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ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 2013–14 SEASON

ALAN GILBERT To Conduct Three Weeks of OPENING CONCERTS OPENING GALA: Osvaldo GOLIJOV’s Azul and PIAZZOLLA/Brunetti’s Suite from La serie del Ángel with YO-YO MA, September 25 YEFIM BRONFMAN To Perform Tchaikovsky on Program with Ravel and Bernstein September 26–28, October 1 U.S. Premiere of Mark-Anthony TURNAGE’s Frieze with BEETHOVEN’s NINTH SYMPHONY October 3–5, 8–9 ______YEFIM BRONFMAN, The Mary and James G. Wallach ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE THE BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTOS: A Philharmonic Festival Featuring BRONFMAN, Conducted by ALAN GILBERT

CHRISTOPHER ROUSE, The Marie-Josée Kravis COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE WORLD PREMIERE of Symphony No. 4; New York Premieres of REQUIEM and OBOE CONCERTO with Principal Oboe Liang Wang; RAPTURE at Home and on Tour Rouse To Advise on CONTACT!, the New-Music Series, Including New Partnership with 92nd Street Y

Inaugural NY PHIL BIENNIAL, May 29–June 7, 2014 Immersive Exhibition of New Music Today

10-Day Experience To Showcase the International Music Scene Through ORCHESTRAL EVENTS, GUEST ENSEMBLES , CONTACT! CONCERTS, and More

With Partners Across New York City

A FAREWELL to Concertmaster GLENN DICTEROW Violinist’s Favorite Concertmaster Solos — R. Strauss and Tchaikovsky BEETHOVEN’s TRIPLE CONCERTO with Principal Cello CARTER BREY and YEFIM BRONFMAN FREE Chamber Music Recital with Works by KORNGOLD and John CORIGLIANO

THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic KUBRICK’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY — Complete Film with Score Conducted Live by ALAN GILBERT HITCHCOCK! Conducted by CONSTANTINE KITSOPOULOS ALEC BALDWIN To Serve as Artistic Advisor Later in the Season: PIXAR IN CONCERT — Music and Clips from All 13 Films

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ALAN GILBERT To Conduct MOZART’s Three Final Symphonies THE NIELSEN PROJECT: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5 BRITTEN’s 100th BIRTHDAY: Spring Symphony and Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with Tenor Paul Appleby and Principal Horn Philip Myers

THE MARIE-JOSÉE KRAVIS PRIZE FOR NEW MUSIC Philharmonic Commissions To Enter Repertoire with WORLD PREMIERES by Anthony CHEUNG and 2012 Kravis Emerging Composer Sean SHEPHERD 2013 KRAVIS PRIZE Recipient To Be Named

SIR ANDREW DAVIS To Conduct U.S. Premiere–Philharmonic Co-Commission: Julian ANDERSON’s The Discovery of Heaven and Works by FRANCK and PROKOFIEV BERNARD LABADIE To Conduct MOZART’s REQUIEM and Works by BACH and HANDEL CHARLES DUTOIT To Conduct Krzysztof PENDERECKI’s Concerto Grosso with Principal Cello Carter Brey and Cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Daniel Müller-Schott ESA-PEKKA SALONEN To Conduct New York Concert Premiere of His Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz in Her Subscription Debut and Works by RAVEL and SIBELIUS GUSTAVO DUDAMEL To Conduct Claude VIVIER’s Orion and BRUCKNER’s Symphony No. 9

Third Annual CHINESE NEW YEAR GALA CONCERT with LONG YU and YUJA WANG A BROADWAY CHRISTMAS with BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT with Musical Humorists IGUDESMAN & JOO

ASIA / WINTER 2014 TOUR Includes Returns to Tokyo and Seoul ROUSE’s Rapture and LINDBERG’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Yefim BRONFMAN ALAN GILBERT To Narrate Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra in Japanese at Tokyo Young People’s Concert

Conducting Debuts by VLADIMIR JUROWSKI and PABLO HERAS-CASADO Assistant Conductor JOSHUA WEILERSTEIN in Subscription Debut Pianist PAUL LEWIS and Soprano KATE ROYAL To Make Debuts

ALEC BALDWIN To Return as Host of National Radio Broadcasts

New York, N.Y. — The New York Philharmonic’s 2013–14 season will be marked by an integration of ongoing artistic initiatives that have become hallmarks of Alan Gilbert’s tenure as Music Director, alongside the introduction of new ideas that will advance the Orchestra and its role in the cultural life of New York City and the world. Artistic partnerships will continue and grow, with cross-pollination in all facets of the season. Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in- Residence Yefim Bronfman will perform on CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series, and will be the featured soloist in The Beethoven Piano Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival (the first time an Artist-in-Residence is performing on the Philharmonic’s multi-week festival), which will showcase Beethoven’s complete piano concertos alongside World Premieres by composers commissioned as part of the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. World and New York Premieres by Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse, continuing his two-year term, will be performed at Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall, while he curates an informal and adventurous CONTACT! series that will expand its reach through a new partnership with the 92nd Street Y. Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic will travel to Asia for their second tour there together, with concerts in Seoul and Tokyo, among other cities to be announced, and with

3 repertoire including former Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (a Philharmonic commission), with Yefim Bronfman, and Christopher Rouse’s Rapture. This season, the Philharmonic introduces the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, a 10-day, immersive exhibition showcasing the best of today’s new music; bids farewell to Glenn Dicterow in his final season as the Orchestra’s Concertmaster; and presents a new film-music week, THE ART OF THE SCORE. As always, the Philharmonic will present today’s leading artists and conductors performing wide-ranging repertoire, champion contemporary composers and rarely heard works, and perform programs that highlight new perspectives on established works.

“From the start I had hoped that the seemingly disparate initiatives we introduced when I arrived would eventually collide, intersect, and intertwine in a natural, organic way,” Music Director Alan Gilbert said. “I am gratified that in the coming season our partnerships with an inspired performer and a complex composer will blend with the cultivation of brand-new music and fresh perspectives on masterpieces of the past to become an exciting mix. This experimentation is made possible by the enthusiasm and excellence of the Philharmonic musicians; my relationship with them deepens and grows every year, and I am grateful to have them as active artistic collaborators.”

“It has been a highlight of my tenure thus far to work with Alan on crafting the 2013–14 season,” said Philharmonic Executive Director Matthew VanBesien. “Over the last year, we have been reimagining what an Orchestra can be in the 21st century, and I’m thrilled that some of our ideas are already coming to fruition in the 2013–14 season.”

“After four seasons, Alan Gilbert’s initiatives are interacting in beautiful ways to create yet another inspired and creative season,” said Chairman Gary W. Parr. “The Board of Directors and I would like to thank our generous supporters for helping us bring Alan’s vision alive on the concert stage, encourage young composers, collaborate with longtime friends, and bring the dedicated virtuosos that make up this wonderful Orchestra to audiences around the world.”

HEADLINES OF THE 2013–14 SEASON

ALAN GILBERT To Conduct Three Weeks of OPENING CONCERTS

OPENING GALA: Osvaldo GOLIJOV’s Azul and PIAZZOLLA/Brunetti’s Suite from La serie del Ángel with YO-YO MA, September 25

Alan Gilbert opens the New York Philharmonic’s 2013–14 season with three weeks of concerts that exhibit the range of his musical interests and spotlight artistic partners. The Philharmonic’s 172nd season begins September 25, 2013, with an Argentine-flavored Opening Gala featuring Octavio Brunetti’s arrangement of a suite from tango master Astor Piazzolla’s La serie del Ángel and the first Philharmonic performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul, both of which spotlight cellist Yo-Yo Ma in his 53rd appearance with the Orchestra including three Opening Galas. The evening begins and ends with two works by Ravel: his 1918 orchestral transcription of Alborada del gracioso from his solo piano suite Miroirs and the 1928 Boléro.

This is Mr. Ma’s first New York performance of Mr. Golijov’s Azul, a work written for him that he originally premiered at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2006. Rather than composing a virtuosic work for one of the world’s greatest cellists, Mr. Golijov decided to take a more contemplative direction. According to Mr. Golijov, the orchestra is an “antenna” for the soloist and is specifically arranged to showcase groups with distinct functions, create a sound world that is sympathetic to communal silence, and enhance the music’s ebb and flow.

Alan Gilbert said: “I think Osvaldo Golijov is one of the most important composers working today, and I’ve loved his music for a long time. To work with Yo-Yo Ma is a huge honor, and it’s a dream to have him opening the season. His championing of this music makes a lot of sense to me because I can see the emotional kinship that these two great artists share. When Yo-Yo commissions a new piece, he doesn’t just play it once: he brings it to different orchestras and gives the piece life.”

Mr. Ma made his Philharmonic debut in 1978 — the year he won the Avery Fisher Prize — performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, under the baton of Alexander Schneider, alongside violinist Shlomo Mintz and pianist Yefim Bronfman. Yo-Yo Ma last appeared with the Philharmonic in June 2012 performing Henri Dutilleux’s Cello Concerto, Tout un monde lointain (A Whole Distant World), conducted by Alan Gilbert, in a concert honoring Mr. Dutilleux as the inaugural recipient of The Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music.

YEFIM BRONFMAN To Perform Tchaikovsky on Program with Ravel and Bernstein September 26–28, October 1

Yefim Bronfman will begin his season-long tenure as The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in- Residence with the subscription season-opening concerts on September 26–28 and October 1, 2013, performing the program’s finale, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, conducted by Alan Gilbert.

Alan Gilbert said: “Fima and I have a very warm, natural relationship offstage, and I hope that translates into what happens onstage. I’m always inspired by his perfection and dazzled by his pianism. It’s incredible what he can do on the instrument. Everything he does is so passionate and committed.”

The program also includes the orchestral version of Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, which he orchestrated in 1918 (based on the original solo piano work, the fourth movement of his 1904–05 Miroirs), and legendary Philharmonic Laureate Conductor Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, which the Philharmonic premiered in February 1961 as part of “A Valentine for Leonard Bernstein,” a pension fund benefit concert conducted by Lukas Foss. (See Supplement: Yefim Bronfman, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence)

U.S. Premiere of Mark-Anthony TURNAGE’s Frieze with BEETHOVEN’s NINTH SYMPHONY October 3–5, 8–9

On October 3–5 and 8–9, 2013, Alan Gilbert will lead a program pairing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the U.S. Premiere of a new work that was written in response to that enduring masterpiece: Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze, co-commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, New York Philharmonic, and BBC Radio 3. The concerts mark Alan Gilbert’s first performances of the Ninth Symphony with the Philharmonic. The event is part of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2013 bicentennial and reflects the New York Philharmonic’s historic link to the Ninth Symphony: the Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned the work in 1817, and the New York Philharmonic gave its U.S. Premiere in 1846, for which it commissioned the first English translation of “Ode to Joy.” The concert will feature soprano Julianna Di Giacomo in her Philharmonic subscription debut, mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, tenor Russell Thomas, bass Shenyang, and others.

