Revving Up

If you’re not yet psyched about experiencing Magnus Lindberg’s Kraft by watching the Webcast on medici.tv — which begins at 2:00 p.m. New York time — you will be after watching this video of Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic’s preparations for today’s concert at Dresden’s Volkswagen Transparent Factory! Then check in tomorrow for photos and more video on our Virtual Tour.

Unanswered Questions

Speaking of, you can still relive the Philharmonic’s performance of Ives’s The Unanswered Question (with a beautiful trumpet solo by Phil Smith), plus Stockhausen’s Gruppen and more, from Philharmonic 360, co-produced by the Orchestra and the Park Avenue Armory.

Q2 Music, WQXR’s contemporary-music station, will stream the concert audio July 14 at 10 a.m., and it will be available on-demand for 30 days on q2music.org. Or you can watch a Philharmonic-produced webcast via medici.tv.

(Cartoon by Pablo Helguera via NPR’s classical music blog, Deceptive Cadence.)

Second Chance at a Sell-Out

Experience Philharmonic 360 from a new perspective… through the radio. Q2, WQXR’s online contemporary-music station, hosts an audio webcast of the full performance today at 3:00 p.m. You can also stream the individual tracks.

Tune-in on wqxr.org/q2 to experience the Philharmonic in surround sound. 

Did you miss Philharmonic 360, the sold-out event that had everyone abuzz?

Were you one of the lucky attendees, but you’re itching to relive the experience? (Who could blame you?)

Is “see Gruppen performed” still on your bucket list?

You’re in luck. With footage captured by 10 strategically placed cameras, the Philharmonic produced a webcast of Philharmonic 360, which medici.tv begins streaming today at 2:00 p.m. EDT and which will be available for 90 days. 

Philharmonic 360 was co-produced by the Orchestra and the Park Avenue Armory.  Q2 Music will also stream audio of the concert July 10, 11, and 14. More info at q2music.org.

The Peruvian Case

Last week, while one Philharmonic Assistant Conductor, Joshua Weilerstein, was leading the Orchestra’s flutes in Ives and otherwise helping out in Philharmonic 360, the other, Case Scaglione, headed southward to lead the Sinfonía por el Perú. Our Spanish-speaking fans can get to know the Texas native better by watching the television interview he gave on June 22. Me gusta!

What role does live music play in a world of changing audience habits? Music Director Alan Gilbert and Executive Director Designate Matthew VanBesien will share their thoughts during the keynote conversation in “Talking About Audiences“ — a free public event in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall at 1:30 p.m. (PDT)  Be sure to check out the live webcast.

In the meantime, listen as Alan Gilbert describes his approach to programming and how audiences play into his choices, above.

And catch up on the what critics described as the Philharmonic’s “blistering” debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in our California 2012 Virtual Tour.

Join the Party

The 2012–13 season with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic will be announced TOMORROW and you can tune in via Webcast at 11:00 AM when the event is streamed live from The Greene Space. New this year: Submit your own questions for Alan Gilbert to answer tomorrow, using the hashtag #nyp1213. Be sure to watch the Webcast to see if your question is selected, and hear the answer.

LIVE from Leipzig: the New York Philharmonic

Don’t forget to visit nyphil.org/leipzig today at 2:00 p.m. EDT for a live concert by Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic from Leipzig’s Gewandhaus as part of the International Mahler Festival 2011. The performance — the tenth concert on the Orchestra’s EUROPE / SPRING 2011 tour — features Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, with baritone Thomas Hampson, and the Symphony No. 5.

“ As a musician, believing in the primacy of meaning in music could not be more fundamental as a defining point in who we are and what we do. ”

—  Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, shares some of his remarks from the Annual Erich Leinsdorf Lecture in his latest Curiously Random blog post for MusicalAmerica.com. The Webcast of Mr. Gilbert’s lecture, titled “Performance and Interpretation,” can be watched in full on the New York Philharmonic’s Website at nyphil.org/leinsdorf.