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Philadelphia Orchestra pictured during first-ever Pride concert celebrating the LGBTQ+ community

The Philadelphia Orchestra kicks off Pride Month with a free Nézet-Séguin-conducted concert hosted by Martha Graham Cracker - “the Drag Queen King of Philadelphia” and works by LGBTQ+ composers and performers.

local drag royalty Martha Graham Cracker and orchestra music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin interact with the audience in Verizon Hall June 2, 2022.
local drag royalty Martha Graham Cracker and orchestra music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin interact with the audience in Verizon Hall June 2, 2022.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer

The concert featured out gay composers, out gay artists, and out gay conductors. Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot and the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus performed, and the orchestra played a piece by Philly composer Jennifer Higdon, along with Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, selections from Barber’s Suite from Souvenirs, and the Act I Waltz from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

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