Yale School Of Music Announces Their Third Season 9/26-4/30/10

The Yale School of Music announces an especially exciting third season of Yale in New York, the acclaimed series in which distinguished faculty-many of them famous soloists-share the limelight with exceptional alumni and students on Carnegie's stages, capturing the intense collaboration found on every level at the Yale School of Music.

From September 26 through April 30, four concerts will feature the classical legacy of Benny Goodman, undiscovered Prokofiev, Penderecki conducting Penderecki, and great voices from the famed Oral History of American Music project.

Below is an outline of the season.

September 26, 2009
Zankel Hall
The Classical Legacy of Benny Goodman
Music commissioned by Benny Goodman, performed by David Shifrin, alumni, and student clarinetists
Part of the week-long Benny Goodman Centenary Celebration at Yale
Bartok: Contrasts
Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata
Alan Schulman: Rendezvous (with the Jasper String Quartet)
Morton Gould: Benny's Gig
Copland: Clarinet Concerto

February 9, 2010
Zankel Hall
Prokofiev Rediscovered:
Rarely-heard music and three world premieres
Music for Physical Exercises (world premiere)
Fragment from the opera "To the Distant Seas" (world premiere)
Music for the ballet "Trapeze" (world premiere)
Schubert Waltzes transcribed for 2 pianos by Prokofiev

April 8, 2010
Zankel Hall
Voices of American Music:
A tribute to the Oral History of American Music project at Yale
Music by Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Steve Reich, and more
(includes Richard Stoltzman playing Reich's New York Counterpoint)
Interviews from the great archives with Ives, Copland, Boulanger, Ellington, and many others

April 30, 2010
Stern Auditorium
Penderecki Conducts Penderecki
Four orchestral works spanning his career
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)
Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra (1967) - Syoko Aki, violin (who performed it with Penderecki at Yale in 1974)
Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, Winterreise (2008) - William Purvis, horn (American premiere)
Symphony No. 4, Adagio (1989) - winner of Grawemeyer Prize

All programs are subject to change.