Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel Series Concludes with Musical Pictures at the Kimmel Center, April 13
MARCH 24, 2009
Acclaimed pianist and commentator Jeffrey Siegel concludes his Keyboard Conversations® series for the Kimmel Center's current season with a program entitled Musical Pictures on Monday, April 13, 2009 at 7:30pm in Perelman Theater. Siegel explores the impressionistic music of Rachmaninoff's challenging Études-Tableaux and Debussy's Préludes, as well as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, his greatest solo piano composition, which vividly depicts an imagined tour of an art collection. The program will be followed by a question and answer session.
An ongoing series for more than 25 years, Keyboard Conversations®' unique concert-plus-commentary format brings both musical novices and advanced classical music connoisseurs to a richer understanding and appreciation for works by celebrated composers. Siegel has performed his Keyboard Conversations® in over 25 cities from New York to Los Angeles, and recently presented the program internationally at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London in October 2008.
Tickets for Jeffrey Siegel's Keyboard Conversations® are available for $30 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.) For group sales call 215-790-5883.
A limited number of $10 tickets are available for every Kimmel Center Presents performance at the Kimmel Center. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office beginning at 5:30pm prior to evening curtain time and 11:30am for matinees. Limit one ticket per person.
Jeffrey Siegel has been a soloist with the world's great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, all the major London orchestras, the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra and many others. As a conductor, he has collaborated with luminaries such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Neeme Järvi, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas and David Zinman, among others. He has led the Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Saint Louis Symphony Orchestras, The Minnesota Orchestra and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well as orchestras in France, Scandinavia and South America.
In June 2006, Siegel released four CDs of Keyboard Conversations®: Mozart and Friends, The Power and Passion of Beethoven, The Romanticism of the Russian Soul and The Romance of the Piano (Random House Audio Publishing Group).
Kimmel Center Presents' 2008-09 Season is sponsored by Citi. The Great Orchestras on Tour Series is supported by 10 Rittenhouse Square. Additional support is provided by PENN Medicine, Jacobs Music, Inc., American Express, and Interpark. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents. NBC-10 is a media partner for Kimmel Center Presents.
Free in the Plaza programming and subsidized tickets offered to the community and social service groups for $10 are made possible through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access Program, supported by a generous grant from the Wachovia Foundation.
The Kimmel Center is the recipient of partnership funding through the nationally recognized PNC "Grow Up Great" initiative, a ten-year, $100 million investment in preparing children for success in school and life. Funding gives support to the Kimmel Center's early childhood program "Bop and Swing," an arts program for children 1-5 years old, designed to promote an appreciation for American culture.
KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS SPONSORED BY CITI
Monday, April 13, 2009 | 7:30pm
Perelman Theater
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel
Musical Pictures Program:
RACHMANINOFF: Two Études-Tableaux, Opus 39, No. 5 in E-flat Minor and Opus 33, No 7 in E-flat Major
DEBUSSY: Two Préludes, Voiles and Fireworks
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition
Promenade
Gnomes
Promenade
The Old Castle
Promenade
Children Quarreling at Play
The Oxcart
Ballet of the unhatched Chicks
Two Jews, One rich and the Other Poor
Limoges — The Market Place
Catacombs
Promenade — With the Dead in a Dead Language
Hut on Fowl's Legs
The Great Gate of Kiev
Questions and Answers
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