Yuja and Yannick to reopen Carnegie Hall at $10k a seat
NewsCarnegie Hall will reopen on October 6 with a gala featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
The soloist in Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto will be Yuja Wang.
Tickets to the gala package are on sale for anything from $1,000 to $10,000.
Proof of vaccination is required.
Good for them. There are plenty of rich people in New York, lots of Arts organisations and venues need money. Makes sense to have a fundraiser.
Maybe Cuomo will cum by and show Yuja the sights.
I think she would prefer Trump: that way she could get a $130K payoff and she’d get to spank him with a copy of an old issue of his magazine.
Crass and unbecoming.
I might pay that much to see Yuja. If she was naked.
Once again, Karl lives up to the sexist standard he has so effortlessly set for himself here.
Quite
Thank you Larry.
Way to keep it classy Karl.
Can’t a guy tell a joke anymore? After all she does make a habit of wearing skimpy clothing.
Read the room.
You mean
dressed?
You mean dressed?
Crass and unbecoming.
insane, perverted, disgusting.
50$ is the amount for a child to have food, education and a home for a month in africa.
How is that even relevant?
Go kill yourself and creatures ,that raised you,if you don’t understand it.
As a New Yorker, I’m not certain that Nézet-Séguin is the draw Philadelphia thinks. He’s become more of a negative (approaching a joke) with many who care about the Met. The only draw may be the cache of being able to drop $1,000 to $10,000 on a concert–and to flaunt it.
Honestly gala concerts tend to be the most featherweight, least-interesting programs of any orchestra’s season, even before the price tag.
Not so. Often the gala features a soloist the orchestra can’t afford at regular ticket prices.
Let’s not confuse YNS with Gelb. Single tix will become available at lower cost later after all the gala tix are sold out.
Nezet-Seguin may not be the draw, but the Philly Orchestra definitely is. I feel like they have their own annual series of appearances at Carnegie Hall each year, not even the NY Philharmonic a few blocks away has that!
Philadelphia (as well as Boston, Chicago, and Cleveland) are all vastly superior orchestras compared to the NY Phil (and have been for at least 5 decades) as their Carnegie Hall visits regularly demonstrate.
How much you pay for internet, cell phone, and air conditioning per month? Send that money to save that starving child in Africa instead.
A piano concerto?? Kids in Africa could’ve eaten that piano!
Norman doesn’t miss a beat about pointing out concert hall that require proof of vaccination…
Well, get ready for this everywhere and in all sectors. NYC government is requiring it for many indoor activities, including dining, and restaurants and bars in many cities have been requiring it for weeks.
If you refuse to get vaccinated, get ready to find yourself shut out of many activities. (GOP governors may be able to block cities in their states from having these mask and vaccine mandates, but private businesses are free to do whatever they want, and polling shows that majorities of Americans want them.)
The polling I’ve been privy to from my own employer and talking with colleagues across the US about what they’ve seen suggests a vaccination requirement is overwhelmingly popular among our subscribers and would help encourage them to come back this fall.
I do hope this is the new normal. We just got back to work, and we will be the first out of work should this Delta variant spin out of control because people ignore the tools we have to end this thing finally out of sheer stubbornness.
At $1-10K that will certainly shut out the blacks and other minorities.
So goes financial equity, unless the prices were meant to be ‘diverse’ enough for only capitalists to afford.
All about race again. Many “Blacks”/African Americans and “other minorities” do make plenty of money. Many do so by dribbling a ball and throwing it around. As to whether their interests lie in opera or classical music is entirely something else.
And who says that classical music is an elitist art form…
The $1,000 to $10,000 price is for the Gala tickets. The concert only tickets will be priced appropriately, as is the case with every Carnegie Hall Opening Night concert.
If you cant afford the gala which is a fundraiser event, there are dozens upon dozens of other normally priced classical music concerts you can attend at Carnegie Hall including at least 2 featuring Yuja Wang. So whats your excuse now?
Probably the folks who prefer a Jimmy Buffet concert.
Oh well, I think I have a prior engagement that night, anyway!
The Philadelphia Orchestra will not be presenting this program in Philadelphia. Maybe the Orchestra should change its name.
At a time when every orchestra is giving fewer concerts than normal, Carnegie Hall invites Philadelphia to perform at its gala reopening… and you’re complaining about what exactly?
Maybe why Carnegie is not supporting its hometown band in a period when they have no home?
Over the season, the NY Phil will be presented @ Carnegie at least three times.
Carnegie Hall has no obligation to an orchestra that foolishly decided to leave them (and chose instead a vastly acoustically inferior auditorium to play in) over 5 decades ago. The NY Phil “never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity” not only in that regard but choice of music directors, their ridiculously pampered musicians etc. If they were not located in New York, no honest observer would consider them among America’s “top 5”.
Ya’ go where the money is…carpetbaggers.
Ridiculous. Why don’t they do this at a space/venue that actually needs the money after the Covid times. Always Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie…boring!
Do they offer financing for a pair of tickets?
Nothing would induce me to pay $10,000 to listen to the Rach 2.
For me, only three things would: Yuja, Yannick, and the Rach 2.
Heard her in Rach 2 a few years ago and it was, believe it or not, boring. The recording with an equally clueless Abbado, who should have known better (or perhaps not) is likewise disappointing.
As for the canuck, from what I hear him, I actually enjoyed more his work at Met (Dialogues de Carmelites especially) than anything I heard him in Philly.
Why not price each seat at $1,000,000. Keep the plebs out and the blings in …
To make a splash like Pink, have conductor and soloist slide down a giant waterslide way up high into a pool (water, champagne or vodka) onstage, and without changing perform in said bathing suits. And don’t forget to bring towels…
Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to stay home and listen to Rachmaninoff play it.
And with his clothes on.
The arts are for everyone! Lol
It’s for the people! And we wonder why there is such a lack of interest for classical music. Some try to reach new audiences, appeal to the youth and then….there are these instances….better feed a family for a year in an empoverished country then throwing money out the window for an hour of entertainment.
I think classical music can be extremely elitist as well, but galas like these are what makes regular concerts possible. Halls and orchestras get a fraction of their funding from ticket sales and the majority from rich donors. Do I like that model? Not particularly, but if it makes a concert in Carnegie $40 for a balcony seat as opposed to $400 then I’m happy to see the rich contribute to the arts (especially if they’d otherwise be spending it on offshore shell companies!).
Agreed!
Agreed. All of this handwringing about Carnegie Hall having an opening night gala fundraiser just shows that many posters on this site want to complain about everything, and probably never attend live concerts.
As you note, balcony seats, which have excellent sound (I’d argue the best in the hall) and good sight lines usually cost less than $40 (I think the only time they are more is with the VPO). That seems like a pretty reasonable price to me, especially compared to professional sports tickets. The rich people paying thousands fo dollars at these fundraisers make that pricing possible. What exactly is the problem?
Oh clive, you’re so cute with your race virtue signaling. meanwhile your opening night will host the whitest audience in the history of carnegie hall. hope you’re reserving 20% of the seats for minority communities who’s monthly expenses exceed the cheapest ticket price. yeah, didn’t think so
The expensive tickets are a part of a Gala Package that will include a formal “black tie” dinner and reception. This is a typical “opening night” fundraiser. Less expensive tickets will be available, but sorry, no dinner will be included.
The concert will feature an interesting new work by Valerie Coleman, “Seven O’Clock Shout” which honours front line medical workers.
This is quite normal for opening night galas – nothing new and not at all worth getting upset about.
Will Yannick lounge in a white bath robe in a luxury hotel while his orchestra is being starved out of NYC again?