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New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve: Hampson, Gershwin, Copland & Broadway

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 @ 6:00PM, 9:00PM & 11:00PM

A tradition almost as venerable as Live From Lincoln Center itself is our live coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s annual New Year’s Eve concert. The next installment in that tradition will take place on Thursday evening, December 31, when once again our cameras and microphones will be in place in Avery Fisher Hall to bring you the drama and excitement of the first Philharmonic New Year’s Eve concert to be conducted by the orchestra’s new Music Director, Alan Gilbert.

Maestro Gilbert is only the second American-born conductor to head the Philharmonic (the first was Leonard Bernstein), and quite appropriately he has chosen a program made up entirely of music by American composers. The Philharmonic will play two seminal works in the American orchestral repertory: the Suite from Aaron Copland’s ballet “Appalachian Spring” and George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris.” They will be joined by the newly-appointed first Artist-in-Residence of the orchestra, the great American baritone, Thomas Hampson, who will sing a group of Copland’s settings of Old American Songs along with a collection of some of the greatest songs by Cole Porter.
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