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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 ’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.”

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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 ’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.

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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 , chosen by 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 . 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. Mr. Nuccio performs chamber music at Colorado’s Strings in the Mountain Music Festival and Bravo! Vail, and is a member of the Philharmonic Quintet of New York (PQNY), a group of five woodwind players from the New York Philharmonic. Since its inception in 2001, the PQNY has performed across the globe. During summers, Mr. Nuccio performs chamber music at the Strings in the Mountain Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

He is featured on movie sound tracks, including Failure to Launch, The Last Holiday, The Rookie, The Score, Intolerable Cruelty, Alamo, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, Hitch, and The Manchurian Candidate, and in numerous television commercials. He also performed on the Late Show with David Letterman as well as on the 2003 Grammy Awards. Mr. Nuccio’s first CD, Opening Night, featuring the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, was released in 2006.

A Colorado native, Mark Nuccio holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University, where he studied with the renowned pedagogue Robert Marcellus. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado. Beyond his active performing schedule, Mr. Nuccio is committed to training the next generation of musicians. He currently serves on

(more) Gilbert’s Playlist / Program I / 5 the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in New York City; teaches master classes in the U.S. and abroad; and is a Rico advising artist and clinician as well as an artist/clinician for Buffet Crampon, and performs exclusively on Buffet clarinets.

Wynton Marsalis is music director and trumpet of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans in 1961, he began his classical training on trumpet at age 12 and soon began playing in local bands. He entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Mr. Marsalis made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 70 jazz and classical albums, which have garnered him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the first and only artist to win classical and jazz Grammys in the same year, a feat he repeated in 1984.

Mr. Marsalis’s compositions include Sweet Release; Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements; Jump Start and Jazz; Citi Movement/Griot New York; At the Octoroon Balls; In This House, On This Morning; and Big Train. In 1997 he won the Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. That same year he premiered the monumental work All Rise, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic along with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Morgan State University Choir. Mr. Marsalis’s second symphony, Blues Symphony, was premiered in 2009 by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2010. That same year, Mr. Marsalis premiered Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3), a co-commission by the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and The Barbican Centre. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performed the piece with the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin and the New York Philharmonic in New York City in 2010, the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles in 2011, and the London Symphony Orchestra in London in 2012.

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of universities and colleges throughout the U.S. He conducts educational programs for students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for Young People concerts produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. He led the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall (which opened in October 2004), the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. In 2009 Mr. Marsalis was awarded France’s Legion of Honor, the highest honor bestowed by the French government.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988. It performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S., and around the globe; in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, and public parks; and with symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. These programs reach more than 110,000 students, teachers, and general audience members. Under music director Wynton Marsalis, the JLCO performs pieces ranging from rare historic (more) Gilbert’s Playlist / Program I / 6 compositions to JALC-commissioned compositions and arrangements by musicians including Benny Carter, Wayne Shorter, and Joe Lovano. The JLCO has also collaborated with the Russian National Orchestra; the Boston, Chicago, and London symphony orchestras; and the Orchestra Esperimentale in São Paolo, Brazil. Fourteen recordings featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis have been released internationally.

Repertoire Wynton Marsalis’s Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3) was co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and London’s Barbican Centre. It received its U.S. Premiere on Opening Night 2010, with Alan Gilbert conducting the New York Philharmonic and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Mr. Marsalis has revised it for this second set of Philharmonic performances of the work, even adding another movement. Swing Symphony shows Mr. Marsalis continuing his explorations on how to join the forces of two strains of Western music — jazz and the symphony orchestra — to allow them to maintain their distinct identities while avoiding any possible sense of conflict or competition that derives from their different practices and genres. “I want to try to figure some other ways how they can work together,” he has explained. “The challenge for me is to make it sound like it’s swinging.” It was the Philharmonic’s Music Director Emeritus, Kurt Masur, who first challenged Mr. Marsalis to compose symphonically. The result was All Rise, Marsalis’s first numbered symphony, which the Philharmonic premiered in 1999.

