GrooveLily, Gustavo Dudamel, Lizz Wright Set for Kimmel Center Fundraiser, 5/19

The Kimmel Center's will be hosting a spring fundraiser which will include three different events which will all take place at 7:30PM on May 19. 

Lizz Wright will be singing her jazz and R&B standards at the Perelman Theater. The Los Angeles Philharmonic will hold a concert in Verizon Hall, led by Gustavo Dudamel.  They will be performing Tchaikovsky's Pathetique and Adams' City Noir. New York's GrooveLily will be performing a series of pieces on violin, piano and drums in the Innovation Studio.  Money from the concerts will benefit arts education initiatives at the Kimmel Center.

For more information on the benefit, visit www.kimmelcenter.org.

 Kimmel Center, Inc. began to take shape in 1996 when two projects came together: The Philadelphia Orchestra's ongoing plan to build a new home for itself, and a plan of then-Mayor Edward G. Rendell to provide a much-needed venue for some of Philadelphia's most prominent performing arts companies and for touring presentations. With the generous consent of the Orchestra, which had acquired a property at Broad and Spruce Streets, the two plans were merged under the supervision and management of a new organization, the Regional Performing Arts Center (RPAC).

Today, Kimmel Center, Inc. incorporates public amenities and two major venues: The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts -- Verizon Hall, a 2,500-seat concert hall and Perelman Theater, a 650-seat recital theater; and a renovated and upgraded Academy of Music (2,900 seats), which is owned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and operated by Kimmel Center, Inc.

Kimmel Center, Inc.'s facilities host eight resident companies: Verizon Hall is home to The Philadelphia Orchestra and to Peter Nero and the Philly Pops. Perelman Theater is home to PHILADANCO, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and American Theater Arts for Youth. The Academy of Music is home to the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Ballet.

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