The first New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert (YPC) of the 2009-10 season will take place Saturday, November 7, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. Led by Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Daniel Boico, the concert will explore Britten's popular Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra as a way for youngsters, 6 to 12 years of age, to learn about the instruments of the orchestra. The concert will also include selections from Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, and Copland's Appalachian Spring, and will be hosted by Philharmonic Director of Education Theodore Wiprud, and written and directed by Tom Dulack. The theme of this season's YPCs is "Points of Entry," which will explore how music is created and how the Orchestra brings great works to life. This year, for the first time, subscribers to the four YPC concerts will receive a CD of all the "Points of Entry" works being played this season.
All YPC concerts are preceded by Kidzone Live!, an interactive music fair - where children try out instruments and hear musicians perform - on the Grand Promenade and upper tiers of Avery Fisher Hall, at 12:45 p.m. Upcoming this season on the YPCs are "Points of Entry: Claude Debussy's La Mer" (December 12, 2009); "Points of Entry: Magnus Lindberg's Feria" (March 6, 2010); and "Points of Entry: Mozart's Symphony No. 41, Jupiter" (March 27, 2010).Artists
Daniel Boico, the newly appointed New York Philharmonic Assistant Conductor, will lead all of the Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts in the 2009-10 season. Mr. Boico made his New York Philharmonic debut on January 23, 2009, conducting an Inside the Music program, and will conduct "The Concert to End Polio" on December 2, 2009, with the New York Philharmonic and violinist Itzhak Perlman.
Tom Dulack is an award-winning playwright and director best known for his comedy, Breaking Legs, and the tragic study of American poet Ezra Pound in captivity, Incommunicado. This is his fifth season writing and staging the Young People's Concerts for the New York Philharmonic. His plays are presented on- and Off- Broadway in leading regional theaters around the country, and are translated into foreign languages around the world. They include Solomon's Child, Diminished Capacity, York Beach, Just Deserts (cq), 1348, Shooting Craps, and Friends Like These. Notable directors and playwrights with whom he has collaborated are Jack O'Brien, Alan Ayckbourn, Chris Hart, and John Tillinger. His five books include the novel The Stigmata of Dr. Constantine, and the theater memoir, In Love With Shakespeare. He is currently writing a new play, and is working on the libretto of a one-act opera based on Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess." A member of the Dramatists Guild and The Writers Guild of America, he also is professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he teaches Shakespeare and playwriting on the Waterbury Campus.
Subscription tickets for the Young People's Concerts are $40 to $124; individual tickets are $11 to $33. All tickets include admission to Kidzone Live! Tickets may be purchased online at nyphil.org or by calling (212) 875-5656, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily. Tickets may also be purchased at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office or the AlIce Tully Hall Box Office at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 65th Street. The Box Office opens at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at noon on Sunday. On performance evenings, the Box Office closes one-half hour after performance time; other evenings it closes at 6:00 p.m. To determine ticket availability, call the Philharmonic's Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656. [Ticket prices subject to change.]Videos