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Wednesday, Oct 5, 2011 | 7 PM
Mariinsky Orchestra
Opening Night Gala
CARNEGIE HALL’S OPENING NIGHT GALA
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Mariinsky Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
  • Yo-Yo Ma, Cello

Program

  • SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture
  • TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
  • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

  • Encores:
  • TCHAIKOVSKY Andante Cantabile (arr. for Cello and Strings from String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11)
  • TCHAIKOVSKY Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
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Yo-Yo Ma has provided Carnegie Hall with some of its most memorable concerts ever, and an appearance by Valery Gergiev and his orchestra is always a one-of-a-kind event. Together, they perform a showstopper by Tchaikovsky—the guest of honor at the very first Opening Night in 1891—as part of this all-Russian program.

Program to be performed without intermission.
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade (The Young Prince and the Young Princess)
Kirov Theater Orchestra / Valery Gergiev, Conductor / Sergei Levitin, Violin
Philips
Saturday, Oct 15, 2011 | 1 PM
Discovery Day: Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg
Weill Recital Hall

Performers

  • Richard Wortman, Keynote Speaker
  • Andrei Bondarenko, Baritone
  • Gary Matthewman, Piano
  • Tarik Amar, Speaker
  • Katerina Clark, Speaker
  • Laura Engelstein, Speaker
  • Timothy M. Frye, Speaker
  • Boris Gasparov, Speaker
  • Lynn Garafola, Speaker
  • Simon Morrison, Speaker
  • Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier, Speaker
  • John Malmstad, Moderator and Speaker
  • Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Moderator
  • Maya Pritsker, Moderator

Program

  • 1:00-1:10 Welcome
    Timothy M. Frye, Speaker

    1:10-1:40 Keynote Address: St. Petersburg, the Imperial City, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Richard Wortman, Keynote Speaker

    1:45-2:15 Tchaikovsky, Music, and St. Petersburg: A Conversation
    Boris Gasparov, Speaker
    Simon Morrison, Speaker
    John Malmstad, Moderator

    2:15-2:30 Break

  • 2:30-3:30 Performance: Songs by Tchaikovsky and his Contemporaries
  • Andrei Bondarenko, Baritone
    Gary Matthewman, Piano
  • TCHAIKOVSKY "In the Midst of the Ball," Op. 38, No. 3
  • TCHAIKOVSKY "At Bedtime," Op. 27, No. 1
  • TCHAIKOVSKY "Reconciliation," Op. 25, No. 1
  • TCHAIKOVSKY "Why?," Op. 6, No. 5
  • GLINKA "Say Not that Love Will Pass"
  • GLINKA "Bolero"
  • GLINKA "I Remember the Wonderful Moment"
  • GLINKA "Travelling Song"
  • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV "The Octave," Op. 45, No. 3
  • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV "The Messenger," Op. 4, No. 2
  • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV "On the Hills of Georgia," Op. 3, No. 4
  • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV "The Beauty," Op. 51, No. 4
  • TCHAIKOVSKY "My Genius, my Angel, my Friend"
  • TCHAIKOVSKY "Death," Op. 57, No. 5
  • TCHAIKOVSKY "I Should Like in a Single Word"
  • TCHAIKOVSKY "Again, As Before, I Am Alone," Op. 73, No. 6

  • Encore:
  • TCHAIKOVSKY "Don Juan's Serenade"

  • 3:35-4:30 Revolution in the Arts: 1905
    Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier, Speaker
    John Malmstad, Speaker
    Lynn Garafola, Speaker
    Maya Pritsker, Moderator

    4:30-4:45 Break

    4:45-5:05 Interlude: Petersburg Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century
    Katerina Clark, Speaker

    5:05-5:40 Revolution and Society: 1905
    Laura Engelstein, Speaker
    Tarik Amar, Speaker
    Catharine Nepomnyashschy, Moderator

    5:40-5:45 Concluding Remarks
    Timothy M. Frye, Speaker
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An afternoon of talks, panel discussions, and musical performance, featuring leading scholars from The Harriman Institute at Columbia University exploring the cultural world of St. Petersburg in the 1890s and beyond.
Saturday, May 18, 2013 | 8 PM
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Program

  • STRAVINSKY Pétrouchka (1947 version)
  • RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
Saturday, Dec 17, 2011 | 8 PM
The New York Pops
John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey Wish You a Swingin' Christmas
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • The New York Pops
    Steven Reineke, Music Director and Conductor
  • John Pizzarelli, Guest Artist
  • Jessica Molaskey, Guest Artist
  • Essential Voices USA
    Judith Clurman, Music Director and Conductor

Program

The couple described by The New York Times as “a musical match made in heaven” swing seasonal favorites from the era when Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Rosemary Clooney ruled the airwaves.
Saturday, Dec 24, 2011 | 7 PM
New York String Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • New York String Orchestra
    Jaime Laredo, Conductor and Violin
  • Bella Hristova, Violin

