You can hear that the audience, again, willing to go there and applaud each of the musicians as they stand. We talked on Friday with Lee Koonce, the festival's president, and artistic director about exactly who it was, who started this whole Gateways thing, and what her vision has led to. Dmitri Berlinsky Dmitri Berlinsky is professor of violin and artist teacher at the MSU College of Music. For 30 years, Gateway Music Festivals & Tours has led the music tour industry with seamless performance tours for choirs, orchestras, concert bands, jazz bands and marching bands. Jeff: That composition is also being given its first hearing in Carnegie Hall in this performance. The festival originated in Winston-Salem and then moved with our founder, Armenta Hummings Dumisani to Eastman where she was on faculty. Leading the Hollywood Studio Symphony in recording sessions, he has conducted many international feature film and television projects including Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Tenet, Little, American Dad, The Hunt, Fargo, The Way Back, The Night Of, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Encanto, Star Wars: Book of Boba Fett, and Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild. This performance is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. I thought you were going to say George Gershwin because what strikes me is the similarity to the, -did not have fully finished at the time of the world premiere, and famously in the written score for the conductor, wrote the words, "Wait for a nod.". I think that them being together, there's something that happens to the air when they're all together because it is such an experience for them to be together and then to play great music at a high level, it's extraordinary. Jeff: Music of Johannes Brahms begins this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra in their Carnegie Hall debut. She's a person that no one really says no to. This is Carnegie Hall Live. Three-movement work played by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra in their Carnegie Hall debut from Carnegie Hall Live. He serves as teaching artist for Aspen Music Festival and the National Youth Orchestras program at Carnegie Hall. Jeff: He's having so many moments at one time, yes. Maestro Anthony Parnther dari "Star Wars" dalam debut Carnegie Hall bersama All Orchestra. . Paul J. Burgett Lecture SeriesBlack Idioms in the Music of Florence B. She created Gateways. The performance was the first by an all-Black classical symphony orchestra in Carnegie Hall's history. A drum kit as well will be called for in this next piece by Jon Batiste, who is a Perspectives artist here at Carnegie Hall, which means he gets to oversee a whole series of events during this 2021-22 season. Here are your tickets. The panel discussion is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. A terrific program today bookended by two sets of variations. I just thought that it was so beautifully executed. On Sunday April 24 at 3:00PM, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestracomprised entirely of professional classical musicians of African descentmakes their highly anticipated Carnegie Hall debut . This concert features Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Florence Prices Symphony No. The chairs can be adjusted and the Brahms piano can be pushed out. Gateways Music Festival | Rochester NY All Rights Reserved. This place for musicians is key and essential and critical to the mission because most of our players work in environments where there are very, very, very few people, if any, who look like them. Well, Jon Batiste had a little church meeting going when he was reading his poem before the premiere of ". John Schaefer: It's a big event for the members of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra coming down to Carnegie Hall from their home in Rochester, in upstate New York. We understand its importance, so that's really significant. 560 Music Center. I believe she's 84-85 years old. Lee: I think it is very much Jon. I suppose that Gateways is a little bit like that too because you don't get together very often. Jeff: Now on stage, Conductor Anthony Parnther, ready to lead the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra and the Symphony No.3 of American composer, Florence Price. Black musicians and composers across the nation are prepared for virtual events. For a complete listing of Gateways events, repertoire and artists plus ticket purchase information, visit the Gateways web site at: www.gatewaysmusicfestival.org. is sacred to my community. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut this month led by Anthony Parnther . 3 in C Minor, James Cockerhams Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing and the world premiere of a work for narrator and orchestra by Oscar-winning, GRAMMY-nominated Jon Batiste, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The African cloth comes out and no two people look exactly the same. THE COOPER UNIONFrederick P. Rose Auditorium41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue at East 7th Street) New York, NY 10003. Alex: The role this hall plays in this music is understood by all. Because of limited seating capacity in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, we urge you to get your tickets as soon as possible. Gateways For: STUDENTS ; FACULTY & STAFF; ALUMNI; PARENTS I should have asked you that before this began, but I'll lay it on you anyway. