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{{Infobox musical artist | Name = Philadelphia Orchestra| Img = PhilOrchLogo.png| Img_size = 180| Background = classical_ensemble| Origin = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States| Genre = Classical music| Occupation = Symphony orchestras
Conductor Laureate
[Wolfgang Sawallisch
Associate Conductor
Rossen Milanov
Conducting Fellow
Shizuo Kuwahara]-->The Philadelphia Orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the "Big Five (orchestras)" orchestra in the United States and usually considered among the finest in the world. For the greater part of its history, the orchestra gave its concerts at the Academy of Music (Philadelphia). Since 2001, its subscription concerts have been performed at Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, down the street from the Academy of Music (Philadelphia), although the orchestra returns to the Academy of Music for its annual gala concert. The Philadelphia Orchestra also performs an annual series of concerts at Carnegie Hall.

History Leadership The orchestra was founded in 1900 by Fritz Scheel, who also acted as its first Conducting. In 1907 Karl Pohlig took over the post and served until 1912.

In 1912 Leopold Stokowski became principal conductor, and brought the orchestra to national prominence. Under him, the orchestra gained a reputation for great virtuosity, and developed what is known as the "Philadelphia Sound." Stokowski left the orchestra in 1941, and did not return as a guest conductor for nearly 20 years.

In 1936 Eugene Ormandy joined the organization, and jointly held the post of principal conductor with Stokowski until 1938 when he took over the role full-time. He remained with the orchestra for a total of 44 years, after which he became Conductor Laureate. Ormandy conducted many of the orchestra's best-known recordings. He took the orchestra on its historic 1973 tour of the People's Republic of China, where they were the first Western orchestra to visit that country in many decades. They were wildly popular in China, and have since returned for three more successful tours.

Riccardo Muti became principal guest conductor of the orchestra in the 1970s, and took over from Ormandy as Music Director in 1980, serving through 1992. His recordings with the orchestra included the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Alexander Scriabin, for the EMI and Philips labels.

Wolfgang Sawallisch then succeeded Muti as Music Director from 1993 to 2003. He made a number of recordings with the orchestra of music of Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner, among other composers, for the EMI label. However, the orchestra lost its recording contract with EMI during this time. Toward the end of Sawallisch's tenure, the orchestra released a self-produced set of recordings of the Schumann symphonies with Sawallisch conducting. In 2003, Sawallisch was named Conductor Laureate of the orchestra.

In 2003, Christoph Eschenbach took over as music director. This appointment was controversial because Eschenbach had not conducted the orchestra in over four years and there was a perceived lack of personal chemistry between him and the musicians prior to the appointment.{{cite news |url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CEED8123EF930A15752C1A9609C8B63 |title = Conductor Under Fire, Orchestra Under Pressure |publisher = New York Times |author = Anthony Tomassini |date = 23 November 2006 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/columnists/peter_dobrin/15863501.htm |title = BADLINK" - Orchestra has some lessons to consider |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = Peter Dobrin |date = 29 October 2006 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> At least one early report tried to downplay this concern.{{cite news |url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/05/18/bmphil18.xml |title = Chemistry lessons |publisher = Telegraph |author = Peter Culshaw |date = 18 May 2004 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> The orchestra returned to commercial recordings with Eschenbach, on the Ondine label. However, in October of , Eschenbach and the orchestra announced that his tenure as music director would end in , at which time he will have served five years, the shortest tenure as music director in the history of the Philadelphia Orchestra, along with Pohlig.

