2 0 1 1-1 2 ( 1 1 2 T H S E A S O N ) Chronological Calendar OPENING NIGHT CONCERT October 13 at 7:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Dawn Upshaw Soprano Soprano Dawn Upshaw begins the celebration of Maestro Dutoit s tenure with an evening of favorites from the American Songbook by Gershwin and Bernstein, plus Ravel s Bolero. THE SEASON BEGINS October 14 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts October 15 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts October 16 at 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts The Philadelphia ia Orchestra Julian Rachlin Violin Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 ( Classical ) Sibelius Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 7 -more-
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 2 LANG LANG PLAYS LISZT October 20 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts October 22 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Lang Lang Piano Fauré Pavane Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 LANG LANG PLAYS BEETHOVEN October 21 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts October 25 at 8:00 PM Tuesday evening Carnegie Hall, New York Charles Dutoit Conductor Lang Lang Piano Fauré Pavane Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 FAMILY CONCERT: SIMPLY SPOOKTACULAR October 22 at 11:30 AM Saturday morning Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts BEYOND THE SCORE - ELGAR: ENIGMA VARIATIONS October 27 at 7:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Gerard McBurney Host Elgar Enigma Variations
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 3 ENIGMA VARIATIONS October 28 at 8:00 PM Friday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts October 29 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Gautier Capuçon Cello PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION DEBUT Strauss Schumann Elgar Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Cello Concerto Enigma Variations CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES CONCERT October 30 at 3:00 PM Sunday afternoon Perelman Theater at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Musicians of YANNICK AND THE GERMAN REQUIEM November 3 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts November 4 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts November 5 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Dorothea Röschmann Soprano PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA DEBUT Matthias Goerne Baritone The Westminster Symphonic Choir (Joe Miller, Director) Mozart Symphony No. 40 Brahms A German Requiem
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 4 BACH AND HIS BRANDENBURGS November er 10 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts November 11 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts November 12 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Nicholas McGegan Conductor Bach Brandenburg Concerto Nos. 1-4 Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 JUROWSKI AND LENINGRAD November 17 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts November 18 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts November 19 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Vladimir Jurowski Conductor Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 ( Leningrad ) CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES CONCERT November 20 at 3:00 PM Sunday afternoon Perelman Theater at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Musicians of ESCHENBACH CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN November 25 at 8:00 PM Friday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts November 26 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts November 27 at 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Christoph Eschenbach Conductor Jennifer Koh Violin Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Beethoven Symphony No. 8
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 5 SOUNDS OF THE NEW WORLD December 1 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts December 2 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts December 3 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Marin Alsop Conductor Ricardo Morales Clarinet Barber Copland Dvořák Toccata festiva, for organ and orchestra Clarinet Concerto Symphony No. 9 ( From the New World ) THE PHILADELPHIA LEGACY December 8 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts December 9 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts December 10 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts December 11 at 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Yannick Nézet-Ségu Séguin Conductor Yuja Wang Piano Higdon Rachmaninoff Tchaikovsky Concerto for Orchestra Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra Symphony No. 2 ( Little Russian ) THE GLORIOUS SOUND OF CHRISTMAS December 15 at 7:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts December 16 at 7:00 PM Friday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts December 17 at 7:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Rossen Milanov Conductor
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 6 MESSIAH December 18 at 7:30 PM Sunday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts The Philadelphia Singers Chorale (David Hayes, Director) Handel Messiah NEW YEAR S EVE December 31 at 7:30 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts BEETHOVEN S FIFTH January 6 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts January 7 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts January 8 at 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts David Zinman Conductor Choong-Jin Chang Viola Torke Ash FIRST PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES Walton Viola Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS SECOND SYMPHONY January 12 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts January 13 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts January 14 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Robin Ticciati Conductor PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA DEBUT Arabella Steinbacher Violin Beethoven Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 2
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 7 CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES CONCERT January 15 at 3:00 PM Sunday afternoon Perelman Theater at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Musicians of MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. TRIBUTE CONCERT January 16 at 3:00 PM Monday afternoon MLK High School, Philadelphia Thomas Wilkins Conductor BEETHOVEN BY BLOMSTEDT January 19 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts January 20 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts January 21 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Herbert Blomstedt Conductor Leif Ove Andsnes Piano Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 Beethoven Symphony No. 3 ( Eroica ) BACH TO MAHLER January 26 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts January 27 at 8:00 PM Friday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor and Harpsichord Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Mahler Symphony No. 6
