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CARNEGIE HALL OPENS ITS 119TH SEASON WITH A GALA
BENEFIT CONCERT FEATURING THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND
JAMES LEVINE
ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 AT 7:00 PM
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New York Premiere of John Williams’ On Willows
and Birches Features
BSO Principal Harpist Ann Hobson Pilot
Pianist Evgeny Kissin Joins Orchestra for Chopin’s Piano
Concerto No. 2 |
Carnegie Hall opens its 2009–2010 season
with a gala benefit concert featuring the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
and music director James Levine
on
Thursday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m. in
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. The program
includes the New York premiere of John
Williams’ On Willows and Birches,
for harp and orchestra, with BSO principal
harpist Ann Hobson Pilot as
featured soloist. Mr. Williams has written
this piece to honor Ms. Pilot who is
retiring after a 40-year career with the
orchestra. Also on the program is Chopin’s
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor with pianist
Evgeny Kissin—as a prelude
to the 200th anniversary of the composer’s
birth in 2010—as well as Berlioz’s Le
Carnaval romain Overture and Debussy’s
La mer.
The Opening Night Gala of Carnegie Hall’s
119th season is co-chaired by Susan and Ed
Forst and Myra and Robert Kraft. The Opening
Night Gala Sponsor is PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP. The benefit for Carnegie Hall’s
artistic and education programs includes a
Gala Dinner at The Waldorf=Astoria’s Grand
Ballroom following the concert. Gala benefit
tickets—priced at $5000, $2500, and
$1250—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 $59 and $94 are now available at
the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th
Street, or can be charged to major credit
cards by calling CarnegieCharge at
212-247-7800 or by visiting the Carnegie
Hall website,
www.carnegiehall.org.
Throughout the 2009–10 season, the Boston
Symphony Orchestra and James Levine return
three more times following this Opening
Night appearance, including an all-Beethoven
program on
Monday, November 2 at 8:00 p.m. On
Monday, February 1 at 8:00 p.m. pianist
Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins the Orchestra
for Elliott Carter’s Dialogues, for
Piano and Orchestra and Ravel’s Piano
Concerto for the Left Hand, and BSO
principal violist Steven Ansell is featured
in Berlioz’s Harold in Italy. In
the final performance, soprano Christine
Brewer, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe,
tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko, and
bass-baritone Shenyang are featured in
Mendelssohn’s Elijah on
Monday, April 5 at 8:00 p.m., along with
the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
Artist Information
Pianist Evgeny Kissin was
born in Moscow in 1971. He came to
international attention in March 1984 when
he performed Chopin's piano concertos in the
Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with
the Moscow State Philharmonic under Dmitri
Kitaenko. Since Mr. Kissin’s first
appearances outside Russia in 1985, he has
played with all of the leading orchestras
and conductors and in recital in many of the
world’s greatest halls. In 1992, Mr. Kissin
performed on the Grammy Awards and in 1995
he became Musical America's
youngest Instrumentalist of the Year. Mr.
Kissin’s recordings have received numerous
awards, including a Grammy, the Edison
Klassiek, the Diapason d'Or, and
the Grand Prix of La Nouvelle Academie du
Disque.
Ann Hobson Pilot is a
graduate of the Cleveland Institute of
Music. She became principal harp of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1980, having
joined the BSO in 1969 as assistant
principal harp and principal harp with the
Boston Pops. Ms. Pilot also has had an
extensive solo career; she has performed as
a soloist with many American orchestras, as
well as with orchestras in Europe, Haiti,
New Zealand, and South Africa. She has
several recordings available on the Boston
Records label, as well as on the Koch
International and Denouement labels.
James Levine became Music
Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in
the fall of 2004. He is the orchestra’s 14th
music director since the BSO’s founding in
1881 and the first American-born conductor
to hold the position. Mr. Levine is also
Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera,
where, in the 38 years since his debut
there, he has developed a relationship with
that company unparalleled in its history and
unique in the musical world today. Mr.
Levine also appears at Carnegie Hall this
season with The MET Orchestra on December 20
and January 24 and the MET Chamber Ensemble
on December 6 and January 10.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s
Symphony Hall season in Boston
takes place September 23, 2009–May 1, 2010.
Highlights of the 2009–10 season include
three world premieres and three American
premieres, a concentrated cycle of the
complete symphonies of Beethoven conducted
by Music Director James Levine, October
22–November 7, 2009, and a wide array of
distinguished guests, including violinists
Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, and Mira Wang;
pianists Evgeny Kissin, Marc-André Hamelin,
and Emanuel Ax, vocalists Renée Fleming,
Gerald Finley, and Matthew Polenzani; and
conductors Sir Andrew Davis, Christoph von
Dohnányi, and Bernard Haitink. Now in its
129th season, the BSO gave its inaugural
concert on October 22, 1881. Since then,
the orchestra has performed throughout the
United States as well as in Europe, Japan,
Hong Kong, South America, and China, and
also reaches audiences through its
performances on radio and television, its
highly successful web platform at bso.org,
and its many recordings, including four new
recordings released by the BSO and James
Levine last February. The BSO plays an
active role in commissioning new works from
today’s most important composers and offers
a wide variety of educational programs,
including the Tanglewood Music Center, the
orchestra's prestigious summer music academy
at Tanglewood, the BSO's summer home in
Lenox, MA. For further information, visit
bso.org
Program Information
Thursday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
THE OPENING NIGHT GALA OF CARNEGIE HALL’S
119TH SEASON
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor
Evgeny Kissin, Piano
Ann Hobson Pilot, Harp
HECTOR BERLIOZ Le Carnaval romain
Overture, Op. 9
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 in F
Minor, Op. 21
JOHN WILLIAMS On Willows and Birches,
for harp and orchestra (NY Premiere)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY La mer
Opening Night Gala Sponsor:
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for the sixth
consecutive season
Tickets: $59, $94 (limited availability)
Gala Tickets: $5000, $2500, $1250, $800
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