FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2013 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected]

ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC

MUSIC DIRECTOR TO CONDUCT THREE PROGRAMS IN APRIL HIGHLIGHTING ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS

THREE AMERICANS: IVES’s Symphony No. 4, WORLD PREMIERE of COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE Christopher ROUSE’s Prospero’s Rooms BERNSTEIN’s Serenade with JOSHUA BELL April 17–20, 2013

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE EMANUEL AX To Perform MOZART’s Piano Concerto No. 25 Alan Gilbert To Conclude Program with BRUCKNER’s Symphony No. 3 April 24–25 and 27, 2013

One-Night-Only Performance with WORLD PREMIERE of Anders HILLBORG’s The Strand Settings, A New York Philharmonic–Carnegie Hall Co-Commission Featuring RENÉE FLEMING April 26, 2013

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in three programs in April, each reflecting the Music Director’s belief in the value of long-term artistic collaboration, which he has emphasized throughout his tenure. The first program, featuring music by three iconic American composers, includes the World Premiere of Prospero’s Rooms, a New York Philharmonic Commission by Christopher Rouse, who is in the first of two seasons as the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence; Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”) by Bernstein, the Orchestra’s Laureate Conductor, with violinist Joshua Bell as soloist; and Ives’s Symphony No. 4 on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, April 19 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, April 20 at 8:00 p.m.

In Alan Gilbert’s second program, the Orchestra reunites with current Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Emanuel Ax for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, followed by Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, April 27 at 8:00 p.m.

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Finally, on Friday, April 26, 2013, at 8:00 p.m., Alan Gilbert takes the Philharmonic to Carnegie Hall, where the Orchestra has performed annually during Mr. Gilbert’s tenure, for a program featuring the World Premiere of Anders Hillborg’s The Strand Settings, a New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Carnegie Hall, with soprano Renée Fleming; Respighi’s Fountains of Rome; and Ravel’s orchestration of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. The concert is part of Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives series with Ms. Fleming.

Mr. Gilbert previously led Ives’s Symphony No. 4 with the Orchestra in May 2004 before he became Music Director, as part of the Philharmonic festival Charles Ives: An American Original. “I’ll never forget that experience,” Alan Gilbert said. “I spent a lot of time studying the score and trying to figure out what Ives meant, and the symphony became very important to me very quickly. What the New York Philharmonic was able to do with it — both to conquer it technically and also to transmit its very spiritual, profound message — was definitive. Ives influenced the generations of American composers that followed him, and this program can make us all proud of what has happened in composition in America over the last 100 years.” Four years later New York magazine, anticipating the beginning of Alan Gilbert’s tenure as Music Director, recalled the performance: “I can still savor a night in 2004, when Gilbert steered the New York Philharmonic through Ives’s lunatic Fourth Symphony, making the madness seem inevitable and wringing an awesome clarity out of the maelstrom of sound.”

Christopher Rouse based Prospero’s Rooms on Edgar Allan Poe’s symbolist story “The Masque of the Red Death,” in which Prince Prospero locks his friends in his house of seven rooms, each painted a different color, to escape the Red Death. Mr. Rouse said that a crucial step in creating the piece was deciding how to depict the sound of a clock striking, and he worked with Principal Percussion Christopher S. Lamb until they created a combined sound from a large tuned gong, bell plate, and tam-tam. “Of course, there are 12 strokes of the clock,” Mr. Rouse said. “Does anyone know a piece in which you have a clock that only rings three times?”

The April 17–20 program marks Alan Gilbert’s first all-American subscription program during his tenure as Music Director, although he says that the repertoire is united by a shared philosophical, rather than national, connection. “[Creating all-American programs] can lead to a kind of tokenism in programming, the assumption that we can take care of our American-music responsibility in one fell swoop,” Alan Gilbert said. “Supporting American music is really about building relationships with American composers and creating an atmosphere that encourages them to be optimistic about where their music can end up.”