Program

  • BACH Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra in D Minor, BWV 1043
  • DVORÁK Romance in F Minor, Op. 11
  • SAINT-SAËNS Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28
  • MOZART Symphony No. 35, "Haffner"
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For over 40 years, this group of young musicians has been lighting up the holidays with its annual Christmas Eve concert. This season, Jaime Laredo and the New York String Orchestra return with showpieces by Saint-Saëns and Dvorák, and perform favorites by Bach and Mozart.
Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 | 8 PM
New York String Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • New York String Orchestra
    Jaime Laredo, Conductor
  • André Watts, Piano

Program

  • ARRIAGA Symphony in D Minor
  • BARTÓK Divertimento for Strings
  • BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, "Emperor"
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Forty-eight years ago, a teenager named André Watts launched his career with a featured appearance on one of Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts. This one-time prodigy is now one of America’s most esteemed pianists. On this concert he joins the next generation of great young performers—participants in the annual New York String Orchestra Seminar—in Beethoven’s mighty “Emperor” Concerto.
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat, "Emperor" (Allegro)
Van Cliburn, Piano; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, Conductor
RCA
Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 | 3 PM
The Carmina Burana Choral Project
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Orchestra of St. Luke's
    David Robertson, Conductor
  • Celena Shafer, Soprano
  • Lawrence Brownlee
  • David Adam Moore, Baritone
  • Joe Miller
  • Leslie Stifelman
  • Dianne Berkun, Choral Preparer
  • S. Katy Tucker, Video and Projection Design
  • Nicole Pearce, Lighting Designer
  • Brooklyn High School of the Arts
  • Brooklyn Technical High School
  • Fordham High School for the Arts
  • Forest Hills High School
  • Fort Hamilton High School
  • Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
  • Mark Twain I.S. 239 for the Gifted & Talented
  • Scarsdale High School
  • Songs of Solomon

Program

  • GABRIEL SMALLWOOD "Dies Irae" (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
  • THOMAS REEVES "A Man's Life" (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
  • ANTHONY CONSTANTINO "Thus It Was" (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
  • CARL ORFF Carmina Burana
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A choir of New York City students joins conductor David Robertson and the Orchestra of St. Luke's for a definitive performance of Orff's Carmina Burana. In addition, three high school–aged composers have been selected to write new works for chorus and orchestra based on the musical themes of Carmina Burana. These new works will be premiered on the first half of the program.
The Carmina Burana Choral Project
A choir of New York City students joins conductor David Robertson and the Orchestra of St. Luke's for a definitive performance of Orff's Carmina Burana. In addition, three high school-aged composers have been selected to write new works for chorus and orchestra based on the musical themes of Carmina Burana. These new works will be premiered on the first half of the program.
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 | 7:30 PM
L'Arpeggiata
Los pajaros perdidos
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • L'Arpeggiata
    Christina Pluhar, Artistic Director and Theorbo
  • Gianluigi Trovesi, Clarinet
  • Lucilla Galeazzi, Vocalist
  • Luciana Mancini, Vocalist
  • Vincenzo Capezzuto, Vocalist
  • Raquel Andueza, Soprano

Program

  • LUCILLA GALEAZZI "Ah, vita bella!"
  • Improvisation: Follia
  • LUCILLA GALEAZZI "Voglio una casa"
  • TRAD. "Pizzicarella mia"
  • TRAD. "Stu criatu"
  • TRAD. "La carpinese"
  • ANON. "Montilla"
  • ANON. "Pajarillo verde"
  • TRAD. "Duerme negrito"
  • RAMÍREZ / LUNA "Alfonsina y el mar"
  • PIAZZOLLA "Los pájaros perdidos"
  • TRAD. "Polo margariteño"
  • WALSH "Como la cigarra"
  • RIVERA "La cocoroba"
  • PLAZA "El curruchá"
  • ANON. "Caballo viejo y Alma Llanera"
  • ANON. "Recuerdos de Ypacarai y Isla Sacá "
  • Improvisation: Turlurù
  • Improvisation: Kapsberger
  • Improvisation: Ciaccona
  • TRAD. "Lu Passariellu"

  • Encores:
  • ANON. "Montilla"
  • VELÁSQUEZ "Besame mucho"
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With a host of guests—including vocalist Lucilla Galeazzi, soprano Raquel Andueza, and clarinetist Gianluigi Trovesi—L’Arpeggiata performs improvisations and music from the Baroque, alongside the traditional South American folk music featured in their latest album Los pajaros perdidos.
Cazzati Ciaccona
L'Arpeggiata
Alpha Productions
Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012 | 8 PM
San Francisco Symphony
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • San Francisco Symphony
    Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor
  • St. Lawrence String Quartet
    ·· Geoff Nuttall, Violin
    ·· Scott St. John, Violin
    ·· Lesley Robertson, Viola
    ·· Christopher Costanza, Cello
  • Joan La Barbara, Vocalist
  • Meredith Monk, Vocalist
  • Jessye Norman, Soprano
  • Jesse Stiles, Electronics
  • Yuval Sharon, Stage Director

Program

  • CAGE Song Books
  • COWELL Synchrony
  • JOHN ADAMS Absolute Jest for String Quartet and Orchestra (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the San Francisco Symphony, with support from the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Works of Music.)
  • VARÈSE Amériques
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The San Francisco Symphony begins its American Mavericks residency at Carnegie Hall with a spectacular, ground-shaking ode to our country from the 1920s by a Frenchman who found creative sustenance right here in the Big Apple and the New York premiere of John Adams’s Absolute Jest.

