Jeffrey Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations® Continue with Festive French Fare
January 7, 2008
Acclaimed pianist and host Jeffrey Siegel continues his educational classical music series Keyboard Conversations® with a program of Festive French Fare on Monday, February 4, 2008 at 7:30pm in the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater. Siegel’s "insightful and poetically interpreted" (Washington Post) Keyboard Conversations® bring both beginners and advanced classical music lovers to a richer understanding and appreciation for celebrated classical composers. Festive French Fare will explore the works of Claude Debussy, including his best known composition, the beloved Clair de Lune (Moonlight), Prelude from Pour le piano and L'île Joyeuse (Isle of Joy), inspired by a painting by Antoine Watteau. Siegel will also offer insight into the nuances of Dutilleux’s Blackbird, Ravel’s Oiseaux Tristes (Sad Birds), Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, Fauré’s Impromptu in A-flat, Op. 34, No. 3, as well as Mouvements Perpétuels No. 1 (Perpetual Motion) and Novelette, No. 2 from Poulenc.
This concert is the second of three concerts in the Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel Series scheduled for the Kimmel Center Presents 2007/2008 season. The next concert in the series will be Franz Liszt: The Devil Made Me Do It on Monday, April 28, 2008 at 7:30pm in Perelman Theater.
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 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 2.5 hours prior to curtain time and 11:30am for matinees. Limit one ticket per person.
An ongoing series for more than 25 years, Jeffrey Siegel's Keyboard Conversations® present an informal, accessible and highly entertaining introduction to classical music. The series has developed such a following that Random House Audio Publishing Group released an audio book series with four CD recordings of Siegel's Keyboard Conversations® in 2006. 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, all the major London orchestras, and many others. 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.
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 SPONSORED BY CITI
Monday, February 4, 2008 | 7:30pm
Perelman Theater
Jeffrey Siegel's Keyboard Conversations®
Festive French Fare
DEBUSSY: Clair de Lune (Moonlight) and Prelude from Pour le piano
DUTILLEUX: Blackbird
RAVEL: Oiseaux Tristes (Sad Birds)
SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre
FAURÉ: Impromptu in A-flat, Op. 34, No. 3
POULENC: Mouvements Perpétuels, No. 1 (Perpetual Motion) and Novelette, No. 2
DEBUSSY: L'île Joyeuse (Isle of Joy)
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