New York Philharmonic News

According to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "music is the universal language of mankind." Today, socially correct people would refer to humans, not mankind, but that doesn't change the basic concept.

By Cynthia Leitich Smith for Cynsations Susan Goldman Rubin is the author of Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein , the Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category.

" Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic : 201112 Season" includes twelve live recordings of performances conducted by the music director, two of which feature guest conductors reflects the passion and curiosity that marks the Orchestra today.

Turns out that the empty branding of Alan Gilbert - as a New Yorker, when nothing much about him or the New York Philharmonic says "New York" - wasn't the Philharmonic's doing.

The New York Philharmonic supports WNYC, New York's public radio station. And so they get little quasi-commercials sprinkled into the station's shows.

The cellphone heard round the world seemed to be the one that rang inside Avery Fisher Hall a few weeks ago during a concert by the New York Philharmonic when conductor Alan Gilbert stopped a performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony over a ringing iPhone.

French pianists long ago patented jeu perle - the technique of caressing strings of musical notes into shimmering pearls of sound.

Playing a second-tier work by Stravinsky in between two of the best pieces by Beethoven and Ravel is like posing Roseanne Barr for a photograph in which she is flanked by Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron.

She was born May 1, 1933 in McKeesport, Pa., the daughter of the late Clarence S. and Lula Dodds Blend.

As a result of negotiations facilitated by a federal mediator, the New York Philharmonic and its management have agreed on a new two-year contract.

The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts announced Thursday that the New York Philharmonic will make its annual pilgrimage to Bethel on July 7. Part three of that series comes July 14 with the Duprees; Jay Siegel and the Tokens; the Marcels; the Tymes; the Excellents; Linda Jansen ; and the Elegants.

New York's Columbus Avenue isn't exactly the mean streets - but Chinese conductor Long Yu might not think so anymore.

The New York Philharmonic will present Anywhere I Wander: The Frank Loesser Songbook, a celebration of the late legendary Broadway composer of Where's Charley?, Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, Greenwillow, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Monday, March 26, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. Directed and ... (more)

UC San Diego composer Lei Liang has been on leave since August, in residence at the American Academy in Rome , but he'll be back when Steven Schick conducts the West Coast premiere of "Verge." Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, it was first performed in 2009 as part of the Philharmonic's new music series, CONTACT! It's written for string ... (more)

When you think of Carnegie Hall names like Leonard Bernstein, Tchaikovsky, and the New York Philharmonic.

From Hugh Jackman chewing out a boz o during a 2008 performance of A Steady Rain to New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert stopping the orchestra in the middle of Mahler's Ninth Symphony just this month, every performer has his or her own way of reacting to inconsiderate asshats who don't turn off their phones before a performance.

Ahead of his Chinese New Year's concert at the New York Philharmonic, visiting conductor Long Yu brushed off a man on the street who was asking for a cigarette.

One of China's most prominent musicians and the New York Philharmonic celebrate the Year of the Dragon.

Gillian Miniter, active in the Central Park Conservancy, Karen LeFrak, an author and New York Philharmonic board member, and Hilary Geary Ross, author of "New York New York," a book of photographs by Harry Benson.

In a note accompanying this recording, conductor Alan Gilbert refers to the programme as "our version of The Three Bs" _ with Berg replacing Beethoven _ and describes it as a "serious" and "sad". It spans three centuries and encompasses music dissimilar enough in style to make it challenging to the audience, whose ears will have to do quite a lot ... (more)