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2018-19 SEASON Season Highlights 2018-19 SEASON www.philorch.org Season Highlights Welcome to a season of incomparable reach and breadth, Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s seventh season as music director with the Fabulous Philadelphians! Every week, we like to vary the shape of our programs and offer a great variety of styles and scope of repertoire. Within the season, there are always special highlights. Look for these exceptional performances in the pages ahead! • The Barnes/Stokowski Festival—A two-week celebration of the artistic passion Albert Barnes and Leopold Stokowski shared, led by Principal Guest Conductor Stéphane Denève • Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet—Highlighted by selected choreographed vignettes from Philadelphia-based Brian Sanders for a totally new take on this classic ballet • Handel Messiah—On the main concert season once again under Yannick’s direction • Mahler Symphony No. 9—His last complete symphony, a work of incredible genius and vision, where the sound of our orchestra will be unmatched • Bernstein Candide—The culmination of our Bernstein Centenary Celebration “I am very happy that The Philadelphia Orchestra can offer its unique sound, talent, and excellence in every area of repertoire, in every corner of every genre!” —Yannick Nézet-Séguin Join us! We are excited for the return of our LiveNote® app, providing Welcome to the 2018-19 season, real-time program notes on your smart phone during the a vibrant, engaging, and exhilarating new season. We hope concert for select weekends. Please look for the LiveNote you enjoy browsing through the pages ahead and exploring icon below to see when the app will be used. the over 100 concerts, featuring our main concert season, listed chronologically, followed by our Special Events, This season we are pleased to continue our exploration Holiday, and Family concerts. of great organ works through the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Experience, creating a dialogue between organ and For those of you who enjoy traditional subscription packages, orchestra as a sonic experience very different from just look for the icons below on the pages where concerts orchestra or organ alone. Look for the organ icon below appear. A complete subscription package listing can be to know when the organ will be a feature on the program. found in the center foldout, as well as beginning on page 46. Each of our 14 traditional packages is specially curated to offer you a diverse selection of repertoire and artists. Thank you, Philadelphia! We invite you to join us this season and look forward to For those of you who enjoy making your own selections, welcoming you to a performance soon. simply make note of all of the concerts you wish to enjoy and create your own 6-concert package. 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! Concerts with this icon are part of the Thurs 6 Thurs 6 Thurs 6 Thurs 6 Sat 6 Sat 6 Sat 6 Sat 6 Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Experience, supported through a generous grant from A B C D A B C D the Wyncote Foundation. Fri Fri MAT Fri MAT Sat 9 Sat 9 Sun 8PM MAT These concerts are A B A B LiveNote® enabled September 2018 Opening Weekend Friday, September 14 8 PM Saturday, September 15 8 PM Sunday, September 16 2 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor André Watts André Watts Piano Muhly Suite from Marnie (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission) Grieg Piano Concerto Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Celebrate 10 years of music-making between Yannick and the Philadelphians. André Watts soloed at Yannick’s Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2008; he celebrates the 10th anniversary with Grieg’s stirring Piano Concerto. With the Metropolitan Opera giving the U.S. premiere of Nico Muhly’s sensational opera Marnie, based on Winston Graham’s book and Alfred Hitchcock’s film, we present the world premiere of the companion orchestral suite (a Philadelphia Orchestra commission). It’s the first of many fruits of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s upcoming dual role leading both the Fabulous Philadelphians AND the Met. Rachmaninoff wrote his final work, the Symphonic Dances, specifically for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Here’s another chance to hear the special Philadelphia Sound of the Yannick era! Fri Sat 6 Sat 9 Sun Yannick Nézet-Séguin 8PM D A MAT Find complete subscription package listings starting on page 46. For all subscription pricing, see pull-out calendar. 6 Subscribers get fee-free ticket exchanges all season long. Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Thursday, September 20 7:30 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Friday, September 21 2 PM Saturday, September 22 8 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Lisa Batiashvili Violin Berwald Symphony No. 3 (“Sinfonie singulière”) Sibelius Symphony No. 7 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Saturday, September 29 8 PM Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Lisa Batiashvili Violin Dvořák Othello Overture Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Yannick and Lisa Batiashvili have enchanted concert audiences all over the world; she returns to the Orchestra with Tchaikovsky’s spectacular Violin Concerto anchoring two different programs. The first highlights Scandinavia: Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony was a U.S. premiere for the Orchestra with Leopold Stokowski, long a champion of the Finnish master’s works. And you may not be familiar with Sweden’s Franz Berwald, but his beautiful Third Symphony, composed in 1845, makes a compelling pair with the Sibelius. The following week, Lisa reprises the Tchaikovsky Concerto, bookended by Dvořák’s Othello Overture (a moving musical exploration of Shakespeare’s tragedy) and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, the composer’s final piece, written expressly for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Thurs 6 Fri MAT Sat 6 Sat 6 Sat 9 D B B C B Lisa Batiashvili Find complete subscription package listings starting on page 46. For all subscription pricing, see pull-out calendar. www.philorch.org / 215.893.1955 7 October 2018 South American Sounds Thursday, October 4 7:30 PM Friday, October 5 2 PM Saturday, October 6 8 PM Miguel Harth-Bedoya Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya Elizabeth Hainen Harp Gershwin Cuban Overture Ginastera Harp Concerto Piazzolla Tangazo López Perú negro Join us on a whirlwind tour of the music of South America and, courtesy of New Yorker George Gershwin, the Caribbean! His 1932 Cuban Overture is awash in rhumba rhythms. Principal Harp Elizabeth Hainen shines in Ginastera’s Harp Concerto, given its world premiere by The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1965. Fellow Argentinian Astor Piazzolla’s Tangazo mines the tango’s rich emotional depths as only he could. We finish in Peru with the young Peruvian composer Jimmy López’s Perú negro, which celebrates Afro-Peruvian traditions. We welcome López’s compatriot Miguel Harth-Bedoya back to our podium. Thurs 6 Fri MAT Sat 6 Elizabeth Hainen A A A Find complete subscription package listings starting on page 46. For all subscription pricing, see pull-out calendar. 8 Subscribe today and secure your seats for this brilliant season. www.philorch.org / 215.893.1955 9 October 2018 The Barnes/ Stokowski David Kim A celebration of Albert Barnes and Leopold Stokowski Debussy and Chausson Thursday, October 11 7:30 PM Friday, October 12 2 PM Saturday, October 13 8 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor David Kim Violin Palestrina/orch. Stokowski “Adoramus te Christe” Chausson Poème, for violin and orchestra Debussy/orch. Stokowski “The Sunken Cathedral,” from Preludes Debussy La Mer Principal Guest Conductor Stéphane Denève leads two weeks of concerts inspired by the glorious art of the Barnes Foundation. Albert Barnes and Leopold Stokowski were both importing the best of European culture into Philadelphia in the 1930s, with a shared desire to make that culture accessible to the public. They debated art and music in a series of letters; Stokowski even spoke at the dedication of the original Barnes Foundation building in Merion. This first program features two Stokowski orchestrations: “Adoramus te Christe” by Palestrina (a composer Barnes felt particular affinity for) and Debussy’s “The Sunken Cathedral.” Concertmaster David Kim solos in Chausson’s elegant Poème, and Debussy’s La Mer paints an indelible picture of the sea. Additional festival events surrounding both concert weekends will be unveiled over the summer. Thurs 6 Fri MAT Sat 6 Sat 9 Albert Barnes B B D A Find complete subscription package listings starting on page 46. For all subscription pricing, see pull-out calendar. 10 Enjoy flexibility and savings by purchasing a Create-Your-Own subscription today. Festival A celebration of Albert Barnes and Leopold Stokowski The Rite of Spring Stéphane Denève Friday, October 19 2 PM Saturday, October 20 8 PM Sunday, October 21 2 PM Stéphane Denève Conductor Peter Richard Conte Organ Milhaud The Creation of the World Poulenc Organ Concerto Stravinsky The Rite of Spring In our second program inspired by the Barnes Foundation, we witness The Creation of the World, courtesy of Frenchman Darius Milhaud, who was energized by the jazz he heard on a visit to Harlem. Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto is a dazzling showpiece for the marvelous Fred. J. Cooper Memorial Organ. The Rite of Spring—first brought to America by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphians— remains a primal, shattering musical masterpiece. Albert Barnes once wrote about the strong link he saw between the works of Henri Matisse and Stravinsky’s compositions. This program reveals the intellectual and artistic zeal Barnes and Stokowski shared, which Leopold Stokowski resonates to this day. Fri MAT Sat 6 Sat 9 Sun MAT A C B Peter Richard Conte Find complete subscription package listings starting on page 46. For all subscription pricing, see pull-out calendar.
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