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Jennifer Frautschi joins The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia as soloist in Schumann's Violin Concerto

All-Schumann Program Commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the Composer's Death

January 28, 2006

Music Director Ignat Solzhenitsyn and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia welcome the return of violinist Jennifer Frautschi in a commemorative All-Schumann program on Sunday, March 12 at 2:30 PM and Monday, March 13 at 7:30 PM in the Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center.

Ms. Frautschi is the featured soloist in Schumann's Violin Concerto in D Minor. The Boston Herald says she is "one of our most fully gifted musical artists." The Los Angeles Times calls her "a forceful and thoughtful player." And the Chicago Tribune writes, "The young violinist Jennifer Frautschi is molding a career with smart interpretations of both warhorses and rarities."

Ms. Frautchi's March 12 & 13 performances will be her first in Philadelphia appearances since March 28 & 29, 2004, when she performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia as a last-minute substitute for Kyung-Wha Chung, who was forced to withdraw due to illness.

"You will recall Jennifer Frautschi's triumphant Beethoven Concerto with us on the shortest notice two years ago," Maestro Solzhenitsyn said. "She now returns to help us commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Schumann's death."

Opening the program is the Manfred Overture. "Never have I devoted myself to a composition with such love and energy as to Manfred," Schumann confessed to a friend in 1848. Schumann based the Overture, and music for an additional 15 scenes, upon Lord Byron's poem of the same name.

The popular Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38, "Spring," concludes the program.

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor, and Jennifer Frautschi, violin, perform a Sunday matinee at 2:30 on March 12th and Monday evening, March 13th at 7:30 in the Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center.

The Sunday matinee performance will be followed by "Classical Conversations," a brief question-and-answer session with Maestro Solzhenitsyn and Ms. Frautschi.

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