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Year of the Dragon Redux
Tuesday’s Chinese New Year celebration at the Philharmonic is going global. SinoVision, an influential TV station in the New York Metropolitan area, covered the event in this video, and Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix TV will air the concert in its entirety. Stay tuned for details.
From the Radio Room ... with Joyce DiDonato
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joined us in the recording studio this morning to discuss her appearances with the Philharmonic on its upcoming EUROPE / WINTER 2012 tour, growing as a musician, and singing in French. Speaking on the New York Philharmonic and Music Director Alan Gilbert, Ms. DiDonato credits the Orchestra with “revitalizing the culture of the city.”
In Europe? Hear Ms. DiDonato perform during the Orchestra’s residency at London’s Barbican Centre February 17.
Stateside? Ms. DiDonato performs Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été with the Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall February 23–28 and at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia February 24.
Tuning Up
Some of Broadway’s greatest songs will be performed on the stage of Avery Fisher Hall when the New York Philharmonic presents Anywhere I Wander: The Frank Loesser Songbook on March 26, featuring stars from opera, Broadway, and television. Ann Hampton Callaway, Victoria Clark, Robert Morse, Bryn Terfel, and Loesser’s widow, leading lady Jo Sullivan Loesser, will headline a starry cast, directed and conducted by Tony Award winner Ted Sperling, with choreography by Andrew Palermo. Loesser penned more than 700 songs — for Hollywood, and for Broadway — including the scores for Where’s Charley?, Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, Greenwillow, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
Frank Loesser
Answer Me This
On a recent episode of Jeopardy, an answer was posed about a work that the Philharmonic premiered in September 2002, and that was later released on CD and went on to win Grammy Awards for Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance, and Best Classical Composition.
You have five seconds …
Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful
You won’t want the moments of beauty to stop when Alan Gilbert leads Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2, a work he describes as having an “opulence of … washes of sound” — starting tonight.
Daphnis Et. Chloe stop being so beautiful
Curse you, Ravel!
Scene Last Night
Wilbur Ross, Kenneth Buckfire, Henry Cornell, and a Dragon Puppet walk into Avery Fisher Hall …
It’s no joke. Stars and dignitaries alike came out for last night’s Chinese New Year celebration at the Philharmonic … and the party didn’t stop when the concert was over. The Philharmonic’s first-ever Chinese New Year Gala dinner took place on the Grand Promenade following the concert as guests had the chance to meet, greet, and eat with the performers.
See Amanda Gordon’s coverage of the event on Bloomberg.com.
“As a violinist it’s the greatest thing in life to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto. I never get sick of it, even if I have to play it every night!”
— Artist-in-residence Frank Peter Zimmermann, who lends his signature to Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on the concerts of January 26–28.
Ludwig Van Beethoven Signature.
Portraits of a Chinese New Year
From the Dragon Parade on the plaza, to performances by the Quintessenso Mongolian Children’s Choir and Philharmonic Prinicipal Oboe Liang Wang, the Philharmonic’s Chinese New Year celebration was a night of festivities not soon to be forgotten.
Happy New Year and good fortune to all.
This Just In ... Dragon Parade on the Plaza
Lang Lang and Philharmonic Principal Oboe Liang Wang will be on the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center today at 4:30 p.m. to feed the dragon as part of the Dragon Dance, which launches today’s Chinese New Year celebration at the Philharmonic.
Bring your best cloud wave and whirlpool moves and join the parade!
