New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert, Music Director 2010 /11 Season Fact Book New York Philharmonic Contents 2 2010 –11 Season: The Big Picture Stats Every Concert Tells a Story Artistic Partners Around the Globe Onstage Guests Philharmonic Stand-Outs Familiar Favorites 20 Learning Media Lectures and Discussions Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence The Philharmonic-Symphony 16 The Players Performances for the Public Society of New York, Inc. Online Alan Gilbert, Music Director 18 Leadership For Schools Gary W. Parr, Chairman Music Director Zarin Mehta, President Chairman and Executive Director 22 Premieres and President and Executive Director Commissions Avery Fisher Hall 2010 – 11 Season 10 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023 – 6970 Notable 21st Century Main Phone: (212) 875 – 5900 Notable 20th Century Notable 19th Century Communications Phone: (212) 875 – 5700 Fax: (212) 875 – 5717 24 The Legacy E-mail: [email protected] Photographs are available to The Story the media from Communications Memorable Moments at nyphil.org/newsroom. 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For more information about Credit Suisse, please visit 2 www.credit-suisse.com. nyphil.org 2010 – 11 Season: The Big Picture Stats Subscription Concerts 32 Weeks 111 Concerts, including 12 Friday Matinees 4 Saturday Matinees 4 Young People’s Concerts 3 Rush Hour Concerts Non-Subscription Events 4 CONTACT! concerts 2 Tours 1 Residency 9 Summertime Classics concerts (schedule to be announced) 4 Regional Concerts 29 Open Rehearsals Concerts in the Parks Presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer Conductors 1 Music Director 1 Assistant Conductor 14 Guests, including 3 debuts Guest Artists 45 Soloists, including 17 debuts 5 Ensembles 2 Directors Chamber Music 6 Philharmonic Ensembles at Merkin Concert Hall 1 CUNY–Staten Island 9 Very Young People’s Concerts at Merkin Concert Hall The Orchestra 106 Contracted musicians 47 Men 48 Women 11 Vacancies 2 52-Week contract 3 2010 – 11 Season: The Big Picture Every Concert Tells a Story “ The most important overriding concern I have is to make sure that each program has a cohesion and an internal logic, that the pieces in any given program really belong together.” — Music Director Alan Gilbert Debussy Sibelius Lindberg Gala Opening Night Concert Kraft by Magnus Lindberg, and Free Dress Rehearsal The Marie-Josée Kravis Alan Gilbert, conductor Composer-in-Residence Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Alan Gilbert, conductor Wynton Marsalis, music director and trumpet Joshua Bell, violin Wynton Marsalis: Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3) Chen Halevi, clarinet; Carter Brey, cello (U.S. Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission) Magnus Lindberg, piano; Markus Rhoten, timpani Christopher S. Lamb, Daniel Druckman, percussion R. Strauss: Don Juan Juhani Liimatainen, electronics Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Carl Maria von Weber Sibelius: Violin Concerto September 22; concert telecast on Live From Lincoln Center, and simulcast on Classical 105.9 FM WQXR Magnus Lindberg: Kraft (New York Premiere) The Opening Night Gala is presented by Breguet. October 7 – 8, 12 Wynton Marsalis Focus on Mahler Mahler Mendelssohn’s Elijah On the 150th Anniversary of His Birth and the 100th Anniversary Alan Gilbert, conductor of His Death and Final Philharmonic Performances Carolyn Sampson, soprano; Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano; Gerald Finley, bass-baritone; Symphony No. 6 Symphony No. 4 New York Choral Artists Alan Gilbert, conductor Daniel Harding, conductor November 10 – 11,13 Alan Gilbert leads CONTACT! September 29 – October 1 Lisa Milne, soprano A special tribute to Dimitri Mitropoulos The New-Music Series Also on the program: sponsored by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Alan Gilbert, conductor Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 Des Knaben Wunderhorn Barbara Hannigan, soprano (with Glenn Dicterow) Sir Colin Davis, conductor Magnus Lindberg: New work March 3 – 5 Dorothea Röschmann, soprano (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission) Ian Bostridge, tenor Symphony No. 5 Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil Also on the program: Alan Gilbert, conductor November 19, Peter Norton Symphony Space Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 November 20, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Also on the program: December 2, 4, and 7 Selections for Debussy’s Estampes for solo piano, and Messiaen’s Alan Gilbert, conductor Kindertotenlieder Couleurs de la cité céleste Julian Anderson: Comedy of Change (U.S. Premiere) Alan Gilbert, conductor (both with Emanuel Ax) James Matheson: New work Thomas Hampson, baritone Mahler only April 27; full program April 28 – 30 Gerald Finley (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission) Also on the program: Jay Alan Yim: New work Mozart’s Symphony No. 4 and (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission) Thomas Adès’s multimedia In Seven Days December 17, The Metropolitan Museum of Art January 6 – 8 December 18, Peter Norton Symphony Space 5 2010 – 11 Season: The Big Picture Every Concert Tells a Story (continued) Thomas Adès Aaron Jay Kernis’s Thomas Adès’s In Seven Days Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival a Voice, a Messenger Alan Gilbert, conductor Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen (see page 9) Thomas Hampson, baritone Alan Gilbert, conductor March 10 – 26 Sheryl Staples, Michelle Kim, Thomas Adès, piano Major support provided by The Kaplen Foundation Marc Ginsberg, Lisa Kim, violin Tal Rosner, video artist Philip Smith, trumpet Mozart: Symphony No. 40 Philip Myers, horn Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Bartók Haydn Ligeti Liang Wang, oboe Thomas Adès: In Seven Days (New York Premiere) Vivaldi: Concerto for Four Violins, RV 580 January 6 – 8 Aaron Jay Kernis: a Voice, a Messenger (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission) Hindemith: Horn Concerto Anne-Sophie Mutter Christopher Rouse: Oboe Concerto (New York Premiere) Ravel: Boléro December 28 – 30 Janácˇek’s The Cunning Little Vixen (fully staged) New Year’s Eve Alan Gilbert, conductor Alan Gilbert, conductor Doug Fitch, director and designer Lang Lang, piano Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano (Vixen) All-Tchaikovsky program: Alan Opie, baritone (Forester) Polonaise from Eugene Onegin Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano (Fox) Piano Concerto No. 1 Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano (Lapak) The Nutcracker, Act II Keith Jameson, tenor (Schoolmaster, Mosquito) December 31; concert telecast on June 22 – 25 Live From Lincoln Center Generously sponsored by Yoko Nagae Ceschina The New Year’s Eve concert is presented by Breguet. Anne-Sophie Mutter, Carnegie Hall Concerts The Mary and James G. Wallach Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic Alan Gilbert, conductor Artist-in-Residence (see page 8) at Carnegie Hall Midori, violin November 14 – 23; March 31 – April 3; June 2 – 5 Beethoven: Violin Concerto Emanuel Ax John Adams: Harmonielehre November 12 Emanuel Ax’s 100th Performance Alan Gilbert, conductor with the New York Philharmonic Emanuel Ax, piano; Gil Shaham, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Alan Gilbert, conductor Audra McDonald, soprano Emanuel Ax, piano Dvorˇák: Carnival Overture Debussy: Selections from Estampes for solo piano Beethoven: Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Triple Messiaen: Couleurs de la cité céleste Ellington: Songs tba Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Gershwin: An American in Paris 6 April 28–30 May 5: Carnegie Hall’s 120th Anniversary 7 2010 – 11 Season: The Big Picture Artistic Partners The Marie-Josée Kravis The Mary and James G. Wallach Hungarian Echoes: Radio Host Composer-in-Residence Artist-in-Residence A Philharmonic Festival Alec Baldwin Magnus Lindberg Anne-Sophie Mutter Conducted by Actor Alec Baldwin returns as the host of The New Esa-Pekka Salonen York Philharmonic This Week, the Philharmonic’s Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter appears in three national radio broadcast. He also hosts both of the CONTACT! orchestral programs and performs chamber and Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen presides over the season’s New York Philharmonic telecasts on Live recital concerts with longtime musical partners The New-Music Series New York Philharmonic’s second annual three-week From Lincoln Center. (See Media, page 12) and Philharmonic musicians. festival, titled Hungarian Echoes, which will focus The Finnish composer’s second season in his on works by Haydn, Bartók, and Ligeti — three November 14: All-Beethoven program with violist Philharmonic position includes one world premiere Yuri Bashmet and cellist Lynn Harrell composers of different eras, each with strong ties for CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series, to Hungary. in which he plays a curatorial role. In addition, his November 18 – 20, 23: Mozart violin concertos and the World landmark work, Kraft, will be conducted by Music Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Lichtes Spiel March 10 – 26: Hungarian Echoes, featuring pianists Director Alan Gilbert. Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Olli Mustonen; mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung; bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin; and March 31 – April 2: New York Premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Women of the New York Choral Artists October 7 – 8, 12: Magnus Lindberg’s Kraft, a New York In Tempus Praesens Premiere, with Mr.