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BROADWAY’S CLASSIC HITS

Monday, March 21, 2011, 7:30 p.m. 15,160 th Concert

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Instruments made possible, in part, by The Richard S. and Karen LeFrak Endowment Fund . This concert will last approximately one and one-half hours. Steinway is the Official Piano of the New York Philharmonic and Avery Fisher Hall.

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Ted Sperling, Conductor Kelli O’Hara, Soprano Nathan Gunn, Baritone

RODGERS Waltz orch. Don Walker

RODGERS/HAMMERSTEIN Bench Scene, “If I Loved You,” orch. Don Walker from Carousel

KERN/HAMMERSTEIN “All the Things You Are,” from Very Warm orch. for May

KERN/HAMMERSTEIN “Make Believe,” from orch. Robert Russell Bennett

PORTER Selections from Kiss Me, Kate orch. Robert Russell Bennett “Wunderbar” “So in Love” “Where Is the Life That Late I Led?” orch. Jonathan Tuck “From This Moment On”

Intermission

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WEILL/LERNER “This Is the Life,” from Love Life

WEILL /NASH “That’s Him,” from One Touch of Venus

WEILL /HUGHES & RICE Selections from Street Scene “Wouldn’t You Like to Be on Broadway” “What Good Would the Moon Be?”

BERNSTEIN “Somewhere,” from Symphonic orch. & Dances from

BERNSTEIN /COMDEN & GREEN Selections from On the Town “Carried Away” “Lonely Town”

BERNSTEIN /WILBUR “Glitter and Be Gay,” from

BERNSTEIN /SONDHEIM “Tonight,” from West Side Story

The New York Philharmonic thanks the Musicians of the Orchestra for donating their services for this concert to benefit the general fund of the New York Philharmonic.

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2010 –2011 SEASON ALAN GILBERT, Music Director, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair Daniel Boico, Assistant Conductor , Laureate Conductor, 1943–1990 Kurt Masur, Music Director Emeritus

VIOLINS Marilyn Dubow OBOES Glenn Dicterow The Sue and Eugene The Shirley and Jon Liang Wang Concertmaster Mercy, Jr. Chair Brodsky Foundation Chair Principal The Charles E. Culpeper Martin Eshelman Evangeline Benedetti The Alice Tully Chair Chair Quan Ge Sherry Sylar* Sheryl Staples Judith Ginsberg Eric Bartlett Robert Botti Principal Associate Stephanie Jeong The Mr. and Mrs. James E. The Lizabeth and Frank Concertmaster The Gary W. Parr Chair Buckman Chair Newman Chair The Elizabeth G. Beinecke Elizabeth Dyson Chair Hanna Lachert Maria Kitsopoulos ENGLISH HORN Michelle Kim Hyunju Lee Assistant Concertmaster Joo Young Oh Sumire Kudo Qiang Tu The Joan and Joel Smilow The William Petschek Daniel Reed Chair Family Chair Mark Schmoockler Ru-Pei Yeh Enrico Di Cecco The Credit Suisse Chair Na Sun in honor of Paul Calello CLARINETS Carol Webb Vladimir Tsypin Mark Nuccio Yoko Takebe Wei Yu Wilhelmina Smith++ Acting Principal Minyoung Chang+ VIOLAS The Edna and W. Van Alan Cynthia Phelps Clark Chair Hae-Young Ham BASSES Pascual Martinez The Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Principal Eugene Levinson M. George Chair The Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Forteza P. Rose Chair Principal Acting Associate Principal Lisa GiHae Kim The Redfield D. Beckwith Rebecca Young* The Honey M. Kurtz Family Kuan-Cheng Lu Chair Chair Irene Breslaw** Orin O’Brien Newton Mansfield The Norma and Lloyd Alucia Scalzo++ The Edward and Priscilla Acting Associate Principal Chazen Chair Pilcher Chair The Herbert M. Citrin Chair Amy Zoloto++ Kerry McDermott+ Dorian Rence William Blossom E-F LAT CLARINET Anna Rabinova Katherine Greene The Ludmila S. and Carl B. Pascual Martinez Charles Rex The Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hess Chair The Shirley Bacot Shamel McDonough Chair Randall Butler Forteza Chair Dawn Hannay David J. Grossman BASS CLARINET Fiona Simon Vivek Kamath Satoshi Okamoto Sharon Yamada Peter Kenote Amy Zoloto++ Elizabeth Zeltser Kenneth Mirkin FLUTES The William and Elfriede Judith Nelson BASSOONS Ulrich Chair Robert Langevin Robert Rinehart Principal Judith LeClair Yulia Ziskel The Mr. and Mrs. G. Chris The Lila Acheson Wallace Principal Andersen Chair Chair The Pels Family Chair Marc Ginsberg Kim Laskowski* Principal Sandra Church* Lisa Kim* CELLOS Mindy Kaufman Roger Nye In Memory of Laura Mitchell Carter Brey Arlen Fast Soohyun Kwon Principal PICCOLO The Joan and Joel I. Picket The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Mindy Kaufman CONTRABASSOON Chair Samuels Chair Arlen Fast Duoming Ba Eileen Moon* The Paul and Diane Guenther Chair