Of the second program’s soloist, Alan Gilbert said: “Playing Mozart with Manny Ax is a real joy and privilege. He has a lightness and elegance of touch supported by an incredible warmth. The word that comes to mind so often when I think about Manny and his musicianship is ‘natural.’ The performance unfolds in an absolutely compelling, inevitable way, and he inspires the musicians he works with to join his natural breathing of the music.” After appearing on the Philharmonic’s EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour, Emanuel Ax’s residency continues June 20–22, 2013, when he performs Seeing for Piano and Orchestra by Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse as part of June Journey: Gilbert’s Playlist. (more) Alan Gilbert / Joshua Bell / Emanuel Ax / Renée Fleming / 3

“Anders Hillborg is a composer whose work I have enjoyed performing and championing over the last few years, and we have a close musical relationship,” Alan Gilbert said of the composer whose work he is premiering at Carnegie Hall. “One of the areas in which I feel that he has a lot of potential but really hasn’t explored very much is vocal music, so I’ve been pushing him for a long time now to write songs and vocal music. Renée Fleming has become very excited about his music, for understandable reasons — Hillborg himself had been a rocker, so there’s a kind of rhythmic excitement that anyone can identify with.”

Alan Gilbert will again lead Christopher Rouse’s Prospero’s Rooms, Bernstein’s Serenade with Joshua Bell as soloist, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 with Emanuel Ax as soloist, and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 on the Orchestra’s EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour in May.

Related Events  Pre-Concert Talks Paul Moravec, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and Distinguished Professor of Music at Adelphi University, will introduce the program April 17–20, and author Fred Plotkin will introduce the program April 24–25 and 27. Pre-Concert Talks are $7; discounts available for multiple concerts, students, and groups. They take place one hour before each performance in the Helen Hull Room, unless otherwise noted. Attendance is limited to 90 people. Information: nyphil.org or (212) 875-5656.

 Insights Series Event — “An Evening with Christopher Rouse” Christopher Rouse, The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, speaker Edward Yim, moderator Musicians of the Philharmonic Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 6:30 p.m. New York Institute of Technology Auditorium on Broadway, 1871 Broadway at 61st Street Christopher Rouse — one of America’s most prominent composers of orchestral music — discusses his role as the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence; the World Premiere of Prospero’s Rooms; and the stories behind some of his works, among the most emotionally charged music being composed today. The event will include a performance of the composer’s String Quartet No. 2 by Philharmonic musicians. Tickets for Insights Series events are $20.

 National and International Radio Broadcast The April 17–20 program will be broadcast the week of April 28, 2013,* on The New York Philharmonic This Week, a radio concert series syndicated weekly to more than 300 stations nationally, and to 122 outlets internationally, by the WFMT Radio Network. The April 24–25 and 27 program will be broadcast the week of May 5, 2013.*

The 52-week series, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin, is generously underwritten by The Kaplen Foundation, the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Philharmonic’s corporate partner, MetLife Foundation. The broadcast will (more) Alan Gilbert / Joshua Bell / Emanuel Ax / Renée Fleming / 4

be available on the Philharmonic’s Website, nyphil.org. The program is broadcast locally in the New York metropolitan area on 105.9 FM WQXR on Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. *Check local listings for broadcast and program information.

Artists Music Director Alan Gilbert began his tenure at the New York Philharmonic in September 2009, launching what New York magazine called “a fresh future for the Philharmonic.” The first native New Yorker in the post, he has introduced the positions of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence and The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, an annual multi-week festival, and CONTACT!, the new-music series, and he has sought to make the Orchestra a point of civic pride for the city and country.

In 2012–13, Alan Gilbert conducts world premieres; presides over a cycle of Brahms’s complete symphonies and concertos; leads the EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour; and continues The Nielsen Project, the multiyear initiative to perform and record the Danish composer’s symphonies and concertos, the first release of which was named by The New York Times as among the Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012. The season concludes with June Journey: Gilbert’s Playlist, four programs showcasing themes he has introduced, including the season finale: a theatrical reimagining of Stravinsky ballets with director/designer Doug Fitch and New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Sara Mearns. Last season’s highlights included tours of Europe and California, several world premieres, Mahler symphonies, and Philharmonic 360, the Philharmonic and Park Avenue Armory’s acclaimed spatial-music program featuring Stockhausen’s Gruppen, about which The New York Times said: “Those who think classical music needs some shaking up routinely challenge music directors at major orchestras to think outside the box. That is precisely what Alan Gilbert did.”

