"General" archive
Friday 20 June
- Summer Solstice Celebration 2008 (15:45) - I barely know where to start about Solstice 2008. Tomorrow, starting at 3pm (2:30pm, for the outdoor street festival) the Kimmel Center celebrates the longest day of the year. Take a look at the schedule for more information about...
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Thursday 6 March
- 2008/2009 Season Announced! (09:03) - The 2008/2009 season's for Kimmel Center Presents and the Cadillac Broadway series have just been announced. Visit our digital brochure to see the artists and hear audio and see video samples of their work. You can subscribe to KCP...
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Sunday 2 December
- African Footprint and Kimmel Staff on WHYY (09:00) - Get a preview of African Footprint, one of our Broadway shows coming at the end of January, on WHYY-TV, December 4 at 9:20pm. Kimmel Center volunteers will be live in the WHYY-TV studios taking phone calls from viewers across the...
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Tuesday 21 August
- Boston Pops, August 21st (16:40) - Tonight is the Boston Pops debut at the Kimmel Center. "A Tribute to Oscar and Tony" celebrates the award-winning music of Hollywood and Broadway. Keith Lockhart leads the Pops and is joined by soloists Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, who...
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Monday 13 August
- Russell Johnson (11:31) - It was with great sadness that we at the Kimmel Center learned of Russell Johnson’s passing last week. Russell was the brains, or more correctly, the ears behind Artec Consultants, the acousticians whose job it was to ensure that the...
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Wednesday 8 August
- From a Kimmel Center Intern (12:38) - Hi! My name is Juliet, and I was one of the Kimmel’s programming interns for this summer. This summer flew by, mostly due to my internship—I had such a blast! I worked with many people throughout the organization (not just...
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Tuesday 3 July
- More about Pay-to-Play (09:17) - During the most recent Summer Solstice, the Kimmel Center held its second "Pay-to-Play" event. One of the musicians who attended and played the organ was kind enough to share her photos and comments about the day with us. Go and...
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Tuesday 19 June
- Summer Solstice Celebration, June 23, 2007 (17:14) - The Kimmel Center's Summer Solstice Celebration is back, starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday and going strong until sunrise, early Sunday morning. View the schedule online to plan your night, links to the artists' sites are included. In addition to...
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Sunday 17 December
- Kimmel Center 5th Anniversary Celebration, December 17th (10:00) - On December 16th, 2001, the Kimmel Center opened for its first performance. Built to be an anchor on the Avenue of the Arts, the Center has become a home for a variety of diverse performers and a Philadelphia home for...
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Thursday 5 October
- Riders Done Right (15:17) - If you know anything about sound, lighting and/or hosting performers at a venue, there's a good chance you won't agree with me that this is a concert rider done right. The Smoking Gun is well known for getting a hold...
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Thursday 28 September
- Lang Lang, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and 12 Angry Men (12:33) - Not all together of course... On Tuesday, September 26th, I got to attend the Lang Lang/ Philadelphia Orchestra concert in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center. My friend, Timothy, and I had great seats in the 1st tier, dead center!...
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Friday 25 August
- OTC (musical ramblings) (09:26) - OTC (On the Card) That’s where it resides ‘til I own it, right? On the credit card? I try to pay cash, but that’s not always possible. Especially with last weeks purchase—Keb Mo’s Suitcase, T Bone Burnett’s The True...
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Wednesday 19 July
- 50 Most Influential Albums (11:34) - This list was created by the U.K. paper, The Observer, to celebrate fifty years of the album chart. The list is mostly concerned with albums that changed pop music history. It might be the only time Miles Davis and the...
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Wednesday 5 July
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson dies at 52 (11:47) - Earlier this year, mezzo soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and sang a collection of Neruda poems set to music by her husband Peter Lieberson. On July 3rd, after a long illness, Ms. Lieberson died at...
Sunday 25 June
- Summer Solstice Celebration, June 24th (09:00) - After 19 hours of music, dance, food, face painting, yoga and even juggling, Kimmel Center guests celebrated the return of Summer (and the return of the Solstice celebration). Be sure to check out the Kimmel Center's flickr page for photos...
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Monday 19 June
- Flickr photo contest at Solstice! (16:40) - If you are unfamiliar with flickr.com, the photo-sharing website, take a moment to visit the Kimmel Center flickr! You'll notice, on the profile page that we are hosting a photo contest at our Summer Solstice Celebration event this coming Saturday-Sunday....
