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New York Phil が9.11無料メモリアル・コンサート [音楽時評]

アラン・ギルバート指揮,Solist;ツインマーマン(vn)という7月18日の都響スペシャル・コンサートに出かけたのは出かけたのですが,外来演奏者なのでてっきり19時開演と思い込んでいて,せっかく行ったのに空振りになってしまいました.                                         たいへん落ち込んでしまったのですが,New York Philharmonic が9月10日に,アメリカ,ニューヨークの悲劇9.11を記念して無料コンサートをやるという少し古い記事を見つけましたので,ご紹介しておきます.

                                                               New York Phil は例年夏にはセントラル・パークや他の区のパークで無料コンサートをやっていたのですが,9.11 のイベントは,これらの代わりにやるようです.別に,テノールのAndrea Bocelli plans a free concert in Central Park on Sept. 15.  とあります.                         夏の無料コンサートはNew York 市の補助事業でしたから,9.11 コンサートをどう位置づけるかは,未だ決まっていないようです.

なお,9.11無料コンサートは,公園ではなく Lincoln Center のAvery Fisher Hallで開催され,演目はマーラーの「復活」がプログラム化されています.

日本でも,夏にこうした無料コンサートが大都市各地でで開かれると良いですね. 

あとは,どうぞ御自由にご渉猟下さい.                    

Philharmonic Announces Free Concert to Mark 9/11

The New York Philharmonic said on Monday that it would give a special memorial concert to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks: a free performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection,” at Avery Fisher Hall.

The tenor Andrea Bocelli plans a free concert in Central Park on Sept. 15.

One of the first major 9/11 cultural remembrances announced so far, the concert will be broadcast live on the radio and projected on a screen in Lincoln Center’s plaza. It will actually take place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10, and be rebroadcast on PBS the next evening.

Philharmonic officials described the concert as a gift to the city, but they also acknowledged that the planning for it, as well as a decision to perform on Sept. 15 in Central Park with the tenor Andrea Bocelli, had contributed to the absence this summer of the orchestra’s traditional, beloved concerts in the parks, which normally take place in mid-July.

“For me the most important element was not the parks, but to do something on the 10th of September,” Zarin Mehta, the orchestra’s president and chief executive, said. “That was the most important gesture.”

The Philharmonic had originally envisioned a 9/11 commemorative concert on the Great Lawn of Central Park and had planned to accompany it with parks concerts in other boroughs during the days before, according to Mr. Mehta. Discussions with the Parks Department began more than a year ago, he said. The orchestra players had been scheduled for vacation that week, so to make up for the lost days, management gave them the week of July 11 off — when the parks concerts would have taken place.

Then last fall brought an offer from Mr. Bocelli and his backers, which include the Barilla pasta company and Decca Records. The Philharmonic agreed to accompany him and guest artists — for an undisclosed fee — in a free Great Lawn concert that will be broadcast by PBS and turned into a CD and DVD. A large stage and giant screens are envisioned. The orchestra’s music director, Alan Gilbert, will conduct. The concert has a Web site, bocellicentralpark.com.

“I didn’t think there was a conflict,” Mr. Mehta said. “One was on the 10th, and one was on the 15th” of September. “At that stage, the enormity of the Bocelli production was not known,” he said. The Bocelli concert made “good economic sense” for the Philharmonic, he also said.

But early this year, Mr. Mehta said, the Parks Department and the Central Park Conservancy told the orchestra that both events would be too damaging to the lawn. So Mr. Mehta moved the 9/11 concert to Avery Fisher.

He said he decided not to send the orchestra to the other boroughs in the week before Sept. 10 without an anchor concert in Central Park. “Without Central Park, I can’t afford to do the other boroughs,” Mr. Mehta said.

Most of the money to pay for the parks concerts comes from Didi and Oscar Schafer, patrons who donated $5 million for five years of the program, starting in 2008. Mr. Mehta said the money saved by not giving parks concerts this summer would be used to extend the financing for another year, to 2013.

The orchestra said more than 14 million people have attended the concerts since 1965. The Schafers are contributing toward the 9/11 performance, along with Alec Baldwin, a Philharmonic board member; the board member Antonio Quintella and his wife, Gabriela; and Credit Suisse.

The Metropolitan Opera began performing operas in the parks in 1967 but stopped in 2008 to save money, presenting recitals instead.

The Philharmonic had previously announced that orchestra vacation changes because of September events, including the Bocelli concert and a make-up concert at Avery Fisher of William Walton’s music from the movie “Henry V,” narrated by Christopher Plummer on Sept. 17, would preclude the regular parks concerts, a move that provoked critical reaction. The Daily News said in an editorial that New Yorkers were being deprived. The Brooklyn Philharmonic, which has performed little as an orchestra the past few seasons because of lack of money, issued an open letter offering its services.

Mr. Mehta sounded perturbed that attention was being focused on the lack of parks concerts rather than on the memorial concert. “This is something we tried to do rather special for New York and all over the world,” he said, “and in the end we’re being criticized for not doing parks concerts.”

Not only that, he said, but the parks hiatus was also only for one year; the Philharmonic was still giving a free concert in Central Park; and the memorial concert was also free and would be broadcast in the plaza for all to see.

“I don’t think we should be criticized for something which was largely not of our making,” he said. “Nobody here is happy about the fact there will be no concerts in the boroughs.”

The Philharmonic also said on Monday that it would present performances on Sept. 7 and 8 of Leonard Bernstein’s score to “West Side Story” during screenings of the movie at Avery Fisher.

One question that remained was the fate of city money that the orchestra receives every year to support the parks concerts. Mr. Mehta said orchestra and city officials were discussing the matter.

The Philharmonic said the soprano Dorothea Röschmann and the mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung would sing the solo roles in the Mahler at the memorial concert.


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