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Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Carnegie Hall's Opening Night Gala, Tue 5/17 @ 8p

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Published April 28, 2022 at 1:26 PM EDT

Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Carnegie's opening night gala — Nézet-Séguin, also the music director of the Metropolitan Opera, led vibrant, impetuous performances of works both classic and new.Credit...

Tuesdays at 8pm, beginning 5/17

5/17 Opening Night Gala Valerie Coleman: Seven O’Clock Shout Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 Bernstein: Overture to Candide Iman Habibi: Jeder Baum spricht Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Yuja Wang, p; The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, cond)

5/24 Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call John Adams: Saxophone Concerto Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (Branford Marsalis, sax; New York Philharmonic; Susanna Mälkki, cond)

5/31 Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Elgar: Cello Concerto Holst: The Planets Shostakovich/Kian Soltani: Introduction to The Gadfly (arr. for cello ensemble by) Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden (Kian Soltani, c; Musica Sacra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vasily Petrenko, cond)