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[email protected] ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ARTIST-IN-ASSOCIATION INON BARNATAN To Make Philharmonic Debut Performing RAVEL’s Piano Concerto in G major Program Also To Include Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx, DEBUSSY’s Jeux, and R. STRAUSS’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite March 19–20 and 24, 2015 Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, with Philharmonic Artist-in-Association Inon Barnatan in his Philharmonic debut, in a program that also includes Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx, Debussy’s Jeux, and R. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Thursday, March 19, 2015, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, March 20 at 11:00 a.m.; Tuesday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. “I’ve loved this concerto for a long time,” Inon Barnatan said. “One of my first memories of hearing it was in a recording with the New York Philharmonic and Leonard Bernstein, so to be able to play it with this Orchestra is fantastic. I think of it as a very New York piece. Ravel wrote it after Gershwin took him to hear jazz in Harlem — where I live in an apartment that used to be a speakeasy for the great jazz musicians — and you can hear the American jazz scene’s influence in this concerto. It also has extraordinary depth, and the second movement has some of the most moving music Ravel ever wrote.” The performances of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx will mark the first time that a conductor other than Mr.