New York Philharmonic
Ureli Corelli Hill, New York Philharmonic founder
Background information
Origin	New York, New York, United States
Genre(s)	Classical
Occupation(s)	Symphony orchestra
Years active	1842-present
Website	www.NYPhil.org
Members
Music Director Lorin Maazel Associate Conductor Xian Zhang Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the state. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about Western art music from 1000 AD to the present. ... Orchestra at City Hall (Edmonton). ... Lorin Varencove Maazel (born March 6, 1930) is a conductor, violinist and composer. ... Xian Zhang (born in Dandong, China) is a Chinese-American conductor. ... Glenn Dicterow Glenn Dicterow (born December 23, 1948), is an American violinist and is currently concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. ... Kurt Masur Conducting Mendelssohns Scottish Symphony Kurt Masur (born July 18, 1927) is a German conductor. ...
Former members
Founder Ureli Corelli Hill
Notable instrument(s)
Violin Bott 1725 Stradivari Guarneri, del Gesù 1727 Viola ex-Nathan Gordon 1580 da Salò

The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five".^[1] Ureli Corelli Hill,founder and first conducter of the New York Philharmonic New York Philharmonic Archives Ureli Corelli Hill (1802 - September 2, 1875) was an American conductor notable for being the first president and conductor of the New York Philharmonic Society. ... Antonio Stradivari (1644? - December 18, 1737) was an Italian luthier (maker of violins and other stringed instruments), the most prominent member of that profession. ... Guarneri is the family name of a group of highly acclaimed violin makers (luthiers) from Cremona in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, whose standing is considered comparable to those of the Amati and Stradivari families. ... Gasparo da Salò is the name given to Gasparo di Bertolotti, one of the earliest violin-makers of which we have a historical record. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Orchestra (disambiguation). ... , Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. ... In the context of classical music in the United States, the Big Five refers to five symphony orchestras that were considered to be the most prominent and accomplished ensembles when the term gained widespread use by music critics in the late 1950s. ...

The orchestra is older than any other American symphonic institution in existence by nearly four decades; its record-setting 14,000th concert was given in December 2004.^[2] Since 2002, the Philharmonic's music director has been Lorin Maazel, whose tenure is scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2008-2009 season. Alan Gilbert is scheduled to become the Philharmonic's next music director the following season. Zarin Mehta (brother of former music director Zubin Mehta) is the president of the Philharmonic. The title of music director is used by many symphony orchestras to designate the primary conductor and artistic leader of the orchestra. ... Lorin Varencove Maazel (born March 6, 1930) is a conductor, violinist and composer. ... Alan Gilbert is an American conductor, born in New York in 1967. ... Zubin Mehta (b. ...

History

Founding and first concert, 1842

Apollo Rooms. NYC Philharmonic Archives

The orchestra was founded by the American-born conductor Ureli Corelli Hill in 1842 as the Philharmonic Society of New York^[3][4] – the third Philharmonic on American soil since 1799^[5], declaring as its purpose "the advancement of instrumental music." The first concert of the New York Philharmonic took place on December 7, 1842 in the Apollo Rooms on lower Broadway before an audience of 600. Led by Hill himself, the concert opened with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 . Two other conductors, German-born Henry Christian Timm and French-born Denis Etienne, led parts of the eclectic, three-hour program, which included chamber music and several operatic selections with a leading singer of the day, as was the custom. The musicians operated as a cooperative society, deciding by a majority vote such issues as who would become a member, which music would be performed and who among them would conduct. At the end of the season the players would divide any proceeds among themselves. Ureli Corelli Hill,founder and first conducter of the New York Philharmonic New York Philharmonic Archives Ureli Corelli Hill (1802 - September 2, 1875) was an American conductor notable for being the first president and conductor of the New York Philharmonic Society. ... “Beethoven” redirects here. ... The coversheet to Beethovens 5th Symphony. ... Henry Christian Timm (1811, Hamburg – 1892, New York City) was a German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer. ...

