Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the "Big Five" symphony orchestras in the United States and usually considered among the finest in the world. Since 2001, its annual series of concerts have been performed in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, just down the street from the Academy of Music where in had played for a century since its founding.

Further reading

• The Philadelphia Orchestra: A Century of Music, edited by John Ardoin. 1999, Temple University Press, 240 pages.
• Those Fabulous Philadelphians, by Herbert Kupferberg. 1969, Scribner's New York, 257 pages.
• Riccardo Muti: Twenty Years in Philadelphia 1972-92, edited by Judith Karp Kurnick. 1992, Philadelphia Orchestra, 112 pages.
• The Philadelphia Orchestra Celebrates Sawallisch 1993-2003, edited by Sedgwick Clark. 2003, Philadelphia Orchestra, 80 pages.
• Within These Walls: A History of the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, by John Francis Marion. 1984, Academy of Music/Philadelphia Orchestra, 328 pages.