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Jeannine Kienzle, Marketing Manager at 215-545-5451 x26 or jkienzle@chamberorchestra.org.
Please pardon us while our online press archive is under construction. If you are a journalist and would like to receive a hard copy or electronic press kit, you may request these materials from Jeannine using the contact information above
Read the latest Chamber Orchestra news here:
"Ecstasy and Intellect"
By Jack Byer for ICON Magazine
September 2010
"Lansdale's New Place for an Array of Arts"
By David Patrick Stearns for The Philadelphia Inquirer
September 29, 2009
"Chamber Orchestra's Haydn Concert: A Provocative Gesture"
By Tom Purdom for the Broad Street Review
September 26, 2009
"Early Haydn by Chamber Orchestra"
By David Patrick Stearns for The Philadelphia Inquirer
September 22, 2009
Here's what Philadelphia's top critics are saying about
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia:
"The hardest-working band in showbiz"
-Shaun Brady, Philadelphia Metro
"The [concert] opener, Haydn's 16th Symphony, spotlighted this small orchestra's inherent nimbleness the 25 musicians sounded louder than the Philadelphia Orchestra sounds from a typical downstairs seat in Verizon Hall."
"The Chamber Orchestra sounded at its best this was one of the most successful performances of the [Brahms] Requiem I've encountered."
-Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review
"In his ongoing exploration of early works by great composers Solzhenitsyn seems to hear things in them that others do not."
"With an imposing tone and emphatic manner, [cellist Wendy] Warner found great substance (matters of life and death, actually) in passages that others play merely for their functional value."
"The alternative universe represented by the Chamber Orchestra's Friday program was Mozart's ' and not the typical symphonies. Friday's version of Chamber Orchestra consisted of nine winds playing modest, rarely heard Mozart...at a high level."
"Musical windows were opened."
-David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Ignat Solzhenitsyn finds his repertoire close to the heart....Edward Schultz, the orchestra's principal [flute], proved adept at finding the [Nielsen Concerto's] mood, textural shifts, and expansive nature."
-Daniel Webster, for the Philadelphia Inquirer
"[Guest conductor Roberto] Minczuk elicited playing from the ensemble that was every bit as finely tuned and immaculately wrapped as any concert led by Solzhenitsyn Balances were meticulously maintained, even in the softest of passages, and textural clarity never faltered."
-Michael Caruso, Chestnut Hill Local
"The COP adds to its distinguished [commissioning] track record with the first performances of a work composed for them by British composer Sir John Tavener, 'Tu ne sais pas.' [The concert] promises to be a high point in Philadelphia's concert season."
-Andrew Quint, Philadelphia Music Makers
"Some great moments involving baritone soloist Randall Scarlata the piece [Brahms Requiem] had its usual effect of leaving the listener somehow changed."
-Peter Dobrin, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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