Tour United States (postponed)
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14 Mar 202020:00Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, GreenvaleConcert Hall
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15 Mar 202015:00Lincoln Center, New YorkDavid Geffen Hall
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17 Mar 202020:00Kravis Center, West Palm BeachDreyfoos Hall
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18 Mar 202020:00Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, MiamiKnight Concert Hall
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22 Mar 202015:00Zellerbach Hall, BerkeleyConcert Hall
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23 Mar 202019:30McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts, Palm DesertConcert Hall
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24 Mar 202020:00Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa MesaRenée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
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25 Mar 202020:00Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, NorthridgeGreat Hall
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26 Mar 202020:00The Granada Theatre, Santa BarbaraMain Hall
Postponement for Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra USA tour
Rotterdam, March 12, 2020
Due to the rapidly escalating developments regarding the corona pandemic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic’s USA tour will not take place this month. This coincides with the measure of the United States to suspend all incoming travel from the EU, starting this weekend. In good consultation with all parties involved the orchestra will look at the possibilities to rebook the US tour.
The orchestra was about to set off for a two-week tour with Chief Conductor Lahav Shani and, for the first half of the tour, with pianist Emanuel Ax. For this tour, concerts had been scheduled in nine cities on the East and West Coast; yesterday the orchestra saw already two of these concerts being cancelled by the concert halls. For the Rotterdam Philharmonic, this tour would have marked a jubilee: it has been exactly fifty years since the orchestra first went on tour in America.
The orchestra’s Managing Director George Wiegel: ‘This is a bitter pill for us to swallow, as this tour means a lot to our orchestra and our Chief Conductor. After a rapid worldwide escalation in the developments regarding the corona virus, yesterday the World Health Organization officially declared the outbreak a pandemic. Today the US announced to suspend all incoming travel from the EU, starting this weekend. For our part this postponement is not a cancellation: together with all parties involved we will look at the possibilities to rebook the tour.’