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HORNS PERCUSSION STAGE REPRESENTATIVE Philip Myers Christopher S. Lamb Louis J. Patalano Principal Principal The Ruth F. and Alan J. Broder Chair The Constance R. Hoguet Friends of AUDIO DIRECTOR Stewart Rose++* the Philharmonic Chair Lawrence Rock Acting Associate Principal Cara Kizer Aneff** Daniel Druckman* * Associate Principal R. Allen Spanjer The Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ulrich ** Assistant Principal Erik Ralske+ Chair + On Leave Howard Wall Kyle Zerna ++ Replacement/Extra David Smith++ HARP TRUMPETS Nancy Allen The New York Philharmonic uses Principal the revolving seating method for Philip Smith The Mr. and Mrs. William T. Knight III Principal section string players who are Chair The Paula Levin Chair listed alphabetically in the roster. Matthew Muckey* KEYBOARD Ethan Bensdorf In Memory of Paul Jacobs HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE Thomas V. Smith SOCIETY HARPSICHORD TROMBONES Lionel Party Stanley Drucker Joseph Alessi Principal IANO The Gurnee F. and Marjorie L. Hart P Chair The Karen and Richard S. LeFrak Carlos Moseley Chair Amanda Davidson* Harriet Wingreen David Finlayson The Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Jonathan Feldman Chair ORGAN BASS TROMBONE Kent Tritle James Markey The Daria L. and William C. Foster LIBRARIANS Chair Lawrence Tarlow Principal TUBA Sandra Pearson** Alan Baer Sara Griffin** Principal ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL TIMPANI MANAGER Markus Rhoten Carl R. Schiebler Principal The Carlos Moseley Chair Kyle Zerna **

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The Artists

to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying , Kiss of the Spider Woman , Angels in Amer - ica , My Favorite Year , Falsettos , The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Les Misérables , Roza , and Sun - day in the Park with George . He was an orig - inal cast member of the Broadway musical Titanic . Off-Broadway credits as music direc - tor include A Man of No Importance , Wise Guys , A New Brain , Saturn Returns , , Falsettoland , and Romance in Hard Times . Mr. Sperling has conducted the scores for the films The Manchurian Candidate and Everything Is Illuminated , and directed the Ted Sperling is a conductor, music director, short film Love Mom , starring Tonya Pinkins. arranger, singer, , and violinist. He was Ted Sperling was a recipient of the 2006 music director and conductor of the first Ted Shen Family Foundation Award for lead - Broadway revival of , which won ership in musical theater and is the director seven . In 2005 he won the Tony of the Music Theater Initiative at The Public and Drama Desk Awards (with Adam Guet - Theater, as well as the creative director of tel and Bruce Coughlin) for his orchestra - the 24-Hour Musicals. tions for The Light in the Piazza, for which he was also music director. As a conductor Mr. Sperling has appeared with Audra McDon - ald, Victoria Clark, Patti LuPone, Kelli O’Hara, Paulo Szot, and Deborah Voigt; he has con - ducted the New York Philharmonic for Live From Lincoln Center ; and he has led per - formances of the American Songbook Se - ries at Lincoln Center, the Lyrics and Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y, and, recently ,a concert presentation of Ricky Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Sperling was music director and con - ductor of the 2009 Tony-nominated revival of Kelli O’Hara recently starred in the Tony Guys and Dolls. Other Broadway credits as Award –winning revival of South Pacific at Lin - music director, conductor, or pianist include coln Center as Nellie Forbush, for which she Dirty Rotten Scoundrels , The Full Monty , How garnered her third Tony Award nomina tion.

