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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2, 2013 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected] ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC MAY 30–JUNE 29, 2013 PROGRAM I OF IV THE JAZZ EFFECT Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with MARK NUCCIO WYNTON MARSALIS’s Swing Symphony with JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS May 31–June 1 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis To Appear on Rush Hour Concert, May 30 Jazz and its influences on orchestral music form the basis of the first program in Gilbert’s Playlist — four weeks of programs conducted by Alan Gilbert showcasing themes and ideas that have become a hallmark of the Music Director’s tenure — Friday, May 31, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. and Saturday, June 1 at 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert leads the Philharmonic in Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, with Acting Principal Clarinet Mark Nuccio as soloist, and Wynton Marsalis’s Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3), featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis — the forces that gave the work’s U.S. Premiere on Opening Night in September 2010. Stravinsky’s Ragtime and Shostakovich’s Tahiti Trot, conducted by Assistant Conductor Case Scaglione, open the program. “One thing I’ve been interested in pursuing with the Philharmonic is collaboration with important cultural institutions across New York City,” Alan Gilbert said. “Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis were an obvious choice. Wynton is such an iconic figure: a great artist, instrumentalist, teacher, and communicator who really believes in the power of music and the importance of bringing people into our world.” (more) Gilbert’s Playlist / Program I / 2 In addition to Mr. Marsalis’s Swing Symphony, the program’s jazz-influenced works are by some of the 20th century’s most influential composers. Stravinsky’s 1918 work Ragtime, scored for a small chamber orchestra of 11 instruments, is an expansion of the “Ragtime” section of his L’Histoire du soldat. Composed a decade later, Shostakovich’s 1928 Tahiti Trot is the composer’s take on Vincent Youman’s “Tea for Two” from the musical No, No, Nanette, which had become a huge hit in Russia in spite of the Communist party’s official disdain for jazz, which officials considered to be a decadent capitalist form of music. Copland’s jazz-inspired Clarinet Concerto was premiered in a 1950 radio broadcast by Benny Goodman and the NBC Radio Orchestra; the mid-century jazz legend later performed the work with the Philharmonic in 1969, and the Orchestra has since revisited it 60 times with former Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker. Alan Gilbert will also lead the Rush Hour Concert on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 6:45 p.m., featuring Swing Symphony with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The programs in Gilbert’s Playlist, taking place during the final weeks of the 2012–13 subscription season, May 30–June 29, 2013, are united by the themes of collaboration, breaking boundaries, theatricality, and wide-ranging music. Gilbert’s Playlist continues June 6–11 with Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero — featuring Gerald Finley, Patricia Racette, and Peter Hoare — and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring Lisa Batiashvili. The program June 20–22 will feature Haydn’s Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major, performed by Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Emanuel Ax; the New York Premiere of Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in- Residence Christopher Rouse’s Symphony No. 3; and A Ring Journey, Mr. Gilbert’s own synthesis of orchestral music from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, based on Erich Leinsdorf’s arrangement. Gilbert’s Playlist concludes June 27–29 with A Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky, a genre-bending fusion of symphony orchestra, ballet, puppetry, filmmaking, and more in a theatrical reimagining of the ballets The Fairy’s Kiss and Petrushka, directed/designed by Doug Fitch, created by Giants Are Small, and starring New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns. Related Events Pre-Concert Talks Violist/violinist and Philharmonic Senior Teaching Artist David Wallace will introduce the program May 30–June 1. 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. National and International Radio Broadcast The program will be broadcast the week of June 9, 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. (more) Gilbert’s Playlist / Program I / 3 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 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 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 classicalmusic 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.” American-born New York Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Case Scaglione was named the 2011 Solti Fellow by the Solti Foundation U.S. — an honor awarded only three times in the foundation’s history. He recently finished his tenure as music director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra of Los Angeles, where he also founded 360° Music, (more) Gilbert’s Playlist / Program I / 4 an educational outreach program that brought the orchestra to inner-city schools. His programs spanned works from Beethoven and Wagner to the Los Angeles premiere of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony, which was supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. Mr. Scaglione was a student of David Zinman at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, where he won the James Conlon Prize and the Aspen Conducting Prize, which led to his Cleveland Orchestra debut in July 2010. Following his studies in Aspen, Mr. Scaglione was invited to serve as assistant conductor of the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he led a wide range of performances and served as cover conductor for all orchestral performances. A frequent guest assistant and cover conductor with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and David Robertson, he has also assisted at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Opera, and he has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Bramwell Tovey. In the summer of 2011 Mr. Scaglione was one of three Conducting Fellows at Tanglewood, chosen by James Levine and Stefan Asbury. A native of Texas, Case Scaglione received his bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He spent his post-graduate studies at the Peabody Institute, where he studied with Gustav Meier. He made his Philharmonic debut conducting the Young People’s Concert on November 12, 2011. Mark Nuccio, Acting Principal Clarinet, joined the New York Philharmonic in 1999, having served in ensembles including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. An active solo and chamber musician, he has been the featured performer with several orchestras in the United States and on numerous occasions at the International Clarinet Association conventions. He made his New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2001, and regularly gives recitals internationally.