PDFROB | Program Notes | 13 Digital Pages |

Table of Contents

1. Title Photograph of Conductor & Orchestra pg. 1
2. Reviews & Order of Performances pg. 2
3. Photograph of NYP Concertmistress & Conductors pg. 3
4. Notes On The Program pg. 4-7
5. New York Philharmonic Personnel List (2014-2015) pg. 8
6. The Artists pg. 9
7. The Music Director Alan Gilbert pg. 10-12
8. Photograph of Conductor Alan Gilbert in Performance pg. 13

Executive Producer: Vince Ford
Producers: Lawrence Rock and Mark Travis
Recording and Mastering Engineer: Lawrence Rock
Photos of Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: Chris Lee
Stravinsky's Firebird suite courtesy Edwin F. Kalmus & Co.
Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin Suite courtesy Universal Edition
Instruments made possible, in part, by The Richard S. and Karen LeFrak Endowment Fund.
Steinway is the Official Piano of the New York Philharmonic and Avery Fisher Hall. |

In January 2014 David Robertson assumed the
post of chief conductor and artistic director of
the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Australia,
and in the fall he launched his tenth season
as music director of the 135-year-old St. Louis
Symphony. To celebrate his decade-long tenure
with the St. Louis Symphony, throughout
2014–15 Mr. Robertson is showcasing 50 of the
orchestra’s musicians in solo or solo ensemble
performances. Other highlights include a
concert performance of Verdi’s Aida featuring
video enhancements by S. Katy Tucker (one
of a series of such collaborations during the
season), and a return to Carnegie Hall with a
program that features the music of Meredith
Monk, the season’s holder of Carnegie’s Richard
and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair. In the
2013–14 season Mr. Robertson led the St. Louis
Symphony at Carnegie Hall in Britten’s Peter
Grimes (as part of Britten’s centennial) that The
New York Times’s Anthony Tommasini selected
as one of the most memorable concerts of the
year. In the spring Nonesuch Records released
a disc of the orchestra’s performances of two
works by John Adams: City Noir and the Concerto
for Saxophone.
In his inaugural year with the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra he led that ensemble
in a seven-city tour of China in June 2014.
He also led the summer 2014 U.S. tour of the
National Youth Orchestra of the United States
of America, a project of Carnegie Hall’s Weill
Music Institute, in cities including Boston
and Chicago, culminating in a concert at Los
Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. In the fall
of 2014 Mr. Robertson conducted The Metropolitan
Opera premiere of John Adams’s The
Death of Klinghoffer, and he appeared with
Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
and Orchestre national de France, among
others. In past seasons he has appeared
nationally with the New York and Los Angeles
Philharmonic orchestras, Boston and Chicago
Symphony Orchestras, and The Philadelphia
and Cleveland Orchestras, as well as internationally
with the Berlin Philharmonic, Dresden
Staatskapelle, BBC Symphony Orchestra,
and Hong Kong Philharmonic, among others. |

Recorded live January 28–31, 2015
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts |

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