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She made her Broadway debut in Jekyll & Hyde and followed that with Stephen Sond - heim’s Follies , The Sweet Smell of Success with John Lithgow , and Dracula. In 2003 she starred in The Light in the Piazza, at Seattle’s Intiman Theatre, which moved to Broadway in 2005 and for which Ms. O’Hara earned her first Tony and nomi - nations. In 2006 she joined Harry Connick, Jr., on Broadway in the Tony Award –winning production of The Pajama Game, for which she received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Award nominations. Ms. O’Hara has performed at Carnegie Baritone Nathan Gunn has appeared at The Hall with the New York Pops and at the ; ; Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Lyric Opera of ; Royal Opera House, Orchestra, conducted by , as Covent Garden; Paris Opéra; Bayerische well as with the Pops under Keith Staatsoper; and the Aix-en-Provence Festi - Lockhart, and the Philly Pops with Peter val. He has sung the title roles in Britten’s Nero; she has had sold-out runs at Café Car - and Thomas’s ; Papageno lyle and Feinstein’s. She performed at the in Mozart’s , Guglielmo in 2009 as part of the Mozart’s Così fan tutte, the Count in Mozart’s tribute, and recently ap - ; and Figaro in peared on PBS’s National Memorial Day Rossini’s . He created Concert, live from Washington, D.C. Upcom - the roles of Clyde Griffiths in ’s ing engagements take her to the Seattle An American Tragedy at The Met, Father Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops in Florida, Delura in Peter Eötvös’s Love and Other and New York City Opera. Demons at the Glyndebourne Festival, Alec Among Kelli O’Hara’s film and television Harvey in ’s Brief Encounter at credits are Sex & The City 2; Martin Scor- the Houston Grand Opera, and Paul in Daron sese’s short film The Key to Reserva, oppo - Hagen’s Amelia at the . site Simon Baker; The Dying Gaul, with Mr. Gunn has appeared with many of the Patricia Clarkson and Campbell Scott; leading American and European orchestras, Alexander Hamilton (as Maria Reynolds), including the Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, starring Brian F. O’Byrne on PBS; NUMB3RS ; and London symphony orchestras , and The All My Children; and the upcoming animated Cleveland Orchestra. He has given recitals at series Car Talk . She has recorded on the Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, Lincoln Center’s Sony, Nonesuch, and PS Classics labels; her Alice Tully Hall, Cal Performances, Philadel - releases include the Grammy-nominated The phia Chamber Music Society, Krannert Cen - Light in the Piazza and her solo album Won - ter, London’s Wigmore Hall, and Brussels’s der in the World on Ghostlight Records. Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. He appeared

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in performances of with the New Just Before Sunrise, was released on the York Philharmonic and Show Boat at Sony/ BMG Masterworks label. His other Carnegie Hall. He was a featured soloist in recordings include Billy Budd (Virgin Clas - Sondheim: The Birthday Concert! with the sics), which won a 2010 Grammy Award; Philharmonic in March 2010 and appeared Rodgers & Hammerstein’s (Sony’s with Sting and Trudie Styler in the Allen Masterworks Broadway); Britten’s Peter Room at at Lincoln Center in Twin Spir - Grimes (LSO Live!); The Barber of Seville its, which explores the relationship between (SONY Classics); and Sibelius’s Kullervo Clara and Robert Schumann. (Telarc). His debut album, American Anthem, Nathan Gunn’s most recent solo album, is a collection of American songs (EMI).