Mr. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies and holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies at The Juilliard School. Conductor Laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, he regularly conducts leading orchestras around the world. He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in 2008, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award. Renée Fleming’s recent Decca recording Poèmes, on which he conducted, received a 2013 Grammy Award. In May 2010 Mr. Gilbert received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music and in December 2011, Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award for his “exceptional commitment to the performance of works by American composers and to contemporary music.”

April 17–20 Violinist Joshua Bell’s stunning virtuosity, beautiful tone, musical intelligence, and charismatic stage presence have brought him universal acclaim. Mr. Bell is an Avery Fisher Prize recipient, Musical America’s 2010 Instrumentalist of the Year, and was recently named music director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. In summer 2012, Mr. Bell and Edgar Meyer premiered a new concerto for violin and double bass by Mr. Meyer at Tanglewood, Aspen, and the Hollywood Bowl. Mr. Bell launched the San Francisco Symphony’s 2012–13 season, followed (more) Alan Gilbert / Joshua Bell / Emanuel Ax / Renée Fleming / 5 by appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston, Seattle, Cincinnati, and Detroit symphony orchestras. Additional fall highlights included a South-African tour, a European tour with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and a recital tour with pianist Sam Haywood. In 2013 Mr. Bell tours Europe with the New York Philharmonic and the U.S. with The Cleveland Orchestra, and he performs with the Tucson, Pittsburgh, San Diego, and Nashville symphony orchestras. An exclusive Sony Classical artist, Joshua Bell has recorded more than 40 CDs, garnering Mercury, Grammy, Gramophone, and Echo Klassic Awards. His discography encompasses critically acclaimed performances of most of the major violin concerto and solo repertoire, including the Oscar-winning sound track to The Red Violin. Recent releases include French Impressions with pianist Jeremy Denk, At Home with Friends, the Defiance sound track, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic. Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Joshua Bell received his first violin at age four, and at age 12 he began serious study with Josef Gingold at Indiana University. Two years later Mr. Bell came to national attention in his debut with Riccardo Muti and The Philadelphia Orchestra, followed by his Carnegie Hall debut at age 17. Mr. Bell is senior lecturer at the Jacobs School of Music at his alma mater, Indiana University.

April 24–25 and 27 Born in Lvov, Poland, Emanuel Ax moved to Canada with his family when he was a young boy. He studied at The Juilliard School and Columbia University, capturing public attention in 1974 when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the Avery Fisher Prize. In 2011 Mr. Ax was named an Honorary Member of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York.

As The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic for the 2012–13 season, he performs repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach and Mozart to Christopher Rouse and appears on the EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour. He also returns to the orchestras in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit, Washington, and Pittsburgh. In the spring of 2012 Mr. Ax held a two-week residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrating the piano and its repertoire. Other highlights of his 2011–12 season included return visits to the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras; the symphonies of Boston, Houston, Toronto, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Cincinnati; and the San Francisco Symphony, with which he collaborated in the “American Mavericks” festival.

Mr. Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. Due for release later this year is a new recital disc of works from Haydn through Schumann to Copland, reflecting their different uses of the “variation” concept. He has received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas and for his series of Grammy-winning recordings with Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. Emanuel Ax resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Yoko Nozaki. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia Universities.

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April 26, Carnegie Hall Soprano Renée Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. Winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo, she continues to grace the world’s greatest opera stages and concert halls, now extending her reach to include other musical forms and media.

Ms. Fleming was heard last summer in the title role of Richard Strauss’s Arabella at the Opéra Bastille. In August she portrayed the Marschallin in R. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier in Munich. At The Metropolitan Opera last fall, she sang Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, seen around the world on The Met Live in HD. Her 2012–13 concert calendar has included the gala opening of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s season, the inaugural concerts of Christian Thielemann as principal conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle, and the inaugural gala of Yannick Nézet- Séguin as music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra. She gives recitals in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Vienna, Geneva, Hong Kong, and Beijing, and she performs a four-concert Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, of which this program is a part.