Beethoven's ninth and a new home, 1846

After only a dozen public performances and barely four years old, the Philharmonic organized a concert to raise funds to build a new music hall. The centerpiece was the American premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, to take place at Castle Garden on the southern tip of Manhattan. About 400 instrumental and vocal performers gathered for this premiere. The chorals were translated into what would be the first English performance anywhere in the world. However, with the expensive US$2.00 ticket price and a war rally uptown, the hoped-for audience was kept away and the new hall would have to wait. Although judged by some as an odd work with all those singers kept at bay until the end, the Ninth soon became the work performed most often when a grand gesture was required. “Beethoven” redirects here. ... This article is about the composition. ... Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton is a circular sandstone fort and national monument in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City. ...

During the Philharmonic's first seven seasons, seven musicians alternated the conducting duties. In addition to Hill, Timm and Etienne, these were William Alpers, George Loder, Louis Wiegers and Alfred Boucher.^[6] This changed in 1849 when Theodore Eisfeld was installed as sole conductor for the season.^[6] Eisfeld, later along with Carl Bergmann, would be the conductor until 1865. That year, Eisfeld conducted the Orchestra's memorial concert for the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln, but in a peculiar turn of events which were criticized in the New York press, the Philharmonic omitted the last movement, "Ode to Joy", as being inappropriate for the occasion.^[7] That year Eisfeld returned to Europe, and Bergmann continued to conduct the Society until his death in 1876. Theodore Eisfeld was a nineteenth century conductor, and the second music director of the New York Philharmonic Society. ... Carl Bergmann was a nineteenth century conductor and third music director the and the New York Philharmonic Society. ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... To Joy (An die Freude in German, in English often familiarly called the Ode to Joy rather than To Joy) is an ode written in 1785 by the German poet and historian Friedrich Schiller, known especially for its musical setting by Ludwig van Beethoven in the fourth and final movement...

Competition, 1878

The New York Philharmonic Club, a chamber ensemble of Philharmonic musicians, clowning for their public-relations photograph in the 1880s. New York Philharmonic Archives

Leopold Damrosch, Franz Liszt's former concertmaster at Weimar, served as conductor of the Philharmonic for the 1876-1877 season. But failing to win support from the Philharmonic's public, he left to create the rival Symphony Society of New York in 1878. Upon his death in 1885, his 23-year-old son Walter took over and continued the competition with the old Philharmonic. It was Walter who would convince Andrew Carnegie that New York needed a first-class concert hall and on May 5, 1891 both Walter and Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted at the inaugural concert of the city's new Music Hall, which in a few years would be renamed for its primary benefactor, Andrew Carnegie. Leopold Damrosch (1831 - 1885) was an orchestral conductor. ... Liszt redirects here. ... For other uses, see Weimar (disambiguation). ... The New York Symphony Society was an orchestra founded in New York City by Leopold Damrosch in 1878. ... Walter Damrosch Walter Johannes Damrosch (born in Breslau, Prussia, January 30, 1862; died in New York City, December 22, 1950) was an American symphony conductor. ... Andrew Carnegie (properly pronounced , but commonly or )[1] (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and a major philanthropist. ... Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, sometimes transliterated as Piotr, Anglicised as Peter Ilich), (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893 (N.S.); April 25, 1840 – October 25, 1893 (O.S.)) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. ... Carnegie Hall (generally pronounced )[3] is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. ...

The German-born, American-trained conductor Theodore Thomas, who had achieved fame and great success conducting his own orchestra, the Thomas Orchestra, in competition with the Philharmonic for over a decade, began conducting the Philharmonic in 1877. With the exception of the 1878-1879 season (when he was in Cincinnati and Adolph Neuendorff led the group), Thomas conducted every season until 1891. He raised the orchestra to a virtuosic level before leaving in 1891 to found the Chicago Symphony, taking 13 Philharmonic musicians with him. Theodore Thomas (October 11, 1835–January 4, 1905) was a German-American musician and conductor. ... Cincinnati, Ohio viewed from the SW, across the Ohio River from Kentucky. ... The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, based in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the major orchestras in the United States. ...

