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Black Tie International:
Carnegie
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Carnegie Hall 2009 Gala Benefit
Concert.:
Photo by: 2009 Julie
Skarratt
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CARNEGIE HALL OPENS 2010–2011 SEASON
WITH
GALA BENEFIT CONCERT
BY THE
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, LED BY
NIKOLAUS
HARNONCOURT,
ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 AT 7:00 PM
All-Beethoven Program Includes Symphony No. 7
And
Piano Concerto No. 1 Featuring Lang Lang as Soloist
Carnegie Hall opens its 2010–2011 season with a gala benefit
concert featuring the
Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra led by
Nikolaus
Harnoncourt on
Wednesday, September 29 at 7:00 p.m. in Stern
Auditorium/Perelman Stage. The all-Beethoven program
includes Symphony No. 7 in A Major as well as the Piano
Concerto No. 1 in C Major, featuring guest soloist
Lang Lang.
The Opening Night Gala event is co-chaired by Mr. and Mrs.
Sid R. Bass, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta, and Dr. and
Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco. For the seventh consecutive season,
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is the Opening Night Gala
sponsor. The gala benefits Carnegie Hall’s artistic and
education programs and includes a gala dinner at The
Waldorf=Astoria’s Grand Ballroom following the concert. Gala
benefit tickets—priced at $5000, $2500, and $1500—include
premiere concert seating and the post-concert dinner at The
Waldorf=Astoria. Benefit tickets, priced at $800, include
the concert and a pre-concert cocktail reception, which
begins at 5:30 p.m. in Carnegie Hall’s Rohatyn Room. All
gala benefit tickets are available by calling 212-903-9679.
A limited number of concert-only tickets, priced at $62,
$77, $102, $143, $198, and $220 will be available starting
August 30 at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, by calling
CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800, or online at
carnegiehall.org.
Following their Opening Night performance, the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Carnegie Hall for three
additional concerts throughout the weekend. On
Thursday, September 30 at 8:00 p.m., Mr. Harnoncourt
again leads the orchestra, conducting Smetana’s Má Vlast.
Maestro
Gustavo Dudamel takes to the podium on
Saturday, October 2 at 8:00 p.m., leading works by
Rossini, Bernstein, and Ravel. Mr. Dudamel and the orchestra
wrap up their New York visit with a performance on
Sunday, October 3 at 2:00 p.m., featuring Schumann’s
Cello Concerto with cellist
Yo-Yo Ma.
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was last here in January
of this year.
Artist Information
Austrian conductor
Nikolaus
Harnoncourt joined the Vienna Symphony
Orchestra as a cellist in 1952. A year later, he founded the
Concentus Musicus Wien ensemble together with his wife,
Alice, to provide a forum for his increasingly intensive
work with period instruments and Renaissance and baroque
musical performance traditions. From 1972, Mr. Harnoncourt
taught performance practice and the study of historical
instruments at the Mozarteum University of Music and
Dramatic Arts in Salzburg, while at the same time enjoying
growing success as an opera conductor. His career as a
conductor of both orchestral works and opera encompasses
Viennese classicism, the Romantic repertoire and works from
the twentieth century. With the Concertgebouw Orchestra of
Amsterdam, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Vienna
and Berlin philharmonic orchestras, Mr. Harnoncourt
constantly reinterprets and rediscovers the grand repertoire
of orchestral works: the concertos and symphonies of Haydn
and Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann,
Brahms, Dvořák and Bruckner, but also the works of Bela
Bartók and Alban Berg. Today, he is one of the few true
stars among conductors worldwide. Performances like the New
Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra enable
him to reach an audience of millions, displaying the
characteristic passion and fiery intensity that identify
him, first and foremost, as a true servant of his art.
Pianist
Lang Lang began playing piano at the age of
three and gave his first public recital at the age of five.
Since then, he has become an international phenomenon,
playing sold out recitals and concerts in cities around the
world. He was the first Chinese pianist to perform with the
Vienna and Berlin philharmonic orchestras as well as many
top American orchestras. In 2008, Lang Lang performed in the
opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. His influence and
status in China has helped to inspire over 35 million
Chinese children to learn to play piano—a phenomenon dubbed
by NBC’s The
Today Show as "the Lang Lang effect."
Time
magazine included Lang Lang in its 2009 list of the "100
Most Influential People in the World." Last season,
performances by Lang Lang were among the featured highlights
of Carnegie Hall’s
Ancient Paths,
Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture,
including the world premiere of Chinese composer Chen
Qigang’s piano concerto, “Er Huang.” In February 2010, Lang
Lang joined Sony Music Entertainment as exclusive recording
artist; his first album with Sony features a live recording
of his 2010 recital at Vienna's legendary Musikverein.
There is perhaps no other musical ensemble more consistently
and closely associated with the history and tradition of
European classical music than the
Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra. In the course of its
over 160-year history, the musicians of this most prominent
orchestra of the capital city of music have been an integral
part of a musical epoch that must certainly be regarded as
unique. Since its inception through Otto Nicolai in 1842,
the fascination that the orchestra has exercised upon
prominent composers and conductors, as well as on audiences
all over the world, is based not only on a homogenous
musical style carefully bequeathed from one generation to
the next, but also on its unique structure and history. The
desire to provide artistically worthy performances of the
symphonic works of Mozart and Beethoven in their own city
led to the decision on the part of the court opera musicians
to present a “Philharmonic” concert series independent of
their work at the opera, and upon their own responsibility
and risk.
With concerts at home and on tour around the world, today’s
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is much more than Austria’s
most coveted “cultural export.” The orchestra’s members are
considered ambassadors, expressing through their
performances the ideals of peace, humanity, and
reconciliation with which music is so inseparably bound, and
regularly donating services to create events that promote
peace through music. Examples of this include the
orchestra’s historic performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No.
9 with Sir Simon Rattle in 2000 at Mauthausen, the former
site of Austria’s largest concentration camp during World
War II; the 2002 concert in New York City’s St. Patrick’s
Cathedral in remembrance of victims of terrorism; annual
benefits in New York City benefitting the American Austrian
Foundation/Salzburg Cornell (Medical Seminars); and,
beginning in 1999, the annual donation of partial proceeds
from the VPO’s New Years Concerts to a variety of
humanitarian organizations. The Vienna Philharmonic, since
2005, has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the World Health
Organization, and, in 2006, became a supporter of the "Hear
the World" initiative, a hearing awareness campaign. As of
November 2008, Rolex is the worldwide presenting sponsor of
the Vienna Philharmonic.
Program Information
Wednesday, September 29 at 7:00 p.m.
Stern
Auditorium/Perelman Stage
VIENNA
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
OPENING
NIGHT GALA
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor
Lang Lang, Piano
CARNEGIE
HALL’S OPENING NIGHT GALA
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Opening Night Gala Sponsor: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for
the seventh consecutive season
Tickets: $62, $77, $102, $143, $198, $220 (limited
availability)
Gala Tickets: $5000, $2500, $1500, $800
Bank of
America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.
Ticket Information
Gala Benefit tickets, priced at $5000, $2500, and
$1500, include concert seating and the post-concert
dinner in The Waldorf=Astoria’s Grand Ballroom;
those priced at $800 include the concert and a
pre-concert cocktail reception at 5:30 p.m. in
Carnegie Hall’s Rohatyn Room. All gala benefit
tickets are available by calling the Carnegie Hall
Special Events office at 212-903-9679 or online at
carnegiehall.org/specialevents. A limited number
of concert tickets will be available starting at
8:00 a.m. on August 30 at the Carnegie Hall Box
Office, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800,
or online at
carnegiehall.org. |
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