ALAN GILBERT’S 50th BIRTHDAY
February 23, 2017

With Former Artists-in-Residence 

EMANUEL AX, YEFIM BRONFMAN, and LISA BATIASHVILI

Also Featuring JOSHUA BELL, PAMELA FRANK, 
Concertmaster FRANK HUANG, and RENÉE FLEMING

ALAN GILBERT TO PERFORM VIOLIN in J.S. BACH’s Concerto for Two Violins
Program Also To Include Works by 
BRAHMS, BEETHOVEN, BRUCH, R. STRAUSS, DVOŘÁK, KORNGOLD, and GERSHWIN

ADAM GOPNIK To Moderate “A Toast to Alan Gilbert”
Part of FREE INSIGHTS AT THE ATRIUM
May 24, 2017

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic and perform on violin in the Orchestra’s celebration of his 50th birthday, featuring soloists with whom he has cultivated strong relationships at the Philharmonic, on Thursday, February 23, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. He and the Orchestra will collaborate with three former Artists-in-Residence: pianist Emanuel Ax (2012–13), pianist Yefim Bronfman (2013–14), and violinist Lisa Batiashvili (2014–15); Philharmonic Concertmaster Frank Huang, whom Mr. Gilbert hired, joining in the 2015–16 season; soprano Renée Fleming, a frequent guest artist who performed in the 2009 Opening Gala Concert that launched Alan Gilbert’s tenure as Music Director; violinist Joshua Bell, a frequent guest artist and Philharmonic Board Member; and violinist Pamela Frank, with whom Mr. Gilbert has frequently collaborated since their days as students at The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division. Alan Gilbert will perform on violin in the Vivace from J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, alongside Pamela Frank. All of the violin soloists featured in this concert will also perform as soloists in J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins — Joshua Bell and Pamela Frank in the Largo ma non tanto, and Lisa Batiashvili and Concertmaster Frank Huang in the Allegro.

In addition to J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, the program will feature selections from Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Emanuel Ax as soloist; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist; and Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, with Joshua Bell as soloist.  Renée Fleming and Joshua Bell will perform R. Strauss’s “Morgen!,” Renée Fleming will sing Korngold’s “Marietta’s Lied” from Die tote Stadt, and the Orchestra will perform Gershwin’s An American in Paris. The concert will also feature “Goin’ Home” from the Largo from Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World, with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist — adapted for violin and orchestra by Ms. Batiashvili’s father, based on Kreisler’s arrangement for violin and piano. The performance is part of The New World Initiative, the Philharmonic’s season-long, citywide project revolving around Dvořák’s New World Symphony and its theme of home through performances, community outreach, and education projects on the occasion of the Philharmonic’s 175th anniversary season.

Also in honor of Alan Gilbert’s 50th birthday and his final season as Music Director, the New York Philharmonic will present “A Toast to Alan Gilbert,” a free Insights at the Atrium event, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, in which Alan Gilbert will look back on his eight years leading the Orchestra — the people, projects, and stories. The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik will moderate. The event takes place at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Columbus Avenue at 62nd Street) and is co-presented with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Alan Gilbert said: “I’ve learned a lot over the years that I’ve been lucky enough to be Music Director of the New York Philharmonic — but one thing I knew from the beginning was that I couldn’t do it alone. Many of my favorite friends and musicians with whom I love to work will come together. It’s going to be a reunion of sorts, because they are good friends with each other as well. And many of the musicians of the Orchestra are very dear friends of mine. When you’re on stage with friends, there’s nothing you can ask more for as a musician. This coming together of kindred spirits and people who love music and who love each other is all you can ask for. I feel very blessed.”

Emanuel Ax said: “Alan is everything you would want a musician to be. He’s a case where head and heart really do meet, where intelligence informs emotions. It’s always a joy to work together.”

Lisa Batiashvili said: “Alan and I have performed together a lot, and I have always felt comfort, freedom, and joy in any repertoire. I simply love Alan’s family. They always invite me to their house when I am in New York — Alan is an amazing cook as well! — and our kids have become very good friends. I am really grateful for such natural generosity and friendship.”

Joshua Bell said: “Alan is one of the most sincere and intelligent musicians I know. There are so many things I love about Alan, but perhaps what I love most is that he will always be just slightly older than I am. Happy 50th, Alan!”

Yefim Bronfman said: “As Philharmonic Music Director Alan took the leap forward demanded by the times, and it showed him as a great exponent of how the orchestra of the future should work. Alan really changed the status of the Music Director by being ‘one of the guys.’ He wanted to be part of the orchestra. He has a real talent for inspiring everyone, and soloists play better with him as a result.”