Ms. Fleming won her fourth Grammy for Poèmes, on which Alan Gilbert conducted, featuring a collection of 20th-century French masterpieces. In recent years, she has recorded a diverse range of music, from Strauss’s Daphne, to the jazz album Haunted Heart, to the film sound track for The Lord of the Rings and the theme song for Dreamworks’s Rise of the Guardians. Her numerous awards include the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Honorary Membership in the Royal Academy of Music, and honorary doctorates from Carnegie Mellon, the Eastman School of Music, and The Juilliard School.

Renée Fleming is a member of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall and the Board of Sing for Hope. In 2010 she was named the first-ever creative consultant at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Repertoire April 17–20 The American composer Christopher Rouse, the Philharmonic’s current Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, is on the composition faculty at The Juilliard School. His Trombone Concerto, commissioned by the Philharmonic, was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Music. He composed Prospero’s Rooms in 2012, also on commission from the Philharmonic. The title refers not to Shakespeare but to Prince Prospero in “The Masque of the Red Death,” the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. “He invites all of his friends — noblemen and so forth — to his castle,” Mr. Rouse explains, “and he totally closes it off and they have a great masked ball.” The Prince has constructed a series of seven rooms, all in one color. Rouse says his piece “is really a journey through those seven rooms, imagining the colors.” These performances mark the work’s World Premiere.

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Leonard Bernstein composed his Serenade for Violin and Orchestra on a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation; the work was premiered in 1954 by the La Fenice Theater Orchestra of Venice, with Isaac Stern as soloist and the composer conducting. While inspired by his re- reading of Plato’s Symposium, Bernstein insisted that the work had no literal program, but that “the music, like the dialogue, is a series of related statements in praise of love, and generally follows the Platonic form through the succession of speakers at the banquet.” Five sections of varying tempos and musical markings capture the dialogue and personalities of several of the speakers in Symposium as they discourse on the nature of love. The Serenade was first performed by the New York Philharmonic in July 1965, with the composer conducting and Zino Francescatti as soloist. Most recently it was performed at Carnegie Hall in November 2008, with Alan Gilbert conducting and Glenn Dicterow as soloist, on a concert marking the 65th anniversary of Bernstein’s famed conducting debut.

The Fourth Symphony is Ives’s most complex work in the symphonic genre. The composer completed it in 1916, but the work was not performed in its entirety until 1965, when Leopold Stokowski (plus two assistant conductors) led the work with the American Symphony Orchestra. Ives was a nationalist composer; his works wed music of the utmost sophistication and complexity to American marches, folk songs, and hymns. He celebrated America’s folk spirit through the hymn tunes that served as the basis of his Fourth Symphony. The New York Philharmonic first performed this symphony in 1969, led by Seiji Ozawa; the most present performances were conducted by Alan Gilbert in May 2004 during the Charles Ives: An American Original festival.

April 24–25 and 27 In the voluminous output of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who produced masterworks in essentially every musical genre, his 27 piano concertos still hold a place of special distinction. Written for his own performance, they contain not just some of Mozart’s most brilliant compositional inspirations and innovations, but also some of his most sublimely beautiful creations. The monumental and symphonic Piano Concerto No. 25, composed in Vienna in 1786, is widely considered to be among Mozart’s very finest achievements. It was first performed by the Philharmonic in December 1944, with Artur Schnabel as soloist and George Szell conducting, and most recently in March 2010, with Jeffrey Kahane as conductor and soloist.

Anton Bruckner succeeded as no composer before him in synthesizing the technical resources of the 19th-century symphony, and his Symphony No. 3, characterized by its grandiosity of scale and complexity of musical content, represents the apotheosis of his symphonic output. Bruckner deeply admired his contemporary, Richard Wagner, and dedicated the symphony “To the Eminent Excellency Richard Wagner, The Unattainable, World-Famous, and Exalted Master of Poetry and Music, in Deepest Reverence Dedicated by Anton Bruckner.” This lavish display of indebtedness earned the work the moniker “Wagner.” The Third Symphony was first performed by the New York Symphony (which merged with the New York Philharmonic in 1928 to form today’s New York Philharmonic) on December 4, 1885, led by Walter Damrosch. The most recent subscription series performance was in June 2005, led by Lorin Maazel. (more) Alan Gilbert / Joshua Bell / Emanuel Ax / Renée Fleming / 8

