Little wonder his double bill with the New York Philharmonic was a celebration of Gershwin.
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Sure, and as long as we're at it, let's democratize the New York Philharmonic.
By age 20, he had played with the New York Philharmonic and the symphonies of most major cities.
It emerged from the Berkshire Symphonic Festival, which originally offered the New York Philharmonic as its main attraction.
Drucker's final performance with the New York Philharmonic will be of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony on June 27.
The playlists span a wide spectrum of musical genres from underground Detroit house tracks to New York Philharmonic favorites.
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Mr. JOHN DEAK (Principal Bassist, New York Philharmonic Orchestra): Half of the orchestra was bursting with tears, including myself.
He then became assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic.
Over the years, Schwantner has been commissioned by many orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and Washington's National Symphony.
The New York Philharmonic is not the first American orchestra to participate in what some might call symphonic diplomacy.
Leonard Bernstein's conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1943 is among other musical extracts preserved for the library.
It will be a while before these splendid, hopeful young musicians can go head to head with the New York Philharmonic.
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The Concerto for Orchestra, composed in 1969 for Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, is an essay in musical multivalence.
In the past he has worked with the Santa Fe Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the BBC Proms.
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It's not an issue among professional musicians, he says, and men occupy first flute roles in leading orchestras like the New York Philharmonic.
The New York Philharmonic will mark the occasion with a night of Chinese music and dance at Lincoln Center on 12 February.
By the 1960s he was appearing widely as a conductor, going on to become chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mr Schafer hopes that he will one day be able to sit in a rural school and watch a hologram of the New York Philharmonic play the music he loves.
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Michael Stern settled in as music director of the Kansas City Symphony in 2005, after decades guest-conducting orchestras that included the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony.
Or to put it another way, Google is taking on Amazon, Firefox, Skype, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix, Apple, Apple, The New York Philharmonic and Wired. (Okay, the last two were a stretch.) A lot of fights.
It opened its doors in 1943, with a performance by the New York Philharmonic, and in its early years was host to storied dance companies like the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Robert Joffrey Ballet.
Mr. BEN ROSEN (Board Member, New York Philharmonic Orchestra): Once we heard the state department decided that they're very supportive of it, the board endorsed it not in a formal way but everyone was in favor of doing this.
With her friends Joshua Smith (principal flutist in the Cleveland Orchestra) and Cynthia Phelps (principal violist in the New York Philharmonic), she chose a set of atmospheric, ethereal works that have what she calls an "esoteric" connection with nature and the environment.
On December 8th his odyssey reaches an emotional apotheosis when he conducts the work with the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Centre's Avery Fisher Hall 100 years to the night after the composer, with the same orchestra, gave the piece its American premiere.
Last week, Mr. Bronfman joined the Emerson String Quartet at New York's Carnegie Hall for an all-Brahms program, and this week he partners with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in four performances of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1.
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George Chakiris, who played Bernardo, leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, in the film, said in a phone interview last week that its prologue was shot at two Manhattan locations, at 68th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, slightly north of where Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, stands today, and in a schoolyard at 110th Street and Second Avenue.
"The Gospel According to the Other Mary" by John Adams and Peter Sellars, recently given its New York premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, approximates the structure of Bach's Passions but has neither the devotional fervor nor the narrative energy that make those works unforgettable.
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