FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UPDATED January 15, 2015 January 2, 2015 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected] NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS SUPER SONIC MUSIC BOX: “New York Transformed” Saturday, January 24, 2015 Musicians To Wear Clothing Provided by UNIQLO in Colors Specific to Their Sections, and UNIQLO and NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC To Conduct CLOTHING DRIVE At All Young People’s Concerts in 2014–15 Associate Conductor Case Scaglione To Conduct Philharmonic Vice President, Education, Theodore Wiprud To Host The New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts (YPCs) continue Saturday, January 24, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. with the program “New York Transformed,” the second in this season’s series, SUPER SONIC MUSIC BOX, exploring the variety of symphonic music and its interpretation. The concert celebrates the Orchestra’s hometown through a wide range of music: Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from On the Town; Karen LeFrak’s A Bite of the Apple, featuring video from NYC & Company; It Don’t Mean a Thing by Duke Ellington; and music by Very Young Composers of New York City and Shanghai. Associate Conductor Case Scaglione will lead the performance, and Vice President, Education, Theodore Wiprud will host the event, directed and scripted by Kevin Del Aguila. The program will also feature actor Michael Thomas Holmes. UNIQLO, the global clothing retailer, is sponsoring the Philharmonic’s 2014–15 season of YPCs, dressing the Orchestra for all YPC concerts this season in UNIQLO clothing with colors identifying each orchestral section. Children are invited to come to the concerts dressed in the color of their favorite section: strings will be clad in red or pink, woodwinds in green, brass in blue, percussion in orange, and harp and keyboards in light blue. In addition, UNIQLO and the New York Philharmonic will be conducting a clothing drive during all of this season’s YPCs, at which attendees can leave gently used clothes in bins placed around Avery Fisher Hall; the clothing will be distributed directly to people in need living in New York City Homeless Shelters by UNIQLO volunteers. Attendees are invited to come early to meet Philharmonic musicians and take part in YPC Overtures, pre-concert activities inside the hall, such as live performances by ensembles of Philharmonic musicians of works by Very Young Composers inspired by the YPC’s thematic content, and videos projected on screen above the stage, including a tutorial on folding origami while audience members fold origami from their seats. The youngest audience members are (more) Young People’s Concert / 2 invited to the Helen Huntington Hull Room to hear stories read by members of the New York Philharmonic Volunteer Council. Beginning one week before each YPC a special podcast for children is made available, at nyphil.org/ypc, as is TuneUp, the children’s concert program, complete with activities related to the event. Artists American conductor Case Scaglione began his tenure as Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic in September 2011, the same year he received the Conductor’s Prize by the Solti Foundation U.S. He made his Philharmonic subscription debut in November 2012, stepping in to lead the opening work on a concert otherwise conducted by Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur, and in May–June 2013 he led the Orchestra in two works on a program also conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert. He has also conducted seven New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts. In September 2014 he was elevated to Associate Conductor, a position revived for him by Alan Gilbert. This season Mr. Scaglione makes debuts with the Lucerne and Dallas Symphony Orchestras and the Rochester Philharmonic, and returns to the Hong Kong Philharmonic. He made his professional conducting debut with The Cleveland Orchestra in 2010 after being awarded the Aspen Conducting Prize the same year. Since then, he has appeared as a guest conductor with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the St. Louis, Baltimore, Houston, Colorado, and Jacksonville symphony orchestras, among others. In September 2013 he assisted Andrew Davis on a production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Mr. Scaglione is a regular visitor to China, where he has given concerts with the Shanghai and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestras and China Philharmonic. Last season he conducted Bach’s Mass in B minor with Madrid’s Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia. Mr. Scaglione was music director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra of Los Angeles from 2008 to 2011, when he was the driving force behind the continued artistic growth and diversification of the organization and founded 360° Music, which took that orchestra to inner-city schools. His programs ranged from Wagner to Ligeti and included the orchestra’s first staged opera in almost 60 years as well as the Los Angeles Premiere of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony, supported by the National Endowment of the Arts. Case Scaglione was a student of David Zinman at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, where he won the James Conlon Prize, and was assistant conductor of the Aspen Music Festival and School. In 2011 Mr. Scaglione was one of three conducting Fellows at Tanglewood, chosen by James Levine and Stefan Asbury. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and his post-graduate studies were spent at the Peabody Institute, studying with Gustav Meier. Mr. Scaglione made his New York Philharmonic debut leading a Young People’s Concert in November 2011; his most recent appearance was in November 2014 leading the New York Philharmonic in works by Debussy, Glazunov, and Prokofiev with Joshua Bell as soloist. Theodore Wiprud — New York Philharmonic Vice President, Education, The Sue B. Mercy Chair — has directed the Orchestra’s Education Department since 2004. The Philharmonic’s education programs include the historic Young People’s Concerts (which he hosts), Very Young People’s Concerts, School Partnership Program (one of the largest in-school programs among U.S. orchestras), Very Young Composers, adult education programs, and many special projects. (more) Young People’s Concert / 3 Mr. Wiprud has also created innovative programs as director of education and community engagement at the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the American Composers Orchestra; served as associate director of The Commission Project; and assisted the Orchestra of St. Luke’s on its education programs. He has worked as a teaching artist and resident composer in a number of New York City schools. From 1990 to 1997 he directed national grant-making programs at Meet the Composer. Prior to that position, he taught at and directed the music department for Walnut Hill School, a pre-professional arts boarding school near Boston. Mr. Wiprud is also an active composer, whose Violin Concerto (Katrina) was recently released on Champs Hill Records. His music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, and voice is published by Allemar Music. Theodore Wiprud holds degrees from Harvard and Boston Universities and studied at Cambridge University as a visiting scholar. Kevin Del Aguila is an actor, writer, and director in New York City. He wrote the book for the Off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz (New York Outer Critics Circle Award; Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations) and received the Heideman Award for his play The Greekest of Tragedies (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Other works include his stage adaptation of the DreamWorks film Madagascar and Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live, both of which played engagements at Radio City Music Hall, as well as his middle-aged superhero musical The Astonishing Return of the Protagonists! (2013 National Alliance for Music Theatre Festival). He has been commissioned to write many stage adaptations of children’s books for Theatreworks USA including Click Clack Moo (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations) and Skippyjon Jones (Lucill Lortel Award nomination), and has written for several children’s television shows, including the Emmy Award–winning Peg + Cat (PBS). As a director, Mr. Del Aguila has staged Lincoln Center Theater’s annual Celebration of Student Songs at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater since 2008 and has helmed World Premieres of many new musicals at Barrington Stage Company. He performed the role of Smee in Broadway’s Peter and the Starcatcher and a singing troll in the Disney blockbuster Frozen. * * * MetLife Foundation is the Lead Corporate Underwriter for the New York Philharmonic’s Education Programs. * * * Additional support by The Theodore H. Barth Foundation. * * * The New York Philharmonic is dressed by UNIQLO for Young People’s Concerts. * * * Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. * * * (more) Young People’s Concert / 4 Tickets Individual tickets for the Young People’s Concerts are $13 to $40. All tickets include admission to YPC Overtures. Tickets may be purchased online at nyphil.org or by calling (212) 875-5656, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday; 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday; and noon to 5:00 p.m. Sunday. Tickets may also be purchased at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office. The Box Office opens at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at noon on Sunday. On performance evenings, the Box Office closes one-half hour after performance time; other evenings it closes at 6:00 p.m. To determine ticket availability, call the New York Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656. For press tickets, call Lanore Carr in the New York Philharmonic Communications Department at (212) 875-5714, or e-mail her at [email protected].