Another celebrated conductor, Anton Seidl, followed Thomas on the Philharmonic podium, serving until 1898. Seidl, who had served as Wagner's assistant, was a renowned conductor of the composer's works; Seidl's romantic interpretations inspired both adulation and controversy. During his tenure, the Philharmonic enjoyed a period of unprecedented success and prosperity and performed its first world premiere written by a world-renowned composer in the United States – Antonín Dvořák's Ninth Symphony "From the New World." Seidl's sudden death in 1898 from food poisoning at the age of 47 was widely mourned. Twelve thousand people applied for tickets to his funeral at the Metropolitan Opera House at 39th Street and Broadway and the streets were jammed for blocks with a "surging mass" of his admirers. Anton Seidl (7 May 1850 - 28 March 1898) was a Hungarian conductor. ... Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( , (often pronounced in English as ) ; September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of his native Bohemia and Moravia. ... New World Symphony redirects here; for the Miami-based orchestra, see New World Symphony Orchestra. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ...

New management, 1909

In 1909, to ensure the financial stability of the Philharmonic, a group of wealthy New Yorkers led by two women, Mary Seney Sheldon and Minnie Untermyer, formed the Guarantors Committee and changed the Orchestra's organization from a musician-operated cooperative to a corporate management structure. The Guarantors were responsible for bringing Gustav Mahler to the Philharmonic as principal conductor and expanding the season from 18 concerts to 54, which included a tour of New England. The Philharmonic was the only symphonic orchestra where Mahler worked as music director without any opera responsibilities, freeing him to explore the symphonic literature more deeply. In New York, he conducted several works for the first time in his career and introduced audiences to his own compositions. Under Mahler, a controversial figure both as a composer and conductor, the season expanded, musicians' salaries were guaranteed, the scope of operations broadened, and the twentieth-century orchestra was created. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mahler redirects here. ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ...

In 1911 Mahler died unexpectedly, and the Philharmonic appointed Josef Stransky as his replacement. Many commentators were surprised by the choice of Stransky, whom they did not see as a worthy successor to Mahler.^[8] Stransky led all of the orchestra's concerts until 1920^[9], and also made the first recordings with the orchestra in 1917. Josef Stransky (1872-1936) was a Czech conductor. ...

Mergers and outreach, 1921

In 1921 the Philharmonic merged with New York's National Symphony Orchestra (no relation to the present Washington, D.C. ensemble). With this merger it also acquired the imposing Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg. For the 1922-1923 season Stransky and Mengelberg shared the conducting duties, but Stransky left after the one shared season. For nine years Mengelberg dominated the scene, although other conductors, among them Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Igor Stravinsky, and Arturo Toscanini, led about half of each season's concerts. During this period, the Philharmonic became one of the first American orchestras to boast an outdoor symphony series when it began playing low-priced summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium in upper Manhattan. In 1920 the orchestra hired Henry Hadley as "associate conductor" given specific responsibility for the "Americanization" of the orchestra: each of Hadley's concerts featured at least one work by an American-born composer.^[9] Willem Mengelberg (Utrecht, Netherlands on March 28, 1871 – Zuort, Switzerland on March 21, 1951) was a Dutch conductor. ... Bruno Walter (Bruno Walter Schlesinger) (September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. ... Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer. ... Igor Stravinsky. ... Toscanini conducting. ... Lewisohn Stadium was an amphitheater and athletic facility built on the campus of the City College of New York, and opened in 1915. ... Henry Hadley (born 20 December 1871, Somerville, Massachusetts, died 6 September 1937, New York City) was an American composer and conductor. ...

In 1924, the Young People's Concerts were expanded into a substantial series of children's concerts under the direction of American pianist-composer-conductor Ernest Schelling. This series became the prototype for concerts of its kind around the country and grew by popular demand to 15 concerts per season by the end of the decade. The Young Peoples Concerts was a series of performances by the New York Philharmonic, designed to open the world of music to children and to encourage youth to be more involved in music. ... Ernest Henry Schelling (26 July 1876 - 8 December 1939) was an American pianist, composer, and conductor. ...