Renée Fleming said: “Alan Gilbert is a joy to work with. He is an inspiring musician as well as a brilliant, incredibly erudite person, yet somehow completely down-to-earth.”

Pamela Frank said: “My first encounter with Alan was at Juilliard Pre-College. In my second year we shared the first stand, and he led the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony. I will never forget his enthusiasm, conviction, authoritativeness, and total commitment. Even back then, he knew what he wanted!”

Concertmaster Frank Huang said: “As a new father, I’ve come to admire Alan not only as Music Director but also as a great family man. His generosity, kindness, and genuine love for his family are evident in all aspects of his life, both professionally and personally.”

Artists
As Music Director of the New York Philharmonic since 2009, Alan Gilbert has introduced the positions of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, and Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music series; the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, an exploration of today’s music; and the New York Philharmonic Global Academy, partnerships with cultural institutions to offer training of pre-professional musicians, often alongside performance residencies. The Financial Times called him “the imaginative maestro-impresario in residence.”

Alan Gilbert concludes his final season as Music Director with four programs that reflect themes, works, and musicians that hold particular meaning for him, including Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony alongside Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, Wagner’s complete Das Rheingold in concert, and an exploration of how music can effect positive change in the world. Other highlights include three World Premieres, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre, and Manhattan, performed live to film. He also leads the Orchestra on the EUROPE / SPRING 2017 tour and in performance residencies in Shanghai and Santa Barbara. Past highlights include acclaimed stagings of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson (2015 Emmy nomination), and Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake starring Marion Cotillard; 28 World Premieres; a tribute to Boulez and Stucky during the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL; The Nielsen Project; the Verdi Requiem and Bach’s B-minor Mass; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey, performed live to film; Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony on the tenth anniversary of 9/11; performing violin in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time; and ten tours around the world.

Conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and former principal guest conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Alan Gilbert regularly conducts leading orchestras around the world. This season he returns to the foremost European orchestras, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He will record Beethoven’s complete piano concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Inon Barnatan, and conduct Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, his first time leading a staged opera there. He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in 2008, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award, and he conducted Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux étoiles on a recent album recorded live at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Mr. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The Juilliard School, where he holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies. His honors include Honorary Doctor of Music degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music (2010) and Westminster Choir College (2016), Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award (2011), election to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2014), a Foreign Policy Association Medal for his commitment to cultural diplomacy (2015), Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2015), and New York University’s Lewis Rudin Award for Exemplary Service to New York City (2016).

Born in modern-day Lvov, Poland, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. A winner of the Young Concert Artist Award, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Michaels Award, and the Avery Fisher Prize, Mr. Ax is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Always a committed exponent of contemporary composers, with works written for him by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bright Sheng, and Melinda Wagner already in his repertoire, Mr. Ax performed the World Premiere of HK Gruber’s Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic in January 2017, followed in March by the work’s European Premiere with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. Also in the 2016–17 season, Mr. Ax returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chicago, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Toronto, Seattle, Milwaukee, and Detroit symphony orchestras. A Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987, recent releases include Mendelssohn Piano Trios with Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman, Richard Strauss’s Enoch Arden narrated by Patrick Stewart, and discs of music for two pianos by Brahms and Rachmaninoff with Yefim Bronfman. In 2015 Deutsche Grammophon released a duo recording with Itzhak Perlman of violin-and-piano sonatas by Fauré and R. Strauss, which the two artists presented on tour during the 2015–16 season. A frequent and committed chamber music partner, he has worked regularly with such artists as Young Uck Kim, Cho-Liang Lin, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Peter Serkin, Jaime Laredo, and the late Isaac Stern. Mr. Ax holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia Universities. Emanuel Ax served as the Philharmonic’s Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence in the 2012–13 season. In April 2011 he was named an Honorary Member of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York in recognition of his 100th performance with the Orchestra. He made his New York Philharmonic debut in September 1977 performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, conducted by Andrew Davis; he most recently joined the Orchestra for the World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission of HK Gruber’s Piano Concerto, led by Alan Gilbert, in January 2017.

