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Second Violin Peter Graham recounts the second week of the RPO's tour to the USA as the players took up residency in Orlando's Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts as part of the celebrations surrounding the opening of the new Steinmetz Hall.

"After our fleeting visit to the San Francisco Bay area, sadly without having the time to visit the great city itself, and only a brief glimpse of the Golden Gate Bridge from the coach, we embarked on the next phase of our tour...

The last leg of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's tour to the USA along the East Coast topped off an ambitious project that involved months of planning, with the logistics of nagivating changing pandemic restrictions to move 80 players from the UK to California, to Orlando and finally New York. With the final concert in Carnegie Hall, we had completed the first major tour to the USA by any international orchestra since February 2020.

Read on to see photos and reactions from our concerts in New York, New Jersey and Virginia.

From Wednesday 19 to Wednesday 26 January the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra took up residence in Orlando's Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts as part of the celebrations surrounding the opening of the new Steinmetz Hall.