Pre-Performance Talks
The Society of Disobedient Listeners
2023/24 Series
Judging by streaming service playlists, Western classical music’s primary function is one of either relaxation, sophistication, or prematurely inflating infant IQs.
Hosted by the “arrestingly unconventional” (The New Yorker) music writer and former Spektral Quartet violist Doyle Armbrust, The Society of Disobedient Listeners is an interactive pre-concert experience reconnecting listeners to the subversive, visceral, and even revolutionary elements of the evening’s program. Conceived as an anti-lecture, The Society of Disobedient Listeners draws the great music of the past into proximity with the felicities and calamities of modern life.
Upcoming Events
Pre-Performance Talk
The Philadelphia Orchestra
in two different programs
The Philadelphia Orchestra and music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin return to Hill Auditorium in two programs:
Sat Program
Florence Price Symphony No. 4 in d minor
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in e minor, Op. 27
Sun Program
Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
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