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic , founded in 1842 Tennstedt, George Szell (Music Advisor, 1969–70), by a group of local musicians led by American-born and Erich Leinsdorf. Ureli Corelli Hill, is by far the oldest symphony Long a leader in American musical life, the Philhar - orchestra in the , and one of the monic has become renowned around the globe, and oldest in the world. It currently plays some 180 has appeared in 430 cities in 63 countries on five con - concerts a year, and on May 5, 2010, gave its tinents. In February 2008 the Orchestra, led by then- 15,000th concert — a milestone unmatched by any Music Director Lorin Maazel, gave a historic performance other symphony orchestra in the world. in Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae the first visit there by an American orchestra. In Octo - Ceschina Chair, began his tenure in September 2009, ber 2009 the Orchestra, conducted by Music Director the latest in a distinguished line of 20th-century Alan Gilbert, made its debut in Hanoi, Vietnam. The musical giants that has included Lorin Maazel Philharmonic subsequently received the 2008 Com - (2002–09); Kurt Masur (Music Director from 1991 mon Ground Award for Cultural Diplomacy for its his - to the summer of 2002; named Music Director toric performance in Pyongyang, and on November Emeritus in 2002); Zubin Mehta (1978–91); Pierre 16, 2010, received the Asia Society’s Cultural Am - Boulez (1971–77); and Leonard Bernstein, who was bassador Award for its concerts in Pyongyang and appointed Music Director in 1958 and given the Hanoi. Other historic tours have included the 1930 lifetime title of Laureate Conductor in 1969. Tour to Europe, with Toscanini; the first South Ameri - Since its inception the Orchestra has champi - can Tour, in 1951; the first Tour to the U.S.S.R., in 1959; oned the new music of its time, commissioning or the 1984 Asia Tour, including the first tour of India; the premiering many important works, such as Dv oˇrák’s 1998 Asia Tour with Kurt Masur, with the first per - Symphony No. 9, From the New World; Rachmani - formances in mainland China; and the 75th Anniver - noff’s No. 3; Gershwin’s Piano sary European Tour, in 2005, with Lorin Maazel. Concerto in F; and Copland’s Connotations . The A media pioneer, the Philharmonic began radio Philharmonic has also given the U.S. premieres of such broadcasts in 1922 , and is currently represented by The works as Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 and New York Philharmonic This Week — syndicated na - Brahms’s Symphony No. 4. This pioneering tradition tionally 52 weeks per year, and available on nyphil.org. has continued to the present day, with works of major On television, in the 1950s and 1960s, the Philhar - contemporary regularly scheduled each monic inspired a generation through Bernstein’s Young season, including John Adams’s Pulitzer Prize– and People’s Concerts on CBS. Its television presence has Grammy Award–winning On the Transmigration of continued with annual appearances on Live From Lin - Souls; Stephen Hartke’s Symphony No. 3; Augusta coln Center on PBS, and in 2003 it made history as the Read Thomas’s Gathering Paradise, Emily Dickinson first Orchestra ever to perform live on the Grammy Settings for Soprano and Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Awards, one of the most-watched television events Salonen’s Piano Concerto; Magnus Lindberg’s EXPO worldwide. In 2004 the Philharmonic became the first and Al Largo; and Christopher Rouse’s Odna Zhizn . major American orchestra to offer downloadable con - The roster of composers and conductors who certs, recorded live. The most recent initiative is Alan have led the Philharmonic includes such historic Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2010–11 — figures as Theodore Thomas, Antonín Dv oˇrák, Gustav downloadable concerts, recorded live, available either Mahler (Music Director, 1909–11), , as a subscription or as 12 individual releases. Since , (Music Director, 1917 the Philharmonic has made nearly 2,000 record - 1922–30), Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini ings, with more than 500 currently available. (Music Director, 1928–36), Igor Stravinsky, Aaron On June 4, 2007, the New York Philharmonic Copland, Bruno Walter (Music Advisor, 1947–49), proudly announced a new partnership with Credit Dimitri Mitropoulos (Music Director, 1949–58), Klaus Suisse, its first-ever and exclusive Global Sponsor. March 2011 31 03-21 Broadway:Layout 1 3/8/11 10:18 AM Page 32

The Music Director

EUROPE / WINTER 2010 tour in February 2010. Also in the 2009–10 season he con - ducted world, U.S., and New York premieres, as well as an acclaimed staged presentation of Ligeti’s opera, Le Grand Macabre . In January 2011 Alan Gilbert was named Director of and Orchestral Studies at The Juilliard School, a position that will begin in fall 2011. This adds to his responsibilities as the first holder of Juilliard’s William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies, establishing Mr. Gilbert as the principal teacher for all conducting majors at the school. He is also conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert , The Yoko Nagae Orchestra and principal guest conductor of Ceschina Chair, began his tenure at the New Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra . He has York Philharmonic in September 2009. The conducted other leading orchestras in the U.S. first native New Yorker to hold the post , he and abroad, including the Boston, Chicago, ushered in what called and orchestras; Los “an adventurous new era” at the Philharmonic. Angeles Philharmonic; Cleveland and Philadel - In his inaugural season he introduced a num - phia Orchestras; and the Philharmonic, ber of new initiatives: the positions of The Munich’s Bavarian Radio Symphony Orches - Marie-Josée Kravis -in-Residence, tra, and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw held by Magnus Lindberg ; The Mary and Orchestra . From 2003 to 2006 he served as James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence , held in the first music director of the . 2010–11 by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter; an Alan Gilbert studied at Harvard University, annual three-week festival , which in 2010–11 The Curtis Institute of Music, and The Juilliard is titled Hungarian Echoes, led by Esa-Pekka School. From 1995 to 1997 he was the as - Salonen; and CONTACT! , the New York Phil - sistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra. harmonic’s new-music series . In the 2010–11 In November 2008 he made his Metropolitan season Mr. Gilbert is leading the Orchestra on Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor two tours of European music capitals; two Atomic. His recording of Prokofiev’s Scythian performances at Carnegie Hall, including the Suite with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra venue’s 120th Anniversary Concert; and a was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award, and staged presentation of Jan áˇcek’s The Cunning his recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 re - Little Vixen . Highlights of his inaugural sea - ceived top honors from the Chicago Tribune son included a major tour of Asia in October and Gramophone magazine. On May 15, 2010, 2009, with debuts in Hanoi and Abu Dhabi, Mr. Gilbert received an Honorary Doctor of and performances in nine cities on the Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music.

