Piano Saturday, December 14 8 PM Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Sibelius Symphony No. 3 Cristian Măcelaru Conductor Leonidas Kavakos Violin Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 Marsalis Blues Symphony Sat 7 Sorcerers, Spells, and Magic B Saturday, February 15 8 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor John Adams Conducts Adams Porgy and Bess An American in Paris Westminster Symphonic Choir Saturday, September 28 8 PM Saturday, March 7 8 PM Saturday, May 9 8 PM Joe Miller Director John Adams Conductor Marin Alsop Conductor Ludovic Morlot Conductor Philadelphia Boys Choir Leila Josefowicz Violin Angel Blue Soprano Jeffrey R. Smith Artistic Director Gershwin An American in Paris Ravel Alborada del gracioso Lester Lynch Baritone (complete with film) Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale Gershwin Highlights from Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Adams Scheherazade.2, Dramatic Porgy and Bess The Season Finale Williams Selections from Harry Potter Symphony for Violin and Orchestra Saturday, June 6 8 PM Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges BeethovenNOW: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor BeethovenNOW: Bach’s Mass in B minor Symphonies 8, 4, & 7 Philadelphia Symphonic Choir Symphonies 5 & 6 Saturday, December 7 8 PM Saturday, March 28 8 PM Joe Miller Director Saturday, March 14 8 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Bruckner Selected Motets Westminster Symphonic Choir Simon Work in Dialogue with Bruckner Symphony No. 3 Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Joe Miller Director Beethoven (world premiere—Philadelphia Habibi Work in Dialogue with Beethoven Bach Mass in B minor Orchestra commission) (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra Commission) Symphonie fantastique Beethoven Symphony No. 8 Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Saturday, February 22 8 PM Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Herbert Blomstedt Conductor Tchaikovsky’s Lise de la Salle Piano Fourth Symphony Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 Saturday, April 25 8 PM Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Conductor Jeffrey Khaner Flute Šerkšnytė De Profundis Nielsen Flute Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

For complete program information see pages 12-37. 55 Principal Ricardo Morales and violinist Amy Oshiro-Morales at Parc, their go-to restaurant after rehearsals and concerts. Photo by Jeff Fusco.

58 Violinist Davyd Booth at Tattooed Mom on South Street. Davyd has gotten several of his tattoos overseas while on tour with the Orchestra. Photo by Jessica Griffin Sunday 6 2 PM Sunday Beethoven 2 PM

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