AP - Sep 17, 2009
With the crack of a whip and a blast of fresh air, a new era has begun for the nation s oldest orchestra. Before a nationally televised audience Wednesday night, Alan Gilbert became the New York Philharmonic...
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Alec Baldwin says he ll travel to Hanoi with the New York Philharmonic when it makes its Vietnam debut in October. The star of NBC s Emmy-award winning comedy 30 Rock begins a side gig this fall as the...
More »AP - May 11, 2009
The New York Philharmonic played Aaron Copland s Fanfare for the Common Man for Lincoln Center s 50th anniversary on Monday, recreating the piece that Leonard Bernstein conducted at the arts complex s...
More »AP - Jan 29, 2009
He s not sure what he wants to do when he grows up, but 13-year-old George Frankle (FRANK -uhl) is getting a good jump on a music career. The New York Philharmonic will play his short composition Laboratory...
More »AP - Jan 12, 2009
The New York Philharmonic will perform for the first time in Hanoi and Abu Dhabi next season and is getting Alec Baldwin to host its weekly national radio broadcasts. Alan Gilbert, in his debut season...
More »AP - Oct 27, 2008
You re the new music director of the nation s oldest orchestra, so what do you plan for your opening concert? Alan Gilbert decided on a daring program for his debut next fall at the helm of the New York...
More »Reuters - Aug 27, 2008
The New York Philharmonic has appointed James Keller as Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence for the 2008-2009 season. Bernstein was an unforgettable conductor, a composer of vivid works for concert...
More »AP - May 9, 2008
He can t sing and he can t dance, but Gabriel Byrne can charm and he did while portraying the chivalrous King Arthur in Camelot. After playing the tormented shrink Dr. Paul Weston in HBO s In...
More »AP - Apr 9, 2008
The New York Philharmonic is planning a free summer concert in a scenic new venue Governors Island in New York Harbor. The July 5 concert will mark the first time the celebrated orchestra has...
More »Reuters - Mar 29, 2008
Not long ago, American orchestras considered the notion of creating new recordings an almost impossible dream. Among the hurdles: longstanding union regulations that made the process untenably expensive...
More »AP - Mar 24, 2008
Give that uncommon man a fanfare. With guest conductor Riccardo Muti ill, Michael Christie gets his big chance to lead the New York Philharmonic. But he doesn t have far to travel. Christie is music...
More »AP - Mar 1, 2008
When Farah Taslima started composing in the third grade, she never dreamed her music would be performed by the New York Philharmonic by the time she was 12. Even if she had, she never could have imagined...
More »AP - Feb 28, 2008
The New York Philharmonic built a musical bridge between the two Koreas on Thursday, reprising its emotional performance of the Korean folk tune Arirang in the South Korean capital after its unprecedented...
More »AP - Feb 27, 2008
North Korean and American musicians shared the stage Wednesday as the New York Philharmonic concluded a historic visit to Pyongyang that could herald warmer ties between the two nations. Four Philharmonic...
More »Reuters - Feb 27, 2008
The unprecedented concert of the New York Philharmonic made the world's front pages on Wednesday, but in North Korea merited only brief mention in the main communist daily. North Koreans, more used...
More »AP - Feb 25, 2008
Despite a symbolic symphonic thaw with North Korea, the only music the Bush administration is making here is with South Korea s new, pro-U.S. president who has vowed a tougher line on his Stalinist neighbor...
More »AP - Feb 23, 2008
Facing dwindling popularity in the West, classical music could receive a boost from a large Chinese population increasingly interested in other cultures, the music director of the New York Philharmonic...
More »Reuters - Jan 4, 2008
The New York Philharmonic will dive into uncharted waters in February, when the ensemble is scheduled to give a concert in North Korea's capital city of Pyongyang. This marks the first major visit...
More »AP - Dec 17, 2007
Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic are collaborating on an upcoming festival celebrating the late composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds, will...
More »AP - Dec 10, 2007
The New York Philharmonic has decided to perform in North Korea, a cultural breakthrough as tense relations between the United States and the reclusive Communist nation ease, the orchestra s president...
More »AP - Nov 30, 2007
It s not unusual for members of a New York audience to leave early, but they stood their ground at Lincoln Center. And stood and stood. The audience gave 26-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel a standing...
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