Mengelberg and Toscanini both led the Philharmonic in recording sessions for the Victor Talking Machine Company, initially in a recording studio and eventually in Carnegie Hall as electrical recording was improved. All of the early electrical recordings for Victor were made with a single microphone, usually placed near or above the conductor, a process called "Orthophonic." Mengelberg's most successful recording with the Philharmonic was a 1927 performance in Carnegie Hall of Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben. Toscanini's recordings with the Philharmonic actually began with a single disc for Brunswick Records in 1926, recorded in a rehearsal hall at Carnegie Hall. Additional Toscanini recordings with the Philharmonic, all for Victor, took place on Carnegie Hall's stage in 1929 and 1936. By the 1936 sessions Victor, now owned by RCA, began to experiment with multiple microphones to achieve more comprehensive reproductions of the orchestra. Victor logo with the famous Nipper dog. ... This article is about the German composer of tone-poems and operas. ... Ein Heldenleben (literally A Heroic Life, but usually more loosely translated as A Heros Life), op. ... The Brunswick Records logo Brunswick Records is a United States based record label. ... This article is about the former RCA Corporation. ...

The year 1928 marked the New York Philharmonic's last and most important merger: with the New York Symphony Society. The Symphony had been quite innovative in its 50 years prior to the merger. It made its first domestic tour in 1882, introduced educational concerts for young people in 1891, and gave the premieres of works such as Gershwin's Concerto in F and Holst's Egdon Heath. The merger of these two venerable institutions consolidated extraordinary financial and musical resources. At the first joint board meeting in 1928, the chairman, Clarence Mackay, expressed the opinion that "with the forces of the two Societies now united... the Philharmonic-Symphony Society could build up the greatest orchestra in this country if not in the world." The New York Symphony Society was an orchestra founded in New York City by Leopold Damrosch in 1878. ... Gershwin redirects here. ... Concerto in F is a composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and orchestra which is closer in form to a traditional concerto than the earlier jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue. ... Gustav Holst Gustav Holst (September 21, 1874, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - May 25, 1934, London) [1] [2] was an English composer and was a music teacher for over 20 years. ... Egdon Heath is a fictitious name given to an area of moorland between Dorchester and Bournemouth in the county of Dorset, England. ...

The Maestro, 1930

Arturo Toscanini (standing in the center, sporting a bow tie and cap) with the Orchestra aboard the S.S de Grasse, embarking on their European tour, 1930.. New York Philharmonic Archives

Of course, the merger had ramifications for the musicians of both orchestras. Winthrop Sargeant, a violinist with the Symphony Society and later a writer for The New Yorker, recalled the merger as "a sort of surgical operation in which twenty musicians were removed from the Philharmonic and their places taken by a small surviving band of twenty legionnaires from the New York Symphony. This operation was performed by Arturo Toscanini himself. Fifty-seventh Street wallowed in panic and recrimination." Toscanini, who had guest-conducted for several seasons, became the sole conductor and in 1930 led the group on a European tour that brought immediate international fame to the Orchestra. Toscanini conducting. ...

That same year nationwide radio broadcasts began. The Orchestra was first heard on CBS directly from Carnegie Hall. To broadcast the Sunday afternoon concerts, CBS paid $15,000 for the entire season. The radio broadcasts continued without interruption for 38 years. A legend in his own time, Toscanini would prove to be a tough act to follow as the country headed into war.

