Philadelphia Orchestra facts for kids

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, interior at night

The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American orchestra. It is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It does over 130 subscription concerts a year from September to May. In the summer the Orchestra performs an outdoor session for a month. It originally gave concerts at the Academy of Music. The orchestra was founded in 1900. It has performed at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts since 2001.

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Fritz Scheel, founding father and first conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski, music director, 1912–1938
The Philadelphia Orchestra on stage with Stokowski for the American premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, March 2, 1916.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, principal conductor from 2012.
Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra concert in Tianjin
Academy of Music, the orchestra's home, 1900–2001.
Mann Center for the Performing Arts, the orchestra's summer home since 1976.
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (opened 2001), Verizon Hall is the orchestra's current home.
Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York, the orchestra's summer residency since the venue first opened in 1966.