Aaron Copland experimented with jazz during the 1920s in such works as Music for the Theater and the Piano Concerto, but he did not incorporate jazz styles into his work again until 1947, when he began work on his Clarinet Concerto. That year legendary clarinet player and unofficial “King of Swing” Benny Goodman asked the composer to write a concerto for his performances with symphony orchestras. Copland worked on the piece during the summer of 1948 while teaching at the Tanglewood Music Center, and finished it that fall at his home in Sneden’s Landing, New York. With Goodman as the soloist, the work was given its World Premiere in 1950, with the NBC Symphony led by Fritz Reiner. Following a lyrical, even poetic first movement, the concerto opens up for virtuosic displays by the soloist, with jazz-influenced rhythms that also recall the composer’s interest in South American music. Copland conducted the first Philharmonic performances of his Clarinet Concerto in June 1969, with Goodman as soloist. The most recent performances were given in June 2009, led by , with then-Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker. The work has been recorded twice by the Philharmonic: with Raymond Leppard in 1986, and with in 1989. For both recordings, Stanley Drucker was the soloist.

In 1919 the conductor Ernest Ansermet returned to Europe from an American tour with piano reductions and instrumental parts of some ragtime music. He shared them with Igor Stravinsky, who was fascinated and copied them out in score. These specimens inspired and guided him during the writing of the “Rag-Time” movement of Histoire du soldat and, immediately after, Ragtime, a four-minute piece for flute, clarinet, horn, cornet, trombone, big drum, side drum with snare, side drum without snare, cymbals, cimbalom, first violin, (more) Gilbert’s Playlist / Program I / 7

second violin, viola, and double bass. In his autobiography Stravinsky wrote that the work is “indicative of the passion I felt at that time for jazz, which burst into life so suddenly when the War ended.” The Philharmonic first performed Ragtime in January 1925, with the composer at the podium. Its most recent performance was at a Young Person’s Concert in October 1978, led by .

According to the Russian conductor Nicolai Malko, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tahiti Trot had its genesis in a play titled Roar, China, which played in Leningrad in the 1920s. One scene showed Americans dancing to a foxtrot on a ship, Malko recalled. That dance form became popular, and it was rumored to be titled “Tahiti Trot.” It was actually “Tea for Two,” the Vincent Yeomans song from his 1925 musical No, No, Nanette, and Malko, going against the predominantly anti-jazz feeling in Russia at the time, suggested to Shostakovich, who liked jazz and improvising on piano in a jazz manner, that he arrange it for full orchestra. Malko conducted Tahiti Trot in several Russian cities, and the “brilliant orchestration,” as one critic described it, was a hit in each one. The New York Philharmonic first performed the piece in March 1979, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The Orchestra most recently performed it in Vail, Colorado, in July 2006, led by Bramwell Tovey.

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

* * * Wynton Marsalis’s appearances are made possible with generous support from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

* * * The May 30 performance is presented by The Travelers Companies, Inc.

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

* * * Tickets Tickets for the May 30 performance start at $39; for May 31–June 1, $30. Limited ticket availability. 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). 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 Friday, 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, and 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

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GILBERT’S PLAYLIST

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WYNTON MARSALIS’S SWING SYMPHONY AT RUSH HOUR

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 6:45 p.m. Open Rehearsal — 9:45 a.m.

Pre-Concert Talk at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at 5:30 p.m. with violist/violinist and Philharmonic Senior Teaching Artist David Wallace

Alan Gilbert, conductor Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Wynton MARSALIS Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3)

THE JAZZ EFFECT

Avery Fisher Hall

Friday, May 31, 2013, 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 1, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Pre-Concert Talk (one hour before each concert) with violist/violinist and Philharmonic Senior Teaching Artist David Wallace

Alan Gilbert, conductor Case Scaglione, conductor (Stravinsky, Shostakovich) Mark Nuccio, clarinet Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

STRAVINSKY Ragtime SHOSTAKOVICH Tahiti Trot COPLAND Clarinet Concerto Wynton MARSALIS Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3)

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