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    Gilbert Conducts Beethoven

    Gilbert Conducts Beethoven

    Presented by Philadelphia Orchestra at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

    January 20-January 22, 2011


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    Few living composers write as powerfully for orchestra as Christopher Rouse, whom Musical America named its Composer of the Year in 2009. "One of the few whose music will last," runs the now-famous quote by fellow composer John Adams. Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Oboe Richard Woodhams teams with New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert for The Philadelphia Orchestra premiere of Rouse's Oboe Concerto, a piece the composer says he tried to imbue with a "feeling of coloristic romanticism." Gilbert also leads the piece with which he opened his New York Philharmonic tenure in September 2009--the extroverted EXPO by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg, whom the Los Angeles Times called "a musical wild man, a kinetic composer who is both a harmonically sophisticated and flamboyant noisemaker." Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony concludes the program, with its tender, dramatic depiction of a day in the Austrian countryside.


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      • Venue Info

        Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

        300 S. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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      • Admission Info

        Tickets:

        $20-$140

        Info Phone: 215.893.1999

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        January 20-January 22, 2011

        Times:

        Thursday, January 20 @ 8 pm
        Friday, January 21 @ 2 pm
        Saturday, January 22 @ 8 pm--live-image projection

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