The Philadelphia Orchestra is one of the major American symphony orchestras, with a performance history spanning over a century and a year-round schedule of concerts, educational programs, and touring activity. The project involved developing a Drupal-based website for the orchestra, completed while consulting with Eastern Standard.
Drupal was selected as the content management platform for its flexibility in managing a high volume of structured content — including concert listings, artist profiles, season programming, ticketing information, and educational resources. The orchestra's editorial team needed the ability to update this material without requiring developer involvement for routine content management, which Drupal's content type and workflow system supports.
The development work centered on custom Drupal theming, translating the orchestra's brand identity into a web interface that serves patrons, donors, and music enthusiasts navigating the site to plan attendance, purchase tickets, or learn about the ensemble. Concert and event content required templates that presented programming information clearly — dates, venues, performers, and program details — while maintaining the aesthetic conventions appropriate for a major performing arts institution.
The Eastern Standard consulting model placed front-end development contributions within the agency's Drupal project team, with design direction managed by the agency's creative staff. Close coordination was required to ensure theming output — templates, custom content types, and Drupal views — matched the intended design and functioned correctly with the site's content architecture.