In February 2007, the orchestra named Charles Dutoit to the newly created posts of chief conductor and artistic adviser for four seasons, starting in the fall of 2008 and running through the 2011-2012 season.{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/16767736.htm |title = BADLINK" - Charles Dutoit to head orchestra |publisher = Philadelphia Daily News |author = Tom Di Nardo |date = 23 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/16764564.htm |title = BADLINK" - Orchestra's interim pick: Dutoit |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = Peter Dobrin |date = 23 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> This move was made to provide an "artistic bridge" while the orchestra searched for a new music director.{{cite news |url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/arts/music/24orch.html |title = PAYSITE" - The Philadelphia Orchestra Names a Chief Conductor |publisher = New York Times |author = Daniel J. Wakin |date = 24 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/16779745.htm |title = BADLINK" - Which Dutoit will show up? |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = Peter Dobrin |date = 25 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/peter_dobrin/20070303_Positivity_on_the_podium.html |title = Positivity on the podium |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = Peter Dobrin |date = 3 March 2007 |accessdate = 2007-05-12 --> Articles from August 2007 have indicated that the orchestra has devised a search process where each musician in the orchestra will have a say in the choice of the next Music Director, in contrast to past searches.{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20070805_A_measured_search_for_one_to_wield_baton.html | title=A measured search for Philadelphia Orchestra music director | publisher=''Philadelphia Inquirer'' | author=Peter Dobrin | date=5 August 2007 | accessdate=2007-08-11--> {{cite news | url=http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/6890.html | title=Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians to Have Bigger Say in Director Search | publisher=''Playbill Arts'' | author=Kevin Shihoten | date=6 August 2007 | accessdate=2007-08-11-->

Musicians from the orchestra were featured in a documentary film by Daniel Anker, Music from the Inside Out, which received theatrical release and television airings. The film has received both positive and negative criticism.{{cite news |url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/30/DDGF0GEFFR1.DTL |title = Documentary gets behind the music made by orchestral musicians |publisher = San Francisco Chronicle |author = Joshua Kosman |date = 30 December 2005 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://ae.contracostatimes.com/entertainment/ui/mercurynews/movie.html?id=133879&reviewId=17826 |title = BADLINK" - The orchestra with no discord |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = David Patrick Stearns |date = 20 April 2005 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> The Philadelphia Orchestra's current concertmaster is David Kim.{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/16604035.htm |title = BADLINK" - Orchestra's concertmaster holds a key job |publisher = Philadelphia Daily News |author = Tom Di Nardo |date = 2 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> The Associate Conductor of the orchestra is Rossen Milanov.{{cite news |url = http://www.philorch.org/styles/poa02e/www/staffconductors.html |title = Staff Conductors |publisher = Philadelphia Orchestra |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> The resident chorus of the orchestra is the Philadelphia Singers.

Firsts The Philadelphia Orchestra boasts an extraordinary record of media firsts. It was the first symphony orchestra to make electrical recordings (in 1925), the first to perform its own commercially sponsored radio broadcast (in 1929, on NBC), the first to perform on the soundtrack of a feature film The Big Broadcast of 1937, the first to appear on a national television broadcast (in 1948, on CBS), the first American orchestra to record the complete Beethoven symphonies on compact disc (in 1988), and the first major orchestra to give a live cybercast of a concert on the Internet (in 1997). On September 21, 2006 the Philadelphia Orchestra became the first major United States orchestra to sell downloads of their performances directly from the orchestra's website. While other American orchestras have downloads of their music on the internet, the Philadelphia Orchestra says it's the first to offer the downloads without a distributor.{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/15568190.htm |title = BADLINK" - Philadelphia Orchestra enters the ear-bud age |publisher = The Philadelphia Inquirer |author = David Patrick Stearns |date = 21 September 2006 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->

In other firsts, the Orchestra made diplomatic history in 1973 when it became the first American orchestra to tour the People's Republic of China, performing in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. In 1999, under Wolfgang Sawallisch, it became the first American orchestra to visit Vietnam. More recently, the orchestra appointed Carol Jantsch principal tuba as of 2006-2007,Peter Dobrin, "Breaking the brass ceiling."Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 February 2006. and according to the announcement, it is possible that she is the first full-time female principal tuba player of an American orchestra.{{cite paper |url = http://www.philorch.org/styles/poa02e/www/pdfs/newsreleases/Tuba%20audition%20winner%20-%202006%20Feb%2027.pdf |title = Philadelphia Orchestra announces winner of principal tuba auditions |publisher = Philadelphia Orchestra |format = .PDF |date = 27 February 2006 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs more than 130 concerts during its winter subscription season from September to May. In its summer season spanning June and July, it performs at Philadelphia's outdoor Mann Center for the Performing Arts, followed by a three-week residency in August at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in upstate New York. In July 2007, the Orchestra began a residency at the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival in Vail, Colorado.{{cite web |url = http://www.philorch.org/styles/poa02e/www/whereweplay.html |title = Where We Play |publisher = The Philadelphia Orchestra |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->

