'New York Philharmonic This Week' With Host Baldwin Begins 9/27

The 2010- 2011 Season of 'The New York Philharmonic This Week,' hosted by Alec Baldwin,
begins the week of September 27, 2010.  The New York Philharmonic's National Radio Broadcast Series is Produced and Syndicated by Chicago's WFMT Radio Network.

The New York Philharmonic and Chicago's WFMT Radio Network will launch the  seventh season of the concert broadcast series, The New York Philharmonic This Week, beginning the week of September 27, 2010. Actor Alec Baldwin returns for his second season as host of the two-hour radio program, which is broadcast and syndicated nationally 52 weeks a year by the WFMT Radio Network. Forty-three weeks of broadcasts represent concert programs, with the remaining nine - interspersed throughout the season - drawing on the Philharmonic's extensive library of commercial recordings.

Highlights of the 2010-11 season that will be broadcast as part of The New York Philharmonic This Week include: the 2010-11 Opening Night Gala Concert, with Music Director Alan Gilbert, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and the U.S. premiere of Wynton Marsalis's Symphony No. 3, Swing Symphony; the U.S. Premiere of Kraft, by The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg; Mendelssohn's Elijah, with bass-baritone Gerald Finley; concerts with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence; selections from Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen; the World Premiere of Aaron
Jay Kernis's a Voice, a Messenger, with Principal Trumpet Philip Smith; the New York Premiere of Thomas Adès's In Seven Days; works by Mahler as part of the Philharmonic's season-long focus on the composer; pianist Emanuel Ax's 100th New York Philharmonic performance; and Alan Gilbert conducting Janá?ek's The Cunning Little Vixen. Attached is a program schedule for the entire 2010-11 season.

The New York Philharmonic This Week airs locally in the New York metropolitan area on
Classical 105.9 FM WQXR, Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. [Check local listings]. Concerts are available on the Philharmonic's Website, nyphil.org, for two weeks following the broadcast. The broadcasts are produced and syndicated to more than 300 outlets nationwide by the WFMT Radio Network. Alec Baldwin is the host of the program, WFMT's Mark Travis is the broadcast producer, and New York Philharmonic Audio Director Lawrence Rock is the engineer and music producer. 

The New York Philharmonic's first live national radio broadcast took place on October 5, 1930, over the CBS radio network. On that Sunday, Erich Kleiber was on the podium leading the Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Since that historic broadcast, the Philharmonic has enjoyed an almost continuous presence on national radio. Advancing its role as a media pioneer, the Philharmonic, since 2002, has shared its radio broadcast with a worldwide audience through its Website, nyphil.org. In 2004, the New York Philharmonic was the first major American orchestra to offer downloadable concerts, recorded live. In 2009 the Orchestra announced the first subscription download series: Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season, available exclusively on iTunes, produced and distributed by the New York Philharmonic, and comprising more than 50 works performed during the 2009-10 season.

The New York Philharmonic This Week 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.

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