Since then, musicians have been eagerly performing this real treasure trove of music. We're delighted to welcome to the Carnegie Hall microphones, Alex Laing, who is the principal clarinet of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, and also with the Phoenix Symphony, and is an educator and a speaker around the country. He serves as teaching artist for Aspen Music Festival and the National Youth Orchestras program at Carnegie Hall. The ensemble taking center stage is part of the Gateways music festival, a larger organization dedicated to providing a community and a performance hope for classical musicians of African descent. This is a guy, Jeff, who is having a moment. Berry holds a B.M. I agree with you when I saw the program that had been given to me. I think we're really making some ground today in terms of that piece of it, in terms of, is this a space that celebrates and uplifts Black people, Black culture, not just Black performers. Jeff: Jon Batiste once at the center stage. Founded in 1993, the orchestra brings together classical musicians of African descent from professional orchestras around the nation to share in music making and performance and to promote its philosophy that classical music belongs to all people, and that people of African descent have played an important role in classical music for centuries.. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, making their debut today, taking their place alongside the Clef Club Orchestra and a lot of other great African American musicians in the illustrious history of Carnegie Hall. 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. Okay. I think we rose to the occasion. That was cemented well before I became involved. John: We should also mention Kelly Hall Tompkins, if that's a familiar name to our WQXR listeners, there's a good reason for that. A terrific program today bookended by two sets of variations. I'm sure she wouldn't mind me telling her age. We did that in Rochester also a couple of days ago when we presented this program minus the Batiste work. John: It was wonderful to see you turn and conduct the audience in that final piece as well. Event unsuitable for children. Take care. Right now, the stage door opens and back out to center stage here at Carnegie Hall, strides the conductor Anthony Parnther to lead this first performance at Carnegie Hall of George Walker's Sinfonia No. This concert is part of his perspective series. The Gateways Music Festival, in association with Eastman School of Music, runs from Tuesday, August 6 through Sunday, August 11. Jeff: If you can see it, you can be it, is the expression. I believe she's 84-85 years old. 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. Exhausting, but exciting. this new work also is credit offered in the program to orchestrator Matt Wong. It's an incredibly exciting week for all of us. The Brahms to begin, and then the Variations on "Lift Every Voice and Sing" to conclude and in between, four works by four composers of African descent that even if they weren't world premieres like Jon Batiste's work, were the first time they were being heard on the Carnegie Hall stage. For a complete listing of Gateways events, repertoire and artists plus ticket purchase information, visit the Gateways web site at: www.gatewaysmusicfestival.org. 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. We are about to hear this performance of the, , music by Johannes Brahms based on a theme that probably wasn't actually written by Haydn. HATCH RECITAL HALLEastman School of Music433 East Main StreetRochester, New York. In addition to this, the festival includes 27 performances this week, chamber music, lectures, a screening of a film, panel discussions. GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL, INC.26 Gibbs Street, Box 58Rochester, NY 14604, info@gatewaysmusicfestival.org(585) 274-1170, Watch "Inspiring Through the Power of Performance". Tweet Save . Jeff: -for Soul, the Pixar film, and has also just won five Grammys, including Record of the Year at the most recent Grammy Awards just a few weeks ago. The Gateways Music Festival is getting ready for its Carnegie Hall debut. Jeff: Congratulations to you, Anthony Parnther, and to the Gateways Music Festival at an amazing week in New York in an amazing combination of this concert. The festival has just grown and grown and grown since 1993, from that vision. Gateways Music Festival is grateful to the following institutions for their generous support and belief in Gateways important mission. Anthony: -on stage, certainly, but certainly I think this was the best possible opportunity to have my first outing with this great orchestra on this great occasion. The project sought to, " . Experience the rich sounds of the @gateways_music orchestra on Wednesday, April 20 at @EastmanTheatre for free. GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAMichael Morgan, ConductorKodak Hall at Eastman Theatre60 Gibbs StreetSunday, August 1816, 201320154:00 p.m.Master of Ceremon. 