Recordings The Orchestra's first recordings were made in Camden, New Jersey, in 1917, when Leopold Stokowski led it in performances of two of Brahms' Hungarian Dances for the Victor Talking Machine Company. The historic first electrical recordings were also made in Camden, in April 1925, beginning with Saint Saens' Danse macabre. Then, in 1927, Victor began recording the Orchestra in the Academy of Music. Stokowski led them in experimental long-playing, high fidelity, and even stereophonic sessions in the early 1930s for RCA Victor and Bell Laboratories. They recorded the soundtrack for Walt Disney's Fantasia in multitrack stereophonic sound in 1940.

Arturo Toscanini made a series of recordings with the orchestra in 1941 and 1942. Due to some technical problems with the masters, the recordings were never issued on 78-rpm discs. Years later, after extensive electronic editing, all of the recordings were issued by RCA Victor on LP and CD.

The Orchestra remained with RCA Victor through 1942. Following a settlement of a recording ban imposed by the American Federation of Musicians, the Philadelphia Orchestra switched to Columbia Records in 1944, recording some of the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor. They returned to RCA Victor in 1968 and made their first digital recording, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, in 1979. The Orchestra has also recorded for EMI and Teldec.

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Charles Dutoit will become chief conductor and artistic adviser in September 2008, when Eschenbach is expected to step down as music director.

References Further reading











External links

{{Infobox musical artist | Name = Philadelphia Orchestra| Img = PhilOrchLogo.png| Img_size = 180| Background = classical_ensemble| Origin = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States| Genre = Classical music| Occupation = Symphony orchestras
Conductor Laureate
[Wolfgang Sawallisch
Associate Conductor
Rossen Milanov
Conducting Fellow
Shizuo Kuwahara]-->The Philadelphia Orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the "Big Five (orchestras)" orchestra in the United States and usually considered among the finest in the world. For the greater part of its history, the orchestra gave its concerts at the Academy of Music (Philadelphia). Since 2001, its subscription concerts have been performed at Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, down the street from the Academy of Music (Philadelphia), although the orchestra returns to the Academy of Music for its annual gala concert. The Philadelphia Orchestra also performs an annual series of concerts at Carnegie Hall.

History Leadership The orchestra was founded in 1900 by Fritz Scheel, who also acted as its first Conducting. In 1907 Karl Pohlig took over the post and served until 1912.

In 1912 Leopold Stokowski became principal conductor, and brought the orchestra to national prominence. Under him, the orchestra gained a reputation for great virtuosity, and developed what is known as the "Philadelphia Sound." Stokowski left the orchestra in 1941, and did not return as a guest conductor for nearly 20 years.

In 1936 Eugene Ormandy joined the organization, and jointly held the post of principal conductor with Stokowski until 1938 when he took over the role full-time. He remained with the orchestra for a total of 44 years, after which he became Conductor Laureate. Ormandy conducted many of the orchestra's best-known recordings. He took the orchestra on its historic 1973 tour of the People's Republic of China, where they were the first Western orchestra to visit that country in many decades. They were wildly popular in China, and have since returned for three more successful tours.

Riccardo Muti became principal guest conductor of the orchestra in the 1970s, and took over from Ormandy as Music Director in 1980, serving through 1992. His recordings with the orchestra included the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Alexander Scriabin, for the EMI and Philips labels.

