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. LORIN MAAZEL (Conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra): Someday, a composer may write a work entitled Americans in Pyongyang.
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.
The New York Philharmonic this week is traveling to Pyongyang to perform and perhaps help thaw the icy relations between the U.S. and North Korea.
Conductor Lorin Maazel led a historic concert Feb. 26th in Pyongyang, as the New York Philharmonic became the first major American orchestra to perform in the insulated communist country.
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.
Amid the continuing see-saw of nuclear talks and political posturing between North Korea and the U.S., the New York Philharmonic may have played a role in softening relations between the two countries.
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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.
His directorship of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and his lucrative recording contract with Columbia Records survived only because he signed a humiliating affidavit in which he renounced the full range of his extensive civil-rights and left-wing commitments.
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.
The U.S. and North Korea may officially still be at war - and they are certainly deadlocked over the nuclear issue - but there was a breakthrough in cultural exchanges today when the New York Philharmonic played its first concert in Pyongyang.
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.
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