November 2007
Friday 30 November
- Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre (14:30) - Led by Valery Gergiev, the Kirov Orchestra returns to the Kimmel Center tonight for an all-Stravinsky program: the complete Firebird and The Rite of Spring. There's a fascinating article by Alex Ross about Gergiev from 1998: “Westerners—we like to have...
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Tuesday 27 November
- The Drowsy Chaperone, Nov. 27th-Dec 2nd (16:16) - The Drowsy Chaperone has been affectionately known at the "little musical that could." The show began as a bachelor party gift, presented to Bob Martin and Janet Van De Graaff by their theatrically inclined friends; it went on to win...
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Saturday 24 November
- Mazowsze (11:49) - The folk ensemble Mazowsze make their Kimmel Center debut this afternoon. The group was formed by composer and folk music lover Tadeusz Sygietynski and his wife, Polish actress Mira Ziminska-Sygietynska. During WWII, the couple promised each other that if they...
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Tuesday 20 November
- Youssou N'Dour and the Super Etoile de Dakar (15:13) - Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer who popularized mbalax, a blend of the country's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with Afro-Cuban arrangements and flavors. The Super Etoile de Dakar is N'Dour's ensemble, first formed in 1979. Youssou is probably best...
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Tuesday 13 November
- Yo-Yo Ma and Katheryn Stott (15:38) - Yo-Yo Ma performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the opening of the Kimmel Center, and he brought his ensemble Silk Road here for Kimmel Center Presents. Tonight is his first recital at the Center: he'll be performing alongside his longtime...
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Friday 9 November
- Salzburg Marionettes (08:53) - The Salzburg Marionette Theatre will be at the Kimmel Center through Saturday, performing their interpretation of Mozart's Magic Flute and the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. One of my favorite scenes in The Sound of Music...
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Friday 2 November
- John Pizzarelli and the Swing 7 and Django Reinhardt Festival (16:01) - First up tonight is the Django Reinhardt Festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of Stéphane Grappelli, the French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt. It was one of the first (and arguably...
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