NY Philharmonic Announces Details Of National Weekly Radio Broadcast

In February 2010, The New York Philharmonic This Week - the two-hour, national, weekly radio program of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin - features four programs led by Music Director Alan Gilbert.

In the first broadcast, from New Year's Eve 2009, Mr. Gilbert conducts Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite; Old American Songs (selections) and selections from Broadway musicals, with baritone Thomas Hampson, the Philharmonic's Artist-in- Residence, as soloist; and Gershwin's An American in Paris. The following week Mr. Gilbert leads the Orchestra in Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Piano Concerto No. 3, with Emanuel Ax as soloist; Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; and Falla's Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat. In the third February broadcast, from a July 24, 2009, performance at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Mr. Gilbert conducts Copland's Old American Songs (selections), with baritone Nathan Gunn as soloist, followed by Mahler's Symphony No. 1. In the final February program, Mr. Gilbert leads the Orchestra in Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn, featuring Principal Oboe Liang Wang, Acting Principal Clarinet Mark Nuccio, Principal Bassoon Judith LeClair, and Principal Horn Philip Myers; the World Premiere of Christopher Rouses's Odna Zhizn; and Mozart's Symphony No. 41, Jupiter.

The New York Philharmonic This Week airs locally in the New York metropolitan area on 105.9 FM WQXR Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. [Check local listings]. The show also airs on XM Satellite Radio's XM Classics Channel XM 110 Wednesdays at 9:00 pm ET. Concerts are available on the Philharmonic's Website, nyphil.org, for two weeks following the broadcast. The broadcasts are produced and syndicated to 295 outlets nationwide by the WFMT Radio Network. Alec Baldwin is the host of the program, New York Philharmonic Audio Director Lawrence Rock is the engineer and music producer,
and WFMT's Mark Travis is the broadcast producer. Attached is a program schedule for February 2010.

The New York Philharmonic's first Live National radio broadcast took place on October 5, 1930, over the CBS radio network. On that Sunday, Erich Kleiber was on the podium leading the Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Since that historic broadcast, the Philharmonic has enjoyed an almost continuous presence on national radio. Advancing its role as a media pioneer, the Philharmonic, since 2002, has shared its radio broadcast with a worldwide audience through its Website, nyphil.org. In 2004, the New York Philharmonic was the first major American orchestra to offer downloadable concerts, recorded live. Following on this innovation, in 2009 the Orchestra announced the firstever subscription download series: Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season, available exclusively on iTunes, produced and distributed by the New York Philharmonic, and comprising more than 50 works performed during the 2009-10 season. The New York Philharmonic This Week is generously underwritten by The Kaplen Foundation, the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Philharmonic's corporate partner, MetLife Foundation.