The War years, 1940

After an unsuccessful attempt to hire the German conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, the English conductor John Barbirolli and the Polish conductor Artur Rodziński were joint replacements for Toscanini in 1936. The following year Barbirolli was given the full conductorship, a post he held until the spring of 1941. In 1943, Rodzinski, who had conducted the Orchestra's centennial concert at Carnegie Hall in the preceding year, was appointed Musical Director. He had also conducted the Sunday afternoon radio broadcast when CBS listeners around the country heard the announcer break in on Arthur Rubinstein's performance of Brahms's Second Piano Concerto to update them about the attack on Pearl Harbor. (The initial word of the attack was forwarded by CBS News Correspondent John Charles Daly on his own show before the Philharmonic broadcast.) Soon after the United States entered World War II, Aaron Copland wrote A Lincoln Portrait for the Philharmonic at the request of conductor Andre Kostelanetz as a tribute to and expression of the "magnificent spirit of our country." Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer. ... Sir John (Giovanni Battista) Barbirolli (December 2, 1899 - July 29, 1970), was a British conductor and cellist who led the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. ... Artur RodziÅ„ski (January 1, 1892 - November 27, 1958) was a Polish conductor. ... This article is about the broadcast network. ... For the 19th century Russian pianist and composer, see Anton Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Arthur Rubinstein (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 1982) was a Polish pianist who is widely considered as one of the greatest piano virtuosos of the 20th Century. ... Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of the Romantic period. ... The Piano Concerto No. ... This article is about the harbor in Hawaii. ... John Charles Daly on Whats My Line? John Charles Daly (full given name John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly, generally known as John Daly, February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991), a native of Johannesburg, South Africa, was a journalist, game show host, radio personality, actor, and author. ... Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. ... Lincoln Portrait is an orchestral work written by American composer Aaron Copland. ... Andre Kostelanetz (December 22, 1901 - January 13, 1980) was a popular orchestral music conductor and arranger, one of the pioneers of easy listening music. ...

Artur Rodziński, Bruno Walter, and Sir Thomas Beecham made a series of recordings with the Philharmonic for Columbia Records during the 1940s. Many of the sessions were held in Liederkranz Hall, a building formerly belonging to a German cultural and musical society. Sony Records later digitally remastered the Beecham recordings for reissue on CD. Bruno Walter (Bruno Walter Schlesinger) (September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... Sony Records is a record label courtesy of Columbia, Epic and American Recordings. ...

The Telegenic Age, 1950

Leonard Bernstein with members of the Philharmonic rehearsing for a television broadcast, circa 1958. Bert Bial, New York Philharmonic Archives

Leopold Stokowski and Dimitri Mitropoulos were appointed co-principal conductors in 1949, with Mitropoulos becoming Musical Director in 1951. Mitropoulos, known for championing new composers and obscure operas-in-concert, pioneered in other ways; adding live Philharmonic performances between movies at the Roxy Theatre^[10]and taking Edward R. Murrow and the See it Now television audience on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Orchestra. Mitropoulos made a series of recordings for Columbia Records, mostly in mono; near the end of his tenure, he recorded excerpts from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet in stereo. In 1957, Mitropoulos and Leonard Bernstein served together as Principal Conductors until, in the course of the season, Bernstein was appointed Music Director, becoming the first American-born-and-trained conductor to head the Philharmonic. Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni StanisÅ‚aw BolesÅ‚awowicz April 18, 1882 in London, England, died September 13, 1977 in Nether Wallop, England) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. ... Dimitris Mitropoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος) (March 1, 1896 – November 2, 1960) was a Greek conductor, pianist, and composer who spent most of his career in the United States. ... Edward R. Ed Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American journalist and media figure. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев) (April 271, 1891 – March 5, 1953) was one of the Soviet Unions greatest composers. ...

Leonard Bernstein, who had made his historic, unrehearsed and spectacularly successful debut with the Philharmonic in 1943, was Music Director for 11 seasons, a time of significant change and growth. Two television series were initiated on CBS: the Young People's Concerts and "Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic." The former program, launched in 1958, made television history, winning every award in the field of educational television. Bernstein continued the orchestra's recordings with Columbia Records until he retired as Music Director in 1969. Although Bernstein made a few recordings for Columbia after 1969, most of his later recordings were for Deutsche Grammophon. Sony has digitally remastered Bernstein's numerous Columbia recordings and released them on CD as a part of its extensive "Bernstein Century" series. Although the Philharmonic performed primarily in Carnegie Hall until 1962, Bernstein preferred to record in the Manhattan Center. His later recordings were made in Philharmonic Hall. In 1960, the centennial of the birth of Gustav Mahler, Bernstein and the Philharmonic began a historic cycle of recordings of eight of Mahler's nine symphonies for Columbia Records. (Symphony No. 8 was recorded by Bernstein with the London Symphony.) In 1962 Bernstein caused controversy with his comments before a performance by Glenn Gould of the First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms. Leonard Bernstein in 1971 Leonard Bernstein (IPA pronunciation: )[1] (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. ... The Young Peoples Concerts was a series of performances by the New York Philharmonic, designed to open the world of music to children and to encourage youth to be more involved in music. ... Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label. ... The Manhattan Center building, built in 1906 and located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, houses Manhattan Center Studios (home to two recording studios), its Grand Ballroom, and the Hammerstein Ballroom, one of New York Citys most renowned performance venues. ... Mahler redirects here. ... The New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962 is widely regarded as one of the most controversial in the orchestras history. ... Glenn Herbert Gould[1][2] (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, his remarkable technical proficiency, and his eccentric personality and piano technique. ... Johannes Brahmss Piano Concerto No. ... Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of the Romantic period. ...

