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These are only a few of the many ways we make our Season Changes subscribers feel special. So, how can you not subscribe? Lift the fl ap. Be convinced. Subscribe Today Everything NEW TRADITIONS PERSPECTIVES: Janine Jansen Chris Lee Chris carnegiehall.org “As fi ngers fl y in the virtuoso passages, you can hear her smiling, almost dancing for joy.” 212-247-7800 —The Times (London) Box O ce at 57th PERSPECTIVES: and Seventh Follow us on Daniil Trifonov This Changes Everything “... you come out feeling as if your reality had been slightly altered.” —The Washington Post Non-Profit Organization A NEW NATION If you love U.S. Postage 881 Seventh Avenue PAID New York, NY 10019 The ’60s: The Years that Changed America Carnegie Hall the music, presents INSPIRED BY ROBERT A. CARO how can A rediscovery of music and more that refl ects the turbulent spirit of the decade. A NEW MUSIC you not THE RICHARD AND BARBARA DEBS COMPOSER’S CHAIR subscribe? Philip Glass “Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere—everything is coming together, for better or worse ...” —Philip Glass Having your regular seat in Carnegie Hall and hearing extraordinary music performed by the world’s greatest artists is an incomparable experience, but that’s only one benefi t of subscribing. Want to save money? 2017– When you subscribe, you save up to 27% o the price of tickets. This How important is your time? We know it’s precious, and with a subscription you have the 2018 exclusive privilege of exchanging a ticket without fees when your 2017–2018 Season schedule changes. These are only a few of the many ways we make our Season Changes subscribers feel special. So, how can you not subscribe? Lift the fl ap. Be convinced. 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Kheir Fadi Front cover photo: Trifonov by Steve J. Sherman. Back cover: Russell by Marv Goldschmitt, Mutter by Stefan Höderath / DG, Fleming by Decca / Timothy White, Ma by Jason Bell, Argerich by Jennifer Taylor, Kissin by Steve J. Sherman, Kaufmann by Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Music, Dudamel by Gerardo Gómez. The great music we present is unchanging, yet 3 ORCHESTRAS always changing. If you’re lucky enough to hear Itzhak Perlman and Martha Argerich perform 26 PERSPECTIVES: Franck’s Violin Sonata this season, their DANIIL TRIFONOV interpretation of this great music will diff er 27 from any other performance you’ve ever RECITALS heard. Everything changes, and that’s what 41 makes hearing it live in Carnegie Hall so special. WORLD, POP, AND JAZZ 42 This season has a focus on changing times, artists, and music. THE ’60S: THE YEARS Our festival, The ’60s: The Years that Changed America, THAT CHANGED AMERICA was inspired by the extraordinary historian Robert A. Caro 53 and looks at the cultural and social upheavals of that time CHAMBER through the lens of music and other arts of the decade. Our 54 audiences will also enjoy a rare opportunity to hear a variety PERSPECTIVES: JANINE JANSEN of compositions by this season’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair Philip Glass, who celebrates his 80th 60 DEBS COMPOSER’S CHAIR birthday year and whose works signifi cantly altered the PHILIP GLASS style and direction of classical music. The next generation of 61 performers is represented by our Perspectives artists, pianist NEW AND UNEXPECTED Daniil Trifonov and violinist Janine Jansen, who have already 65 established themselves at the very peak of great performers. EARLY MUSIC We’re privileged to hear their unique musical voices in 69 repertoire both classic and new. NON-SUBSCRIPTION orchestras EVENTS So come hear it all, along with Gustavo Dudamel and the 71 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeny Kissin and the SPECIAL BENEFIT EVENTS Emerson String Quartet, L’Arpeggiata, the New York debut 72 of Kirill Petrenko and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester and SEASON AT A GLANCE Staatsoper, and many other exceptional artists. There’s 74 another kind of change you can expect here: It’s the way an WEILL MUSIC INSTITUTE incandescent performance changes you. If you join us now as 75 a subscriber, you’ll enjoy the lowest prices, ticket-exchange MEMBERSHIPS privileges, and—most important—a guaranteed seat for an ONGOING PARTNERSHIPS unforgettable and never-to-be-repeated experience. 76 SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM Warmest wishes, Inside Back Cover SUBSCRIBER BENEFITS Photos: Mehta by Oded Antman. Zubin Mehta Clive Gillinson Executive and Artistic Director Proud Season Sponsor INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ORCHESTRAS I Friday, October 20 at 8 PM Tuesday, November 14 at 8 PM Thursday, March 29 at 7 PM ORCHESTRA MARIINSKY ORCHESTRA BAYERISCHE STAATSOPER DELL’ACCADEMIA Valery Gergiev, Music Director R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier NAZIONALE DI SANTA and Conductor (opera in concert) Denis Matsuev, Piano CECILIA Kirill Petrenko, Music Director SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9 and Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, Music Director PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 and Conductor Adrianne Pieczonka, Feldmarschallin SCRIABIN Symphony No. 3, Angela Brower, Octavian Martha Argerich, Piano “The Divine Poem” Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Sophie VERDI Sinfonia from Aida Peter Rose, Baron Ochs PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 Friday, February 23 at 8 PM Markus Eiche, Faninal RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome VIENNA PHILHARMONIC Lawrence Brownlee, Italian Singer Choir of the Bayerische Staatsoper Sponsored by Breguet, ORCHESTRA Exclusive Timepiece of Carnegie Hall Sören Eckhoff , Chorus Master Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor Bayerisches Staatsorchester ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM Academic Festival Overture Variations on a Theme by Haydn Four concerts in Symphony No. 1 Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Sponsored by Ernst & Young LLP Balcony $203/$245, Dress Circle $203/$323/$443, This concert is made possible, in part, by the Second Tier $323/$443, Parquet $443/$634, Have you Audrey Love Charitable Foundation. Blavatnik Family First Tier $695 heard them? The Vienna Philharmonic Residency at Carnegie Hall is made For renewing subscribers only (through possible by a leadership gift from the Mercedes T.