Also on the program is music from John Cage’s enigmatic Song Books with Jessye Norman, Meredith Monk, and Joan La Barbara. Imagine video screens pulsing with images that reinforce action. Envision three houses with cut-away walls, revealing the three divas. They explore three Cage worlds: one of theater, one populated by avant-garde French composer Erik Satie and Dada icon Marcel Duchamp, and another of Cage's idol Henry David Thoreau. The action is directed by Yuval Sharon, who has staged productions with New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, and many other companies. But no two performances are the same, for the singers act on the moment’s inspiration, guided by Cage’s prompts. “Leave the stage by going up (flying) or by going down through a trap door,” Cage directs in one number. “Return in the same way wearing an animal’s head.” “Breathe as though you had lost your voice.” Prepare for fractured settings from Thoreau: “Wasps are building summer squashes, saw a fish hawk, when I hear this both bushes and trees are thinly leaved.”
Varèse's Amériques
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, Conductor
Deutsche Grammophon
Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 | 8 PM
San Francisco Symphony
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • San Francisco Symphony
    Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor
  • Emanuel Ax, Piano

Program

  • RUGGLES Sun-Treader
  • FELDMAN Piano and Orchestra
  • IVES A Concord Symphony (orch. Brant)
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On its second concert at Carnegie Hall as part of American Mavericks, the San Francisco Symphony presents Carl Ruggles’s Sun-Treader, whose title comes from a Robert Browning poem, and an orchestration of Charles Ives’s “Concord” Sonata, inspired by New England’s transcendentalists. Ruggedly nonconformist, these works are matched with the no-less-individualistic music of iconoclast Morton Feldman.

Ruggles Sun-Treader
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor 
Deutsche Grammophon
Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 | 8 PM
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Starring:
    Laura Osnes (Maria Rainer)
  • Tony Goldwyn (Captain Georg von Trapp)
  • Brooke Shields (Elsa Schraeder)
  • Patrick Page (Max Detweiler)
  • Stephanie Blythe (The Mother Abbess)
  • Cotter Smith (Herr Zeller)
  • Mary Michael Patterson (Liesl von Trapp)
    Nick Spangler (Rolf Gruber)
  • Jake Montagnino* (Friedrich von Trapp)
  • Olivia Knutsen* (Louisa von Trapp)
    Jacob Sutton* (Kurt von Trapp)
    Grace Luckett* (Brigitta von Trapp)
    Natalie Hawkins* (Marta von Trapp)
    Charlotte Knutsen* (Gretl von Trapp)
    *Members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus | Dianne Berkun, Director
  • Joy Hermalyn (Sister Berthe, Mistress of Novices)
    Linda Mugleston (Sister Margaretta, Mistress of Postulants)
    Faith Sherman (Sister Sophia)
    Reed Birney (Admiral von Schreiber)
    Joel Hatch (Franz, The Butler)
    Veanne Cox (Frau Schmidt, The Housekeeper)
    Daniel Truhitte (Baron Elberfeld)
    Daniela DiGiallonardo (Baroness Elberfeld)
    Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies (Trio of the Saengerbund of Herwegen)
  • Christine DiGiallonardo, Nadia DiGiallonardo, Patty Goble, Amy Justman, Kevin Munhall, and the Women of the Mansfield University Concert Choir, Peggy Dettwiler, Director (Neighbors of Captain von Trapp, Nuns, Novices, Postulants, Contestants in the Festival Concert)

  • With:
    Orchestra of St. Luke's
    Women of the Mansfield University Concert Choir
    Rob Fisher, Musical Director and Conductor
    Gary Griffin, Director
    Joshua Bergasse, Choreographer

  • Wendall K. Harrington, Video and Projections Designer
  • Alan Adelman, Lighting Consultant
  • Nevin Steinberg, Sound Designer
  • Paul Tazewell, Costume Consultant
  • John Lee Beatty, Stage Consultant
  • Casting by Tara Rubin and Stephanie Yankwitt

Program

  • THE SOUND OF MUSIC
    Music by RICHARD RODGERS
    Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
    Book by HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE
    Suggested by "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp
    Orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett
    Choral, Dance, and Incidental Music Arranged by Trude Rittmann
    Concert Adaptation by David Ives
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Join us for a special one-night-only performance of the classic Broadway musical and worldwide phenomenon that continues to warm our hearts, decades after its debut in 1959. Follow the von Trapp family through the Alps with Rodgers & Hammerstein's timeless score that includes “Edelweiss” and “Do-Re-Mi.” The Sound of Music is sure to be a magical evening of enchanting, memorable music at Carnegie Hall.

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