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New York Philharmonic - This Week for April 20, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Today's Highlight: Elgar: Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61
Copland: Symphony No. 3
CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Muti
SOLOIST: Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Few Montanans will get to Avery Fisher Hall to hear the New York Philharmonic in person. But take heart, the Philharmonic’s newest broadcast offering, The New York Philharmonic This Week, can you put you in the best seat in the house — your house that is.
The New York Philharmonic This Week airs Sunday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm The New York Philharmonic has a long tradition of radio broadcasts that goes back more than 80 years. In keeping with its longstanding commitment to reaching the widest audiences possible, the Philharmonic, in 1922, became one of the first orchestras to broadcast a live concert. Its live coast-to-coast radio broadcast of 1930 was the first of its kind. It continued live broadcontinuedcasts until 1966, when radio broadcasts went for several years to a tape-delay format. In 1997 the Orchestra returned to the airwaves, becoming the nation’s only symphony orchestra to be broadcast live on a national scale, and on a regular basis. Now Montana Public Radio listeners have the opportunity to hear this magnificent and highly successful orchestra each Sunday evening.
American conductor Lorin Maazel became music director with the 2002-03 season, 60 years after making his debut with the orchestra at the age of 12. A second generation American, born in 1930 in Paris, Mr. Maazel was raised and educated in the United States. He has conducted throughout Europe, Australia, North and South America, Japan, the former Soviet Union, and at most international festivals and opera houses, and has appeared with all the major symphony orchestras. Maestro Maazel will celebrate his 75th birthday by conducting a special concert in March featuring his own
compositions, with guests James Gallway, flute, Han-Na Chang, cello, and Jeremy Irons, narrator. During the series other renown performers include: violinists Hilary Hahn, Glen Dicterow and Gil Shaham; cellist Lynn Harrell; and pianists Jean-Yves Thibodet, Mitsuko Uchida and Martha Argerich. Guest conductors include: Kurt Masur, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Neville Mariner, Kent Nagano, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin and Pinchas Zuckerman.
Award winning producer Kerry Frumkin, (who is also the afternoon drive-time host for WFMT-FM in Chicago) will be the series host.
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