Alan Gilbert

Alan Gilbert's Big Week

Albert Imperato | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York


Albert Imperato

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

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

AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York


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...

Music and Memory: Listening to 9/11

Albert Imperato | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York


Albert Imperato

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.

Alan Gilbert: New York Philharmonic's Incoming Music Director

Wall Street Journal | BARRYMORE LAURENCE SCHERER | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York


"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...

Rockefeller, Drucker Look Back as Lincoln Center Turns 50

Jane Levere | Posted 06.29.2009 | Entertainment


Jane Levere

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.

Culture Zohn: Doctor Atomic: Opera Goes Nuclear

Patricia Zohn | Posted 11.15.2008 | Entertainment


Patricia Zohn

2008-10-15-zohnpull.jpg It is with a heavy heart that we leave the theater, knowing all too well its incendiary concerns are still very much with us.