Breaking: Kissin to headline Carnegie season… with Yiddish evening

Just in, from Clive Gillinson.

press release:
CARNEGIE HALL ANNOUNCES 2015–2016 SEASON

Carnegie Hall’s 125th Anniversary Celebration
Season launches with Opening Night Gala concert with
Alan Gilbert, Evgeny Kissin, & the New York Philharmonic on October 7, 2015

All-star anniversary gala featuring Carnegie Hall Artist Trustees on May 5, 2016
marks 125 years to the day that Carnegie Hall first opened

125 Commissions Project
Carnegie Hall commemorates 125th anniversary by commissioning 125+ new works by established and emerging composers over next five seasons

Debs Creative Chair: Kronos Quartet
Pioneering group to hold Debs Chair for the launch of
Carnegie Hall’s 125 Commissions Project, as they begin their own
Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire initiative;
NYC residency includes Carnegie Hall concert and week-long workshop for young musicians

Perspectives: Evgeny Kissin, Sir Simon Rattle, and Rosanne Cash
Evgeny Kissin celebrates 25 years since his Carnegie Hall debut with six concerts, including performances in opening and closing weeks of the season with the
New York Philharmonic and The MET Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle launches two-season Perspectives leading
complete Beethoven symphony cycle with the Berliner Philharmoniker

Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash curates four-concert celebration of Southern roots music featuring appearances by The Time Jumpers;
Ry Cooder / Sharon White / Ricky Skaggs; and St. Paul and The Broken Bones

The Somewhere Project
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute launches citywide creative learning project
exploring West Side Story, culminating in large-scale production
of the musical in restored factory in Queens, NY
conducted by Marin Alsop and directed by Amanda Dehnert, March 4–6, 2016