Saturday, October 4, 2008, 2:00pm
Dvořák in Search of America
Antonín Dvořák foresaw an American music rooted in African-American spirituals and Native American dances and chants. Trace Dvořák’s influence in a multi-media program featuring music of Dvořák, his African-American assistant Harry Burleigh, and jazz stylist Art Tatum.
Joseph Horowitz, curator and host
Steven Mayer, piano
Stephen Salters, baritone
Tickets: $20
Location: Gilder Lehrman Hall at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 6:30pm
Bernstein’s Interpretive Logic
How did Leonard Bernstein’s precise and rational approach to score of major repertory translate into performances of such expression and intimacy? Charles Z. Bornstein interprets the conductor’s score marking in works by Sibelius, Mahler, Beethoven, and others.
Charles Zachary Bornstein, speaker
Tickets: $10
Location: Walter Reade Theater, Broadway at 65th Street
Sunday, December 7, 2008, 4:00pm
The Genius of the Brandenburgs
Musicians of the New York Philharmonic and The Juilliard School perform Brandenburg Concerto no. 3, in illustrative excerpts and then in its entirety, as a leading scholar illuminates Bach’s astonishing achievements.
Thomas Forrest Kelly, curator and host
Tickets: $20
Location: Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 65th Street at Amsterdam
Monday, February 2, 2009, 6:30pm
Felix Mendelssohn and the Leipzig Tradition
To celebrate the bicentennial of Mendelssohn’s birth, musicians from the New York Philharmonic join distinguished commentators to consider Mendelssohn in the context of his remarkable city and its musical traditions.
James M. Keller, curator and host
Kurt Masur, guest speaker
Tickets: $20
Location: Walter Reade Theater, Broadway at 65th Street
Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 6:30pm
Music in Time of War
Historians and musicologists explore music composed in response to war through the centuries, with special focus on the biographical, cultural, political, literary, and musical perspectives of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.
James M. Keller, curator and host
Panelists to be announced
Tickets: $10
Location: Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 65th Street at Amsterdam
Mahler in New York
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) is now best known for his compositions. This multi-media Web feature, utilizing materials in the Philharmonic's archives, examines the brief period from 1909-11 when Mahler lived in New York and became conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Through photographs, audio interviews with musicians, and dramatizations of reviews and commentary, "Mahler in New York" illuminates the composer's impact on the Orchestra, the people who surrounded him, and the adopted city that he called home for a brief but very important period in his life.
Andre Kostelanetz: A New York Philharmonic Original
Conductor Andre Kostelanetz (1901- 1980), a favorite with Philharmonic audiences, made important contributions to American music through innovative programming, his use of radio and recording technology, and his showcasing of American composers. This multi-media Web feature, drawing on materials in the Philharmonic's archives, explores five aspects of his life and work: his early years; his ground-breaking involvement with radio; his war years; his involvement with American composers and his championing of American music; and his Philharmonic connections.
