Name: Opening Night Celebration
Start: 2024-09-26T20:30:00
Location: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Philadelphia Orchestra

Composer, trumpeter, and standard-bearer for the art form, jazz legend Wynton Marsalis has earned scores of awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In 1983, he became the first and only artist ever to win both a Classical and Jazz Grammy in the same year; in 1984 he did it again. Joined by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Marsalis’s newest work on a program with Beethoven’s lively, melodic Seventh Symphony.

Beethoven and Marsalis

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Yannick celebrates two toweringly gifted composers, seminal American voices of the 20th century. Gershwin’s Piano Concerto dances through cityscapes, brash and brilliant. Bernstein, whose works for the concert hall, opera stage, Broadway, and film formed the soundtrack of the century, is represented by two of his Broadway masterworks, Candide and West Side Story, and his impassioned “Jeremiah” Symphony, an epic chronicle of a prophet and a people. 

Gershwin and Bernstein

Elevate your Opening Night experience with a benefactor package! Event benefactors and their guests will enjoy a festive pre-concert reception followed by the performance. An elegant gala dinner will conclude the evening.