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WATCH: Ringtone Halts NY Philharmonic

AP | Posted 03.13.2012

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NEW YORK — It's the dreaded sound at any live performance – a ringing cellphone. That's what happened Tuesday night at Lincoln Center's A...

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A Cell Phone-Owner Causes A Scene At The NY Philharmonic

artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | Posted 01.11.2012

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The end of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony contains some of the most spiritual and peaceful music ever written. So when a cellphone began ringing – and ri...

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Ravel et al. at the Philharmonic

Howard Kissel | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Anne Sofie Von Otter, New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall, La Valse, Alan Gilbert, Arts News

Certain pieces, no matter how sophisticated your audio equipment is, can only be fully understood in the concert hall.

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Founding Fathers: Washington and Ives

Albert Imperato | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Baltimore Symphony, New York Philharmonic, George Washington, Gustav Mahler, Charles Ives, Jeremy Denk, Founding Fathers, Transcendentalists, Leonard Bernstein, Alan Gilbert, Hilary Hahn, Books News

In a strange twist of timing, I found myself reading Ron Chernow's new biography of George Washington at the same time that I just happened to be reading Jan Swafford's Charles Ives: A Life with Music.

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New York Philharmonic New Season

Howard Kissel | Posted 11.23.2011

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The opening concert Wednesday night made clear that the bond between the orchestra and its "new" musical director, Alan Gilbert, is as close as any this difficult orchestra and a "boss" have had in a long time.

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Resurrection: Why We Need Mahler's Second Symphony on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Albert Imperato | Posted 11.02.2011

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For all its titanic reach, dramatic force and visceral power, Mahler's "Resurrection" has some unforgettable moments of repose that provide great salve for the ravaged soul.

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The Cunning Little Vixen

Howard Kissel | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: New York Philharmonic, Karole Armitage, Leos Janacek, New York, Alan Gilbert, Gyorgy Li, Czech Opera, Cunning Little Vixen Opera, Opera, Cunning Little Vixen, Le Gran Macabre, Arts News

Whenever you see Leos Janacek's 1923 opera The Cunning Little Vixen, you wonder why it doesn't get produced more often. Unlike many operas of the 20th century, it is directly accessible, both musically and dramatically.

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What a Berlin Philharmonic Horn Player Learned From the YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Albert Imperato | Posted 06.13.2011

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Sarah Willis was clearly moved by what she had experienced in Sydney, where she mentored young musicians of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble of musicians who got their positions via video auditions on YouTube.

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New York Philharmonic To Play Subway-Inspired Compositions By High School Students

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Two subway-inspired compositions written by New York City high school students are being performed at Lincoln Center. Maestro Alan G...

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Calling All Lincoln Square, Upper West Side Celebs

Marta Hallowell | Posted 05.25.2011

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We need affordable housing so that the actors, musicians, singers and ballerinas who work all along Broadway, and who delight our eyes and ears and hearts, can live near where they work.

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Alan Gilbert's Inaugural Season as MD of NY Phil

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Philharmonic, Leos Janacek, Beethoven, Gyorgy Ligeti, Alan Gilbert, Gustav Mahler, New York News

"The story that needs to be told is that the New York Philharmonic can play any kind of music brilliantly," Gilbert says.

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Dudamel Redux: Music Critics Eat Their Words

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Philharmonic, First National Tour, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, Cleveland Orchestra, Leonard Bernsteinnthony, Gustavo Dudamel, Alan Gilbert, Los Angeles News

It was supposed to be the "Eat Your Heart Out" tour, with guest appearances by Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic in major U.S. cities. Very quickly, it became the "Sour Grapes" tour.

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Seen and Heard in New York: Alan Gilbert, Alain Ducasse, Mimi Sheraton, Jane Campion, Gloria Steinem

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Philharmonic earlier this year began a new series of post-concert suppers with star chefs, hosted by food writer Mimi Sheraton.

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Hang Out With Marsalis, Domingo, Gilbert and Others -- For Free

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

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How's this for a holiday gift? Time with Placido Domingo, Alan Gilbert, Peter Martins, Wynton Marsalis and Audra McDonald, free of charge, at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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Alan Gilbert's Big Week

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, Renee Fleming, Alec Baldwin, Gustav Mahler, Classical Music, Symphony, Damrosch Park, Universal Classics, Tony Tommasini, New York News

The first concert of a new music director's tenure with an orchestra feels a little bit like Election Day: it doesn't happen very often, and when it does, emotions are running high

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Henry R. Kravis Gives New York Philharmonic $10 Million Donation

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The New York Philharmonic says it will receive a $10 million gift from philanthropist Henry R. Kravis to endow its composer-in-reside...

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Music and Memory: Listening to 9/11

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Classical Music, 9/11 Anniversary, Bruckner, Mahler, Alan Gilbert, New York City, New York News

Friends who know how much I like to program my day with music in this way frequently ask me what I listen to on 9/11, but it's not easy to answer.

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Alan Gilbert: New York Philharmonic's Incoming Music Director

Wall Street Journal | BARRYMORE LAURENCE SCHERER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic Director, New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta, Kajsa William-Olsson, Kurt Masur, Arturo Toscanini, Alan Gilbert, Bruno Walter, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, New York News

"I'm feeling like a kid in a candy shop," says conductor Alan Gilbert to his wife, cellist Kajsa -William-Olsson. "A very privileged kid." We are walk...

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Rockefeller, Drucker Look Back as Lincoln Center Turns 50

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lincoln Center, Audra McDonald, Yo Yo Ma, Alan Gilbert, Stanley Drucker, David Rockefeller, Entertainment News

The recent kick-off of the 50th anniversary celebration of New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts brought back memories to some of the complex's 1959 ground-breaking ceremony.

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Culture Zohn: Doctor Atomic: Opera Goes Nuclear

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doctor Atomic, Peter Sellars, Los Alamos, Satyagraha, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Energy, John Adams, Metroplitan Opera, Nuclear Bombs, Penny Woolcock, Alan Gilbert, Philip Glass, Entertainment News

It is with a heavy heart that we leave the theater, knowing all too well its incendiary concerns are still very much with us.

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