Alan Gilbert said: “For the modern audience, I think it’s fascinating to be reminded that when Beethoven’s music was first played, it was then a contemporary-music concert. The hope is that both pieces — Turnage’s Frieze and Beethoven’s Ninth — will be illuminated by the juxtaposition.”

The title of Mr. Turnage’s work is a reference to painter Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, located in Vienna’s Secession building, which is itself a response to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Mark-Anthony Turnage said: “I’ve been obsessed with Beethoven since the age of eight. He’s a towering figure, but I find him more inspiring than intimidating.”

The October performances are part of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2013 bicentennial, and New York celebrations of the bicentennial will be led by the New York Philharmonic, The Juilliard School, and the Morgan Library & Museum. In the Bruno Walter Gallery at Avery Fisher Hall, the New York Philharmonic Archives will present an exhibition on the 1846 U.S. Premiere of the Ninth Symphony, which was the first time the “Ode to Joy” was translated into English. The original choral parts, hand-written translation, and printing plates — all of which are housed in the New York Philharmonic Archives — will be on view. Also on display will be items from the archives of the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, as well as Philharmonic founder Ureli Corelli Hill’s 1836 diary, in which he raved about the Ninth Symphony’s “majesty vigor, genius, [and] originality” after hearing it for the first time, conducted by Felix Mendelssohn. Hill wrote that it would be 100 years “before the like can possibly be hoped to be heard in the United States,” but only ten years later, Hill arranged for the Orchestra to perform the Ninth Symphony’s U.S. Premiere. The Royal Philharmonic Society and the New York Philharmonic will also present an event at the Morgan Library & Museum featuring insights into the history and work of the two institutions. Philharmonic musicians will perform the U.S. Premiere of Poul Ruders’s String Quartet No. 4, one of the works commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society for its bicentennial.

New York celebrations of the bicentennial will also include special manuscript exhibitions at the Juilliard Library, the Morgan Library & Museum, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; the Royal Philharmonic Society’s annual lecture, presented in New York — the first time outside the U.K. — by Roger Wright, controller of BBC Radio 3 and director of the BBC Proms, on October 9, 2013, at Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse; and a concert featuring the U.S. Premiere of a Royal Philharmonic Society–commissioned work, among other events at The Juilliard School. Founded in London in 1813, the Royal Philharmonic Society is the U.K.’s oldest music society.

YEFIM BRONFMAN, The Mary and James G. Wallach ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE THE BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTOS: A Philharmonic Festival Featuring BRONFMAN, Conducted by ALAN GILBERT

Yefim Bronfman has been named The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic for the 2013–14 season. Throughout the season his role is enhanced by the integration of artistic initiatives that Alan Gilbert has introduced, with Mr. Bronfman performing on CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series, and appearing as the featured soloist in The Beethoven Piano Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival. He will also perform as soloist on the Orchestra’s ASIA / WINTER 2014 tour.

Having opened the season with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, September 26–28 and October 1, 2013, Mr. Bronfman will conclude it with The Beethoven Piano Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival, conducted by Alan Gilbert, a cycle of Beethoven’s piano concertos paired with new works by composers commissioned as part of the New York Philharmonic’s Marie- Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. The festival begins June 11–14, 2014, with Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 alongside a work by 2011 Kravis Prize beneficiary Anthony Cheung. The following week, June 18–21, 2014, Mr. Bronfman performs the Second and Third Concertos on a program that also includes the World Premiere of a Philharmonic commission by 2012 Kravis Emerging Composer Sean Shepherd. The cycle concludes June 24–28, 2014, when Mr. Bronfman joins Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and Principal Cello Carter Brey for the Triple Concerto and performs Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor. The Beethoven Piano Concertos marks the first time the Philharmonic’s multi-week festival, an initiative launched in Alan Gilbert’s inaugural season, is spotlighting the Artist-in-Residence, another of the Music Director’s initiatives.

Also as part of his residency, Mr. Bronfman joins Alan Gilbert and the Orchestra to reprise Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (a work the Philharmonic commissioned for him and that they premiered together in May 2012) both in New York, January 2–3 and 7, 2014, and on the ASIA / WINTER 2014 tour in February 2014. He will perform a chamber music concert with Philharmonic musicians March 30, 2014, at 92nd Street Y as well as a program of contemporary chamber works at 92YTribeca as part of CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series. Mr. Bronfman will also perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at Long Island University’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on January 4, 2014. (See Supplement: Yefim Bronfman, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence)

American composer Christopher Rouse will return in the 2013–14 season to continue his two- year tenure as the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence. Mr. Rouse’s compositions and musical insights will be highlighted on subscription programs; in the Philharmonic’s appearance at the Spring For Music festival; in the NY PHIL BIENNIAL; on CONTACT! events; and in the ASIA / WINTER 2014 tour.

As part of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, the Philharmonic will perform the World Premiere of Christopher Rouse’s Symphony No. 4, a New York Philharmonic Commission, June 5–7, 2014, conducted by Alan Gilbert. Mr. Rouse currently envisions his Symphony No. 4 to be a two- movement, 20-minute orchestral work with a slow first movement similar to his blissful Rapture, which the Philharmonic will perform, led by Alan Gilbert, January 2–3 and 7, 2014, as well as at Long Island University’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on January 4, 2014, and on the ASIA / WINTER 2014 tour. Alan Gilbert will lead Principal Oboe Liang Wang in the New York Premiere of Mr. Rouse’s Oboe Concerto on November 14–16 and 19, 2013. (The Philharmonic had previously scheduled the concerto in December 2010, but the program was adjusted due to a blizzard). Mr. Rouse refers to the work — completed in 2004 and premiered in 2009 — as one of his “genial” concertos. Written in three movements, it explores the oboe’s capabilities and highlights both long, lyrical lines and virtuosic, agile passages. The program will also include Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Don Juan, the latter featuring retiring Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow as soloist. On May 5, 2014, Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Premiere of Christopher Rouse’s Requiem to open the Spring For Music festival at Carnegie Hall, for which American orchestras are invited to present one-night-only performances of unusual programming. Commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria, this large-scale, 90-minute piece — composed in 2002 in honor of the 2003 bicentennial of Hector Berlioz’s birth — utilizes traditional Latin liturgical texts as well as poetry by Seamus Heaney, Siegfried Sassoon, Michelangelo, Ben Jonson, and John Milton.

Entering its fifth season in 2013–14, CONTACT! — on which Christopher Rouse will advise — is the Philharmonic’s new-music series dedicated to the music of emerging and iconic contemporary composers. CONTACT! takes Philharmonic musicians to venues around the city with presenting partners that share the goals of an adventurous concert experience. In addition to continuing its presence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 2013–14 CONTACT! expands its reach through a new partnership with the 92nd Street Y. A co-curated series of new music performed by chamber ensembles will be presented at 92nd Street Y’s intimate, informal space in Tribeca. CONTACT! at 92YTribeca will include performances by The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Yefim Bronfman, a program focused on works by composer- conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, and a program of solo works. Dates and programs for all CONTACT! concerts will be announced at a later time. (See Supplement: Christopher Rouse, The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence)

Inaugural NY PHIL BIENNIAL, May 29–June 7, 2014 Immersive Exhibition of New Music Today

10-Day Experience To Showcase the International Music Scene Through ORCHESTRAL EVENTS, GUEST ENSEMBLES, CONTACT! CONCERTS, and More With Partners Across New York City

In the spring of 2014, the New York Philharmonic presents the first-ever NY PHIL BIENNIAL, a 10-day, immersive exhibition showcasing the best of today’s new music through orchestral events, guest ensembles, and CONTACT! concerts with small ensembles in venues outside of the Lincoln Center campus. Inspired by biennials in the world of modern visual-art, the NY PHIL BIENNIAL will be a veritable playground of new and recent music from around the world, inviting audiences to experience new music in new ways. Biennial programming will remain fluid and responsive in order to include the most recent premieres, fully representing the latest trends in contemporary music. Most of the works featured in the biennial will receive their World, U.S., and New York Premieres, and others have been heard in New York only once before. NY PHIL BIENNIAL partners and participants will include Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 92nd Street Y, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Juilliard School, Kaufman Center’s Special Music School High School, and The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse, whose Philharmonic-commissioned Symphony No. 4 will receive its World Premiere June 5–7, 2014, during the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, conducted by Alan Gilbert. Further program details will be announced in May 2013.

Alan Gilbert said: “The NY PHIL BIENNIAL will be one of the touchstones of the season. We want it to be a snapshot of what is happening in music today, presented in an innovative and playful way. The programming will remain flexible so we can add successful new works as we discover them during the next year, with the goal of riding the crest of the living, constantly changing new-music scene. We are excited about this prospect and hope it becomes a real happening in New York.”

Glenn Dicterow, the New York Philharmonic’s longest-serving Concertmaster, will step down at the end of the 2013–14 season, following 34 years of service. Originally from Los Angeles, Mr. Dicterow made his New York Philharmonic debut in 1967 when he was only 18, performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto conducted by Andre Kostelanetz. He joined the Orchestra as Concertmaster in 1980 and has since performed as soloist every year. In celebration of his final season, Mr. Dicterow’s artistry will be highlighted on an array of programs. For his final performances, which conclude the 2013–14 season, Mr. Dicterow has requested to perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto alongside Artist-in-Residence Yefim Bronfman and Principal Cello Carter Brey, presented as part of The Beethoven Piano Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival, conducted by Alan Gilbert and featuring Yefim Bronfman, on June 24–28, 2014. Mr. Dicterow

9 will also perform four spotlighted concertmaster solos: in Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Don Juan, led by Alan Gilbert, November 14–16 and 19, 2013; Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, December 12–14, 2013; and Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 3, conducted by Andrey Boreyko, January 22–25, 2014.

On January 19, 2014, at Alice Tully Hall, The Juilliard School and the New York Philharmonic present Mr. Dicterow in a free chamber music recital, part of the School’s Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series, comprising pieces that reflect his bicoastal career. Longtime friend and collaborative pianist Gerald Robbins will join Mr. Dicterow for the Violin Sonata by East Coast–based John Corigliano (whose father served as Philharmonic Concertmaster from 1943 to 1966), and excerpts from the Much Ado About Nothing Suite by Hollywood composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, representing Mr. Dicterow’s California roots. The program will conclude with Dvořák’s American Quartet performed by Mr. Dicterow and Philharmonic Associate Principal, Second Violin Group, Lisa Kim; violist Karen Dreyfus, Mr. Dicterow’s wife and a frequent Philharmonic substitute; and Associate Principal Cello Eileen Moon. Mr. Dicterow is an alumnus of Juilliard, and both he and Ms. Dreyfus are members of the School’s faculty. Ms. Kim and Ms. Moon are also Juilliard alumni. (See Supplement: A Farewell to Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow)

Alan Gilbert said: “Glenn Dicterow is a legend. When I travel around the world, everybody speaks of him in the most glowing, exalted terms. I’ve learned so much from him over the years. The most powerful feeling I have about Glenn is his attitude about music-making. He approaches every situation with the same commitment and dedication.”

THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic KUBRICK’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Complete Film with Score Conducted Live by ALAN GILBERT HITCHCOCK! Conducted by CONSTANTINE KITSOPOULOS ALEC BALDWIN To Serve as Artistic Advisor Later in the Season: PIXAR IN CONCERT — Music and Clips from All 13 Films

The Orchestra will present THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic, offering two programs that highlight some of the genre’s most fascinating uses of music. On September 20–21, 2013 (just before the 2013–14 season officially begins), Alan Gilbert will lead the Philharmonic in the score from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, performed live as the entire film is screened, marking the first time such a program has been performed in the U.S. Celebrated for its technological realism, innovative and Oscar-winning special effects, and bold use of music, the film brought worldwide fame to both Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and the music of György Ligeti, including Atmosphères, Lux Aeterna, Requiem, and Aventures. In one of cinema’s most memorable images, a spaceship floats serenely through space to the strains of Johann Strauss, Jr.’s The Blue Danube. Silence is also a key component of the film; the Orchestra will remain onstage for the entire screening, highlighting Kubrick’s strategic and eloquent use of both music and silence in storytelling. On September 17–18, 2013, conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos will make his Philharmonic debut leading Hitchcock!, a program celebrating legendary director Alfred Hitchcock and the music written for his films by composers including Bernard Herrmann, Lyn Murray, and Dmitri Tiomkin. Like Kubrick,

Hitchcock ingeniously used music to build suspense and enhance drama. Clips will be shown from films spanning the director’s career, including Vertigo, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, To Catch a Thief, and North by Northwest, and the evening will feature a scene from Hitchcock: By Himself with Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette, the theme music from the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. THE ART OF THE SCORE will also include two panel discussions. One panel will explore the use of music in Hitchcock’s and Kubrick’s films and will include filmmakers, directors, composers, and historians, moderated by Alec Baldwin, who will serve as artistic advisor to this initiative. A second panel, produced by the World Science Festival, will include renowned composers, neuroscientists, and filmmakers discussing the uniquely powerful role of music in shaping the narrative flow and emotional impact of film.

Later in the season, May 1–3, 2014, the Orchestra presents Pixar in Concert. The program will illustrate the studio’s history through movie clips and music from its 13 films so far, from Toy Story to Brave. Highlighting the importance Pixar places on film scoring, the concerts will include music by the four composers who have worked with the studios: Randy Newman, Michael Giacchino, Thomas Newman, and Patrick Doyle.

Alan Gilbert leads several programs throughout the season, each focusing on a single composer about whom he feels particularly passionate. He will conduct a program of Mozart’s three final symphonies, Nos. 39, 40, and 41, Jupiter, on November 29–30, 2013. Mr. Gilbert is fascinated by the intellectual constructs in each of these works, composed in rapid succession in 1788. Many questions remain about these three symphonies. Many scholars believe they were intended to be a trilogy and that Mozart intended that they be published together, but as they weren’t published during the composer’s lifetime, it is impossible to know. While mystery surrounds their creation, they have long been widely admired; some consider these three works the pinnacle of Mozart’s genius.

Alan Gilbert said: “Playing Mozart’s last three symphonies together in a program is a very intense and powerful way of experiencing this music. Mozart, for any performer, is uniquely challenging — it has to be perfect, stylish, and shaped, but ultimately human — but there’s nothing more fun or gratifying. The story of Mozart is everybody’s story, and it’s an important one.”

Launched during the 2011–12 season, The Nielsen Project is a multi-year undertaking in which the Orchestra will perform and record the six symphonies and three concertos by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865–1931). Alan Gilbert, a devotee of the Danish composer, hopes to bring his music to a wider audience through this undertaking, which continues March 12–15, 2014, with Nielsen’s 1903 Helios Overture, Symphony No. 1 (1891–92), and Symphony No. 5 (1920–22); the two symphonies will be recorded for future release. Upon its completion, The

Nielsen Project will comprise four recordings, released by Denmark’s Dacapo label and distributed by Naxos. The first recording was released in September 2012, and the project will culminate in a boxed set to be released in fall 2015, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Alan Gilbert said: “During my years in Sweden, I grew to love Nielsen, and I believe the Nielsen canon deserves to be better known by American audiences: he speaks to everybody. There’s something wonderfully craggy, natural, and forbidding about the sound he creates, but it’s always couched in a romantic warmth. The Philharmonic plays Nielsen incredibly well — with insight, stylistic purity, and passion.”

Carl Nielsen composed the Helios Overture in 1903, while in Athens, Greece, with his wife, the sculptress Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, who was working at the Acropolis Museum. A programmatic work, Helios depicts the sun’s movement in the sky over the Aegean Sea from dawn to dusk. An earlier work dedicated to Anne Marie, Nielsen’s Symphony No. 1 was a piece ahead of its time, approaching harmony and tonality in an incredibly original manner for the period. Nielsen sat among the second violins at the premiere, during which it was enthusiastically received by an audience that included King Christian IX, Queen Louise, and the royal family. Nielsen’s two-movement Symphony No. 5 explores the push and pull between order and chaos, highlighted by the use of a snare drum, which “interrupts” the orchestra, “destroying” the music by playing out of time. A 1950 performance of the work at the Edinburgh International Festival is credited with igniting interest in Nielsen’s work outside of Scandinavia.

On November 21–23 and 26, 2013, Alan Gilbert will lead the Philharmonic in a celebration of the centennial of English composer, conductor, and pianist Benjamin Britten, whom Mr. Gilbert has called one of the truly great composers of the 20th century. The program, which includes a performance on the composer’s 100th birthday, November 22, will begin with the 1943 Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings performed by tenor Paul Appleby and Philharmonic Principal Horn Philip Myers. The concert also includes Britten’s 1949 Spring Symphony, with soprano Kate Royal in her Philharmonic debut, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke in her Philharmonic subscription debut, tenor Paul Appleby, Brooklyn Youth Chorus directed by Dianne Berkun, and others. The Philharmonic’s last performance of Britten’s Spring Symphony was also its first: in May 1963 conducted by then-Music Director Leonard Bernstein.

Alan Gilbert said: “I think Benjamin Britten is one of the truly great composers of the 20th century. Spring Symphony is a piece that is not often performed but is a very fresh and inspired work about renewal and growth, one that New York should absolutely hear.”

Composed in 1943, mainly during the time Britten was hospitalized for measles, the Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings sets six English poems, all having to do with night: Charles Cotton’s The Evening Quatrains; Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Blow, bugle, blow; William Blake’s The Sick Rose; the 15th-century anonymous poem Lyke-Wake Dirge; Ben Jonson’s Hymn to Diana; and John Keats’s To Sleep. Britten wrote that his 1949 Spring Symphony — a choral symphony for three soloists, chorus, and orchestra — follows “the progress of Winter to Spring and the reawaking of the earth and life which that means.” The work uses numerous texts spanning centuries of British poetry, including Sumer is icumen in, Edmund Spenser’s The Merry Cuckoo,

Thomas Nashe’s Spring, the Sweet Spring, John Milton’s The Morning Star, W.H. Auden’s Out on the lawn I lie in bed, William Blake’s Sound the Flute!, and the anonymous London, to Thee I do Present, among others.

Inaugurated in 2011, The Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music at the New York Philharmonic recognizes a composer for extraordinary artistic endeavor in the field of new music. Awarded every two years, the first recipient, Henri Dutilleux, made the generous decision to share the proceeds of the Prize with three composers — Anthony Cheung, Franck Krawczyk, and Peter Eötvös — each of whom would write a work for the Orchestra to premiere. Additionally, the Philharmonic names a Kravis Emerging Composer in years when the main prize is not awarded; Sean Shepherd was the 2012 honoree. The next recipient of the Kravis Prize — who will be announced during the 2013–14 season — will be chosen by a selection committee of leading artists and administrators who have close ties to the New York Philharmonic and a demonstrated interest in fostering new music.

Alan Gilbert said: “In a visionary, inspiring way, Marie-Josée Kravis allowed us not only to recognize Henri Dutilleux, an established legend, but also to encourage the younger generation of composers. We’re very lucky to be associated with somebody who has this kind of vision and the inspiration to push both us as an organization and the whole music scene in a really positive direction.”

In June 2014 Alan Gilbert will lead the World Premieres of two works commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of the Kravis Prize: on June 11–14, 2014, a new work by Anthony Cheung, and on June 18–21, 2014, Kravis Emerging Composer Sean Shepherd’s commission. Both of these programs are part of The Beethoven Piano Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival, conducted by Alan Gilbert and featuring Yefim Bronfman, pairing the master composer’s concertos with new commissions now entering the repertoire.

Alan Gilbert said: “Pairing the Beethoven piano concertos with these new works shows that these composers deserve to be listened to with the same ears that we ask of our audiences when they hear Beethoven.”

Mr. Cheung is beginning to think about his new work for the Philharmonic. While he believes his current works will be infused with the rich culture and history he is experiencing while living in Rome, having received the Rome Prize, he says that Beethoven has fundamentally impacted his music as well.

Anthony Cheung said: “It’s hard to overstate the importance of Beethoven and what his music stands for, which is to say the expression of the greatest range of human experience — art in the face of adversity and art as a higher calling. His influence has certainly rubbed off on me. We obviously inhabit very different aesthetic worlds, but

traces of his compositional process and his approach to development and transition of material are probably the most direct influences on my own work.”

Alan Gilbert said: “Dutilleux’s warmth and humanity are so powerful. For him to have designated Anthony Cheung, a young American composer with whom he’s worked, as someone who will directly benefit from something that was initially directed toward Dutilleux himself, is particularly moving and inspiring. Using this prize to encourage a younger generation of composers is right in keeping with everything this great man stands for.”

Sean Shepherd’s work commissioned as part of the Kravis Prize for New Music will be his third work premiered by the New York Philharmonic. These Particular Circumstances, a Philharmonic commission, was premiered on a CONTACT! concert in April 2010, and his chamber work Aperture in Shift was performed at Merkin Concert Hall in October 2011.

Sean Shepherd said: “I’d like to approach this next piece from a relatively personal place. How can I honor this relationship with the New York Philharmonic? I feel like a member of the family, and it’s been one of the blessings of my life that I’ve seen the amazing machine that is the New York Philharmonic from a close view and been even further impressed by it.”

Alan Gilbert said: “The piece Sean wrote for us for CONTACT! was immediately apparent as the work of someone with a very important voice. It was intelligent and very well crafted, but it had a joy and spark that all of the musicians felt right away. I’m really glad that we were able to start early on in his career to build what I know will be a long and important relationship.”

