Kimmel Center Presents Fourth Season Closes with Musical Visions
Fresh Ink & “See Hear!” Program to Include Works by Mozart, Bach, Stravinsky, Varese, and Gill
May 4, 2005
Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson and visual director
Tickets for Musical Visions are $21 and $26 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999 or online at www.kimmelcenter.org.
In an effort to make the classical music concert experience more engaging and less intimidating, each piece during the concert will include multimedia or visual effects that will tie in with the theme of the work. Johnson, Gyulai and Gill also want the audience to understand the stylistic and musical connections between the pieces, specifically the way in which Stravinsky’s work imitates Bach’s, or the way in which the opening movement of Varese’s piece ties in to the last movement of Stravinsky’s. The world premiere of Gill’s composition, which evokes nature and the wild, also emulates Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
A former student of the esteemed conductor Daniel Barenboim, Jeri Lynne Johnson earned high praise during her four-year tenure as The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia’s Assistant Conductor. From 2001-2004, Johnson led world premieres of several commissions, including works with the orchestra and multimedia commissions with Gyulai.
Philadelphia native and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts graduate Peggy Gyulai’s paintings and digital media commissions have been featured in numerous corporate and private collections in the U.S. and Europe. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gyulai created a series of paintings for performances of The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music during their centennial season, and has been a guest speaker at the Kimmel Center and a co-host for a Philadelphia Orchestra program for youths.
Former assistant conductor and composer-in-residence with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Jeremy Gill received a BM in composition from the Eastman School of Music in 1996, and a PhD in composition at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. His work has been commissioned and performed by musical institutions across the U.S., and in France and the Czech Republic. Gill’s numerous awards include two BMI Student Composer Awards, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, and. a residency grant from Meet the Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League.
Tickets for Musical Visions at Perelman Theater on May 19 range from $21 to $26 (Additional fees may apply). Tickets 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. 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 for evening performances and 11:30am for matinees.
Sponsors of the 2004-2005 Kimmel Center Presents season include Mellon Financial Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Bank of America, Sovereign Bank, Wachovia Foundation, The American Express Company, Verizon Foundation, Bucks County Coffee, and SEPTA, the Commuter’s Choice. Special Student Matinees at the Kimmel Center are generously supported by Merck & Co. Inc. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents. Toyota is the Official Vehicle of Kimmel Center Presents Jazz and World Pop programming. In-kind support is generously provided by Deloitte and Southern Wine and Spirit.
KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS
Fresh Ink Series
Musical Visions
Thursday, May 19, 2005
7:30pm | Perelman Theater
Jeri Lynne Johnson, conductor
Peggy Gyulai, visual director
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G major, BWV 1048
Stravinsky: Concerto in E-flat, “Dumbarton Oaks”
Varese: Octandre
Gill: Numina
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