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Q & A: Vivek Kamath, Viola

Were you involved in any extracurricular activities in high school? I was in the Model U.N., youth orchestras, and on the school tennis team and student council.

What is the best thing about being a musician? You’re always learning, seeing, and feeling different things in the music.

What is the most difficult aspect of your instrument? Figuring out how to bring out the viola’s inner voice with life and creativity

What kind of viola do you have? It’s a copy of a viola by J.B. Guadagnini, made by Roger Hargrave. My bows are made by James E E L Tubbs and Isaac Salchow. S I R H

C How do you keep your music-making fresh? The Facts: Born in Rochester, New York, of I listen to a lot of music and go to con - Indian parentage. Bachelor’s degree from the certs. I especially like recordings of . Cleveland Institute of Music, studying violin Most memorable moments with the with Donald Weilerstein; subsequent studies at Orchestra: Any time we play a Mahler sym - At the The Juilliard School with Karen Tuttle. phony. I also remember Murray Perahia playing Philharmonic: Joined January 1998. Most Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, and I’ve recent recording: a demo with Sting. enjoyed hearing Yefim Bronfman’s perform - Earliest musical memory: When I was ances with the Orchestra over the years. about four, a little girl I knew played “Twinkle, Do you ever perform in other groups? Twinkle” on the violin. I immediately wanted to I play a lot of chamber music. play the violin, too. I started at six. In college I played the violin and the viola, but at Juilliard I What kinds of books do you like to read? gave up the violin — I liked the viola sound bet - Lately, political books and fiction ter. It has a lot of warmth, richness, and depth. My most important musical influence was Mr. Are there any musicians in your family? Weilerstein, my teacher in Cleveland. No, but my sister (now a doctor) played both violin and piano quite seriously when we were When did you know that you wanted to younger. be a professional musician? When I was 15 or 16. I realized it was the most important What do you like to do outside of work? thing to me. I was lucky that my parents were Going to movies and nice restaurants, playing supportive. There are not that many Indians in tennis and poker, studying martial arts, and the U.S. in Western . spending time with close friends

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Q & A: Daniel Druckman, Associate Principal Percussion The Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ulrich Chair

What is the most challenging percussion instrument? The snare drum. It involves complicated motor skills — coordinating the wrist, fingers, and arms.

Who were your most important musical influences? My father, and Buster Bailey, my predecessor at the Philharmonic, who was a real mentor to me

Your father was Composer-in-Residence at the Philharmonic, among other affilia - tions. How did that influence you as a musician? He exposed me to important music and very inspiring musicians at an early age. E E

L When did you know that you wanted to S I

R be a professional musician? At about H

C age 12. It seemed inevitable. The Facts: Born in New York City. Attended What is the biggest challenge in your the High School of Music and Art and The Juil - job? Finding just the right instrument or liard School. Prior to the Philharmonic: freelance mallet or playing style to give the music the musician. At the Philharmonic: Joined in proper character 1991. Most recent recording: Steve Mackey’s Micro-Concerto (New World Records). Current Most memorable moments with the teaching post: chairman, Juilliard percussion Orchestra: Playing Mahler symphonies with department, and director of the percussion Leonard Bernstein and Klaus Tennstedt ensemble. What was the most challenging percus - Earliest musical memory: My father, Jacob sion instrument to create? A tubaphone for Druckman, was a composer who often worked Penderecki’s Seven Gates of Jerusalem . We well into the night, so I have memories of scary helped to design it and played it with ping- music late at night. I began studying the piano at pong paddles. seven and started on the drums at ten. The first piece of music I fell in love with was Rimsky- What’s in your CD player right now? I Korsakov’s Scheherazade. have been listening to a lot of Japanese music: Takemitsu, Jo Kondo, Nishimura, Natsuda Why did you choose percussion? It was fun. I had an unorthodox introduction to music. I What do you like to do outside of work? went to a lot of contemporary music concerts I am the parent of a disabled child, and I spend growing up, so it was natural for me to want to a lot of time raising funds for her school and explore unusual music and unusual instruments. helping with her education .

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