SIR ANDREW DAVIS To Conduct U.S. Premiere–Philharmonic Co-Commission: Julian ANDERSON’s The Discovery of Heaven and Works by FRANCK and PROKOFIEV

Sir Andrew Davis will return to conduct the U.S. Premiere of Julian Anderson’s The Discovery of Heaven, a New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, April 24–26, 2014. Mr. Anderson is composer-in-residence of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which premiered the three-movement piece in March 2012. The Discovery of Heaven is inspired by Dutch author Harry Mulisch’s 1992 novel of the same name, reflecting the book’s dual depictions of student demonstrations in 1968 and Heaven, without a direct narrative connection. The work’s musical language has a variety of influences including Japanese Gagaku court music, Mongolian overtone chanting, and Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5. Mr. Anderson was aware of Alan Gilbert’s Nielsen Project initiative when he began The Discovery of Heaven. A bit like the first movement of Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony, Mr. Anderson says, the third movement of The Discovery of Heaven pits “lyrical melodies against sharp, savage attacks. A violent struggle ensues between them. There’s no resolution: there’s a last, violent assault, but the work ends peaceably and doesn’t resolve emotionally or harmonically — a shrug of the shoulders.”

These concerts will also include Franck’s Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra with Marc-André Hamelin and selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Sir Andrew Davis will

14 also lead the Philharmonic in the Saturday Matinee Concert on April 26, 2014, featuring the selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Mr. Hamelin with Philharmonic musicians in Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor.

BERNARD LABADIE To Conduct MOZART’s REQUIEM and Works by BACH and HANDEL

Bernard Labadie will return to the Philharmonic November 7–9, 2013, to conduct Mozart’s Requiem; J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!; and Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson. The program’s soloists will include mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, tenor Frédéric Antoun in his Philharmonic debut, bass Andrew Foster-Williams, the New York Choral Artists directed by Joseph Flummerfelt, and Philharmonic Principal Trumpet Philip Smith. In August 1791, the last summer of Mozart’s life, an unknown messenger came to the composer with an anonymous letter asking whether he would agree to write a Requiem Mass. It was later learned after Mozart’s death that the commission came from a Count Walsegg, who used to buy compositions from reputable composers and pass them off as his own. Mozart, who was ill, believed that he was writing his own funeral music and was determined to finish the Requiem, but he died before completing it. His wife persuaded his pupil and friend, Franz Xaver Süssmayer, to finish the score. We may never know how much of the vocal parts and general indications of the harmony were by Mozart. The Philharmonic’s most recent performance was in April 2002 led by Kurt Masur.

CHARLES DUTOIT To Conduct Krzysztof PENDERECKI’s Concerto Grosso with Principal Cello Carter Brey and Cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Daniel Müller-Schott

On October 24–26, 2013, Charles Dutoit will lead a program honoring the 80th birthday of Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki. The evening will feature Philharmonic Principal Cello Carter Brey and cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Daniel Müller-Schott for the Philharmonic’s first-ever presentation of Mr. Penderecki’s Concerto grosso for three cellos and orchestra, which was premiered in Tokyo in 2001. The celebration pairs the work with Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and orchestration of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. The Orchestra has performed 29 of Mr. Penderecki’s works, including the World Premiere of his Symphony No. 2 in 1980, conducted by Zubin Mehta; the U.S. Premiere of Seven Gates of Jerusalem in 1998, led by Kurt Masur; and the New York Premieres of Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorio) in 1981, led by Zubin Mehta, as well as the Symphony No. 1 in 1984, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in 1987, and Symphony No. 5 in 1997 during a Composer Week dedicated to him, all of which were conducted by Mr. Penderecki himself.

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN To Conduct New York Concert Premiere of His Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz in Her Subscription Debut and Works by RAVEL and SIBELIUS

On October 30–31 and November 1–2 and 5, 2013, composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to lead the New York Philharmonic in the New York Concert Premiere of his Violin Concerto, in a program that pairs the work with Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5. Leila Josefowicz — who premiered the concerto in 2009 — makes her subscription debut as the soloist. Mr. Salonen composed the Violin Concerto for Ms. Josefowicz

15 shortly before his 50th birthday, when his time as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director was coming to a close. He said that the concerto sums up his musical experiences as of that time and contains a “strong, internal, private narrative.” The Violin Concerto has been heard in New York once before, performed by Ms. Josefowicz in 2010 at the New York City Ballet as the score to Peter Martins’s Mirage. The Philharmonic and Yefim Bronfman gave the World Premiere of Mr. Salonen’s Piano Concerto, a Philharmonic commission, in 2007, led by the composer. Mr. Salonen has conducted the Orchestra in 27 other concerts, including in the March 2011 Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival.

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL To Conduct Claude VIVIER’s Orion and BRUCKNER’s Symphony No. 9

Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel returns March 27–29, 2014, to lead French Canadian composer Claude Vivier’s Orion and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9. Composed in 1979 and premiered by Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 1980, Orion references Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass. According to the late Vivier’s notes, Orion “consists of six sections: statement of the melody, first development of the melody unraveling on itself, second development of the melody unraveling on itself, meditation on the melody, remembrance of the melody, and finally the melody in two parts.” Bruckner began his Symphony No. 9 in 1887 at age 63, but he did not complete an intended fourth movement before his death in 1896. He considered it the triumph of his creative work — a farewell to the world. Music director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mr. Dudamel will be making his third appearance with the New York Philharmonic, having previously led the Orchestra in November 2007 and January 2009.

Third Annual CHINESE NEW YEAR GALA CONCERT with LONG YU and YUJA WANG

Conductor Long Yu returns to lead the Orchestra’s third annual Chinese New Year celebration on February 1, 2014. The Beijing-born pianist and rising young star Yuja Wang will perform Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, marking her fourth appearance with the Orchestra, having most recently performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with conductor Jaap van Zweden in April 2012 in her New York Philharmonic subscription debut. As music director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Long Yu plays a key role in the Philharmonic’s recently announced partnership with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, which begins in 2014 and comprises the establishment of an Orchestral Academy in Shanghai, as well as Philharmonic performance residencies in Shanghai through the 2017–18 season. This will be Long Yu’s third time leading the Philharmonic, following the 2013 Chinese New Year Concert, featuring jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, soprano Ying Huang, and the Snow Lotus Trio; and the 2012 Chinese New Year Concert, which featured pianist Lang Lang, Philharmonic Principal Oboe Liang Wang, Dizi player Junqiao Tang, and the Quintessenso Mongolian Children’s Choir. In July 2010 Long Yu led the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra on the first half of one of the Philharmonic’s Concerts in the Parks programs on Central Park’s Great Lawn. Further program details will be announced at a later date.

A BROADWAY CHRISTMAS with BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL

Tony Award–winning vocalist and Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell will make his New York Philharmonic debut with A Broadway Christmas, a special holiday program conducted by Ted Sperling, December 20–21, 2013. The versatile singer will perform Broadway favorites and holiday repertoire. Known for his award-winning stage roles, Mr. Stokes Mitchell has built a critically acclaimed concert career, making appearances with numerous orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony with music director Michael Tilson Thomas at Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the National Symphony Orchestra, with whom he recently appeared in the premiere of David Del Tredici’s Rip Van Winkle, under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. A Broadway Christmas joins the Philharmonic’s annual Holiday Brass concert, performances of Messiah, and New Year’s Eve concert to expand the Orchestra’s holiday programming.

NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT with Musical Humorists IGUDESMAN & JOO

Alan Gilbert will conduct the Philharmonic’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration on December 31, 2013. In their Philharmonic debuts, this year’s special guests will be Igudesman & Joo, the musical humor duo whose comedic, insightful, and virtuosic interpretations of classical repertoire (à la Victor Borge and Danny Kaye) have made them viral Internet stars. Longtime friends who met at England’s Yehudi Menuhin School when they were both 12 years old, Russian violinist Aleksey Igudesman and British-Korean pianist Hyung-ki Joo devise unique performances that make classical music accessible to a wide audience. Combining comedy, music, and pop culture, Igudesman & Joo perform around the world in stadiums and concert halls, and their skits have garnered more than 28 million hits on YouTube.

In February 2014 Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic will return to Asia, the site of their first tour together in October 2009, with stops including Tokyo and Seoul. Traveling with the Orchestra will be Artist-in-Residence Yefim Bronfman, who will perform former Composer- in-Residence Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (commissioned by the Philharmonic, written for Bronfman, premiered by him and the Orchestra in May 2012, and taken on the CALIFORNIA 2012 tour). The Orchestra will also perform Rapture by current Composer-in- Residence Christopher Rouse.

Alan Gilbert said: “I’m always very happy when I’m on tour with the Orchestra. It gives me a lot of pride to share what the Orchestra is able to do with different audiences around the world. Part of my family comes from Japan, and I’ll never forget my first tour with the Orchestra, which started out there.”

A highlight of the tour is a Young People’s Concert in Tokyo on February 11, 2014, in which Mr. Gilbert will narrate Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra in Japanese. Composed in 1946, it is one of the composer’s best-known works.

Alan Gilbert said: “This is definitely the scariest thing I’ve ever agreed to do — I’m going to start practicing right now — but I’m glad I’m doing it because Japan is a country where music is really important for kids. To share this great work, to make this direct connection with kids in Japan, is something I’m really happy to do. But I’ll work really hard.”

Conducting Debuts by VLADIMIR JUROWSKI and PABLO HERAS-CASADO Assistant Conductor JOSHUA WEILERSTEIN in Subscription Debut Pianist PAUL LEWIS and Soprano KATE ROYAL To Make Debuts

In the 2013–14 season, two prominent international conductors make their Philharmonic debuts. On May 21–24, 2014, London Philharmonic Orchestra principal conductor and artistic advisor Vladimir Jurowski leads violinist Janine Jansen in Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 on a program that also includes Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique and Prokofiev’s Cinderella Suite. Pablo Heras-Casado, the Spanish-born principal conductor of Orchestra of St. Luke’s, helms the concerts April 2–5, 2014, that include Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring pianist Peter Serkin, as well as Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10. Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Joshua Weilerstein makes his subscription debut October 12 and 15, 2013, leading Osvaldo Golijov’s Last Round, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Arabella Steinbacher in her Philharmonic debut, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.

Among the soloists making their New York Philharmonic debuts in the 2013–14 season is British pianist Paul Lewis, whose award-winning interpretations have made him one of his generation’s leading soloists; Mr. Lewis joins the Orchestra and conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, April 10–12, 2014, for Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, in a concert that also includes Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. On November 21–23, 2013, British lyric soprano Kate Royal brings her critically acclaimed interpretation of the work of Benjamin Britten to performances of the composer’s Spring Symphony, as part of the concerts celebrating that composer’s centennial. Led by Alan Gilbert and also featuring mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke in her subscription debut, tenor Paul Appleby, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus directed by Dianne Berkun, and others, the concert also includes Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with tenor Paul Appleby and Philharmonic Principal Horn Philip Myers, also on the program November 26, 2013.

