Award-winning Orchestra 2001 celebrates its 21st concert season in 2009-2010. Since the orchestra’s founding in 1988, O2001 has grown into one of America’s most important cultural institutions.
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- Philadelphia, PA, 19103
- Phone:
- 267/687-6243
- Mon - Fri:
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Events
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- O2001 JOINS THE PHILADELPHIA S...
Annenberg Center for the Performing...
Saturday, March 6 at 8:00pm - SAMUEL BARBER CENTENNIAL
The Kimmel Center for the Performin...
Saturday, May 22 at 8:00pm - SAMUEL BARBER CENTENNIAL
Swarthmore College's Lang Hall
Sunday, May 23 at 3:00pm
Richard Hotchkiss Just sent my Grammy Ballot.... Best of Luck!!!
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Hey O2001-ers! Here's Dan Webster's review of this past weekend's concerts. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/
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Coverage of the arts, fashion and dining from todays edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer
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Hey Friends - check out Tom Purdom's preview of this weekends O2001 concerts - nice article.
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The composer George Crumb, now approaching 80, is a true American individualist who created his own style during the years when American composers mostly seemed to be writing for the approval of their academic promotion committees.Orchestra 2001: Crumb, selections from American Songbooks. ...
Orchestra 2001 Dear Friends - don't miss the upcoming birthday celebration for George! [Crumb] - see www.ticketphiladelphia.com for tix - or call 267/687-6243 for more details.
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Orchestra 2001 Orchestra 2001 is planning a great time at our September 25 & 27 concerts celebrating George Crumb's birthday!! Check out the Events on the left nav for details!
Misha I am so definitely coming up for 9/27 concert!!!! Can't wait to see everyone again!!!
Andrew Rudin Brett Deubner with Orchestra 2001, rehearsing Andrew Rudin's Viola Concerto, James Freeman, conducting.
Orchestra 2001 Join The Philadelphia Singers and new music ensembles Relâche and Orchestra 2001 for the world premiere of Persephone by Philip Glass. The program also features the Philadelphia premiere of Steve Reich's You Are (Variations). The concert concludes with the Philadelphia premiere of two laude for female chorus from Briti...sh composer Gavin Bryars' Cycle Lauda Cortonese. Don't miss this extraordinary concert experience featuring works by some of the giants of contemporary music
One-Night Only!
Time:8:00PM Saturday, March 6th
Location:Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
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Samuel Barber, Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Andrew Rudin, Piano Concerto (Philadelphia premiere)
Robert Maggio, new work, inspired by Barber's "Knoxville"
Paul Moravec, Violin Concerto (first performance)
Maria Bachmann, violin
Marcantonio Barone, piano
Laura Heimes, soprano
Time:8:00PM Saturday, May 22nd
Location:The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
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Samuel Barber, Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Andrew Rudin, Piano Concerto (Philadelphia premiere)
Robert Maggio, new work, inspired by Barber's "Knoxville"
Paul Moravec, Violin Concerto (first performance)
Maria Bachmann, violin
Marcantonio Barone, piano
Laura Heimes, soprano
This program is funded, in part, by the Philadelphia Music Project.
Time:3:00PM Sunday, May 23rd
Location:Swarthmore College's Lang Hall
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We celebrate Orchestra 2001's founder and conductor James Freeman's 70th birthday with the performance of the premieres of 7 new works by Philadelphia-based composers, all written for this occasion - as well as the local premiere of a new song cycle by George Crumb.
Andrea Clearfield, A reminiscence sing (first perform...ance)
George Crumb, Sun and Shadow (Philadelphia premiere)
David Finko, Glory to the King (first performance)
James Freeman, Three Songs from the '60s (first performance)
Gerald Levinson, new work
Jay Reise, Luanhuana (first performance)
Andrew Rudin, Celebrations (first performance)
Thomas Whitman, Midsummer Idyll (first performance)
Time:8:00PM Sunday, December 13th
Location:Swarthmore College's Lang Hall
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2009 Grammy Award winner Hila Plitmann joins James Freeman and O2001 for concerts of music on texts by two remarkable poets: Sappho and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Schreker's rarely performed masterwork of 1916 completes this exciting program.
Libby Larsen, Sonnets from the Portuguese
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Five Images Af...ter Sappho
Franz Schreker, Chamber Symphony
(Ms. Plitmann's appearance is sponsored by the William J. Cooper Foundation of Swarthmore College and Dr. Joel Porter)
Time:8:00PM Saturday, November 14th
Location:Independence Seaport Museum
Orchestra 2001 2009 Grammy Award winner Hila Plitmann joins James Freeman and O2001 for concerts of music on texts by two remarkable poets: Sappho and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Schreker's rarely performed masterwork of 1916 completes this exciting program.
Time:7:30PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:Swarthmore College's Lang Hall
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O2001 salutes Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb on his 80th birthday with performances of excerpts from his monumental American Songbook series, all written for O2001. Works of the current University of Pennsylvania Composition faculty, where Mr. Crumb taught for more than 30 years, will also be performed - ...including a premiere by Anna Weesner.
James Primosch, Four Sacred Songs
Jay Reise, Chesapeake Rhythms
Anna Weesner, The First Letter (first performance)
George Crumb, excerpts from each of the six American Songbooks
Ann Crumb, Jamie van Eyck, and Barbara Ann Martin, vocal soloists
Brad Smith, guest conductor (for Reise work)
(This program is funded, in part, by generous grants from: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Music Project, Beneficia Foundation, and the Theodore Presser Foundation)
Time:3:00PM Sunday, September 27th
Location:Swarthmore College's Lang Hall
