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​Musical Play I:
The Breakthrough
How the Second Piano Concerto came to be​.
(40:00)


Musical Play II: 

Musician in Exile
The First Piano Concerto rewritten during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
(40:00)


Musical Play III:
A Musical Marriage In Phildelphia
The final epoch of
​Rachmaninoff's life and music.
(38:00)

Each Musical Play was Performed Once Over Three  Consecutive Nights.
Note: The musical plays may be as stand-alone plays performed as single evening concert performance in conjunction with a Rachmaninoff concert.
They are available as stand-alone for a single concert performance or as a 
Trilogy for a three-night festival.
Or for theatrical purposes (not symphonic) the Trilogy may be performed in its entirety in one evening in a theater with recorded sound and a piano.

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WORLD PREMIERE 
APRIL 2017
​

RACHMANINOFF FESTIVAL
The Philadelphia Orchestra
​

Stéfane Denéve, Conductor

Playwright & Stage Director
Didi Balle

April 27-28-29, 2017: 
Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center

Commission: 
Philadelphia Orchestra Association


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Cast
Sergei Rachmaninoff (John Hutton) 
Eugene Ormandy (Todd Cerveris)
Natalia/Female Report
(Judith Lightfoot Clarke)
Alfred Swan/Narrator (David Beach)
Dr. Nikolai Dahl/Alexander Siloti
(Peter Bradbury)
​

"So captivating, entertaining and yet so informative, a true model of inspired edu-tainment." 
Maestro 
Stéphane Denève



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