A Grand Tour

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The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
260 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
When: 
Repeats every day until Fri Mar 18 2011.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Types: Music
Price Ranges: $10 - $113
Phone: (215) 893-1999
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3.16 and 3.17 - 8 PM
3.18 - 2 PM

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, Conductor
Juliette Kang, Violin

Rossini - Overture to William Tell
Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 1
Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”)

Gianandrea Noseda returns to lead a whirlwind tour, beginning in his native Italy with Rossini's famous William Tell Overture. First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang is featured as soloist in Prokofiev's bounding Violin Concerto No. 1, written at the time of the Russian Revolution. The program concludes with a sojourn to Scotland with Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3.