Violinist Lisa Batiashvili, Musical America’s 2015 Instrumentalist of the Year, is this season’s artist-in-residence with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The Germany-based Georgian violinist has developed longstanding relationships with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic (with whom she was the 2014–15 Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence), Berlin Philharmonic, Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Ms. Batiashvili’s 2016–17 season highlights include performances with the Dresden Staatskapelle (with Christian Thielemann and cellist Gautier Capuçon), Los Angeles Philharmonic (Gustavo Dudamel), London Symphony Orchestra (Michael Tilson Thomas), and Chamber Orchestra of Paris (oboist François Leleux). She also performs the World Premiere of Anders Hillborg’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (Sakari Oramo), and later performs it with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Alan Gilbert). As part of her Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra residency, she plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto (Antonio Pappano), Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 (Daniele Gatti), and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 (Vladimir Jurowski). She also spends two weeks as a Bamberg Symphony portrait artist, performing Dvořák’s Violin Concerto (Ingo Metzmacher) as well as J.S. Bach’s and Thierry Escaich’s Concertos for Violin and Oboe with Mr. Leleux (Jakub Hrůša). Chamber music projects include the opening celebration of the Boulez Saal in Berlin and a tribute concert to Alfred Brendel. Ms. Batiashvili records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon; her last album was released in November 2016, featuring Tchaikovsky’s and Sibelius’s Violin Concertos with the Berlin Staatskapelle, led by Daniel Barenboim. Earlier recordings include Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as an album of works by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach featuring, among others, François Leleux and Emmanuel Pahud. Lisa Batiashvili plays a Joseph Guarneri “del Gesu” from 1739. Ms. Batiashvili made her New York Philharmonic debut in March 2005 playing works by Chausson and Saint-Saëns under the baton of Lorin Maazel; she most recently appeared with the Orchestra in September 2016 performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, led by Alan Gilbert.

With a career spanning more than 30 years, soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and conductor Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated violinists of his era. An exclusive Sony Classical artist, he has recorded more than 40 albums garnering Grammy, Mercury, Gramophone, and Echo Klassik awards, and is a recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize. Named music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 2011, he is the first person to hold this post since Neville Marriner formed the orchestra in 1958. His most recent album, For the Love of Brahms, was recorded with cellist Steven Isserlis, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and pianist Jeremy Denk. A dedicated advocate, Mr. Bell participated in President Obama’s inaugural cultural mission to Cuba. As a result, Live From Lincoln Center presented Joshua Bell: Seasons of Cuba, featuring the Chamber Orchestra of Havana and Dave Matthews. Mr. Bell is also a member of Turnaround Arts, a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Mr. Bell’s 2016–17 season includes season-opening appearances with the Atlanta Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras, and performances with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert; Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel; the San Francisco, Seattle, and Montreal symphony orchestras; and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Abroad he performs with the Vienna Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and Czech Philharmonic orchestras. He tours throughout Europe with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and to Asia with the Orchestre de Paris, the latter two conducted by Daniel Harding. He makes recital appearances throughout North America with Alessio Bax, including a stop at Lincoln Center, and with Sam Haywood in a West Coast tour. Mr. Bell also has a week-long February residency in Washington, D.C., serving as 2016–17 artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center and National Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Bell is depicted in the 2013 children’s book The Man with the Violin by Kathy Stinson, illustrated by Dušan Petričić, from Annick Press. As The Man with the Violin, he will perform and collaborate across artistic and educational mediums, exploring synergies between music, dance, the culinary arts, literature, education, and technology. Joshua Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin. Mr. Bell made his New York Philharmonic debut in April 1990 performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, led by Charles Dutoit. He most recently joined the Orchestra in December–January 2016 for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, led by Alan Gilbert.

Pianist Yefim Bronfman works regularly with conductors Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Mariss Jansons, Vladimir Jurowski, James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, and David Zinman. Acknowledging a relationship of more than 30 years, Mr. Bronfman opened the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2016–17 season with Zubin Mehta in October, and participated in that orchestra’s 80th birthday celebrations in December. Mr. Bronfman returns to the New York Philharmonic (where he served as the 2013–14 season Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, and the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, Houston, and Dallas symphony orchestras, among many others. A cross-country series of recitals will culminate in the spring with a program at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium. In Europe he tours extensively in recital and with orchestras in Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Brussels, and Leipzig. Continuing his long-standing partnership with Pinchas Zukerman, the duo will appear in Copenhagen, Milan, Naples, Barcelona, Berlin, and St. Petersburg in March. Mr. Bronfman’s chamber music partners have also included Martha Argerich, Magdalena Kožená, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Emmanuel Pahud, and many others. Mr. Bronfman was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1991, and the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in piano performance from Northwestern University in 2010. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, one of which he won for his recording of the three Bartók Piano Concertos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Esa-Pekka Salonen. He was nominated for a 2013 Grammy for the recording of Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, commissioned for him by the Orchestra. Born in Tashkent in the Soviet Union in 1958, Yefim Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973. He made his New York Philharmonic debut in May 1978 performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto alongside violinist Shlomo Mintz and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, conducted by Alexander Schneider. He will have most recently appeared with the Orchestra in January 2017, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2, led by Semyon Bychkov as part of Beloved Friend — Tchaikovsky and His World: A Philharmonic Festival.

