Jeffrey Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations® Resumes at the Kimmel Center November 5 with Franz Schubert Program
October 19, 2007
Schubert Program includes C Minor Impromptu, F Minor Impromptu, Wanderer Fantasy, and Enchanting Waltzes
Acclaimed pianist and host Jeffrey Siegel returns to the Kimmel Center with his educational adult classical music series Keyboard Conversations® as part of the Kimmel Center’s Mondays at Merck 2007/08 season in Perelman Theater on Monday, November 5, 2007 at 7:30pm. Siegel will perform the melodic sounds of Austrian composer Franz Schubert: On Wings of Song, and explain the nuances behind Schubert’s harmonic writing. His thought-provoking historical background analysis of Schubert will help educate both beginner and advanced adult classic music aficionados. The program includes the dramatic C Minor Impromptu, a set of enchanting waltzes, the fiery F Minor Impromptu, and the virtuoso Wanderer Fantasy.
"Truly, the spark of divine genius resides in this Schubert!"-Beethoven
Tickets for Keyboard Conversations® are $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 10pm 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 2.5 hours prior to curtain time and 11:30am for matinees. Limit one ticket per person.
An ongoing series for more than twenty-five years in numerous U.S. cities, Jeffrey Siegel's Keyboard Conversations® consistently attract avid classical music lovers who wish to increase their understanding and enjoyment of familiar works, and also reaches out to newcomers of classical music. Siegel presents an informal, accessible and highly entertaining introduction to the vast repertoire of the piano and classical music in his shows. Primarily a concert, Siegel’s shows offer provoking questions behind why, how, where and about what or whom the music was written. "My hope is that the remarks I share will make the music more accessible, the listening experience more focused and meaningful," says Siegel.
Most recently, Random House Audio Publishing Group released an audio book series with four CD recordings of Siegel's Keyboard Conversations®: Mozart and Friends, The Power and Passion of Beethoven, The Romanticism of the Russian Soul and The Romance of the Piano. Twin Cities Public Television, in conjunction with The Schubert Club, also recently produced and broadcast two half-hour Keyboard Conversations® - Mozart & Chopin - available on DVD exclusively at Siegel's concerts. Siegel's recording of Gershwin's complete works for piano and orchestra with Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony continues to be a best-seller.
In addition to entertaining and enriching concert-goers with his Keyboard Conversations®, Siegel has been a soloist with the world's great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, London Symphony, Philharmonic and Philharmonia, Moscow State Symphony, Bayerischer Rundfunk, The Hague Residentie Orkest, Oslo Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala and NHK Symphony of Japan. In the United States, engagements include the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Siegel has collaborated with celebrated conductors and has directed several orchestras, both nationally and internationally. He is equally at home in the dual role of conductor/pianist, directing the orchestra from the keyboard.
Kimmel Center Presents 2007/2008 season is sponsored by Citi. Support for the Mellon Jazz Series comes from The Bank of New York Mellon. The Great Orchestra Series is supported by ARC Wheeler. Additional support is provided by the University of Pennsylvania Health System and American Express. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents. Toyota is the Official Vehicle of Kimmel Center Presents Mellon Jazz, Mellon Jazz Up Close and World & Pop.
The Kimmel Center also receives support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The William Penn Foundation, The Wachovia Foundation, Verizon Foundation, PNC Foundation, The Philadelphia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and the Philadelphia Music Project and Dance Advance, Initiatives of The Pew Charitable Trust administered by The University of the Arts. In-kind support is generously provided by Deloitte. NBC-10 is a Media Partner for Kimmel Center Presents, and additional media sponsors include WDAS, WRTI, WJJZ, Afro-Pop, WXPN and WXPN's Kids Corner 20th Anniversary.
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 Wachovia Foundation.
KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS
Monday, November 5, 2007 | 7:30pm
Perelman Theater
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel
"Schubert: On Wings of Song"
Schubert Program
Six Waltzes
Impromptu in C minor, D. 899 (Op. 90)
The Trout (arranged by Franz Liszt)
Impromptu in F minor, D. 935 (Op. 142)
Wanderer Fantasy, D.760 (Op.15): Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo; Adagio; Presto; Allegro
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