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster), downloading the latest version of Internet Explorer, Gateways Music Festival Orchestra makes Carnegie debut, Fantastic Rochester undergraduate research highlighted at annual expo, How to get a job after college: 5 tips for juniors and seniors. In Wynton Marsalis's re-imagining, A Fiddler's Tale, he takes Stravinsky's early jazz ingredients even further, melding jazz and classical idioms together with an updated narrative. , the name of that piece. To many Black musicians, the Gateways Music Festival represents a welcome haven from the isolation many face in their working lives. The concert features Jon Batiste, who just won five Grammys at this year's ceremony, including the highly-coveted title, "Album of the Year". Tags: diversity, Eastman School of Music, Gateways Music Festival, performing arts, The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut on Sunday afternoon, April 24, with conductor Anthony Parnther (far right) and Grammy Award-winning pianist Jon Batiste (in gold). . We purposely did not do it in Rochester because we wanted this to be the world premiere. I think the possibility of spontaneity is what makes this particular live performance so deeply engaging and organic for everybody involved including the audience. Only one ticket is required for both the film screening and the lecture. I think also really significant for us is this is the first time that the orchestra or the festival has toured, has branched out of being in one place. For his work with Chicago Sinfonietta leading the premiere of Joel Thompson's "breathe/burn: an elegy" for cello and orchestra, the Chicago Tribune praised "Clark . Last week I spoke to Carl Craig, who is one of the pioneers of the second wave of Detroit techno, who played here as part of Carnegie's Afrofuturism festival. It's complex because each section has so many different contrasting qualities. GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL, INC.26 Gibbs Street, Box 58Rochester, NY 14604, info@gatewaysmusicfestival.org(585) 274-1170, Watch "Inspiring Through the Power of Performance". John Schaefer's here as well. I think that's really a significant thing that's happening right now in real-time. John: And serves on the board of directors in this orchestra. What's making the occasion even bigger is that they will be presenting a world premiere, a piece so new, the ink has barely dried on it. Then we'll proceed into the piece, I Can. share this message of hope and healing to inspire communities throughout the world and affirm our unity." For 27 years . Thank you, gentlemen. It's this kind of dual mission. You have to make it true. Alex: This music we call classical likes to drape itself in narratives of universality and likes to position itself as being aracial and reflecting some universal culture. This April, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, comprised entirely of classical musicians of African descent, presents events around NYC, culminating with its eagerly anticipated Carnegie Hall debut on April 24. John: In fact, the third movement is called Juba, which is a type of body percussion and dance that was widely found in musical traditions of enslaved Afro-Caribbean people. Congratulations. Jeff: Conductor Anthony Parnther goes on stage, to conduct the final work on this program, the Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing by James V. Cockerham in this initial performance of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, a performance you'll hear from Carnegie Hall Live. Now we're so pleased to welcome to the Carnegie Hall microphones, Maestro Anthony Parnther. "Oh, well this is classical music. Jeff: From Carnegie Hall Live, the world premiere of I Can, composed by Jon Batiste and performed by him at piano and the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, making its Carnegie Hall debut in this concert under the direction of conductor Anthony Parnther. World premiere, so a song and a kind of sweet for piano into orchestra all in one extraordinarily well-received performance here on the main stage at Carnegie Hall. It was wonderful to see you turn and conduct the audience in that final piece as well. It is his voice. Conductor Anthony Parnther led this orchestra, all musicians of African descent, and. It is his heart. Jeff: From Carnegie Hall Live, the Symphony No. I can play jazz, but I can also play Beethoven.'" We know that it is, and that's what we're doing. The concert concludes with James V. Cockerhams Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing, a rousing and epic musical journey from Africa to the new world which has become the signature piece of the Gateways Orchestra. I asked him what was it like to be at Carnegie Hall. Free, but tickets are required.. Alcohol served. The orchestra comes together and you just dig into the music. She is deeply grateful for the many . In May of 1912 at Carnegie Hall, where the stage welcomed a large ensemble of African American musicians, the Clef Club Symphony Orchestra. Oh, it was a wonderful variety of sounds as you say, and a really wonderful performance. John: I want to come back to Jeff's first question to you, which was about the significance of being here. The Orchestra made its stunning Carnegie Hall debut on April 24, 2022 as the first all-Black orchestra to be presented by the famed venue. Also particularly looking at it from the context of American orchestras. Gateways Music Festival is grateful to the following institutions for their generous support and belief in Gateways important mission. The Gateways Music Festival is getting a substantial grant to continue its mission of supporting classical musicians of African descent. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra are set to perform at Carnegie Hall on April 24th, 2022, making them the first all-Black orchestra to do so in the renowned venue's 130-year history. My good friend Titus Underwood likes to often post the question to American orchestras, "Are we American orchestras or are we European approximations?" We have made 400 complimentary tickets available, and you can reserve yours at the link below with promo code RACF50. PO Box . John: As Jon Batiste's piece just showed. Enjoy the rest of your brief intermission. Price, Corey Hunter, PhD*General admission. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra was founded in 1993 by prominent pianist and educator Armenta Adams Dumisani. We exist outside of space, time or this place." When I got the call to be part of this momentous occasion tonight and the request was to write a piece that was inspired by a written word, this felt very apt. John: We are about to hear this performance of the The Variations on a Theme by Haydn, music by Johannes Brahms based on a theme that probably wasn't actually written by Haydn. There is an improvisatory element to it. John: Their conductor back out on stage, pointing out the different sections of the orchestra, thanking them for their performance on this program, and asking members of the ensemble to rise. Applause is for Anthony Parnther now taking center stage here at Carnegie Hall, and beginning this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra with this work by Brahms, his variations on a Theme by Haydn. 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