Wolfgang Sawallisch then succeeded Muti as Music Director from 1993 to 2003. He made a number of recordings with the orchestra of music of Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner, among other composers, for the EMI label. However, the orchestra lost its recording contract with EMI during this time. Toward the end of Sawallisch's tenure, the orchestra released a self-produced set of recordings of the Schumann symphonies with Sawallisch conducting. In 2003, Sawallisch was named Conductor Laureate of the orchestra.

In 2003, Christoph Eschenbach took over as music director. This appointment was controversial because Eschenbach had not conducted the orchestra in over four years and there was a perceived lack of personal chemistry between him and the musicians prior to the appointment.{{cite news |url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CEED8123EF930A15752C1A9609C8B63 |title = Conductor Under Fire, Orchestra Under Pressure |publisher = New York Times |author = Anthony Tomassini |date = 23 November 2006 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/columnists/peter_dobrin/15863501.htm |title = BADLINK" - Orchestra has some lessons to consider |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = Peter Dobrin |date = 29 October 2006 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> At least one early report tried to downplay this concern.{{cite news |url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/05/18/bmphil18.xml |title = Chemistry lessons |publisher = Telegraph |author = Peter Culshaw |date = 18 May 2004 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> The orchestra returned to commercial recordings with Eschenbach, on the Ondine label. However, in October of , Eschenbach and the orchestra announced that his tenure as music director would end in , at which time he will have served five years, the shortest tenure as music director in the history of the Philadelphia Orchestra, along with Pohlig.

In February 2007, the orchestra named Charles Dutoit to the newly created posts of chief conductor and artistic adviser for four seasons, starting in the fall of 2008 and running through the 2011-2012 season.{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/16767736.htm |title = BADLINK" - Charles Dutoit to head orchestra |publisher = Philadelphia Daily News |author = Tom Di Nardo |date = 23 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/16764564.htm |title = BADLINK" - Orchestra's interim pick: Dutoit |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = Peter Dobrin |date = 23 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> This move was made to provide an "artistic bridge" while the orchestra searched for a new music director.{{cite news |url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/arts/music/24orch.html |title = PAYSITE" - The Philadelphia Orchestra Names a Chief Conductor |publisher = New York Times |author = Daniel J. Wakin |date = 24 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/16779745.htm |title = BADLINK" - Which Dutoit will show up? |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = Peter Dobrin |date = 25 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/peter_dobrin/20070303_Positivity_on_the_podium.html |title = Positivity on the podium |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = Peter Dobrin |date = 3 March 2007 |accessdate = 2007-05-12 --> Articles from August 2007 have indicated that the orchestra has devised a search process where each musician in the orchestra will have a say in the choice of the next Music Director, in contrast to past searches.{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20070805_A_measured_search_for_one_to_wield_baton.html | title=A measured search for Philadelphia Orchestra music director | publisher=''Philadelphia Inquirer'' | author=Peter Dobrin | date=5 August 2007 | accessdate=2007-08-11--> {{cite news | url=http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/6890.html | title=Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians to Have Bigger Say in Director Search | publisher=''Playbill Arts'' | author=Kevin Shihoten | date=6 August 2007 | accessdate=2007-08-11-->

Musicians from the orchestra were featured in a documentary film by Daniel Anker, Music from the Inside Out, which received theatrical release and television airings. The film has received both positive and negative criticism.{{cite news |url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/30/DDGF0GEFFR1.DTL |title = Documentary gets behind the music made by orchestral musicians |publisher = San Francisco Chronicle |author = Joshua Kosman |date = 30 December 2005 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->{{cite news |url = http://ae.contracostatimes.com/entertainment/ui/mercurynews/movie.html?id=133879&reviewId=17826 |title = BADLINK" - The orchestra with no discord |publisher = Philadelphia Inquirer |author = David Patrick Stearns |date = 20 April 2005 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> The Philadelphia Orchestra's current concertmaster is David Kim.{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/16604035.htm |title = BADLINK" - Orchestra's concertmaster holds a key job |publisher = Philadelphia Daily News |author = Tom Di Nardo |date = 2 February 2007 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> The Associate Conductor of the orchestra is Rossen Milanov.{{cite news |url = http://www.philorch.org/styles/poa02e/www/staffconductors.html |title = Staff Conductors |publisher = Philadelphia Orchestra |accessdate = 2007-04-11 --> The resident chorus of the orchestra is the Philadelphia Singers.