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Tuesday 16 May
- 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...
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Tuesday 18 April
- For the Archives (08:43) - On April 11th, the Library of Congress announced its annual selection of 50 sound recordings for the National Recording Registry. This is a relatively new effort by the LOC, mandated by the 2000 National Recording Preservation Act. The Library is...
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Wednesday 12 April
- National Theater of the Deaf funding cuts (09:33) - There's an article in this morning's New York Times about how the federal budget cuts are affecting arts programs for the deaf. The Broadway series brought the National Theater for the Deaf production Big River to Philadelphia in November 2004,...
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Sunday 19 March
- Kimmel photos on Flickr (15:03) - Have you heard of flickr, the photo blog website? It's for photo management and sharing, and it totally rocks. I'm not at all into blogging, but can get sucked into the wonderousness of flickr for hours anytime. And as the...
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Tuesday 14 March
- Open Topic (09:03) - The Kimmel Center has been in the news recently. There's also been some interesting discussion about forming choral groups in the Philadelphia area in our last open thread, but it's buried a bit but definitely worth reading and continuing. So,...
Wednesday 8 March
- Kimmel Center Presents & Broadway 2006/2007 Seasons (10:23) - The other night Dennis DeYoung, former lead singer of Styx, had a performance on New Jersey's public television station. During the pledge broadcast, he was also in the studio and he sang to the callers and his voice sounded really...
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Tuesday 24 January
- Open Thread (09:39) - I'm moving this topic up because of a new comment about choral music in Philadelphia. Feel free to comment on anything else that's on your mind....
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Monday 12 December
- Open Topic (15:10) - This might be a weekly feature. This is just an open topic for you to post about whatever's on your mind—about the performing arts, Philadelphia, the holidays or things you'd like to see in the next year....
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Thursday 8 December
- The 48th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List (15:04) - It’s that time of year again--artists sit and wait by the phone to see if the Grammy folks or their PR firms call with the good news “Hi, you’ve been nominated…” Well, maybe they don’t actually sit by the phone...
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- Grammy Nominations (13:04) - Most of the articles you'll read about today's Grammy nominations will talk about Mariah Carey, Green Day, Gwen Stefani and Kanye West. The nomination list, however, is enormous. All kinds of music—world, classical, folk, latin, blues—are nominated. Just reading down...
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Tuesday 6 December
- Pretentious Performers (10:57) - So last Thursday, Lady Sovereign, the British flow-stress deemed the next best thing to hit hip-hop since Charlie Robot dropped his eponymous dance onto the mainstream via “Soul Train,” made a lot of enemies in Philadelphia. After much anticipation and...
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Friday 2 December
- Unfamiliar Spaces (11:35) - Posted for Rachel, Facility Sales Looking for a unique place to host an intimate gathering? Well, you should check out the often forgotten gem inside the Kimmel Center known as the Third Tier Lounge! My co-workers often laugh at my...
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Tuesday 29 November
- Kudos to Colleagues (14:25) - How much time do you really spend thinking about the work your colleagues do? I’m not talking about the co-worker you share a cubicle with who seems to have plenty of time to circulate animated emails, I mean the ones...
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Tuesday 15 November
- Celletiquette (12:09) - So, I’m walking north on Broad Street heading out for my usual lunch/shopping break yesterday afternoon and I overhear this half of a cell phone conversation: “I’m here! I just got here and it’s great. This city is amazing. I’m...
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Tuesday 8 November
- The Big Decision (10:53) - Working among many professionals such as myself who come from performing or visual art backgrounds or educations, the question of art as a passion or a career comes up quite often. For most of us there came a time when...
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Friday 4 November
- Accordions, Mozart and Wu Man (12:28) - From the Only At The Kimmel Center Files: Tonight in the Perelman Theater, we welcome back one of our favorite repeat rental clients, the local group Vox Ama Deus. They'll be performing three Mozart pieces and will host Dan Grigore...
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Monday 17 October
- Pandora's Box (09:42) - My taste in music is very broad, but it's also shallow as a puddle. I like a little of everything, but mostly I like the songs that represent any given genre. I never seem to get deeper than that. When...
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Friday 14 October
- What's on right now? (10:47) - In the spirit of the moment, it seems appropriate to share what I'm listening to right now. As I type. At work. First, though, a few things about what it's NOT ... it's not the latest release from the hottest...
