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Welcome to the home page of
The Orchestra Society of Philadelphia

Philadelphia's reading orchestra since 1964


Our next rehearsal is scheduled to take place on Friday, March 22, 2024 (in Presser Hall, 13th and Norris Sts. in Philadelphia).
Brian Cox will conduct an eclectic program that includes Dvorák's American Suite, Cox's Coastal Delaware, Sousa's Liberty Bell March, and Ritchie's Rehoboth Beach Two-Step

Parts for American Suite and Liberty Bell March are available at IMSLP in downloadable PDF format.

Check our Facebook group and our Instagram page for more.

Strings, please let us know you're coming by check-marking your name on our attendance sheet. If your name is not already on the list, please feel free to add it at the end.
We can always use more bass players. If you know bass players who are interested and able to come on a regular basis, please let them know about us.

Orchestra Society of Philadelphia is very interested in attracting skilled members to our string sections. Our purpose is to read orchestral music, some standard repertoire, some music less often played by other orchestras, each Friday night.

We rehearse each Friday night in Room 240, Presser Hall of Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance at 2100 N. 13th Street in Philadelphia.
For a map of the campus click here. Presser Hall is #44 on the map.

If you are looking for an outlet for your musical skill, Orchestra Society may be a great fit with your goals. Find out more about us, including details of schedules, repertoire and location on this website. Contact us at webmaster@orchestrasociety.org. We look forward to meeting you. OSP Cellos with Ovidiu Marinescu

Rehearsals begin at 7:30 PM and end at 10:00 PM

Check the schedule page for details about all upcoming rehearsals including conductors and repertoire.

We are always looking for string players! Come play with us as a guest before deciding to join us permanently.

OSP is a reading orchestra. We play a different work each week with either our principal conductor, Jack Moore or one of our many guest conductors. The majority of our repertoire is lent to us by the Fleisher Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
PDF copies of parts for our rehearsal selections, when they are in the public domain, are often available for download at no cost at the Petrucci Music Library website, http://www.imslp.org.

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