April 26, Carnegie Hall Ottorino Respighi’s Fountains of Rome, composed in 1916, is a virtuosic kaleidoscope of sound meant to express, as the composer noted, “the sentiment and visions suggested by four of Rome’s fountains at the hour in which the character of each is most in harmony with the surrounding landscape, or in which their beauty appears the most suggestive to the observer.” These are the Fountain of Valle Giulia at dawn, the Triton Fountain in the morning, the Trevi Fountain at midday, and the Villa Medici fountain at sunset. After the work’s success, the composer completed two additional tone poems on Roman subjects: Pines of Rome (1924) and Festivals of Rome (1928). The New York Philharmonic first performed Fountains of Rome in November 1938, led by John Barbirolli. The most recent performance was in September 2012, led by Alan Gilbert, at the Opening Gala of the 2012–13 season.

Swedish composer Anders Hillborg’s song cycle The Strand Settings, co-commissioned by the Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall, is based on four poems by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mark Strand. Mr. Hillborg’s Vaporized Tivoli is on the program of the April 4–5 concerts of CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series. Singing this brand-new work realizes one of Renée Fleming’s goals for her Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall: “It’s never lost on me that a hundred years ago, eighty percent of what I would have been singing [is] new music,” she says.

Modest Musorgsky composed Pictures at an Exhibition as a set of piano pieces in June 1874. The work was inspired by drawings, paintings, and architectural sketches by Victor Hartmann, a close friend of Musorgsky’s whose death in the summer of 1873 brought the composer great grief. Musorgsky imagined himself “roving through the exhibition, now leisurely, now briskly in order to come close to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly, thinking of his departed friend.” Many musicians have arranged Musorgsky’s Pictures, most notably Maurice Ravel, whose orchestral version has become a classic in its own right. The first New York Philharmonic performance of Ravel’s orchestration took place in March 1930, under Arturo Toscanini. It was most recently performed in February 2012, led by Alan Gilbert.

* * * Credit Suisse is the Global Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * The April 17–20 performances are generously supported by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. and the Victor Herbert Foundation.

* * * Joshua Bell’s appearance with the New York Philharmonic is made possible through the Hedwig van Ameringen Guest Artists Endowment Fund.

* * * Christopher Rouse is The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence.

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Emanuel Ax is The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence.

* * * Programs of the New York Philharmonic are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tickets Tickets for these concerts start at $38. Tickets for Open Rehearsals are $18. Pre-Concert Talks are $7; discounts are available for multiple concerts, students, and groups (visit nyphil.org/preconcert for more information). Tickets for Insights Series events are $20. All tickets may be purchased online at nyphil.org or by calling (212) 875-5656, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets may also be purchased at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office. The Box Office opens at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at noon on Sunday. On performance evenings, the Box Office closes one- half hour after performance time; other evenings it closes at 6:00 p.m. A limited number of $13.50 tickets for select concerts may be available through the Internet for students within 10 days of the performance, or in person the day of. Valid identification is required. To determine ticket availability, call the Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656. [Ticket prices subject to change.]

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New York Philharmonic

Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Open Rehearsal — 9:45 a.m. Thursday, April 18, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 20, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Pre-Concert Talk (one hour before each concert) with Paul Moravec, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Distinguished Professor of Music at Adelphi University

Alan Gilbert, conductor Joshua Bell, violin

Christopher ROUSE Prospero’s Rooms (World Premiere– New York Philharmonic Commission) BERNSTEIN Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”) IVES Symphony No. 4

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Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Open Rehearsal — 9:45 a.m. Thursday, April 25, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Pre-Concert Talk (one hour before each concert) with author Fred Plotkin

Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 BRUCKNER Symphony No. 3

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Carnegie Hall

Friday, April 26, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Renée Fleming, soprano

RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome Anders HILLBORG The Strand Settings (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Carnegie Hall) MUSORGSKY/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

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