Continuing with archival concerts, in April we'll hear John Corigliano's four-movement song cycle for mezzo soprano and orchestra, One Sweet Morning, which was jointly commissioned by the NY Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. We'll hear the premiere of this work with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe performed on September 30, 2011. April 11th at 3pm.
4/4 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for Piano and Orchestra Tchaikovsky: Act II from The Nutcracker (Alexander Romanovsky, p; Alan Gilbert, cond)
4/11 Barber: Essay No. 1 Corigliano: One Sweet Morning, for Mezzo?Soprano and Orchestra Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 (Stephanie Blythe, ms; Alan Gilbert, cond)
4/18 J. S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins Berg: Violin Concerto Brahms: Symphony No. 3 (Frank Zimmerman, v; Alan Gilbert, v and cond)
4/25 Mozart: Symphony No. 38, Prague, Concerto for Flute and Harp Debussy: Jeux, Iberia (Robert Langevin, f; Nancy Allen, hp; Lorin Maazel, cond)