Winner of both the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Avery Fisher Prize, American violinist Pamela Frank has appeared with the Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York Philharmonic orchestras; Chicago, San Francisco, and National symphony orchestras, as well as the Orchestre National de France. As a chamber musician, she works regularly with Peter Serkin, Yo-Yo Ma, and Tabea Zimmermann. She has recorded Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic, Brahms’s violin sonatas with Peter Serkin, Mozart’s complete violin concertos with David Zinman and Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, and a Schubert album and Beethoven’s violin sonata cycle with Claude Frank. A noted pedagogue, Ms. Frank presents master classes and adjudicates major competitions throughout the world. She is also on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, her alma mater, where she studied under Szymon Goldberg and Jaime Laredo. Pamela Frank made her New York Philharmonic debut in October 1994 performing Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, led by Leonard Slatkin; most recently she appeared with the Orchestra in November 1995 performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, led by André Previn.

Frank Huang joined the New York Philharmonic as Concertmaster, The Charles E. Culpeper Chair, in September 2015. The First Prize Winner of the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s Violin Competition and the 2000 Hannover International Violin Competition, he has established a major career as a violin virtuoso. Since performing with the Houston Symphony in a nationally broadcast concert at the age of 11 he has appeared with orchestras throughout the world including The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Hannover, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, and the Genoa Orchestra. He has also performed on NPR’s Performance Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, and CNN’s American Morning with Paula Zahn. He has performed at Wigmore Hall (in London), Salle Cortot (Paris), Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), and the Herbst Theatre (San Francisco), as well as a second recital in Alice Tully Hall (New York), which featured the World Premiere of Donald Martino’s Sonata for Solo Violin. Mr. Huang’s first commercial recording — featuring fantasies by Schubert, Ernst, Schoenberg, and Waxman — was released on Naxos in 2003. He has had great success in competitions since the age of 15 and received top prize awards in the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and the Indianapolis International Violin Competition. Other honors include Gold Medal Awards in the Kingsville International Competition, Irving M. Klein International Competition, and D’Angelo International Competition. In addition to his solo career, Mr. Huang is deeply committed to chamber music. He has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and Caramoor. He frequently participates in Musicians from Marlboro’s tours, and was selected by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to be a member of the prestigious CMS Two program. Before joining the Houston Symphony as concertmaster in 2010, Frank Huang held the position of first violinist of the Grammy Award–winning Ying Quartet and was a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music. He is an alumnus of the Music Academy of the West, now a partner in the New York Philharmonic Global Academy, and now serves on the faculties of The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, also a New York Philharmonic Global Academy partner, and the University of Houston. Mr. Huang made his New York Philharmonic solo debut leading and performing Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, as well as leading Grieg’s The Last Spring in June 2016; most recently, in October–November 2016 he performed Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, led by Pablo Heras-Casado.

Insights at the Atrium Speaker
Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. During his tenure at the magazine, he has written fiction, humor, book reviews, profiles, and reporting from abroad. He was the magazine’s Art Critic from 1987 to 1995, and the Paris Correspondent from 1995 to 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he wrote a journal about New York life, and since then has been working as a miscellaneous essayist. His books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children’s novels, include Paris to the Moon (2000), The King in the Window (2005), Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York (2006), Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009), The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011), and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011). Mr. Gopnik has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism three times, and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In 2013 Mr. Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. He lectures widely, and delivered the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Massey Lectures in 2011. Adam Gopnik lives in New York.

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Tickets
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New York Philharmonic

David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

Thursday, February 23, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor / violin
Emanuel Ax, piano
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Joshua Bell, violin
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Renée Fleming, soprano
Pamela Frank, violin
Frank Huang, violin

J.S. BACH Concerto for Two Violins
BRAHMS Andante — Piu adagio, from Piano Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Allegro con brio, from Piano Concerto No. 3
BRUCH Finale — Allegro energico, from Violin Concerto No. 1
R. STRAUSS “Morgen!”
KORNGOLD “Marietta’s Lied,” from Die tote Stadt
DVOŘÁK / Arr. Kreisler, adapted by T. Batiashvili “Goin’ Home,” from Largo from Symphony No. 9, From the New World
GERSHWIN An American in Paris


INSIGHTS AT THE ATRIUM: “A TOAST TO ALAN GILBERT”

David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 62nd Street)

Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert, speaker

Adam Gopnik, moderator

In his final Insights at the Atrium engagement as Music Director and as he concludes his New York Philharmonic tenure, Alan Gilbert looks back on his eight years leading the Orchestra — the people, projects, and stories.