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Wednesday, Sep 29, 2010 | 7 PM
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Opening Night Gala
CARNEGIE HALL’S OPENING NIGHT GALA
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor
  • Lang Lang, Piano

Program

  • BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

  • Encore:
  • PROKOFIEV Precipitato from Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes, including one intermission
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Open a new season in the world’s finest concert hall with the one of the world’s most renowned orchestras. The Vienna Philharmonic, together with an acclaimed conductor and an international piano superstar, fill Carnegie Hall with the glorious, dramatic sounds of Beethoven’s youthful First Concerto and one his most uplifting symphonies.
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 in C major, Op.15 - 3. Rondo (Allegro scherzando)
Lang Lang, Piano, Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach, Conductor
Deutsche Grammophon
Friday, Oct 22, 2010 | 11 AM
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Mariinsky Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 5

  • There is no late seating for this performance. Program is approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes, and will be performed without intermission.
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Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times, on hearing Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra perform the Fifth Symphony last season, wrote that “no one else conducts Mahler like this. No other orchestra plays Mahler like this.” Find out for yourself at this concert.
Mahler Symphony No. 5 (Adagietto)
New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein
Sony Classical
Sunday, Nov 14, 2010 | 4 PM
Too Hot to Handel:
The Gospel Messiah
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop, Music Director and Conductor
  • Choirs from:
    Bayside High School
  • Darius de Haas, Tenor
  • Edward R. Murrow High School
  • Fordham High School for the Arts
  • Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
  • Kecia Lewis-Evans, Soprano
  • Leslie Stifelman, Music Supervisor
  • Songs of Solomon
  • Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts
  • Vaneese Thomas, Mezzo-Soprano

Program

  • BOB CHRISTIANSON / GARY ANDERSON Too Hot to Handel (original concept by Marin Alsop)
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A mass choir of New York City students joins Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Too Hot to Handel. This full-length work has thrilled audiences across the country with its blend of the timeless brilliance of Handel's Messiah with an invigorating infusion of jazz, gospel, rock, and R&B.
Too Hot To Handel: The Gospel Messiah
Too Hot To Handel: The Gospel Messiah (“Hallelujah Chorus”)Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, The Majestic Praise Choir, Marin Alsop; Lillias White; Vivian Cherry; Thomas Young
Too Hot, LLC
Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 | 8 PM
The New York Pops
CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL!
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Brian Stokes Mitchell, Guest Artist
  • Camp Broadway Chorus
    Amy Burgess, Music Director
  • Essential Voices USA
    Judith Clurman, Music Director and Conductor
  • The New York Pops
    Steven Reineke, Music Director and Conductor

Program

Broadway’s leading baritone, Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell, celebrates the season with carols and traditional favorites.
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (Irving Berlin)
The New York Pops / Skitch Henderson, Conductor
Centaur Records
Friday, Dec 24, 2010 | 7 PM
New York String Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Benjamin Hochman, Piano
  • Jennifer Koh, Violin
  • New York String Orchestra
    Jaime Laredo, Conductor

Program

  • MOZART Overture to Così fan tutte
  • MENDELSSOHN Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Strings in D Minor
  • MOZART Symphony No. 31, "Paris"

  • Program is approximately 55 minutes, and will be performed without intermission
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It’s a New York City holiday tradition. For more than 40 years, this group of young musicians-in-training has performed at Carnegie Hall on Christmas Eve. This year, they team up with violinist Koh and pianist Hochman for a double concerto by Mendelssohn.
Mozart Overture to Così fan tutte
Staatskapelle Dresden / Sir Colin Davis 
RCA Red Seal
Tuesday, Dec 28, 2010 | 8 PM
New York String Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Ariana Ghez, Oboe
  • Daniel Hope, Violin
  • David Washburn, Trumpet
  • New York String Orchestra
    Jaime Laredo, Conductor
  • Paul Watkins, Cello
  • Tara Helen O'Connor, Flute

Program

  • BARBER Capricorn Concerto, Op. 21
  • BRAHMS Double Concerto in A Minor
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"

  • Program is approximately 2 hours, and will be performed with one intermission
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End the year on a high note at this final concert for the young musicians of the annual New York String Orchestra Seminar. Yo-Yo Ma attended the workshop as a teenager, calling it “one of the defining moments” of his career. Come hear the next generation of great performers with Artistic Director Jaime Laredo as they tackle Barber and Brahms, and Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony.
Saturday, Jan 29, 2011 | 1 PM
Discovery Day: Franz Liszt
Weill Recital Hall

Performers

  • Alan Walker, Keynote Speaker and Consultant
  • Angela Meade, Soprano
  • Bradley Moore, Piano
  • Charles Rosen, Speaker
  • Gregory DeTurck, Piano
  • Jeremy Geffen, Moderator
  • Michael Cumpsty, Actor
  • Robert Stanton, Actor
  • Wendy Rich Stetson, Actor

