Breaking: Kissin to headline Carnegie season… with Yiddish evening
mainJust 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
Dear Mr. Lebrecht: There are hundreds of available photos of Kissin (who is now 43 years old), so why do you publish a photo of the 19 year old Kissin with his mother? Surely a more recent, mature photo would be appropriate here. Thank you.
fair comment, will do
Definitely an improvement – but surely there must be a photo that doesn’t cut off his right side. THANKS!
It will be intriguing if Kissin plays one of the 125 newly commissioned pieces as up til now Prokofiev has been the farthest he has stepped into the 20th century,yet alone 21st. Formidable pianist though….I’ve always been impressed by his appearences in London.
Kissin’s Yiddish music & poetry program will certainly consist of Carnegie Hall premieres, with works by Moyshe Milner, Alexander Veprik, Alexander Krein, and Ernest Bloch.
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