New York Philharmonic Rush Hour Concert: Bernstein and Ravel
Avery Fisher Hall, at Lincoln Center (132 W 65th Street New York, NY 10023)
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Perfect! Concert is approximately 1-11/2 hours long. Music was terrific and we got out, had dinner and got home at a reasonable hour. Great mid week interlude.Written on Jan 05 2012
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Perfect for hearing a beautiful orchestra and still have time to have dinner afterwards. All shows should start at 6-45 and end at 8:15.Written on Jan 05 2012
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When work ends, come experience a different kind of rush. Head over to the Philharmonic for an evening of music that’s guaranteed to revitalize you. Rush Hour series concerts begin at 6:45pm and last about an hour.
There's a free pre-concert talk at 5:30pm at the David Rubenstein Atrium, on Columbus between 62nd and 63rd Streets.
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1961)
The thrilling dance episodes of the iconoclastic Broadway musical West Side Story underscore the highly charged atmosphere that is Bernstein’s modern take on Romeo and Juliet. The rival street gangs of the 1950s, the Sharks and the Jets, have replaced the Montagues and the Capulets, and Tony and Maria are the modern Romeo and Juliet. The gritty urban setting among New York tenements forms the backdrop against which the warring gangs play out the inevitable tragedy. Jerome Robbins (he won the 1957-58 Tony Award for choreography) was the masterful choreographer who propelled the action forward with brilliant dances, set to Bernstein’s positively electrifying score.
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Ballet (1908-10; orch. 1911)
The Mother Goose Suite started as a set of duets for piano four-hands, composed for Mimi and Jean Godebski, 10 and 8 year-old children of Ravel’s friends. But, because the pieces proved just a little too difficult for those kids, the work was premiered by the somewhat older Jeanne Leleu and Geneviève Durony. In 1911 Ravel orchestrated the suite, and later expanded it into a full ballet by adding a Prelude and a framework based on “The Sleeping Beauty,” with the other fairytales presented as her dreams. The movements were inspired by stories of Charles Perrault (1628-1703) and others, and collected under the name Mother Goose.
La valse, poème choréographique pour orchestre (1920)
In 1906 Maurice Ravel quipped to his friend the French critic Jean Marnold that he wanted to compose “a grand waltz, a sort of homage to the memory of the Great Strauss, not Richard, the other one — Johann. You know how much I love those wonderful rhythms.” Having already paid homage to Franz Schubert in his Valses nobles et sentimentales, Ravel was going to call his tribute to the Viennese waltz Wien (Vienna). But by the time the work was finally completed, World War I had intervened, and Austria was now the enemy of France. And so Ravel renamed it La valse with an ending probably different from what he might have written otherwise.
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The New York Philharmonic is by far the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, and one of the oldest in the world. Founded in 1842 by a group of local musicians led by American-born Ureli Corelli Hill, the Orchestra currently plays some 180 concerts a year. On December 18, 2004, the Philharmonic gave its 14,000th concert--a milestone unmatched by any other orchestra in the world.
Alan Gilbert began his tenure as Music Director in September 2009, the latest in a distinguished line of musical giants that has included Lorin Maazel (2002-09); Kurt Masur (Music Director from 1991 to the summer of 2002; named Music Director Emeritus in 2002); Zubin Mehta (1978-91); Pierre Boulez (1971-77); and Leonard Bernstein, who was appointed Music Director in 1958 and given the lifetime title of Laureate Conductor in 1969.
Since its inception, the Orchestra has championed the new music of its time, giving the first performances of many important works such as Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"; Rachmaninoff 's Piano Concerto No. 3; Gershwin's Concerto in F; and Copland's Connotations, in addition to the U.S. premieres of works such as Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9, and Brahms's Symphony No. 4. This pioneering tradition has continued to the present day, with works of major contemporary composers regularly scheduled each season. John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls, written in memory of September 11, 2001, and commissioned by the New York Philharmonic with Lincoln Center's Great Performers, received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music; a CD of the work, performed in concert by the Orchestra in 2002, was released on Nonesuch in August 2004, and garnered three Grammy awards.
The roster of composers and conductors who have led the Philharmonic includes such historic figures as Theodore Thomas, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Antonin Dvork, Gustav Mahler (Music Director, 1909-11), Otto Klemperer, Richard Strauss, Willem Mengelberg (Music Director, 1922-30), Wilhelm Furtwngler, Arturo Toscanini (Music Director, 1928-36), Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Bruno Walter (Music Advisor, 1947-49), Dimitri Mitropoulos (Music Director, 1949-58), Klaus Tennstedt, George Szell (Music Advisor, 1969-70), and Erich Leinsdorf.
The Philharmonic's remarkable achievements in radio, television, and other media have helped shape communications history. In 1922 the Philharmonic became one of the first orchestras to broadcast a live concert, and its coast-to-coast radio broadcast of 1930 was the first of its kind. In addition, the Philharmonic undertakes a diversified touring schedule each season to share its music with new audiences around the world. From its first tour in 1882, through the 2004-05 season, the Orchestra has performed in 416 cities in 57 countries on five continents.
Television and the Internet have further expanded the Philharmonic's audiences. For more than 20 years, the Orchestra regularly telecast its legendary Young People's Concerts, most of them led by Leonard Bernstein; and, since 1976, the frequent annual appearances of the Philharmonic on PBS's Emmy Award-winning Live From Lincoln Center have made it one of the most "watched" orchestras in the world. In 1999 the Philharmonic launched the hugely popular and award-winning Kidzone, an interactive Website for children and educators alike, and in 2002, a unique initiative in the orchestra world began the streaming of live radio broadcasts for a period of two weeks following the performance, bringing the Philharmonic to a worldwide audience through its Website.
Since 1917 the Philharmonic has recorded nearly 2,000 albums; more than 500 recordings are currently available. In February 2003, the Orchestra was honored by The Recording Academy with a Trustees Award in recognition of its outstanding contributions to the industry and American culture. Members of the Philharmonic also performed on the 45th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, televised internationally from New York's Madison Square Garden--the first time that a major symphony orchestra had performed live on the Grammy Awards.