Alec Baldwin To Return as Host of National Radio Broadcasts

Emmy- and Golden Globe Award–winning actor Alec Baldwin will return as the host of the Orchestra’s national radio broadcast, The New York Philharmonic This Week. Mr. Baldwin, who stars in the hit television series 30 Rock, has also hosted Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts of the Philharmonic, and performed with the Philharmonic narrating the Orchestra’s former Inside the Music concerts.

THE COMPLETE 2013–14 SEASON

World, U.S., and New York Premieres……………...……………………..…………………….18

Guest Conductors and Soloists…………………………………………………………………..21

Tour, Residency, and Regional Concerts..……………………………………………………….26

Chamber Music ……………………………………………………….…………………………27

Media: Web, Radio, Recordings, and Television………………………………………………..27

Lifelong Learning ……………………………………………………………………….………29

Reaching New Audiences ……………………………………………………………...………..34

The Archives ………………………………………………………………………………….....34

Open Rehearsals ……………………………………………………………..……………...…...35

General Information …………………………………………………………….………..……...35

WORLD, U.S., AND NEW YORK PREMIERES

WORLD PREMIERES

Christopher Rouse’s Symphony No. 4

Alan Gilbert will conduct The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Symphony No. 4, a World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission, June 5–7, 2014. In past seasons, the Philharmonic has performed 11 of Mr. Rouse’s works, including the World Premieres of his Trombone Concerto, led by Leonard Slatkin in December 1992; Seeing, for Piano and Orchestra, led by Leonard Slatkin with soloist Emanuel Ax in May 1999, reprised in 2003, and to be led by Alan Gilbert with soloist Emanuel Ax in June 2013; Odna Zhizn, led by Alan Gilbert in February 2010; and Prospero’s Rooms, to be led by Alan Gilbert in April 2013. The June 2014 performances will be part of the inaugural NY PHIL BIENNIAL. (See Supplement: Christopher Rouse, The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence)

New Work by 2011 Kravis Prize Beneficiary Anthony Cheung

On June 11–14, 2014, Alan Gilbert will lead the World Premiere of a New York Philharmonic Commission by Anthony Cheung, one of the three composers (along with Peter Eötvös and Franck Krawczyk) with whom 2011 Kravis Prize for New Music recipient Henri Dutilleux chose to share the proceeds of his $200,000 prize. The Kravis Prize was established in 2009 and inaugurated in 2011 with the goal of supporting and highlighting the work of extraordinary contemporary composers. Mr. Cheung is the first of these three composers to have his work

19 premiered by the New York Philharmonic as part of The Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. Presented during The Beethoven Piano Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival, conducted by Alan Gilbert and featuring Yefim Bronfman, Mr. Cheung’s new piece will appear alongside Artist-in-Residence Yefim Bronfman’s performances of Beethoven’s First and Fourth Piano Concertos.

New Work by 2012 Kravis Emerging Composer Sean Shepherd

On June 18–21, 2014, the Orchestra will perform the World Premiere of a New York Philharmonic Commission by Sean Shepherd, the 2012 Kravis Emerging Composer. His Beethoven-inspired commission will be performed during The Beethoven Piano Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival, featuring Yefim Bronfman and conducted by Alan Gilbert, alongside Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3.

U.S. PREMIERES

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze

On October 3–5 and 8–9, 2013, Alan Gilbert will lead a program that pairs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the U.S. Premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze, a major new orchestral work composed in response to Beethoven’s iconic work, co-commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, New York Philharmonic, and BBC Radio 3. The October performances are part of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2013 bicentennial, and New York celebrations of the bicentennial will include special manuscript exhibitions at the Morgan Library & Museum, the Juilliard Library, the Bruno Walter Gallery at Avery Fisher Hall, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; an event at the Morgan Library & Museum featuring discussions and performances; the Royal Philharmonic Society’s annual lecture, presented in New York — the first time outside of the U.K. — by Roger Wright, controller of BBC Radio 3 and director of the BBC Proms, on October 9, 2013, at Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse; and a September 28, 2013, concert by the New Juilliard Ensemble featuring the U.S. Premiere of a Royal Philharmonic Society commission, among other events.

Poul Ruder’s String Quartet No. 4

The Royal Philharmonic Society and the New York Philharmonic will present an event at the Morgan Library & Museum featuring Philharmonic musicians performing the U.S. Premiere of Poul Ruders’s String Quartet No. 4, one of the works commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society for its bicentennial. The event will also include insights into the history and work of the Royal Philharmonic Society and New York Philharmonic. The composer noted that although he wrote his second and third quartets six months apart in 1979, it was 33 years before he wrote his fourth quartet, “which is in five movements and is about nothing but itself.” Further details will be announced at a later date.

Julian Anderson’s The Discovery of Heaven

On April 24–26, 2014, Sir Andrew Davis will conduct the U.S. Premiere of Julian Anderson’s The Discovery of Heaven, a New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Anderson is composer-in-residence of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which premiered this new work in March 2012. The Discovery of Heaven is a three- movement piece inspired by Dutch author Harry Mulisch’s 1992 novel of the same name, reflecting the book without a direct narrative connection. The musical language he employs in the work is influenced by Japanese Gagaku court music, Mongolian overtone chanting, and Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5. These performances will also include Franck’s Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra with Marc-André Hamelin, as well as selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

NEW YORK PREMIERES

Christopher Rouse’s Requiem

The New York Philharmonic will open the Spring For Music festival at Carnegie Hall on May 5, 2014, with the New York Premiere of Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Requiem, led by Alan Gilbert and featuring baritone Jacques Imbrailo, the Westminster Symphonic Choir directed by Joe Miller, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus directed by Dianne Berkun. Commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria, this 90-minute piece, composed in 2002 in honor of Hector Berlioz’s bicentenary in 2003, utilizes traditional Latin liturgical texts and poetry by Seamus Heaney, Siegfried Sassoon, Michelangelo, Ben Jonson, and John Milton. It was premiered in 2007 by the Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. (See Supplement: Christopher Rouse, The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in- Residence)

Christopher Rouse’s Oboe Concerto

Alan Gilbert will lead Principal Oboe Liang Wang in the New York Premiere of The Marie- Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Oboe Concerto on November 14–16 and 19, 2013. The composer refers to the work — completed in 2004 and premiered in 2009 — as one of his “genial” concertos. Written in three movements, the concerto explores the oboe’s capabilities and highlights both long, lyrical lines and virtuosic, agile passages. The Philharmonic had scheduled the New York Premiere of the concerto in December 2010, but the program was adjusted due to a blizzard. The program will also include Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Don Juan, the latter featuring retiring Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow as soloist. (See Supplement: Christopher Rouse, The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in- Residence)

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Violin Concerto (New York Concert Premiere)

On October 30–31 and November 1–2 and 5, 2013, composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead the New York Philharmonic in the New York Concert Premiere of his Violin Concerto, with soloist Leila Josefowicz in her Philharmonic subscription debut. Mr. Salonen composed the work

21 for Ms. Josefowicz, who premiered it in 2009, shortly before his 50th birthday, as his tenure as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director was coming to a close. The concerto has been heard in New York once before, performed by Ms. Josefowicz in 2010 at the New York City Ballet as the score to Peter Martins’s Mirage. The program also includes Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5.

2013–14 GUEST CONDUCTORS AND SOLOISTS

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC CONDUCTING DEBUTS

On May 21–24, 2014, dynamic rising Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski leads Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring violinist Janine Jansen, as well as Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique and Prokofiev’s Cinderella Suite. Mr. Jurowski is currently principal artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and artistic director of the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra. He previously served as first Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin, principal guest conductor of the Teatro Communale di Bologna, and principal guest conductor of the Russian National Orchestra.

Pablo Heras-Casado, the Spanish-born principal conductor of Orchestra of St. Luke’s, leads the April 2–5, 2014, concerts featuring pianist Peter Serkin in Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3, as well as Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10. A champion of contemporary music, Mr. Heras-Casado has conducted some of the world’s finest ensembles and has been awarded the Medalla de Honor of the Rodriguez Acosta Foundation and the Golden Medal of the City of Granada, and was selected unanimously as winner of the 2007 Lucerne Festival Conductors’ Competition for his performance of repertoire including Stockhausen’s Gruppen.

On September 17–18, 2013, conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos makes his Philharmonic debut leading Hitchcock!, a program celebrating the legendary director and the music written for his films by composers including Bernard Herrmann, Lyn Murray, and Dmitri Tiomkin. Currently music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and general director of Chatham Opera, which he founded in 2005, Mr. Kitsopoulos has led the Pittsburgh, Houston, and San Francisco symphony orchestras, among others. He is in demand on Broadway, having led and served as musical director of numerous productions including Baz Lurmann’s acclaimed production of Puccini’s La bohème.

Early-music expert Andrew Manze makes his debut leading the Philharmonic’s annual performances of Handel’s Messiah, December 17–21, 2013. Soloists will include soprano Joélle Harvey, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford (subscription debut), tenor Allan Clayton, bass Matthew Rose (debut), and the Westminster Symphonic Choir directed by Joe Miller. Acclaimed for his scholarly pursuits and inspiring interpretations of a wide range of repertoire, Mr. Manze has served as principal conductor and artistic director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra (Sweden) since 2006, and is associate guest conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Joshua Weilerstein makes his subscription debut October 12 and 15, 2013, leading Osvaldo Golijov’s Last Round, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with

Arabella Steinbacher (in her Philharmonic debut), and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. Mr. Weilerstein was awarded First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2009 Malko International Competition for Young Conductors in Copenhagen and has led the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony, Norrköping Symphony, Malmö Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras, among others. He has previously conducted the Philharmonic in Young People’s Concerts; one work at Caramoor’s Fall Festival on September 23, 2011, stepping in when Alan Gilbert’s arrival was delayed; and, alongside others, the Philharmonic 360 concerts at Park Avenue Armory in June 2012. He is scheduled to lead Musorgsky’s Prelude to Khovanshchina this season, on June 7, 2013, when the Orchestra performs at Long Island University’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.

RETURNING CONDUCTORS

Semyon Bychkov returns October 17–19, 2013, to lead Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with soloist Kirill Gerstein in his subscription debut, as well as Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905.

Andrey Boreyko will return to lead two weeks of performances. On January 16–18, 2014, he will conduct Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale, Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto with Principal Bassoon Judith LeClair, and Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid, Fantasy for Orchestra. On January 22, 2014, in addition to Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto with Ms. LeClair, he will also lead Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 3, featuring retiring Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow as soloist. The January 23–25, 2014, performances include Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with Gautier Capuçon (making his Philharmonic debut) and Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 3 with Mr. Dicterow.

Sir Andrew Davis will lead Julian Anderson’s The Discovery of Heaven, a U.S. Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. These April 24– 26, 2014, performances will also include Franck’s Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, performed by Marc-André Hamelin, as well as selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Sir Andrew Davis will also lead the April 26, 2014, Saturday Matinee Concert, which will feature selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and pianist Marc-André Hamelin and Philharmonic musicians in Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor.