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. Orchestra, Simfnica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Jacaranda - Music at the Edge, Hear Now Music Festival, Pittsburgh Microtonal Festival, Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, BrightworkNewMusic, and the World Opera Forum in Madrid, Spain. Gateways Music Festival is thrilled to announce that renowned Hollywood and symphony orchestra conductor Anthony Parnther will lead the Gateways Orchestra for its concerts in Rochester, NY and New York City, including the Orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut! I'm sure she wouldn't mind me telling her age. Anthony: I just thought that it was so beautifully executed. As long as we stick to that principle, I think that's the vision. We are going to hear the world premiere of. John: And serves on the board of directors in this orchestra. 2023 New York Public Radio That'll be the next work on the program. 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. Now we're so pleased to welcome to the Carnegie Hall microphones, Maestro Anthony Parnther. There are parts that are written out, and then, there are parts that he will improvise. Anthony: Lift Every Voice and Sing. His answer was, "I felt that Carnegie Hall, that places like that were not meant for people who looked like me and it was important to make that step and to be seen on that stage. LEARN MORE Become a GFO Volunteer Help us serve the St. Louis community LEARN MORE Our Story It began on a barge in the Mississippi. It was 110 years ago. PO Box . Jeff: Now, all the orchestra on its feet and with Maestro Parnther bow to this Carnegie audience this afternoon. It's a beautiful moment. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut Sunday, April 24, the final day of the weeklong Gateways Music Festival in association with the University of Rochesters Eastman School of Music. Favorites More Music Features Yes. Bless the Michael Morgan. I wrote this poem in the summer of 2020. Jeff: From Carnegie Hall Live, the Symphony No. It's a real challenge for us to in very limited rehearsal time with a lot of events going on simultaneously put together especially a program of this difficulty and variety together and lightning fast. It's thought to be an old Pilgrim chant known as, , but under any name, a virtuoso showpiece for the orchestra. Anthony has restored and performed orchestral works by Florence Price, Zenobia Powell Perry, Margaret Bonds, William Grant Still, Duke Ellington, and Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Another curtain call for Conductor Anthony Parnther. Anthony: Exactly. KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE26 Gibbs StreetRochester, New York. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, most of them at least are leaving the stage. We exist outside of space, time or this place." He . We don't actually have a complete score for the second. John: Well, Jon Batiste had a little church meeting going when he was reading his poem before the premiere of "I can.". I think that's really a significant thing that's happening right now in real-time. Alex Laing, the principal clarinet of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, also serves on their board of directors. I wonder if in working with them now if any vision has occurred to you? How was putting that piece together because it was put together pretty much in New York, I think? Although certainly, his most famous piece is the Lyric for Strings. 3 Batiste: I Can (world premiere) Florence Price: Symphony No. We principally had one and a half days to piece this work together. 224. What was the idea there? Recent guest. That annual festival, which features classical musicians of African descent, will include a performance this coming. That is as Lee Koonce told us again and again, that's one of the most important things that's happening here this afternoon. General Admission. John: 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. Congratulations. Jeff: Now, you, as a very busy conductor on sound stages in Hollywood, are accustomed to looking at a score and getting the musicians all organized and playing it. It would come up. This is the intermission of this concert, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. Apr 21 2022. Jeff: Oh, it was a wonderful variety of sounds as you say, and a really wonderful performance. 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. WQXR is a proud media partner of the Gateways Music Festival 1,198 views Apr 19, 2022 On April 24, 2022, at 3pm WQXR is proud to present a live broadcast of the Gateways Music Festival. Black musicians and composers across the nation are prepared for virtual events. The film screening and lecture are both free and open to the public, but tickets are required. They're leaving the stage for a few minutes, but we have managed to grab one of them by the coattail as he walks by. Before I'd conceived this piece, I had this poem, and it just kept resurfacing in my subconscious. Founded in 1993, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra celebrates the contributions of classical musicians of African descent, bringing together professionals from leading orchestras across the country to perform and inspire communities through the power of music. General Admission. Since 1995, Gateways Music Festival has brought together professional classical musicians of African descent in Rochester, NY to both celebrate the contributions and increase the visibility of. Next performances this artist is scheduled to appear at: This artist has no upcoming performances - yet! I would love to see this orchestra record especially literature that has been under-recorded or not recorded at all by underrepresented composers. You can hear that the audience, again, willing to go there and applaud each of the musicians as they stand. That was my first Gateways. Female Speaker 2: Your tickets, please. Enjoy the rest of your brief intermission. Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music announced on Dec 7th that Anthony Parnther will lead the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra at its eagerly anticipated performances at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre (April 20) and the Orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut (April 24).Known for his "charismatic, captivating conducting" (Los Angeles Times), Parnther takes the . As you know, you're moving an orchestra or a music festival across a giant state like this is a big effort. I'm from the South, and I'm from the Baptist Church tradition, and. From August 6 through 11, 2019, 125 professional classical musicians of African descent are invited to Rochester, NY from across the . I think the possibility of spontaneity is what makes this particular live performance so deeply engaging and organic for everybody involved including the audience. This concert features Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Florence Prices Symphony No. One of which is to support musicians of African descent who are isolated even in the ensembles in which they play as happens in other kinds of workplaces in the world, but also looking out at, as you said, the audience members who haven't found that Carnegie Hall is for them as well. The festival has just grown and grown and grown since 1993, from that vision. To come to a place where there are folks who've had a shared life experience, it's extraordinary for them. The Brahms is a set of variations that are primarily based on toying around with the melody, but Walker toys around with interval and rhythm in a very particular way with a much more sense of harmony. Gateways Orchestra concert, 4:00 p.m. at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre on Sunday, August 11, $15 for adults, $10 for students and senior citizens with ID, and free for youth under 18. In May of 1912 at Carnegie Hall, where the stage welcomed a large ensemble of African American musicians, the Clef Club Symphony Orchestra. Featuring Johannes Brahmss Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B-flat Major, Op. That feels like the two-fold idea of Gateways too. She created Gateways. I think it's really interesting, Alex, that this idea that-- Representation, of course, is important, but this idea of the narrative of classical music is beyond race, is something universal. Kelly Hall Tompkins, the concertmaster giving the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra a chance to retune after that Brahms opening. I'd love to see this orchestra personally go on tour so that audiences outside of New York State have the privilege of witnessing the power and beauty of such a special ensemble. Gateways Music Festival is grateful to the following institutions, foundations and governmental agencies for their generous support of the 2022 Gateways Music Festival. A great big deep bow and a warm welcome to this Carnegie Hall audience. [crosstalk]. 3; Florence B. Prices Symphony No. Enjoy the show. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. You'll find lots of stuff on the wqxr.org website that Kelly was involved with during her time with the APL. The concerts are free to attend. Over the course of each six-day festival, the musicians give a full orchestral . As you noticed, the audience responded in-hand to what they saw visual and it was just another extra element of all of these people on stage celebrating our heritage. We'll hear the third of her symphonies this afternoon, which was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project. Jeff: Now, we spoke with Lee Koonce, who is the president and artistic director of the Gateways Music Festival, whom we had a chance just to say what Jon Batiste's piece that he had heard, and what we could expect. Then we'll proceed into the piece, From Carnegie Hall Live, the world premiere of. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2022 | 7:30 PM The 120-member Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, whose distinguished players hail from the nation's foremost orchestras and conservatory faculties, is renowned for its bold sound, exciting interpretations and uncompromising pursuit of artistic excellence. 56a; George Walkers Sinfonia No. It takes active participation to do that. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster) is sacred to my community. Does that resonate with you? We're delighted to welcome to the Carnegie Hall microphones, Alex Laing, who is the principal clarinet of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, and also with the Phoenix Symphony, and is an educator and a speaker around the country. CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS National Youth Orchestra of the United States of . We have made 400 complimentary tickets available, and you can reserve yours at the link below with promo code RACF50. We are going to hear the world premiere of I Can. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. It's a world premiere. This program has an almost built-in encore, which is a work by James V. Cockerham Fantasia on, Conductor Anthony Parnther goes on stage, to conduct the final work on this program, the Fantasia on. 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. . 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