November 2011
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It's Been Real, B-Thovs
WQXR’s Beethoven Awareness Month may be taking its final bow today, but — for those of you who just aren’t ready to let go — we will continue the celebration this Sunday at Merkin Concert Hall with two Beethoven works performed by the New York Philharmonic Ensembles.
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Messiah Is Coming
The holiday season is here, and...
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Talent at an Early Age
When Joshua Bell’s parents discovered that their five-year-old son had stretched rubber bands across the handles of his dresser drawer to pluck out music he had heard on the piano, they got a scaled-to-size violin and started giving him lessons. And the rest is history …
Joshua Bell returns to the Philharmonic on December 7–10, 2011 to perform...
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From Our Family to Yours
Thanksgiving is here and these are a few things we are thankful for at the New York Philharmonic:
• An amazing start to the 2011–12 season with lots more to come
• The return of the Contact! new-music series on December 16–17
• Alan Gilbert’s return on December 28–30 with Anne Sofie von Otter
• The launch of Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2011–12 Season, the...
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The (New Music) Cat’s (Almost) Out of the Bag
And the Kravis goes to …
You’ll have to wait until December 7 to learn the identity of the inaugural recipient of The Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music at the New York Philharmonic. With combined proceeds of $250,000 (among the world’s largest) the Prize will be presented in Paris to recognize a composer for extraordinary artistic endeavor in the field of new music. Music Director...
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Rock Me Amadeus
We’ll leave the “Why Mozart Rocks” debate to others, but you won’t question the composer’s genius when you hear Jeffrey Kahane conduct Mozart’s Symphony No. 33 this Thanksgiving weekend on a program that also includes works by Bach and Beethoven — not too shabby company.
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“Dear Diary: My 4 ½-year-old grandson, Max, hears and loves a great deal of...”
– A heart-warming tale from The New York Times Metropolitan Diary of a boy’s love for The Rite of Spring. Come hear Stravinsky’s primal work on December 7–10, led by Daniel Harding, who describes the work as “dark, and violent, and brutal beyond description” and “one of the most...
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Talk about Multitasking
When attending this week’s concerts, don’t expect to see Jeffrey Kahane on the podium all night. The energetic conductor takes on the extraordinary task of leading the Orchestra from the podium in Mozart’s Symphony No. 33, and performing as a soloist/conductor, leading from both the harpsichord — in J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe — and the...
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“From great joy … to [the] most...
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The Buzz
Check out what Philharmonic news had Twitter abuzz this week and what’s on the horizon:
Before you imbibe, get in a Vienna state of mind with next weekend’s Saturday Matinee Concert when Glenn Dicterow, Carter Brey, and Jeffrey Kahane perform Schubert’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, D.898. Also on the concert: Bach’s Concerto in D minor for Oboe, Violin, and Strings, BWV 1060 — featuring Sheryl Staples, Liang Wang, and Mr. Kahane — and Mozart’s Symphony No....
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Over the Philharmonic Rainbow
Have you heard? The...
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For Your Downloading, Streaming, and Ringtone...
The first album of Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic 2011–12 Season — 12 live recordings of performances from the 2011–12 season — is now available for download, streaming, and as ringtones. The first release includes the World Premiere performance of John Corigliano’s One Sweet Morning, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, as well as Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 and Barber’s Essay No. 1, all...
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Near the Radio Room with ... Alec Baldwin
Philharmonic Radio Host Alec Baldwin stopped by the radio room this afternoon to record “wrap-arounds” for upcoming broadcasts of The New York Philharmonic This Week with audio producer Mark Travis.
Recently, Mr. Baldwin wrote an article for Symphony magazine in which he discusses how he landed this gig and what he loves most about “serving as the bat boy for the New York...
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“To live for you, to die for you.”
On...
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Bernstein's Big Debut
On this day in 1943, 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein made his unexpected debut with the New York Philharmonic. He had been recently appointed assistant conductor with the Orchestra and was summoned to fill in at the last-minute — with no rehearsal — for Bruno Walter, who had fallen ill. Bernstein’s extraordinary performance landed him on the front page of the next day’s The New York...
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The Buzz
Check out what Philharmonic news had Twitter abuzz this week and what’s on the horizon:
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Flûte à la française
Philharmonic piccolo player and flutist Mindy Kaufman has released a new CD, French Flute Music,featuring solo and chamber works by Debussy, Ibert, Jolivert, and Cras. On the recording she is joined by Philharmonic Principal Associate Concertmaster Sheryl Staples, Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young, and Associate Principal Cello Eileen Moon, as well as harpist June Han. Get your copy...
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Are You a Jet Or a Shark?
Choose your alliance tomorrow when DanceOn presents a West Side Story flash mob to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the multi-Academy Award-winning 1961 film — with its beloved score by Leonard Bernstein — as 50 dancers recreate Jerome Robbins’s choreography at Times Square’s Duffy Square.
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Chamber Music on New York Bay
Musicians from the New York Philharmonic head across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on November 14 to the College of Staten Island Center for the Arts for a concert featuring some of chamber music’s most delectable delicacies. Opening with a Mozart trio and Dohnányi’s Serenade for String Trio, the concert will conclude with Brahms’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115 — considered by many to...
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From the Radio Room with ... Bernard Haitink
Following this morning’s Open Rehearsal, conductor Bernard Haitink spoke with Audio Producer Mark Travis about performing with the New York Philharmonic for the first time in 33 years and discussed Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, which he considers one of the composer’s “greatest masterpieces.”
His interview will air on The New York Philharmonic This Week on...
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“Strauss was such a craftsman. People even said once that Mr. Strauss could...”
– Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink on Richard Strauss, whose music is on the program he is conducting this week in his first return to the Phil since 1978. Read more from this “attention-compelling, but never attention-seeking” conductor in this month’s Playbill.
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“Careers in music are notoriously difficult to predict, but if anyone ever seemed...”
– The Plain Dealer looks back on Music Director Alan Gilbert’s time as assistant conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra and his homecoming there on November 11–13 at Severance Hall.
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“A musician’s conductor”
The latest installment...
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The Buzz
Check out what Philharmonic news had Twitter abuzz this week and what’s on the horizon:
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“Soul-Wrenching”
What the critics are saying about this week’s performances of Koyaanisqatsi:
“Last night the movie’s powerful images were joined in the flesh by Philip Glass, his Ensemble and the New York Philharmonic to aurally and visually submerge the audience at Avery Fisher Hall in a panoply of soul-wrenching emotions. … We will never watch the movie without the New...
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The Stuff of Dreams
He always dreamed of being a conductor — even at the age of eight, when he was reveling in Leonard Bernstein’s recording of West Side Story with the New York Philharmonic. Now this twenty-something, award-winning native Texan is living his dream, and when the Philharmonic steps on stage to perform a Young People’s Concert on November 12, Case Scaglione — one of two newly appointed Assistant...
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All Brass, All-the-Time
The New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet will perform at SUNY Potsdam’s Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall on November 13 in the culmination of The Crane School of Music’s “Brass Day” events. Members of the PBQ will also give master classes the following day at The Crane School of Music.
If you don’t get to hear these “iconic performers” at SUNY...
