Posts Tagged ‘Alan Gilbert’
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark The 2012-13 season began at New York City Ballet with a three-program mini-festival of Stravinsky-Balanchine works. It ended last week with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic in a “theatrical reimagining” at Avery Fisher Hall of Stravinsky’s Le Baiser de la fée (The Fairy’s Kiss) and Petrushka. May 29 was the […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Alastair MacAulay, avery fisher hall, Balanchine, Bernard Haitink, Clark, cleveland orchestra
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid In Berlin, where contemporary music thrives from the Philharmonie to off spaces, it is a widespread perception that New York’s mainstream institutions are afraid to program anything past Stravinsky. A look at Alan Gilbert’s recent undertakings with the New York Philharmonic, notably in a hugely successful “360” concert of Mozart, Stockhausen, Boulez […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, avery fisher hall, Beethoven, Berlin, Boulez, Ives, Kurtag, Leif Ove Andsnes, mozart, New York, New York Philharmonic, Rebecca Schmid, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Vaslav Nijinsky
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic are on a European tour for a couple of weeks, and for a change I didn’t roll my eyes in despair when I saw the list of repertoire. His predecessors as music director, Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel, for all their superb work at building […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Beethoven, Berg, Boulez, carnegie hall, Clark, copland, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Juilliard, Kurt Masur, leonard bernstein, Lindberg, Magnus Lindberg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, New York, New York Philharmonic, philadelphia orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Many years ago I was sitting next to the p.r. director of the Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall when a cellphone went off as Simon Rattle conducted. When the piece ended I asked him if that happened in Berlin. “Everywhere,” he said sadly. I left for vacation two days after the cellphone brouhaha at the New […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Berlin, carnegie, Carter Brey, Clark, Herbert von Karajan, Kurt Masur, Mahler, New York, Newark, orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Sibelius, Simon Rattle, Sir Thomas Beecham, symphony, Tony Tommasini, Valery Gergiev
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark In their wildest dreams, the six string quartets couldn’t have asked for more. Nor could music lovers, as the Manhattan School of Music rang in the New Year with what it called the “Inaugural Robert Mann String Quartet Institute.” Yes, this is why I left Muncie, but this time my hometown friends […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, alice tully hall, avery fisher hall, Beethoven, Berg, carnegie, carnegie hall, chamber music, colin davis, Juilliard, leon botstein, Lindberg, New York Philharmonic, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
By Alan Gilbert On January 4 the Philharmonic made a very important announcement: Matthew VanBesien has been named the next Executive Director of the Orchestra. I feel very positive about this choice, as I was quoted as saying, but here I want to discuss some of the thoughts that have come to my mind in […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Education, Matthew VanBesien, New York Philharmonic, nyphil, Zarin Mehta
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
By Alan Gilbert I’ve recently tried my hand at acrylic painting, and just bought a how-to book that stresses the overriding importance of composition — i.e. form and the use of spatial elements — in a successful work of art. By that measure, I can tell you right now that this blog entry will not […]
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Tags: A Concert for New York, Alan Gilbert, Andrea Bocelli, avery fisher hall, Bach, Berg, Christopher Plummer, Deborah Voigt, Frank Peter Zimmermann, John Corigliano, Lyons
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
On Saturday, September 10 2011, Alan Gilbert spoke before the New York Philharmonic performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, on A Concert for New York. Following are his reflections that preceded the performance, which was telecast nationally on PBS and can be watched in full at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/a-concert-for-new-york/watch-the-fully-edited-broadcast-program-with-tom-brokaw/1182/. We are faced, on this anniversary, with the responsibility […]
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Tags: 9/11, A Concert for New York, Alan Gilbert, Mahler, New York Philharmonic, Resurrection
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
By Alan Gilbert I have been thinking generally about how orchestras define themselves and, specifically, about what the New York Philharmonic means to the public we serve. Last week’s Philharmonic production of The Cunning Little Vixen was a joy to work on, and I am hugely proud of what we achieved as an institution. For […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Janacek, Kraft, Ligeti, Lindberg, Macabre, mozart, New York Philharmonic, Vixen
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
By Alan Gilbert Those of us who were involved in preparing for last year’s production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre are remembering the great excitement we all felt in this very same rehearsal room as we prepare for our upcoming performances of Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen, but are also amazed at how different […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Budapest, Daniel Boico, Doug Fitch, Leipzig, Ligeti, Lisa Batiashvili, Macabre, New York, philharmonic, Sebastian Currier
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