Modern music, 1962

Bernstein, a life-long advocate of living composers, oversaw the beginning of the Orchestra's largest commissioning project, resulting in the creation of 109 new works for orchestra. In September 1962, the Philharmonic commissioned Aaron Copland to write a new work, Connotations For Orchestra, for the opening concert of the new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The move to Lincoln Center brought about an expansion of concerts into the spring and summer. Among the many series that have taken place during the off-season have been the French-American and Stravinsky Festivals (1960s), Pierre Boulez's "Rug Concerts" in the 1970s, and composer, Jacob Druckman's Horizon's Festivals in the 1980s. Connotations For Orchestra or sometimes simply Connotations is a piece for orchestra by Aaron Copland. ... The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. ...

In 1971 Pierre Boulez became the first Frenchman to hold the post of Philharmonic Music Director. Boulez's years with the Orchestra were notable for expanded repertoire and innovative concert approaches, such as the "Prospective Encounters" which explored new works along with the composer in alternative venues. During his tenure, the Philharmonic inaugurated the "Live From Lincoln Center" television series in 1976, and the Orchestra continues to appear on the Emmy Award-winning program to the present day. Boulez made a series of quadraphonic recordings for Columbia, including an extensive series of the orchestral music of Maurice Ravel. Pierre Boulez Pierre Boulez (IPA: /pjɛʁ.buˈlɛz/) (born March 26, 1925) is a conductor and composer of classical music. ... 4 channels quadraphonic label Quadraphonic sound uses four channels in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other. ... Maurice Ravel. ...

Ambassadors abroad

Zubin Mehta, then one of the youngest of a new generation of internationally known conductors, became Music Director in 1978. His tenure was the longest in Philharmonic history, lasting until 1991. Throughout his time on the podium Mehta showed a strong commitment to contemporary music, presenting 52 works for the first time. In 1980 the Philharmonic, always known as a touring orchestra, embarked on a European tour marking the 50th anniversary of Toscanini's trip to Europe. Zubin Mehta (b. ...

Kurt Masur, who had been conducting the Philharmonic frequently since his debut in 1981, became Music Director in 1991. In addition to bringing the Orchestra to new virtuosic heights, the highlights of his tenure included a series of free Memorial Day Concerts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and annual concert tours abroad that included the orchestra's first trip to mainland China. His tenure concluded in 2002, and he was named Music Director Emeritus of the Philharmonic. Kurt Masur Conducting Mendelssohns Scottish Symphony Kurt Masur (born July 18, 1927) is a German conductor. ...

A third century, 2000

Lorin Maazel

In 2000, Lorin Maazel made a guest-conducting appearance with the New York Philharmonic in two weeks of subscription concerts after an absence of over twenty years,^[11] which was met with a positive reaction from the orchestra musicians.^[12] This engagement led to his appointment in January 2001 as the orchestra's next Music Director.^[13] He assumed the post in September 2002, 60 years after making his debut with the Orchestra at the age of twelve at Lewisohn Stadium. In his first subscription week he led the world premiere of John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls commissioned in memory of those who died on September 11, 2001. Maazel is scheduled to conclude his tenure as the Philharmonic's Music Director at the end of the 2008-2009 season. Lorin Varencove Maazel (born March 6, 1930) is a conductor, violinist and composer. ... For the Alaska-based postminimalist composer, see John Luther Adams. ... On the Transmigration of Souls, for orchestra, chorus, children’s choir and pre-recorded soundtrack is a composition by composer John Coolidge Adams commissioned by The New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center’s Great Performers (and an anonymous but well known New York family) shortly after the September 11 terrorist... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...

