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The Philadelphia Orchestra
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Upcoming Concerts for The Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra currently has 5 upcoming concerts; the next one is scheduled for Friday, 31 October 2025 at Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage in New York, NY, United States.
- Oct3131 Oct 2025Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman StageNew York
- Mar1010 Mar 2026Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman StageNew York
- Mar2525 Mar 2026Indiana University AuditoriumBloomington
- Mar3131 Mar 2026Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman StageNew York
- May2929 May 2026Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman StageNewNew York
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About The Philadelphia Orchestra
Hometown
Philadelphia, PA, United States
Formed
1900
Genre
Classical
The Philadelphia Orchestra has had notably few music directors since founder Fritz Scheel became its first conductor in 1900. In fact, two of them—Leopold Stokowski, who arrived in 1912, and Eugene Ormandy, who took over in 1938—helmed the orchestra for nearly 70 years, up until 1980. Together, they developed and nurtured the “Philadelphia Sound,” a lush, lively, and intense sonic signature that particularly inspired Rachmaninoff, who composed with the “Fabulous Philadelphians” in mind. Stokowski and Ormandy were also technological pioneers with a knack for marketing. Their band became the first orchestra to make electrical recordings (in 1925), perform on a commercial radio broadcast (in 1929), and appear on TV (in 1948)—and they also happened to produce the stereophonic soundtrack for Walt Disney’s dazzling animated epic Fantasia. The orchestra's hundreds of recordings (including a 120-CD box set of Ormandy’s work) do well by the cream of the classical repertoire. This remarkable consistency continued into the 21st century with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who assumed the music direction of the orchestra in 2012.
Members of The Philadelphia Orchestra include, or have included, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Riccardo Muti, Eugene Ormandy, Charles Dutoit, Leopold Stokowski, Christoph Eschenbach, Ricardo Morales, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Joseph Alessi, Elizabeth Hainen, Harold Robinson, Jeffrey Khaner, Gilbert Johnson, Efe Baltacigil, Joseph de Pasquale, John de Lancie, Charles Vernon, Howard Wall, Marcel Tabuteau, Juliette Kang, Bernard Garfield, Carol Jantsch, Jennifer Montone, Lorne Munroe, Hai - Ye Ni, Choong-Jin Chang, Norman Carol, Anthony Gigliotti, James J. Pellerite, Carlton Cooley, Gardell Simons, Jacob Krachmalnick, Marcella de Cray, David Kim, Nancy Bean, Hans Kindler, Jonathan Beiler, John Minsker and Robert McGinnis.
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