PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
On November 14, Conductor Designate Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic for the 36th time. That his all-Bernstein program also celebrates Leonard Bernstein's conducting debut at Carnegie Hall with the Philharmonic is perhaps no coincidence.
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Oppenheimer's Act I aria from Doctor Atomic, sung by Gerald Finley in rehearsal with the Met Orchestra under Alan Gilbert. Audio courtesy of the Met. Live transmission on Oct. 13.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
While the New York Philharmonic awaits new blood with the arrival next season of Alan Gilbert, who it has on the podium now is hardly a compromise.
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... to see the new production, and also to hear Adams's score played by the Met orchestra under Alan Gilbert. Thanks to a generous $500,000 donation, the house is offering a slew of prime orchestra seats for $30 as part of its Rush Ticket program; details here .
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
... 167th, is an important one for the orchestra. Besides the ascension of 41-year-old conductor Alan Gilbert as its next music director, the orchestra is losing 80-year-old principal clarinetist Stanley Drucker, who's retiring after 60 years with the Philharmonic.
Like other nonprofit organizations, it also faces the uncertainty of the recent financial turmoil. For its gala dinner...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
... 167th, is an important one for the orchestra. Besides the ascension of 41-year-old conductor Alan Gilbert as its next music director, the orchestra is losing 80-year-old principal clarinetist Stanley Drucker, who's retiring after 60 years with the Philharmonic.Like other nonprofit organizations, it also faces the uncertainty of the recent financial turmoil. For its gala dinner after...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
... research centres. It is now hoped it will play a key role in the future of the nuclear industry. Alan Gilbert, president of Manchester University, said: "This generous endowment will enhance our position in the nuclear field and bring significant benefits to the north west. "It consolidates our world leading position in nuclear research, which spans over 100 years from the work of...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Lorin Maazel assumed the post of music director at the New York Philharmonic, the oldest standing orchestra in the United States, in 2002 and will pass it on to Alan Gilbert at the end of the 2008-2009 season. The orchestra recently completed a three-week European tour, making its final stop at the Beethovenfest in Bonn, where it performed Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. DW-WORLD.DE:...
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
... and a concert at Carnegie Hall, all conducted by Americans: Lorin Maazel, David Robertson, and Alan Gilbert. How fitting, given that Bernstein’s younger brother, Burton, sees that debut and his brother’s subsequent Philharmonic appointment as setting the stage for the acceptance of American conductors in a field that had previously been dominated by Europeans. “The proof is in the...
