We'll be at Verizon Hall this Sunday at 2 pm bringing you a LIVE concert broadcast of The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performing Bernstein’s Serenade—a musical retelling of Plato's ode to love—with soloist Hilary Hahn, the Orchestra’s 2017/18 artist-in-residence.
Bernstein’s Serenade was written for his friend Isaac Stern, and it was recorded to great critical acclaim by Ms. Hahn when she was only 18 years old, five years after she made her Philadelphia Orchestra debut.
Back in 2013, Opera Philadelphia received raves when it staged the local premiere of Thomas Adès's Powder Her Face. And in a subsequent Philadelphia Orchestra co-commission, Yannick conducts the first U.S. performances of a suite of music from the opera, the last of which will be on this Sunday's program.
And finally, Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 1, evoking a grandiose Scandinavian musical panorama, closes the program.
Be sure to join us for this Philadelphia Orchestra concert, broadcast LIVE here on WRTI 90.1, the WRTI mobile app, and streaming worldwide at wrti.org, on Sunday, December 10th at 2 pm—one hour later than usual!
PROGRAM:
Adès: Suite from Powder her Face
Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato's Symposium) for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp, and Percussion
Hilary Hahn, violin
INTERMISSION
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Gregg Whiteside is producer and host of the Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcasts, every Sunday at 1 pm on WRTI 90.1, streaming online at WRTI.org, and on our mobile app! Listen again on Mondays at 7 pm on WRTI HD-2
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