Program

  • 1:00-1:50 Keynote Address: Liszt as Cultural Ambassador of the 19th Century
    Alan Walker
  • 2:00-2:50 Performance: Aspects of Liszt
    Gregory DeTurck, Piano
  • The Virtuoso Liszt
    Etude d’exécution transcendante No. 10
  • The Voyager Liszt
    Au bord d’une source
  • The Operatic Liszt
    Réminiscences de Norma
  • The Patriotic Liszt
    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 in E Major
  • The Religioius Liszt
    Légende No. 2: St. François de Paule marchant sur les flots
  • The Prophetic Liszt
    Bagatelle ohne Tonart
  • Unstern! Sinistre, disastro
  • 3:00-3:45 Dramatic Reading
    Michael Cumpsty, Actor
    Robert Stanton, Actor
    Wendy Rich Stetson, Actor
  • 3:45-4:15 Break
  • 4:15-5:00 Performance
    Angela Meade, Soprano
    Bradley Moore, Piano
  • LISZT Tre sonetti di Petrarca
    ·· Pace non trovo
    ·· Benedetto sia'l giorno
    ·· I' vidi in terra angelici costumi
  • LISZT "Go not, happy day"
  • LISZT "Enfant, si j’étais roi"
  • LISZT "Comment disaient-ils"
  • LISZT Drei Lieder aus Schillers Wilhelm Tell
    ··Der Fischerknabe
    ··Der Hirt
    ··Der Alpenjäger

  • Encore:
  • LISZT "Oh! Quand je dors" ("Élégie Etienne Monnier")

  • 5:10-6:00 Panel Discussion
    Alan Walker
    Charles Rosen
    Jeremy Geffen, Moderator
  • Insights
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In the bicentennial year of Franz Liszt’s birth, Carnegie Hall explores the life and work of this legendary figure with a Discovery Day of panel discussions, talks, and performances. Participants include leading Liszt scholar and biographer Alan Walker, and Jeremy Geffen, Director of Artistic Planning at Carnegie Hall.
Tuesday, Apr 12, 2011 | 7 PM
James Taylor at Carnegie Hall
A GALA CELEBRATING 120 YEARS OF CARNEGIE HALL
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Bette Midler
  • Dianne Reeves
  • James Taylor
  • Kevin Pollak
  • Members of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
  • Steve Martin
  • Sting
  • With special guests:
    Barbara Cook
  • Young People's Chorus of New York City

Program

  • James Taylor
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One of the most beloved artists of our time celebrates 120 years of Carnegie Hall’s legendary history with special guests.
"Fire and Rain"
James Taylor
Sony
Thursday, May 5, 2011 | 7 PM
120th Anniversary Gala
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Audra McDonald, Vocalist
  • Emanuel Ax, Piano
  • Gil Shaham, Violin
  • New York Philharmonic
    Alan Gilbert, Music Director and Conductor
  • Yo-Yo Ma, Cello

Program

  • DVORÁK Carnival Overture, Op. 92
  • BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56
  • ELLINGTON "Solitude"
  • ELLINGTON "Sophisticated Lady"
  • ELLINGTON "On a Turquoise Cloud"
  • ELLINGTON "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing"
  • GERSHWIN An American in Paris
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Celebrate 120 years of Carnegie Hall—on the very day that it first opened its doors in 1891. As it was at that inaugural gala, this is a star-studded event not to be missed: Ma, Ax, and Shaham perform Beethoven, and the dazzling Audra McDonald joins the orchestra for classic Ellington songs.
Friday, May 6, 2011 | 9:30 PM
James Taylor: Guitar Conversations
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Adam Gopnik, Host
  • James Taylor, Guitar
  • Jerry Douglas, Dobro and Lap Steel
  • Michael Landau, Electric Guitars

Program

  • James Taylor
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Don’t miss a night of conversation and performance devoted to popular music’s instrument of choice when James Taylor invites a few of his friends to join him.
"Carolina in My Mind"
James Taylor
Hear Music
Saturday, Mar 26, 2011 | 6:30 PM
Hayao Miyazaki: Two Short Films
Zankel Hall

Program

Yado-Sagashi (House Hunting) (2006, 12 mins)
Mizugumo Monmon (Mon Mon the Water Spider) (2006, 15 mins)

Two short animated films by Japan’s legendary director and Academy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki are shown for the first time in the United States.
Saturday, Mar 26, 2011 | 8:30 PM
Hayao Miyazaki: Two Short Films
Zankel Hall

Program

Yado-Sagashi (House Hunting) (2006, 12 mins)
Mizugumo Monmon (Mon Mon the Water Spider) (2006, 15 mins)

Two short animated films by Japan’s legendary director and Academy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki are shown for the first time in the United States.
Monday, Mar 14, 2011 | 7:30 PM
Cancelled: Innovating and Profiting in Contemporary Japan
Weill Recital Hall

Program

Due to recent events in Japan, Carnegie Hall and Bloomberg have cancelled this panel discussion.

Ticketholders will receive automatic refunds. Those with questions should contact CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800.
Thursday, Mar 31, 2011 | 7:30 PM
From Race Cars to Rice Wine: Inside Japanese Style with WSJ Weekend
Weill Recital Hall

Performers

  • Dan Neil, Wall Street Journal auto columnist
    Lettie Teague, Wall Street Journal wine columnist
    Rick Smith, Proprietor of Sakaya

Program

This event features leading Wall Street Journal columnists in a two-part discussion about Japanese style. Dan Neil explores automotive and industrial design in Japan and its connection to Japanese aesthetics and culture, old and new. Lettie Teague and Rick Smith, proprietor of New York City’s only all-sake store, engage in a lively discussion about the parallels between great wine and great sake with a sake-tasting to follow.
Friday, Apr 1, 2011 | 6:30 PM
Talking Tech with Sony and the Wall Street Journal
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO, and President of Sony Corporation
  • Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal Personal Technology Columnist

Program

In a candid conversation with Walt Mossberg, Sir Howard Stringer discusses where consumer technology is heading—the smartphone explosion, the rise of e-readers and tablets, and the transformation of TV technology and programming. They also touch on the recent events in Japan, the resiliency of the Japanese people, and how it may impact the technology industry.

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