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 8 ACADEMY OF MUSIC 155TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT January 28 at 7:30 PM Saturday evening Academy of Music, Philadelphia ARABIAN NIGHTS February 2 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts February 3 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts February 4 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Nicola Luisotti Conductor PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA DEBUT Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Sonnenberg Violin Bach/arr. Stokowski Chaconne, from Partita No. 2 for solo violin Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade FAMILY CONCERT: BEETHOVEN LIVES UPSTAIRS February 4 at 11:30 AM Saturday morning Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Classical Kids LIVE! Beethoven Beethoven Lives Upstairs
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 9 ORCHESTRAL SPECTACULAR February 9 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts February 10 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts February 11 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts February 14 at 8:00 PM Tuesday evening Carnegie Hall, New York James Ehnes Violin Martin Mendelssohn Bartók Concerto for Seven Winds, Percussion, and String Orchestra Violin Concerto Concerto for Orchestra RACHMANINOFF SECOND CONCERTO February 17 at 8:00 PM Friday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts February 18 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Nikolaï Lugansky Piano Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 AX AND FRÜHBECK: MOZART AND BRAHMS February 23 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts February 24 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts February 25 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Conductor Emanuel Ax Piano Mozart Serenade in D major ( Serenata notturna ) Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25, K. 503 Brahms Symphony No. 1
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 10 CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES CONCERT February 26 at 3:00 PM Sunday afternoon Perelman Theater, Philadelphia Musicians of SPANISH DANCES March 1 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 2 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 3 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Conductor Pepe Romero Guitar PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION DEBUT Turina Rodrigo Palomo Ravel Danzas fantásticas Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and orchestra Andalusian Nocturnes, for guitar and orchestra FIRST PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES Bolero RHAPSODY IN BLUE March 8 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 9 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 10 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts James Gaffigan Conductor PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION DEBUT Stewart Goodyear Piano Bernstein Gershwin Tchaikovsky Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront Rhapsody in Blue FIRST PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION PERFORMANCES Suite from Swan Lake
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 11 BEYOND THE SCORE - MOZART: PIANO CONCERTO 27 ELUSIVE SIMPLICITY? March 15 at 7:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Jeffrey Kahane Conductor and Piano Gerard McBurney Host Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27, K. 595 A GRAND TOUR March 16 at 8:00 PM Friday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 17 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 18 at 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Gianandrea Noseda Conductor Juliette Kang Violin Rossini Overture to William Tell Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 ( Scottish ) MEMORIES OF PRAGUE March 22 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 23 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 24 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts James Conlon Conductor Mozart Overtures to Don Giovanni, Idomeneo, and The Marriage of Figaro Mozart Symphony No. 38 ( Prague ) Dvořák Symphony No. 7
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 12 FAMILY CONCERT: MUSICAL PRODIGIES March 24 at 11:30 AM Saturday morning Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Leila Josefowicz Host DEBUSSY S LA MER March 29 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 30 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts March 31 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Leila Josefowicz Violin Bartók Salonen Debussy Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta Violin Concerto FIRST PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES La Mer CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES CONCERT April 1 at 3:00 PM Sunday afternoon Perelman Theater, Philadelphia Musicians of BRONFMAN AND PETRUSHKA April 12 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts April 13 at 2:00 PM Friday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts April 14 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Gilbert Varga Conductor Yefim Bronfman Piano Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Bartók Piano Concerto No. 2 Stravinsky Petrushka
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 13 FAMILY CONCERT: THE COMPOSER IS DEAD April 14 at 11:30 AM Saturday morning Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Nathaniel Stookey Narrator PROGRAM INCLUDES: Stookey The Composer is Dead BEYOND THE SCORE - TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 4 PURE MELODRAMA? April 19 at 7:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Jaap van Zweden Conductor Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY S FOURTH April 20 at 8:00 PM Friday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts April 21 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts The Philadelphia P Orchestra Jaap van Zweden Conductor Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture Shostakovich Chamber Symphony Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 14 RATTLE RETURNS April 26 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts April 27 at 8:00 PM Friday evening Carnegie Hall, New York April 28 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts April 29 at 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Simon Rattle Conductor Brahms Symphony No. 3 Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra Schumann Symphony No. 3 ( Rhenish ) THE LURE OF PARIS May 4 at 8:00 PM Friday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts May 5 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts David Kim Violin Mozart Symphony No. 31 ( Paris ) Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 Debussy Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy ELEKTRA May 10 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts May 12 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Eva Johansson Soprano (Elektra) Strauss Elektra (opera in concert) FIRST PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES
2011-12 Season Chronological Calendar PAGE 15 CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES CONCERT May 13 at 3:00 PM Sunday afternoon Perelman Theater, Philadelphia Musicians of POLLINI CELEBRATES DUTOIT May 17 at 8:00 PM Thursday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts May 18 at 8:00 PM Friday evening Carnegie Hall, New York May 19 at 8:00 PM Saturday evening Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Maurizio Pollini Piano The Philadelphia Singers Chorale (David Hayes, Director) Beethoven Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Ravel Daphnis and Chloé (complete ballet) # # #