Monday, Nov 7, 2016
The Westminster Symphonic Choir performs Ravel鈥檚 Daphnis et Chlo茅 with conducted by Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin November 10 through 12 at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and on Tuesday, November 15 at Carnegie Hall in New York.
The last time the Symphonic Choir performed this work was during the 2004-2005 season when it appeared in concert at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Lorin Maazel. This week's concerts at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia will be LiveNote enabled, so that audience members will be able to enhance their experience utilizing the Philadelphia Orchestra鈥檚 , which is available on iTunes.
In 1934 Leopold Stokowski brought The Philadelphia Orchestra to Princeton to perform Bach鈥檚 Mass in B Minor with the Westminster Symphonic Choir in the Princeton University Chapel to celebrate the opening of the Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton. Since then, this ensemble, which is composed of all juniors, seniors and graduate students at the Choir College, has performed with virtually all of the leading orchestras and conductors of the 20th and 21st centuries.