Firsts The Philadelphia Orchestra boasts an extraordinary record of media firsts. It was the first symphony orchestra to make electrical recordings (in 1925), the first to perform its own commercially sponsored radio broadcast (in 1929, on NBC), the first to perform on the soundtrack of a feature film The Big Broadcast of 1937, the first to appear on a national television broadcast (in 1948, on CBS), the first American orchestra to record the complete Beethoven symphonies on compact disc (in 1988), and the first major orchestra to give a live cybercast of a concert on the Internet (in 1997). On September 21, 2006 the Philadelphia Orchestra became the first major United States orchestra to sell downloads of their performances directly from the orchestra's website. While other American orchestras have downloads of their music on the internet, the Philadelphia Orchestra says it's the first to offer the downloads without a distributor.{{cite news |url = http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/15568190.htm |title = BADLINK" - Philadelphia Orchestra enters the ear-bud age |publisher = The Philadelphia Inquirer |author = David Patrick Stearns |date = 21 September 2006 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->

In other firsts, the Orchestra made diplomatic history in 1973 when it became the first American orchestra to tour the People's Republic of China, performing in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. In 1999, under Wolfgang Sawallisch, it became the first American orchestra to visit Vietnam. More recently, the orchestra appointed Carol Jantsch principal tuba as of 2006-2007,Peter Dobrin, "Breaking the brass ceiling."Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 February 2006. and according to the announcement, it is possible that she is the first full-time female principal tuba player of an American orchestra.{{cite paper |url = http://www.philorch.org/styles/poa02e/www/pdfs/newsreleases/Tuba%20audition%20winner%20-%202006%20Feb%2027.pdf |title = Philadelphia Orchestra announces winner of principal tuba auditions |publisher = Philadelphia Orchestra |format = .PDF |date = 27 February 2006 |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->

The Philadelphia Orchestra performs more than 130 concerts during its winter subscription season from September to May. In its summer season spanning June and July, it performs at Philadelphia's outdoor Mann Center for the Performing Arts, followed by a three-week residency in August at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in upstate New York. In July 2007, the Orchestra began a residency at the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival in Vail, Colorado.{{cite web |url = http://www.philorch.org/styles/poa02e/www/whereweplay.html |title = Where We Play |publisher = The Philadelphia Orchestra |accessdate = 2007-04-11 -->

Recordings The Orchestra's first recordings were made in Camden, New Jersey, in 1917, when Leopold Stokowski led it in performances of two of Brahms' Hungarian Dances for the Victor Talking Machine Company. The historic first electrical recordings were also made in Camden, in April 1925, beginning with Saint Saens' Danse macabre. Then, in 1927, Victor began recording the Orchestra in the Academy of Music. Stokowski led them in experimental long-playing, high fidelity, and even stereophonic sessions in the early 1930s for RCA Victor and Bell Laboratories. They recorded the soundtrack for Walt Disney's Fantasia in multitrack stereophonic sound in 1940.

Arturo Toscanini made a series of recordings with the orchestra in 1941 and 1942. Due to some technical problems with the masters, the recordings were never issued on 78-rpm discs. Years later, after extensive electronic editing, all of the recordings were issued by RCA Victor on LP and CD.

The Orchestra remained with RCA Victor through 1942. Following a settlement of a recording ban imposed by the American Federation of Musicians, the Philadelphia Orchestra switched to Columbia Records in 1944, recording some of the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor. They returned to RCA Victor in 1968 and made their first digital recording, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, in 1979. The Orchestra has also recorded for EMI and Teldec.

Music Directors {||valign="top"| |valign="top"| |}

Charles Dutoit will become chief conductor and artistic adviser in September 2008, when Eschenbach is expected to step down as music director.

References Further reading











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