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The Philadelphia Orchestra
presents
"The Artful Titans"
A Stokowski - Barnes Festival

Play One/Week One:
 
"Philadelphia in Paris” (1912-1918)  
Oct. 11, 12, 13, 2018

Music of Palestrina, JS Bach, Chausson, and Debussy

Play Two/Week Two: 
“Paris in Philadelphia” (1920-1930)  
Oct. 19, 20, 21, 2018

Music of Milhaud, Poulenc, Stravinsky

“The Artful Titans”
(A Theatrical Portrait of Symphonic Proportions) 

​features the legendary Leopold Stokowski (The Creator) and acclaimed Albert C. Barnes (The Collector) and a cast of Broadway actors sharing the stage with the brilliant French-born conductor, Stéphane Denève, and the musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra in a fully-staged symphonic theatrical evening celebrating the music of Debussy, Chausson, Milhaud, Poulenc, and Stravinsky as it weaves, dances and explodes with the art of Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir, Monet, Degas and Picasso living and working in Paris in concentric circles of creative genius.  ​
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STÉPHANE DENÈVE conductor
DIDI BALLE, playwright and director

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Concert One
Palestrina/orch. Stokowski - "Adoramus te Christe"

Chausson - Poème, for violin and orchestra
David Kim - Violin

Debussy - "The Sunken Cathedral" from Preludes
Debussy - La Mer

Concert Two
Milhaud - The Creation of the World

Poulenc - Organ Concerto
Peter Richard Conte - Organ

Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
CAST
Nicholas Carriere as Leopold Stokowski
David Bardeen as Albert C. Barnes
Paul Schoeffler as William Glackens and Paul Guillaume ​
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