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ORCHESTRA IN HD!
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conducts The Rite of Spring
with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 2 p.m.
$15 adults, $5 children/students
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano
with the Ridge Theater Company
Program
Wagner - Siegfried's Idyll
Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major
-intermission-
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
New Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in a dramatic, 21st-century treatment of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, performed in Philadelphia's Verizon Hall. This seminal work received its U.S. premiere in both staged and concert versions in Philadelphia, under the baton of Leopold Stokowski. Now, in a first-of-its-kind partnership with Philadelphia Live Arts and the New York-based Ridge Theater Company, viewers will witness a visually powerful performance featuring dancers, video projection, dramatic staging, and theatrical lighting.
The program opens with the Wagner's Siegfried's Idyll and also features star pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, performing Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, which also received its first American performances in Philadelphia.
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