March 2011
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“It’s one of the most moving, if not for me,...
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NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC TO DONATE PROCEEDS FROM RECORDING OF TAKEMITSU’S REQUIEM FOR STRING ORCHESTRA TO JAPAN RELIEF EFFORTS
On March 17, 2011, Music Director Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic performed Takemitsu’s Requiem for String Orchestra, in sympathy for the Japanese people. A recording of that performance is now available for download through InstantEncore and other online music...
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Sure to be "one singular sensation"
If you are heading to New Jersey on April 15 to catch the NY Philharmonic at NJPAC – led by Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur – stay one more day and be part of NJPAC’s quest to clench the title of “World’s Largest Chorus Line” as they attempt to get 1,629 people to dance for 5 minutes while linked together in a chorus line on Sunday, April 16. Good luck!
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Have you ever wondered: “When the music is...
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WatchHappy Birthday, Stephen Sondheim!
We can’t wait until it’s time for the Orchestra’s performances of COMPANY, April 7–9! Until then, here’s a peek at PBS’s DVD of the 2010 New York Philharmonic Spring Gala, Sondheim: The Birthday Concert.
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What's your dream festival?
In his most recent contribution to the Huffington Post, Arts Lust: Central Europe’s Underwear Showing, Allan M. Jalon imagines his very own festival of Janáček, Bartók, and Husa. He writes: “It will end along with the NY Philharmonic’s season, in June, with a much-anticipated staged performance of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen.”
What’s your “dream...
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Jon Cryer and Christina Hendricks Join... →
New stars hit the boards for Stephen Sondheim’s COMPANY on April 7–9 at the Philharmonic!
Naxos Music Library: Where My Girls At? Pt. I →
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We all know that the big winner for March is Women’s History Month*. Some folks get in a twist about Women’s History Month (as though the advances of the last 90 years mean that women no longer need our own history month) to which I say “Pshaw!” Most people know about those big-name musical…
“If Ms. O’Hara chose to sing that she had fallen in love with a desiccated...”
– Ben Brantley from a recent New York Times review. The author adds:
Ms. O’Hara is the possessor of a liquid soprano that was made for the shimmering romantic confessions so essential to classic American musicals. Offering sincerity without saccharine, her voice seems to emerge almost involuntarily,...
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Get 'Em While They're Hot!
Monday night’s Philharmonic concert, Broadway’s Classic Hits, featuring leading lady Kelli O’Hara and “barihunk” Nathan Gunn, is a New York Post “Hot Picks” for the week.
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Podcast Preview:
This edition of On the Music...
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“More than just the story of a bloodthirsty middle-aged guy killing wives and...”
– Guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen on Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. Read Dan Wakin’s “The Love Story Behind Bartok’s 7 Dark Doors” in The New York Times, or come hear it performed by the New York Philharmonic on March 18–19 and 22 during Hungarian Echoes: A...
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WatchNow Available: The Webcast of Magyar Magic, hosted by WQXR/Q2’s Nadia Sirota from The Jerome L. Greenespace. Esa-Pekka Salonen, resident conductor of Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival (March 10–26), talks with Ms. Sirota about this year’s three-week festival, and Philharmonic musicians and guest pianists Conor Hanick and Marino Formenti perform music by Haydn, Bartók, and Ligeti...
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From Flame Tubes to Organ Pipes ... →
And everything in between! Read Philharmonic Organist Kent Tritle’s interview in The Juilliard Journal, where he reflects on his early days as a rocker, playing Led Zeppelin for a high school prom when something went awry.
A highlight of that experience was playing for a high school prom, during which our flame tube malfunctioned. It was double loaded, and when it finally burst, during...
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“Senses are sharpened, balances are finely gauged, phrases come into sharp...”
– Principal Cello Carter Brey discussing the first night of a new program. Mr. Brey writes more about his experiences in the latest installment of Musicians on Mahler, part of the Philharmonic’s Focus on Mahler, which commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the former music director’s last...
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On this edition of On the Music, Music Director...
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“When I prepared it with Ligeti, he worked with me on getting the orchestra to...”
– Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen discussing Ligeti’s Piano Concerto in his recent Playbill interview with New York Philharmonic Program Annotator James M. Keller. Mr. Salonen conducts this concerto with pianist Marino Formenti, who will make his Philharmonic debut during the first program of...
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“…this is a musical field that has such a wide and varied field of composers and...”
– Michael Jones, of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, on his new love for classical music, inspired by the Philharmonic’s latest iTunes Pass, which he rotates with Rage Against The Machine. 