8:00PM - 11:00PM
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SPAC Ampitheatre
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Award-winning actor ALEC BALDWIN returns to SPAC’s stage on Friday, August 6 to narrate Sergei Prokofiev's family classic Peter and the Wolf. Originally composed in 1936 for a children’s theater in Moscow, Peter and the Wolf has become Prokofiev’s best-known work. The composer, who wrote the story as well as the music, uses personified instruments to tell the tale of young Peter and his animal friends the Duck, the Bird, and the Cat (represented by an oboe, flute, and clarinet respectively). Peter, himself represented by the string section, outwits the Wolf (French horns), who is threatening his small Russian village. The well-loved work, which will have its first orchestral performance at SPAC this season, is frequently used in music education to teach children about the different instruments of the orchestra. Alec Baldwin, celebrated film and television star, joins a long line of celebrities who have narrated the work including David Bowie, Sting, Ben Kingsley, Patrick Stewart and Bobby McFerrin.
The Philadelphia Orchestra
August 4 – 21
All performances of The Philadelphia Orchestra start at 8:00 p.m. in the Amphitheatre.
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Wednesday August 4 OPENING NIGHT WITH YO-YO MA Charles Dutoit Conductor Yo-Yo Ma Cello STRAUSS Don Juan ELGAR Cello Concerto STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring |
Thursday August 5 POPS: A Century of Broadway Jeff Tyzik Conductor Christiane Noll, Soprano Doug LaBrecque, Baritone Includes selections from My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Phantom and more. |
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Friday August 6 PETER AND THE WOLF Charles Dutoit Conductor Alec Baldwin Narrator Kirill Gerstein Piano GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf LISZT Piano Concerto No.2 STRAVINSKY Suite fromThe Firebird |
Saturday August 7 ODE TO JOY Charles Dutoit Conductor Leah Crocetto, Soprano Mary Phillips, Mezzo soprano Phillipe Castagner, Tenor Nathan Berg, Bass-baritone Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia MOZART Sinfonia concertante, K.297b for winds and orchestra BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 ("Choral") |
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Wednesday, August 11 A GERSHWIN EVENING Charles Dutoit Conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet Piano GERSHWIN Piano Concerto for Piano in F GERSHWIN An American in Paris GERSHWIN I Got Rhythm, variations for piano and orchestra GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess, A Symphonic Picture |
Thursday, August 12 THE FAREWELL CELEBRATION CONCERT Charles Dutoit Conductor Chantal Juillet Violin SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture KORNGOLD Violin Concerto DEBUSSY La mer RESPIGHI The Pines of Rome |
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Friday August 13 CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE Rossen Milanov Conductor |
Saturday August 14 FABULOUS PHILADELPHIANS Rossen Milanov Conductor André Watts Piano BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”) TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 |
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Wednesday August 18 THE INCOMPARABLE SARAH CHANG Peter Oundjian Conductor Sarah Chang Violin MOZART Overture to The Magic Flute SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 |
Thursday August 19 POPS: WICKED DIVAS Steven Reineke, Conductor Vocalists, TBA Steven Reineke leads the Orchestra in a concert of diva showstoppers from Broadway, opera and pop including selections from Wicked, Carmen, Titanicand more. |
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Friday August 20 MASTERPIECES Lawrence Foster Conductor Garrick Ohlsson Piano MUSORGSKY Overture to Khovanshchina RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 |
Saturday August 21 TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR Lawrence Foster Conductor Khatia Buniatishvili Piano TCHAIKOVSKY Polonaise from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1. TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture |
