MUSIC

    Truly Classical

    Truly Classical

    Presented by Philadelphia Orchestra at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

    March 31-April 2, 2011


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    Haydn at his darkest meets Mozart at his sunniest in the first half of this program, featuring Canadian-born Philadelphian Marc-André Hamelin and led by Munich-born Jun Märkl-protégée of Celibidache, Bernstein and Ozawa; music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon; and principal conductor and artistic director of Leipzig's MDR Symphony. With its morose, sturm und drang opening and its odd minuet "in canon", Haydn's Symphony is a perfect foil to the joyous Allegro and dashing theme-and-variations of Mozart's Concerto. In this context, Beethoven's youthful, Mozartean Symphony No. 2 feels more akin to the music of his Classical forebears than it does with his own stormy later music, much of which stared Romanticism right in the face.


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        Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

        300 S. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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        Tickets:

        $20-$130

        Info Phone: 215.893.1999

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        March 31-April 2, 2011

        Times:

        Thursday @ 8 pm
        Friday @ 2 pm
        Saturday @ 8 pm

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