FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2013 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718;
[email protected] ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ALAN GILBERT TO CONDUCT PHANTASMATA BY THE MARIE-JOSÉE KRAVIS COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Cellist JAN VOGLER To Perform BLOCH’S SCHELOMO Program To Close with BRAHMS’S SYMPHONY NO. 1 Concluding This Season’s Survey of Brahms’s Complete Symphonies and Concertos February 21–22 Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Phantasmata by The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse; Bloch’s Schelomo, featuring cellist Jan Vogler; and Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 on Thursday, February 21, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. and Friday, February 22 at 11:00 a.m. Phantasmata is the first work by Christopher Rouse that the Philharmonic will perform during his two-season tenure as Composer-in-Residence. The Philharmonic will perform the World Premiere of Mr. Rouse’s Prospero’s Rooms, a Philharmonic commission, April 17–20, 2013, with Alan Gilbert conducting. Alan Gilbert said: “Chris Rouse is one of the most important composers working today. I’ve recorded a lot of his music, and it has been a very meaningful and a large part of my musical life for a long time. He has a unique voice and doesn’t leave anything to chance: he actually shapes the sound and the emotional flow of his music in a way that only great composers can. He truly writes what he hears.” Mr. Rouse said of Phantasmata: “It’s one of my rabble-rouser pieces from the earlier 1980s.