Gustavo Dudamel returns March 27–29, 2014, to lead iconoclastic composer Vivier’s Orion, as well as Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9.

Charles Dutoit returns to conduct the Orchestra for its concerts celebrating Polish composer- conductor Krzysztof Penderecki’s 80th birthday on October 24–26, 2013. The program includes Mr. Penderecki’s Concerto grosso for three cellos — performed by Principal Cello Carter Brey and cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Daniel Müller-Schott — as well as Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and his orchestration of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Mr. Dutoit will also lead the Saturday Matinee Concert on October 26, 2013, which will include New York Philharmonic musicians playing Ravel’s String Quartet and the French composer’s arrangement of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos returns December 12–14, 2013, for his 36th concert with the Orchestra. He will conduct Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 and Richard Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben, which will feature solos with Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow.

Bernard Haitink returns to the Philharmonic for two weeks this season. On May 8–10, 2014, he will conduct Webern’s Im Sommerwind, Berg’s Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica. On May 15–17, 2014, he will conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, which features mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink in her Philharmonic debut, women of the New York Choral Artists directed by Joseph Flummerfelt, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus directed by Dianne Berkun.

Manfred Honeck returns December 10, 2013, to lead a one-night-only all-Dvořák program. The evening will feature Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, as well as performances of Carnival Overture and Symphony No. 9, From the New World.

Jeffrey Kahane will conduct and perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major and Gershwin’s Concerto in F as well as lead Weill’s Symphony No. 2 on March 20–22 and 25, 2014. Mr. Kahane will also lead the March 22, 2014, Saturday Matinee Concert, during which he’ll join Philharmonic musicians for a program that includes Debussy’s String Quartet, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, and Gershwin’s Concerto in F. He also joins Philharmonic musicians for the November 30, 2013, Saturday Matinee Concert to perform Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds, and Trio for Piano, Oboe, and Bassoon.

Bernard Labadie will return to conduct the November 7–9, 2013, program, which presents J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!; Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson; and Mozart’s Requiem. Soloists include mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, tenor Frédéric Antoun (Philharmonic debut), bass Andrew Foster-Williams, the New York Choral Artists directed by Joseph Flummerfelt, and Philharmonic Principal Trumpet Philip Smith.

Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to lead the New York Concert Premiere of his own Violin Concerto, featuring soloist Leila Josefowicz in her subscription debut, October 30–31 and November 1–2 and 5, 2013. The program also includes Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5.

Ted Sperling will conduct A Broadway Christmas, featuring vocalist Brian Stokes Mitchell in his Philharmonic debut, December 20–21, 2013.

Christoph von Dohnányi conducts the April 10–12, 2014, program, which will include Paul Lewis (Philharmonic debut) as soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, as well as Schumann’s Symphony No. 2.

Long Yu returns to lead the Philharmonic’s third annual Chinese New Year Concert on February 1, 2014, with pianist Yuja Wang performing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Further program details will be announced at a later date.

David Zinman will lead the December 5–7, 2013, performances that will include Thomas Adès’s Three Studies from Couperin, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18 with Richard Goode as soloist, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, Scottish.

2013–14 SEASON INSTRUMENTALISTS AND VOCALISTS

Instrumentalists with Alan Gilbert: Violinist Lisa Batiashvili will perform Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 on January 9–11 and 14, 2014. Igudesman & Joo (Philharmonic debut) will join the Philharmonic’s New Year’s Eve celebration on December 31, 2013. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma will open the 2013–14 season, performing Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul and Octavio Brunetti’s arrangement of a suite from Astor Piazzolla’s La serie del Ángel for the Opening Gala concert, September 25, 2013.

Pianist Yefim Bronfman will be the Philharmonic’s Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in- Residence for the 2013–14 season. He will perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 during the Philharmonic’s opening week September 26–28 and October 1, 2013, conducted by Alan Gilbert; return for Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on January 2–3 and 7, 2014, conducted by Alan Gilbert; perform a CONTACT! concert with Philharmonic musicians at 92YTribeca; perform a chamber music concert with Philharmonic musicians on March 30, 2014, at 92nd Street Y; perform Beethoven’s complete piano concertos during The Beethoven Piano Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival, conducted by Alan Gilbert, on June 11–14, June 18–21, and June 24–28, 2014; perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at Long Island University’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on January 4, 2014, conducted by Alan Gilbert; and join the Orchestra on its ASIA / WINTER 2014 tour in February 2014, during which he will perform Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2, conducted by Alan Gilbert. (See Supplement: Yefim Bronfman, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence)

Other Instrumentalists of the 2013–14 Season: Cellist Gautier Capuçon will make his Philharmonic debut, January 23–25, 2014, performing Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with conductor Andrey Boreyko. On October 17–19, 2013, pianist Kirill Gerstein makes his subscription debut performing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with conductor Semyon Bychkov. Pianist Richard Goode will return to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18, led by David Zinman, December 5–7, 2013. Sir Andrew Davis leads pianist Marc-André Hamelin in Franck’s Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra on April 24– 26, 2014. Violinist Janine Jansen returns to join conductor Vladimir Jurowski (debut) for performances of Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1, May 21–24, 2014. Violinist Leila Josefowicz makes her Philharmonic subscription debut, October 30–31 and November 1–2 and 5, 2013, performing Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Violin Concerto, conducted by the composer. Jeffrey Kahane will lead the Orchestra from the piano for Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major and Gershwin’s Concerto in F, March 20–22 and 25, 2014, as well as on the March 22, 2014, Saturday Matinee Concert. Violinist Leonidas Kavakos performs Berg’s Violin Concerto, May 8–10, 2014, led by Bernard Haitink. Christoph von Dohnányi leads pianist Paul Lewis (debut) in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 on April 10–12, 2014. Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter returns for one night, December 10, 2013, to play Dvořák’s Violin Concerto led by Manfred Honeck. Violinist Arabella Steinbacher makes her debut performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto October 12 and 15, 2013, conducted by Assistant Conductor Joshua Weilerstein. Pianist Peter

Serkin performs Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 on April 2–5, 2014, conducted by Pablo Heras- Casado (debut). Pianist Yuja Wang performs Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini during the Orchestra’s Chinese New Year celebration on February 1, 2014, conducted by Long Yu. Philharmonic Principal Cello Carter Brey and cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Daniel Müller-Schott will perform Krzysztof Penderecki’s Concerto grosso with Charles Dutoit, October 24–26, 2013.

Vocalists and Vocal Ensembles with Alan Gilbert: Soprano Julianna Di Giacomo (subscription debut), mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, tenor Russell Thomas (subscription debut), bass Shenyang, and others join Mr. Gilbert for the October 3–5 and 8–9, 2013, performances of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Soprano Kate Royal (debut), mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke (subscription debut), tenor Paul Appleby, Brooklyn Youth Chorus directed by Dianne Berkun, and others will join Mr. Gilbert and Principal Horn Philip Myers for the concerts celebrating Britten’s 100th birthday on November 21–23, 2013, which includes the Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings and Spring Symphony; tenor Paul Appleby will reprise his performance with Principal Horn Philip Myers in Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings on November 26, 2013. Baritone Jacques Imbrailo, the Westminster Symphonic Choir directed by Joe Miller, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus directed by Dianne Berkun join Mr. Gilbert and the Philharmonic for Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Requiem to open the Spring For Music festival at Carnegie Hall on May 5, 2014.

Other Vocalists and Vocal Ensembles: Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, tenor Frédéric Antoun (debut), bass Andrew Foster-Williams, the New York Choral Artists directed by Joseph Flummerfelt, and others join Principal Trumpet Philip Smith and conductor Bernard Labadie for a concert featuring J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!, Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson, and Mozart’s Requiem on November 7–9, 2013. Soprano Joélle Harvey, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford (subscription debut), tenor Allan Clayton, bass Matthew Rose (debut), and the Westminster Symphonic Choir directed by Joe Miller will join conductor Andrew Manze (debut) for the Philharmonic’s annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah, December 17–21, 2013. Brian Stokes Mitchell makes his Philharmonic debut during A Broadway Christmas, conducted by Ted Sperling, on December 20–21, 2013. Bernard Haitink leads mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink (debut), women of the New York Choral Artists directed by Joseph Flummerfelt, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus directed by Dianne Berkun in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, May 15–17, 2014.

Philharmonic Musicians in Solo Roles with Alan Gilbert: As part of his farewell season, Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow will perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto alongside Artist-in-Residence Yefim Bronfman and Principal Cello Carter Brey, June 24–28, 2014. Principal Oboe Liang Wang will perform Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Oboe Concerto, November 14–16 and 19, 2013. Principal Horn Philip Myers joins tenor Paul Appleby for Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings on November 21–23 and 26, 2013.

Philharmonic Musicians in Solo Roles with Guest Conductors: Principal Bassoon Judith LeClair will perform Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto with conductor Andrey Boreyko on January 16–18 and 22, 2014. Principal Trumpet Philip Smith will join conductor Bernard Labadie to

26 perform J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! and Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson, November 7–9, 2013.

TOUR, RESIDENCY, AND REGIONAL CONCERTS

ASIA / WINTER 2014

The New York Philharmonic continues its long-standing tradition of bringing acclaimed musical performances to audiences around the world; as of January 2013 the Orchestra has logged performances in 431 cities in 63 countries on 5 continents. In February 2014 Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic will return to Asia, the site of their first tour together in October 2009, with stops including Tokyo and Seoul. Traveling with the Orchestra will be Artist-in- Residence Yefim Bronfman, who will perform former Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (commissioned by the Philharmonic, written for Mr. Bronfman, premiered by him and the Orchestra in May 2012, and taken on the CALIFORNIA 2012 tour) and Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Rapture. A highlight of the tour is a Young People’s Concert in Tokyo, in which Mr. Gilbert will narrate Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra in Japanese.

RESIDENCY AT BRAVO! VAIL MUSIC FESTIVAL

The New York Philharmonic will return to Colorado’s Bravo! Vail Music Festival for its 12th consecutive residency, July 18–25, 2014. Since 2003, the Orchestra’s series has attracted audiences from around the country to the scenic Rocky Mountains and features a variety of conductors and soloists. Artists and programming to be announced.

REGIONAL CONCERTS

On January 4, 2014, Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic will return to Long Island University’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Brookville, New York. Artist-in-Residence Yefim Bronfman joins the event to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, on a program that also features Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Rapture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.

Continuing the long-standing tradition that has linked two of New York City’s most historic musical institutions, the Philharmonic will again perform at Carnegie Hall, on May 5, 2014. The appearance launches the Spring For Music festival with a one-night-only presentation of Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Requiem, led by Alan Gilbert and featuring baritone Jacques Imbrailo, the Westminster Symphonic Choir directed by Joe Miller, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus directed by Dianne Berkun.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic at the Free Annual Memorial Day Concert at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, Monday, May 26, 2014. Programming will be announced at a later date.