In 2003, due to ongoing concerns with the acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall, there was a proposal to move the New York Philharmonic back to Carnegie Hall and merge the two organizations, but this proposal did not come to fruition.^[14] Currently, Avery Fisher Hall is scheduled to undergo renovations starting in 2010. On December 18, 2004, the New York Philharmonic performed its 14,000th concert, a milestone unmatched by any other symphony orchestra in the world, setting a Guinness World Record. Carnegie Hall (generally pronounced )[3] is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. ... The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ...

New York Philharmonic Logo

In April 2007, the Philharmonic announced that it would add a new position, of "principal conductor", to the orchestra, as well a composer-in-residence position, a "director for a mini-festival", and an artist-in-residence.^[15] On July 18, 2007, the Philharmonic named Alan Gilbert as its next music director, effective with the 2009-2010 season, to succeed Lorin Maazel. In addition, the same announcement stated that Riccardo Muti would guest-conduct from 6 to 8 weeks per season and conduct the orchestra on tours, in an equivalent of a "principal guest conductor" without a formal title with the orchestra. It was also reported that the orchestra would retreat from the earlier announced plan of a division of labor between a music director and a "principal conductor".^[16] Since that time, Muti's appointment as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has left the extent of his relationship with the Phiharmonic in doubt.^[17] Alan Gilbert is an American conductor, born in New York in 1967. ... Riccardo Muti (born July 28, 1941, in Naples) is an Italian conductor best known for being the Music Director of Milans La Scala opera house, a position he held from 1986 to 2005, and of The Philadelphia Orchestra from 1980 to 1992. ... The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, based in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the leading orchestras in the world. ...

The current Assistant Conductor of the orchestra is Xian Zhang.^[18] The concertmaster of the orchestra is Glenn Dicterow, the principal second violin is Marc Ginsberg, the principal viola is Cynthia Phelps, the principal cello is Carter Brey, and the principal contrabass is Eugene Levinson. In the wind section, the principal flute is Robert Langevin, the principal oboe is Liang Wang, the principal clarinet is Stanley Drucker, and the principal bassoon is Judith LeClair. In the brass section, the principal horn is Philip Myers, the principal trumpet is Philip Smith, the principal trombone is Joseph Alessi, and the principal tuba is Alan Baer. The New York Philharmonic's principal timpanist is Markus Rhoten and principal percussionist in Christopher Lamb. The principal harp is Nancy Allen. Xian Zhang (born in Dandong, China) is a Chinese-American conductor. ... Glenn Dicterow Glenn Dicterow (born December 23, 1948), is an American violinist and is currently concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. ... Mr. ...

Visit to North Korea, 2008

The Philharmonic performed in Pyongyang at the invitation of the North Korean government on February 26, 2008. The event was the first significant cultural visit to the country from the United States since the end of the Korean War. The concert was held at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre. The program included the national anthems of both North Korea (Aegukka) and the United States (The Star-Spangled Banner), the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World", George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Georges Bizet's Farandole, Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide, and the popular Korean folk song Arirang.^[19] The Dvořák, Gershwin, and Bernstein works were each originally premiered by the New York Philharmonic. This article is about the capital of North Korea. ... North Korea, officially the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula of Korea. ... Aegukga is also the name of the national anthem of South Korea. ... The Star Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States. ... Lohengrin is a romantic opera (or music drama) in three acts by Richard Wagner. ... New World Symphony redirects here; for the Miami-based orchestra, see New World Symphony Orchestra. ... An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin which debuted in 1928. ... The LArlésienne Suites were a series of musical works composed by Georges Bizet, first published in 1872. ... The Overture to Candide is the overture to Leonard Bernsteins operetta Candide. ... Arirang is arguably the most popular and best known Korean folk song, both inside and outside Korea. ...

