Baritone Thomas Hampson will give his first performances as the New York Philharmonic's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence when he joins the Orchestra, led by Neeme Järvi, for performances of Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony, Thursday, November 5, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, November 6, at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, November 7, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, November 10, at 7:30 p.m. Performing with him in the symphony will be the soprano Hillevi Martinpelto, who is making her New York Philharmonic debut.
The program will also include Beethoven's Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, and Mozart's Symphony No. 38, Prague.
Mr. Hampson - who is also this season's Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic - will present the first of three "Listening to Thought" lecture/demonstrations, which explore the interplay of verbal and musical languages in vocal music, on Monday, November 2, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. This first event, titled "Listening to Thought: Vienna's Paradigm Shift," will focus on experimentation and change in Vienna between the wars, and will include a discussion of Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony.
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Pre-Concert Talk
Composer/conductor Victoria Bond will introduce the program one hour before each
performance. Tickets are $5 in addition to the concert ticket. Attendance is limited to 90 people. Information: nyphil.org or (212) 875-5656
New York Philharmonic Podcast
The producers and hosts of the award-winning New York Philharmonic Podcast are
Elliott Forrest, Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and producer, and Mark Travis, a producer for the WFMT Radio Network since 1999 and the producer of the 52-week-per-year nationally syndicated radio series, The New York Philharmonic This Week. These previews of upcoming programs - through musical selections as well as interviews with guest artists, conductors, and Orchestra musicians - are available at nyphil.org/podcast or from iTunes.
National Radio Broadcast
This concert will be broadcast the week of November 16, 2009,* on The New York Philharmonic This Week, a radio concert series syndicated nationally to more than 295 stations by the WFMT Radio Network. The 52-week series, hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin, is generously underwritten by The Kaplen Foundation, the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Philharmonic's corporate partner, MetLife Foundation. The broadcast will be available on the Philharmonic's Website, nyphil.org. The program is broadcast locally in the New York metropolitan area on 105.9 FM WQXR on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m.
*Check local listings for broadcast and program information.
Artists
Neeme Järvi, chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest of the Hague and conductor laureate and artistic advisor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, will take over, in 2010, of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, where he began his career in 1963 before fleeing Estonia, a former Soviet republic. Mr. Järvi makes frequent guest appearances with some of the foremost orchestras in the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the major orchestras of Scandinavia. In the United States he regularly conducts the Chicago and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, Philadelphia Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra.
In the 2009-10 season Mr. Järvi will open the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra's season, and return to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Göteborgs Symphony, and London Philharmonic Orchestra. He will tour China with Residentie Orkest of the Hague, and later lead the Shanghai Symphony and China Philharmonic Orchestras.
Neeme Järvi, who has a discography of more than 400 releases along with many accolades and awards, is music director emeritus of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra;
principal conductor emeritus of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; conductor laureate of the Royal Scottish Orchestra; and first principal guest conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. He last appeared with the New York Philharmonic in late November-December 2001, leading works by Weber, Brahms, and Taneyev.