CHAMBER MUSIC

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLES AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL

The New York Philharmonic Ensembles chamber music series will feature Philharmonic musicians in a series of six concerts on Sunday afternoons in Merkin Concert Hall, at 129 West 67th Street. The popular series presents chamber ensembles from the Orchestra in repertoire both familiar and unexpected, and allows audiences to experience the artistry of the Philharmonic’s virtuosos in an intimate setting. All concerts are on Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Artists, dates, and repertoire to be announced.

SATURDAY MATINEE CONCERTS

The New York Philharmonic will offer four Saturday Matinee Concerts during the 2013–14 season. Each concert comprises a chamber piece, played by Philharmonic musicians, and a symphonic work with the Orchestra. This season’s chamber offerings on the series are all by French composers. Philharmonic musicians will perform Ravel’s String Quartet followed by Ravel’s orchestration of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition led by Charles Dutoit on October 26, 2013. On November 30, 2013, pianist-conductor Jeffrey Kahane joins Philharmonic musicians for two chamber works by Poulenc: Sextet for Piano and Winds, and Trio for Piano, Oboe, and Bassoon; Alan Gilbert then leads the Orchestra in Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, Jupiter. Mr. Kahane joins the musicians again on March 22, 2014, this time as conductor as well as pianist: the program opens with Debussy’s String Quartet, and Mr. Kahane will lead Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major and Gershwin’s Concerto in F from the piano. On April 26, 2014, pianist Marc-André Hamelin performs Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor with Philharmonic musicians, and Sir Andrew Davis leads selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Each concert begins at 2:00 p.m. and is followed by a Q&A session with audience members and musicians.

MEDIA: WEB, RADIO, RECORDINGS, AND TELEVISION

NYPHIL.ORG

The New York Philharmonic’s Website, nyphil.org, offers engaging and practical information about the Orchestra’s activities, as well as the most up-to-date services. A variety of video and audio features bring visitors closer to the music and musicians on the Philharmonic’s schedule, including behind-the-scenes activities and interviews with Alan Gilbert, Philharmonic musicians, guest artists, and scholars. Other offerings that enrich the concertgoing experience include program notes and clips of the music that will be performed.

The Orchestra’s history is also available on the Website through the Performance History Search at history.nyphil.org, which gives users worldwide access to the Philharmonic’s extensive database of its more than 15,000 concerts, and lists of all the works it has premiered, its commissions, and biographies of its Music Directors and Principal Conductors. Now, through the New York Philharmonic’s Digital Archives — a vast project to make available online the treasures documenting the Orchestra’s activities since its first concert in 1842 — musicians and

28 scholars have access to one of the longest-running collections in the music world at archives.nyphil.org. With the generous support of the Leon Levy Foundation, the first phase, The International Era, 1943–1970, was launched in February 2011 with more than 1,000 scores marked by Leonard Bernstein, Andre Kostelanetz, and other conductors; approximately 2,200 printed programs; and the first selection of business folders and images. In the 2011–12 season the amount of material available grew with the infusion of 12,000 new photos and tens of thousands of additional documents as the second release in the International Era, enhancing awareness of the seminal period when the Philharmonic became a worldwide touring orchestra and moved to its new home at Lincoln Center. The site has generated some 120,000 visits by nearly 80,000 unique visitors from 143 countries.

Users can familiarize themselves with New York Philharmonic musicians through their biographies and Q&As, and by following them — through slideshows and videos — on virtual tours as they travel around the world as America’s premier cultural ambassadors. Also available on nyphil.org are publications about the New York Philharmonic, such as the Annual Report and the Fact Book.

In an effort to serve the audience’s evolving needs and expectations, the Philharmonic provides the Choose Your Own Seat feature (with a view from the section) and Print at Home Tickets (instead of waiting in line at the box office). Both features are mobile-friendly and allow users to complete ticket purchases on smart phones or tablets.

The site provides online access to archived installments of the Philharmonic’s national radio broadcast series, The New York Philharmonic This Week, and offers educational content via its award-winning Kidzone!, a section of activities and information dedicated to children, parents, and teachers.

RECORDINGS

Visitors can purchase New York Philharmonic CDs and download the Philharmonic’s latest digital recording series, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2012–13 Season, as well as digital concert recordings from the 2009–10, 2010–11, and 2011–12 seasons. Produced by the Philharmonic, they are available through iTunes, Amazon, emusic, and other major music stores. More than 70 digital releases are available.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND APP

The New York Philharmonic has developed a vital link to audiences through numerous social networks, and in spring 2012 launched a Pinterest page in addition to the Philharmonic’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube. These platforms provide a variety of forums through which people around the world can learn about and discuss happenings onstage and off: by getting access to insider information and breaking news; viewing treasures from the Archives; experiencing videos and mp3s of the Orchestra’s downloads; and gleaning content, special offers, and the opportunities to interact with Music Director Alan Gilbert, Philharmonic musicians, and guest artists. These join the Philharmonic’s app, available as a free download from the iTunes App Store and Google Play, which has been downloaded more than 17,000

29 times in 71 countries. The app gives users access to the material available on nyphil.org, including streams of the weekly radio broadcasts, recordings, and concert information.

THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK NATIONAL RADIO SERIES, HOSTED BY ALEC BALDWIN

Emmy Award–winning actor Alec Baldwin will return to host The New York Philharmonic This Week, the Orchestra’s national and international radio broadcast, for the fifth season. Mr. Baldwin made his New York Philharmonic debut narrating the Philharmonic’s Inside the Music program on October 10, 2008.

The two-hour The New York Philharmonic This Week broadcasts, heard 52 weeks a year and representing virtually the entire orchestral season, are produced by the Philharmonic and syndicated to more than 300 outlets nationally and 122 outlets internationally by Chicago’s WFMT Radio Network, streamed to approximately 25,000 listeners via the Philharmonic’s app and Website, nyphil.org, and distributed worldwide to more than one million households in Europe. The program is heard locally in the New York metropolitan area on 105.9 FM WQXR on Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. (Check local listings for times outside New York City.) The New York Philharmonic has had a nearly unbroken radio presence since 1922.

WQXR: RADIO STATION OF THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC

As the Radio Station of the New York Philharmonic, WQXR has established a strong partnership with the Orchestra that features multi-platform collaborations and live broadcasts that will continue in the coming season. The Philharmonic, WQXR, and its contemporary music stream Q2 have collaborated on major events of the season with ongoing support, both online and on air, of Alan Gilbert and his vision for the New York Philharmonic.

LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER NATIONAL TELECASTS ON PBS

The New York Philharmonic has been an integral part of the award-winning Live From Lincoln Center television series, appearing every season since the program’s inception in 1976, when a New York Philharmonic concert was featured on the program’s first telecast. Details about broadcasts in the 2013–14 season will be announced at a later date.

LIFELONG LEARNING

The New York Philharmonic has been a trendsetter in education since the 19th century, and the Orchestra continues to be a national and international leader through its groundbreaking educational events that enhance the concert experience for audiences of all ages. Offerings range from extensive programs for New York City schoolchildren and projects for advanced conservatory students, to stimulating programs for adult music lovers. Each season educational programs bring live musical experiences to more than 60,000 tri-state area children, students, educators, and adults in the concert hall and in classrooms, and hundreds of thousands on the Internet.

YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS®

The longest-running series of children’s concerts in the world, the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts (YPCs) have been engaging the musical imaginations of young listeners and their families since 1924, when Ernest Schelling founded the series. This four- concert series, designed for children ages 6 to 12, offers an introduction to symphonic music on Saturdays at 2:00 p.m. Children follow an overarching musical theme through the season while exploring the inner workings of music in a format that is interactive, visual, and fun. In addition, beginning at 12:45 p.m., before each Young People’s Concert, Kidzone Live! brings all four tiers of Avery Fisher Hall alive as kids try out instruments, hear short performances, compose their own music, discover new musical technologies, test their musical knowledge, and more. Next season’s series explores Points of Entry, with each concert built around a great work that illuminates a major composer’s life and a particular aspect of music. The YPCs are scheduled for October 12, 2013 (Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony), December 7, 2013 (Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, Jupiter), February 1, 2014 (Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra), and April 12, 2014 (Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1).

VERY YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS

The New York Philharmonic will continue its highly successful Very Young People’s Concerts in the 2013–14 season, offering a series of three programs. Developed by Philharmonic musicians together with faculty from Teacher’s College of Columbia University, these one-hour junior versions of the Orchestra’s popular Young People’s Concerts are designed for children ages 3 to 6. A chamber ensemble of Philharmonic musicians introduces youngsters to classical music through games, storytelling, active listening, and hands-on music-making with the aim of promoting active listening and family enjoyment of music. Dates of the Very Young People’s Concerts will be announced.

LEARNING OVERTURES

Capitalizing on the New York Philharmonic’s global reach and reputation, Learning Overtures brings educators and musicians together to share practices and ideas internationally. This program, which began in 2006, has held annual workshops in many countries and developed ongoing work in Japan with Life with Music Project; in Finland with the Sibelius Academy, Finnish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and others; Venezuela with El Sistema; and South Korea with the Korea Arts and Culture Education Service. Learning Overtures activities will include Very Young Composers projects in Japan and Finland, and both a Young People’s Concert and Teaching Artist training in Japan.

THE PHILHARMONIC IN THE SCHOOLS

School Day Concerts

The Philharmonic’s five School Day Concerts will take place January 28–30, 2014, serving as the centerpiece of the yearlong collaboration between participating schools and the New York Philharmonic. Designed for school groups in grades 3 through 12, the School Day Concerts at Avery Fisher Hall are offered to students from across the region, introducing them to the symphony orchestra, to important symphonic works, living composers, and musical fundamentals. Teachers attend free workshops to help prepare their students and receive advance lesson plans, complete with a CD. More than 12,000 students and teachers are expected to attend. The concerts will be hosted by Theodore Wiprud, Vice President, Education, The Sue B. Mercy Chair. The program will feature Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra and music composed by Very Young Composers in the United States and Japan.

School Partnership Program

Since 1994 the School Partnership Program, the Philharmonic’s flagship in-school program, has offered a sequential three-year music curriculum for New York City public schools, grades 3 to 5. Entering its 20th year, the program currently serves 16 schools, 4,000 students, 175 teachers, and thousands of families. It is poised to expand to more than 5,000 students in the coming years. Through the School Partnership Program, Philharmonic Teaching Artists partner with classroom and music teachers in schools in all five boroughs to make the world of symphonic music come alive through interactive workshops that include instruction in structured listening, performance on recorders and percussion instruments, and group composition. In-School Concerts, a School Day Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, ongoing professional development for partner teachers, and workshops for parents contribute to this extraordinarily rich program, which has become a model for orchestras worldwide.