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Tuesday 11 October
- Music Mojo: Takin' a Look Back (09:47) - Jonathan Valania's latest PW jeu d'esprit takes a nostalgic look at American garage rock (due to the release of the third CD in Rhino Record's four CD disc box-set, Children of the Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era...
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Friday 7 October
- The Addiction of New Performing Arts Centers (08:46) - If you love architecture, interpersonal drama, high finance, fundraising, marketing, the media, state and local government, executive management, math, interior design, high society, consulting or even the performing arts, you’re the ideal candidate to become a performing-arts-center-in-progress junkie.................
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Tuesday 4 October
- Just pluggin' away (10:48) - Today, I'm on a super-tight writing deadline, which means my mind is wandering all over searching for inspiration; after all, even institutional writing requires a bit of creativity -- it ain't all facts and figures, you know. Thank goodness for...
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Monday 3 October
- blog y gozar (13:57) - I'm still trying to wake up from last night's extravaganza with Los Lobos and Alejandro Escovedo - what a show! Alejandro sat down with us for a rollicking 30-min interview you might hear in our upcoming PODCAST, so stay tuned....
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- Musical Shorthand (10:54) - Have you seen the new trailer for The Shining? It was the winner of a contest in which entries had to recut the trailer for a film and change the genre without altering the visuals. About halfway into the new...
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Friday 30 September
- There's an Expert on Every Corner (10:35) - The following story is true. On Wednesday, while waiting for the light at Broad and Spruce to change, I overheard the following conversation. (Admittedly, it is paraphrased). Man #1: That's the Kimball Center. Man #2: What is it? A library?...
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Thursday 29 September
- From the Desk of Johnny Broad-Street..Get your bloggin' pants on! (12:06) - Afternoon, kiddies...J B-S here with a blog offering the likes of which you have never seen!!!! Ok, that's a lie..I'm not technologically astute enough to push the blogging envelope any further than the occasional BOLD type or maybe an ITALICIZED...
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Tuesday 27 September
- Alright. I need your help. (10:13) - There is sooooo much music out there. So much that there is a page in the front of my day planner graffitied with names of artists that need to be checked out and read up on. Recently though my schedule...
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- The meaning or value of art in your life? (08:59) - Words don’t often fail me, I like to write, words often come easy for me. But I must admit this week in preparing for my assignment in the rotation of writers for the Kimmel Center blog, I’ve been more than...
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Friday 23 September
- The Kimmel Center for what, exactly? (08:42) - Not everyone who comes to the Kimmel Center comes for music, dance or theater performances. Thousands of people a year don’t think about art at all while they’re inside the Center, and that’s a good thing....
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Wednesday 21 September
- Has Hall of Fame Jumped the Shark? (09:07) - This morning the announcement came of the nominees for the class of 2006 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. From today's New York Times: "Rap is knocking at the door of the Rock and Roll Hall of...
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Monday 19 September
- "The overture is about to start..." (12:26) - This week we will open our blockbuster Broadway at the Academy season with Doctor Dolittle. For me it is both exciting and a little sad, as this is also my last week at the Kimmel Center. I was thinking this...
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Thursday 15 September
- Gearing the building up for a VERY big weekend. (10:58) - Greetings everyone! Zero hour 9am....the Kimmel Center is abuzz with activity getting ready for our exciting new season and our scintilating opening weekend...and you've got the inside scoop. There really is something about opening night that changes the very air...
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Wednesday 14 September
- 3 Opening weekend blockbusters - no classical music in sight (12:00) - With the 2005/2006 Kimmel Center Presents season upon us, several people - from the press and from the public - have asked if the appearances by Tony Bennett, The Roots, Solomon Burke and the MFSB Band on opening weekend indicate...
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Monday 12 September
- Opening Week (23:59) - I know, blogs are traditionally supposed to be about firmly held beliefs: I like this or I like that, I like this artist because, I can't stand that politician, that artist really stinks, etc etc etc...however, the life of a...
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Sunday 11 September
- Opening Week 2005-06: Hurricane Relief (23:59) - In the wake of the devastation and destruction of Katrina, the only things that kept me from throwing up my hands in despair were stories like this – ordinary people just doing the right thing to help out their neighbors...
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- Blogging 101 (11:59) - What is a blog? The Wikipedia defines a "blog" as follows: A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although most early weblogs were manually...
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Friday 9 September
- Countdown (22:32) - The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts will be launching its new blog on Monday, September 12, 2005. Welcome, and please come back Monday!...
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