Kimmel Center Blog - May 2006 Archives

May 2006

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, May 25th (16:00) - This performance closes our two-week-long Organ Festival. Manfred Honeck leads the PSO with organist Jeffrey Brillhart, who is also Director of Music and Fine Arts at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, through works by Mozart, Poulenc and Tchaikovsky. The music critic... | 1 Comments

Golden Age Film Classics, May 21st (12:00) - This afternoon, two great silent films will be shown as they were meant to be seen, with improvised organ accompaniment. First up, The General starring Buster Keaton, and second, The Mark of Zorro starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Tom Trenney will... | 1 Comments

Did You Pay to Play the Kimmel Center Organ? (13:00) - By all accounts, as the phone has been ringing off the hook here at the main switchboard, so turn out will have been fantastic for Saturday's Pay to Play on the new Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ. Did you play?... | 18 Comments
Organ Family Concert, May 20th (09:00) - Peter Richard Conte, Grand Court Organist of the world famous Wanamaker Organ, performs classical favorites like Peter and the Wolf and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Philadelphia's own Mum Puppettheatre appears alongside Mr. Conte as does Jill Pasternak of WRTI. Did your... | 3 Comments

PHILADANCO, May 18th-21st (15:55) - Philadanco's spring program features four works, one company premiere and one world premiere. In Love Stories, choreographer Carmen de Lavallade uses the music of Billie Holliday to celebrate the search for love and for a happy ending. Cottonwool is a... | 0 Comments

New York Times Most Popular Stories (07:55) - Wow, just an observation here, yesterday's New York Times story and review about the new Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ was one of the days' overall most popular stories, at #5 when I looked at it, and today it's still... | 2 Comments
Pay To Play (The organ...) (07:31) - As you may have read in today's Philadelphia Inquirer, in the finest tradition of Pay to Play, we're holding an event this Saturday from 1pm to 5pm, where anyone, regardless of skill level, can come to get a hands on... | 4 Comments

Kimmel Center Organ (16:26) - OK, the magnificent new Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ has made its long anticipated debut in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, and what a wild ride it has been. I knew there was interest in great organs in Philadelphia,... | 6 Comments

POPG, May 5th (22:35) - The Philadelphia Orchestra Percussion Group (POPG) interprets favorite classical pieces, performs compositions by one of their own members, and also performs contemporary music. If you missed seeing POPG perform Jennifer Higdon's ZONES last year during the One Book, One Philadelphia... | 0 Comments