Very Young Composers

The Very Young Composers program, created by Young Composers’ Advocate Jon Deak — former Associate Principal Bass and noted composer — enables students with limited musical backgrounds to compose music that will be performed by Philharmonic musicians. The program culminates in astonishing works that reveal the power of children’s imaginations. These new works are played either by ensembles of Philharmonic musicians, or by the full Orchestra as part of the School Day Concerts. Basic Very Young Composers workshops take place after school at School Partnership Program schools. The Bridge is a group of middle-school students who have graduated from Very Young Composers with an ambition to study composition in depth. Bridge Composers write works for performance in a variety of venues, including Kidzone Live! before each Young People’s Concert. Very Young Composers is a key aspect of Learning Overtures, bringing new ideas about creativity to cultures around the world. Past projects have taken place in China, Japan, Korea, Venezuela, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

New York Philharmonic Teaching Artists

The New York Philharmonic’s Teaching Artists are outstanding musicians much in demand as both performers and educators. They are in the vanguard of a new kind of musicianship and have learned distinctive skills for bringing music into classrooms and engaging audiences. Teaching Artists receive ongoing training from Philharmonic staff and guest faculty — almost as often as they visit schools. This faculty is responsible for designing and presenting the School Partnership Program, Very Young Composers, and other initiatives. As the Teaching Artists Ensemble, they perform in schools in all five boroughs of New York City, as well as on international tours as part of Learning Overtures.

Philharmonic Mentors

The New York Philharmonic continues to form partnerships with a small number of highly promising middle- and high-school instrumental music programs in order to help raise the level of instruction and performance. Musicians from the Philharmonic work with high-level student ensembles, providing sectional rehearsals, chamber music coaching, master classes, panel discussions, and concerts by individual musicians or small ensembles from the Orchestra. Philharmonic Teaching Artists provide group lessons for developing instrumental programs. Ensembles attend events at Avery Fisher Hall as part of a broader relationship designed for each individual school.

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

Every year the Philharmonic creates and refines a range of free curricular materials that are made available to classroom teachers and music educators. These documents are available in print and online through the educators’ own Philharmonic portal, Take Note, which provides online resources — classroom-tested lesson plans, engaging activities, and instructive videos of Philharmonic musicians — for both music and classroom teachers. The School Partnership Program’s three-year curriculum guide, Pathways to the Orchestra, fulfills the National Standards for Music Education, New York State Learning Standards in Music, and New York City’s Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts. The Orchestra also offers A Philharmonic Celebration and Bernstein LIVE, which are teaching guides with accompanying CDs that have been compiled from the Philharmonic’s own recording label. A new School Day Concert curriculum guide is produced annually, and the Philharmonic makes many other publications available for those attending Teachers Seminars.

TALKS AND LECTURES

Pre-Concert Talks

The New York Philharmonic continues to offer informative, insightful, and informal pre-concert musical previews. Composers, writers, teachers, musicians, and Philharmonic staff members lead these Pre-Concert Talks one hour before each Philharmonic subscription concert. Tickets are $7, or $5 each for three or more lectures.

Saturday Matinee Post-Concert Talkbacks

Audiences have the opportunity to hear directly from Philharmonic musicians. Each session, which follows the 2:00 p.m. Saturday Matinee Concerts, offers opportunities for the players to discuss music, music-making, and insights into the life of a musician. The Saturday Matinee Concerts, which will focus on French repertoire this season, will take place October 26, 2013, November 30, 2013, March 22, 2014, and April 26, 2014.

Insights Series

This series of lectures by well-known scholars and musicians focuses on specific subjects relevant to the key topics of the season. Insights Series events take the form of moderated panels and interviews as well as talks, and are often accompanied by live performance, music demonstrations, and video segments. Topics and dates will be announced at a later date.

Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic

The position of the Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic was created to support significant research in the Philharmonic Archives as well as to provide a series of public presentations. It was named to recognize the contributions of the Philharmonic’s late Laureate Conductor, who was renowned as an educator as well as for being a composer and performer.

New York Philharmonic Offstage

The New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will offer New York Philharmonic Offstage, a series featuring artists from the Philharmonic’s season in conversation with 105.9 FM WQXR host Jeff Spurgeon, followed by CD/DVD signings and a chance to meet the artist. These events, which sometimes include brief performances, will take place at The David Rubenstein Atrium, Broadway between 62nd and 63rd Streets. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, with guaranteed admission for 100 Philharmonic subscribers and donors who RSVP to [email protected] up to 48 hours in advance of each event. Artists to be announced. For information, visit nyphil.org/offstage.

ONLINE LEARNING

The New York Philharmonic’s award-winning, interactive Kidzone! (nyphil.org or directly at nyphilkids.org) has become a consistent leader in helping children learn about the Orchestra online, with more than half a million visits each year from around the world. Kidzone! offers information on composers and instruments, interactive composition tools, and the latest music- based video games that are designed to introduce children to the Orchestra and to the fundamentals of music.

MUSICAL ENCOUNTERS

New York Philharmonic Open Rehearsals at Avery Fisher Hall are available to school groups from grades 3 through 12 through the Orchestra’s Musical Encounters program. Groups not only witness the inner workings of a dress rehearsal, but also participate in introductory workshops or post-rehearsal discussions with New York Philharmonic musicians, gauged to the level of the school group. CONSERVATORY COLLABORATIONS

Conservatory Collaborations makes the Philharmonic’s resources available to the next generation of musicians attending conservatories and other post-secondary institutions in the New York City area. Continuing the Orchestra’s commitment to the training of young musicians, these programs, available only through invitation or application, allow advanced students to attend working rehearsals, visit the New York Philharmonic Archives, and join a series of Conductors’ and Composers’ Tables with world-class guest conductors and composers.

WORKSHOPS FOR VISITING ENSEMBLES

Student ensembles visiting New York and attending Philharmonic concerts can add the life- changing experience of a coaching session with musicians from the New York Philharmonic. Sectional rehearsals, master classes, and conductor clinics are available to visiting groups, as well as pre-concert workshops and post-concert discussions with Orchestra members.

REACHING NEW AUDIENCES

MYPHIL

MyPhil series offers young adults through age 35 the chance to choose three or more concerts at a special price, plus a host of benefits including free ticket exchange and ticket add-ons throughout the season. Typically 70–80 concert dates are offered through this program. Program information, ticket exchanges, and other benefits can be accessed online at nyphil.org/myphil.

STUDENT RUSH TICKETS

There’s no need to stand in line for Student Rush tickets, which can now be purchased for select concerts up to 10 days before the concert. Tickets are available to students with a valid ID card at nyphil.org/studentrush.

THE ARCHIVES

The New York Philharmonic Archives is a repository for more than 170 years of Philharmonic history — including the papers, scores, and records of its illustrious music directors — and is one of the most important orchestral research collections in the world. The Archives maintains the large, permanent exhibition on view throughout Avery Fisher Hall and also presents a number of temporary exhibitions in the Bruno Walter Gallery on the Hall’s Grand Promenade. Details of the 2013–14 season exhibitions to be announced.

The New York Philharmonic’s Digital Archives generously supported by the Leon Levy Foundation — a vast project to make available online the treasures documenting the Orchestra’s activities between 1943 and 1970 — offers musicians and scholars access to one of the longest- running collections in the music world at archives.nyphil.org. The entire performance history of the Orchestra is available through the Performance History Search at history.nyphil.org, which gives users worldwide access to the Philharmonic’s extensive database of more than 15,000 of its concerts, and lists of all the works it has premiered and commissioned. Biographies of its Music Directors and Principal Conductors can be found in the Archives section of nyphil.org.

The Archives also organizes additional activities, such as lectures and presentations, and is open for research by appointment, Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Call (212) 875-5930.

OPEN REHEARSALS

On selected mornings at 9:45 a.m., the Philharmonic offers audiences a behind-the-scenes look at the creative interplay among orchestra, conductor, and soloists during its Open Rehearsals. Concertgoers can follow the rehearsal with regular Philharmonic program books, which provide background notes and information about the performers and the works. Tickets are $20 and will be available August 15, 2013.

Members of the Philharmonic’s Patron and Friends programs are eligible to receive free tickets to selected Open Rehearsals. Call (212) 875-5381 for more about the Friends of the Philharmonic. School groups are also invited to attend through the Philharmonic’s Musical Encounters program. Call (212) 875-5733 for more about the Musical Encounters program.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The New York Philharmonic’s 2013–14 subscription season comprises 113 concerts over 36 weeks. Season ticket packages go on sale January 23, 2013, for subscription series comprising from four to nine concerts, and start at $99. Subscribers receive preferred seating, savings of up to 25 percent, ticket-exchange privileges, savings on dining, and many other benefits.

SUBSCRIBING AND PURCHASING TICKETS

Information on becoming a New York Philharmonic subscriber is available by phone from the Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656, or online at nyphil.org, the Orchestra’s secure Website. Subscriptions may be purchased on the phone, by fax, or through the mail beginning January 23, 2013. Tickets to individual concerts will go on sale to the general public on August 15, 2013. Individual tickets may also be purchased at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 65th Street. 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 tickets may be available to students, seniors, or disabled persons on the day of the performance at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office; identification is required. To determine ticket

36 availability, call the Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department on the day of performance at (212) 875-5656, or online at nyphil.org. Members of the public who wish to receive a brochure or more information should contact the Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656, Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING

Concert start times for the 2013–14 season are as follows: Monday through Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m.; Friday Matinee Concerts at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.; and Saturday Matinee Concerts at 2:00 p.m. Pre-Concert Talks take place in the Helen Huntington Hull Room of Avery Fisher Hall, unless otherwise noted, one hour before each Philharmonic subscription concert.

LATE SEATING

In consideration of both artists and audiences, latecomers will be seated only after the completion of a work. Patrons who leave the hall will not be reseated while a work is in progress.

DONATING TICKETS

Concertgoers who find they cannot attend a performance as planned, even at the last minute, may call the Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656 to donate their tickets for resale. Not only does this allow someone else to enjoy the concert, but the donation also benefits the Philharmonic, and the original ticket holder receives a receipt for tax purposes in return.

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC GIFT KIOSK

The Philharmonic’s Gift Kiosk is located on the Grand Promenade of Avery Fisher Hall. Open prior to concert time and during intermission, the Gift Kiosk is staffed entirely by volunteers, with proceeds directly benefiting the New York Philharmonic.

MEET THE ARTISTS AFTER THE PERFORMANCE

Concertgoers may meet the conductors and soloists who perform with the New York Philharmonic by visiting the Green Room, located on the northwest corner of the First Tier of Avery Fisher Hall, after the concert.

INFORMATION FOR PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES

Concertgoers requiring information or a complimentary accessibility guide on services for people with disabilities may contact the Department of Programs and Services for People with Disabilities by calling (212) 875-5375. Information is also available 24 hours a day through the Accessibility Hotline: (212) 875-5380.

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