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Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto
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Emanuel Ax
Location: Avery Fisher Hall (Directions)
Price Range: $31.00-$112.00
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Wed, Sep. 30, 2009 7:30PM |
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Thu, Oct. 1, 2009 7:30PM |
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Sat, Oct. 3, 2009 8:00PM |
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Magnus Lindberg | EXPO (New York Philharmonic Commission) | About this Music |
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Ives | Symphony No. 2 | About this Music |
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Ives | The Unanswered Question | About this Music |
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Beethoven | Piano Concerto No. 4 | About this Music |

| Alan Gilbert | Conductor | About this Artist |
| Emanuel Ax | Piano | About this Artist |


Concert Duration:
1 hour
and 45 minutes

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Magnus Lindberg is The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence.
These concerts are made possible, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Major support provided by the Francis Goelet Fund.
Photo of Emanuel Ax: J. Henry Fair

















MAGNUS LINDBERG (b. 1958) 
Alan Gilbert will begin his tenure as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in the 2009–10 season, the first native New Yorker to hold the post. For his inaugural season he has introduced a number of new initiatives: Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg; The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Thomas Hampson; an annual three-week festival; and CONTACT, the New York Philharmonic’s new-music series. He will also lead the Orchestra on a major tour of Asia in October 2009, with debuts in Hanoi and Abu Dhabi; a European tour in January 2010; and performances of world, U.S., and New York premieres. Also in the 2009–10 season Mr. Gilbert becomes the first to hold the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies at The Juilliard School, a position that will include coaching, conducting, and performance master classes. 









