Philadelphia Orchestra

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.^[1] In the summer the Orchestra performs an outdoor session for a month.^[2] It originally gave concerts at the Academy of Music.^[3] The orchestra was founded in 1900.^[1] It has performed at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts since 2001.

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, interior at night

Discography

Studio albums

• David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (1978)

Music Directors

• Fritz Scheel (1900–1907)
• Karl Pohlig (1908–1912)
• Leopold Stokowski (1912–1938)
• Eugene Ormandy (1936–1980)
• Riccardo Muti (1980–1992)
• Wolfgang Sawallisch (1993–2003)
• Christoph Eschenbach (2003–2008)
• Charles Dutoit (2008–2012, chief conductor)
• Yannick Nézet-Séguin (2012–present)