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PhiladelphiaOpening Night | Beethoven 9

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Hisaishi, Beethoven
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Leah Hawkins; J'Nai Bridges; Issachah Savage; Ryan Speedo Green

PhiladelphiaYannick Leads Symphonic Rituals from Bernstein’s MASS

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Brahms, Bernstein
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Alexandre Kantorow

PhiladelphiaYannick Conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 5

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Webern, Wolfe, Mahler
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin

PhiladelphiaOrchestra After 5: Fall

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Saint-Saëns, Respighi
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Dalia Stasevska; Gil Shaham

PhiladelphiaPines of Rome

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Meredith, Saint-Saëns, Sibelius, Respighi
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Dalia Stasevska; Gil Shaham

PhiladelphiaCarmina burana

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Coleridge-Taylor, Ortiz, Orff
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Jeffrey R. Smith; Janai Brugger; Jonah Hoskins; Will Liverman
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Nézet-Séguin brings an idiosyncratic Beethoven 9 to Saratoga

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra © Ironglass Productions | Jake Ritz
Beethoven’s salvo for peace and brotherhood shares a Philadelphia Orchestra program with William Grant Still’s newly reorchestrated Wood Notes.
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Rustioni and Ax bring fresh perspectives to classics in Saratoga

Emanuel Ax, Daniele Rustioni and the Philadelphia Orchestra © Ironglass Productions | Dave Bigler
Performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the veteran pianist and energetic conductor make familiar Beethoven and Brahms sound immediate and invigorated. 
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Marin Alsop brings unexpected pleasures to Philadelphia Orchestra

Marin Alsop conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra © Jordan August Photography, Courtesy of Highmark Mann
The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates the 50th birthday of the Highmark Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Fairmount Park, with Marin Alsop serving up a surprise in Ravel's Boléro.
****1
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Raising flags and questioning promises at Philadelphia’s Highmark Mann

The Crossing and the Philadelphia Orchestra © Jordan August Photography, Courtesy of Highmark Mann
Peter Boyer’s oratorio A Hundred Years On, commemorating the centenary of the 1876 World’s Fair, softens the blow of jingoism, looking to an earlier era of hope and broken promise.
***11
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Philadelphia Orchestra closes season with a pair of American masters

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra © Pete Checchia
Hélène Grimaud and Emily D'Angelo join Yannick Nézet-Séguin for a varied and variable program of Gershwin and Bernstein.
***11
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Alsop conducts a substitute Marsalis symphony at Carnegie Hall

Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra © Chris Lee
The premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ Symphony no. 5 is postponed, substituted by selections from his Jungle Symphony, along with a disappointing Beethoven’s Seventh at Carnegie Hall. 
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Rachmaninov and the Philadelphia Sound

Sergei Rachmaninov and Eugene Ormandy © Adrian Siegel, courtesy of the Philadelphia Orchestra
“Years ago, I composed for the great Chaliapin. Now he is dead, and so I compose for a new kind of artist, the Philadelphia Orchestra.” Cameron Kelsall explores the relationship between Sergei Rachmaninov and the orchestra he composed for in exile.