The visit was anticipated as an opportunity to broaden relations with one of the world's most isolated nations.^[20] The U.S. State Department viewed the invitation as a potential softening of anti-U.S. propaganda. In response to initial criticism of performing a concert limited to the privileged elite,^[21] the New York Philharmonic arranged for the concert to be broadcast live on North Korean television and radio.^[22] It was additionally broadcasted live on CNN and CNN International. The constitution provides for freedom of speech and the press; however, the government prohibits the exercise of these rights in practice. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... CNN International (CNNI) is an English language television network that carries news, current affairs and business programming world-wide. ...

• Medici.tv integral video of the concert

Music directors

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Leonard Bernstein scholar-in-residence

The Leonard Bernstein scholar-in-residence program was established in 2005 in recognition of the fifteenth anniversary of Bernstein's death. The scholar-in-residence gives an annual lecture series and is also featured in performances with the NYP. Conductor Charles Zachary Bornstein was the program's first scholar-in-residence, serving in that position from 2005 through 2008. James M. Keller held the position during the 2008-09 season and American baritone Thomas Hampson was appointed to the post in July 2009.^[23]

Honors and awards

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album The Grammy Award for Best Classical Album has been awarded since 1962. ...

• 1965 Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"
• 1974 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
• 1978 Concert of the Century
• 1991 Ives: Symphony No. 2; Gong on the Hook and Ladder; Central Park in the Dark; The Unanswered Question
• 2005 Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls

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• 1990 Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
• 1974 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
• 1976 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
• 2005 Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls

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• 1962 Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
• 1963 Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals; Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
• 1964 Bernstein: Young People's Concerts

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• 1979 Horowitz Golden Jubilee - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
• 1982 Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration

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• 1963 Wagner: Götterdämmerung: Brunnhilde's Immolation Scene; Die Walküre: Wesendonck Lieder

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• 1970 Berio: Sinfonia

Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical The 12th Grammy Awards were held in 1970. ... Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. ... Sinfonia is a landmark 20th Century composition by Luciano Berio. ... The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1959. ...

• 1976 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
• 1979 Varèse: Amériques/Arcana/Ionisation
• 1982 Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration

The 18th Grammy Awards were held in 1976, and were broadcast live on American television. ... Maurice Ravel. ... Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. ... The 21st Grammy Awards were held in 1979, and were broadcast live on American television. ... Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. ... Amériques is a musical composition by the French-born composer Edgard Varèse. ... Ionisation (1929 - 1931) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists playing the following instruments: 3 Bass Drums, 2 Side Drums, 2 Snare Drums, Tarole, 2 Bongos, Tambourine, Tambour militaire, crash cymbal, suspended cymbals, 3 tam-tams, gong, 2 anvils, 2 trinagles, sleigh bells, chimes, celesta... The 24th Grammy Awards were held in 1982, and were broadcast live on American television. ...

References

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Sources

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• Huneker, James Gibbons (1917). The Philharmonic Society Of New York and its 75th Anniversary; A Retrospect. New York; London: Novello Ewer and Co.. OCLC 918560. 
• Krehbiel, Henry Edward (1892). The Philharmonic Society Of New York: ‘A Memorial’. New York; London: Novello Ewer and Co. OCLC 1307721. 
• Lawrence, Vera Brodsky; Strong, George T. (1988). Strong On Music: The New York Music Scene in The Days of George Templeton Strong vol. 1-3. Chicago: The University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 0195041992. 
• Ritter, Frédéric Louis (1883). Music in America. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC 23862794. http://books.google.com/books?id=3CcQAAAAYAAJ. 
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• International Society of American Artists. 2001

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See also

• New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962
• New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts
• 2008 New York Philharmonic visit to North Korea

The New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962 is widely regarded as one of the most controversial in the orchestras history. ...

External links

• New York Philharmonic Official website
• New York Philharmonic Performance Archives
• Mahler in New York
• New York Philharmonic at Allmusic
• NY Philharmonic says Cuba Tour Prospects Promising by Anita Snow, AP, July 13 2009
• The New York Classical Music Meetup