The final . 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. Enjoy the rest of your brief intermission. Black Lives Matter. Our mentor's other vision was that the Black community in particular, all communities but the Black community needs to see people of African descent up on the stage playing this music and it's about representation. 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. Since then, musicians have been eagerly performing this real treasure trove of music. 3 in C Minor and James V. Cockerhams Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing. Bless the Michael Morgan. A A. as the work's known the music of Johannes Brahms. As long as we stick to that principle, I think that's the vision. Anthony: I just thought that it was so beautifully executed. Proof of vaccination is required to enter Carnegie Hall and masks must be worn inside at all times. I just feel that as musicians, our first responsibility is to come together and create beauty. The conclusion of seven days of performances in New York City. The Festival was initially scheduled for this November, with a Rochester kick-off, but was rescheduled to next Spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. 7 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage Read More Saturday. John: Our thanks to Clive Gillinson and the staff at Carnegie Hall, the WQXR recording crew, Edward Haber, George Wellington, Irene Trudel, Duke Marcos, and our production team. Enjoy the show. The concert features Jon Batiste, who just won five Grammys at this year's ceremony, including the highly-coveted title, "Album of the Year". Now, Batiste on his feet, really not moving away from the piano, receiving the applause from this audience and passing it on to all the members of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, and a deep bow from everyone on the stage. degrees in piano performance from Juilliard. There's a great degree to which American orchestras and American so-called classic music generally has really kept its most powerful legacy at arm's length, which is the music of Black people and Black Americans. That's an unfair question. That was our mentor's vision. Because of limited seating capacity in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, we urge you to get your tickets as soon as possible. Jon Batiste & the Gateways Festival Orchestra. Lauren Purcell Joiner, Christine Herskovits, Eileen Delahunty, and Max Fine. 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. All right. The Brahms to begin, and then the Variations on ". " The Orchestra made its stunning Carnegie Hall debut on April 24, 2022 as the first all-Black orchestra to be presented by the . Best known popularly in the world these days is the music director for. Apr 21 2022. 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. Female Speaker: Okay. She's never taken medication. 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, Music of Johannes Brahms begins this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra in their Carnegie Hall debut. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from Carnegie Hall Live. Paul J. Burgett Lecture SeriesBlack Idioms in the Music of Florence B. Price, Corey Hunter, PhD*General admission. To many Black musicians, the Gateways Music Festival represents a welcome haven from the isolation many face in their working lives. It's thought to be an old Pilgrim chant known as Saint Anthony's Chorale, but under any name, a virtuoso showpiece for the orchestra. There is an improvisatory element to it. 3 Batiste: I Can (world premiere) Florence Price: Symphony No. This artist has also appeared with: This artist not appeared with any other performers that we know of. A critically acclaimed series . This concert is in fact part of his Perspectives series, but today's premier. Gateways Music Festival is grateful to the following institutions, foundations and governmental agencies for their generous support of the 2022 Gateways Music Festival. You've been in the Gateways Orchestra since the start. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is a 125+ member ensemble of musicians of African descent under the leadership of conductor Anthony Parnther. Congratulations. The mission of Gateways Music Festival is to connect and support professional classical musicians of African descent and enlighten and inspire communities through the power of performance. In May 2016, Gateways Music Festival formally affiliated with the Eastman School of Music, a festival partner since 1995, but remains an independent non-profit organization. Development of the Orchestra, Music Appreciation, Bio-Musicology and Music Theory. He is a resident member of the Jacksonville-based Ritz Chamber Players, The Harlem Chamber Players, Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, and innovative chamber music theater group the Core Ensemble. Before everyone dressed all in black, second half, everybody has a splash of color. Before I'd conceived this piece, I had this poem, and it just kept resurfacing in my subconscious. this new work also is credit offered in the program to orchestrator Matt Wong. A terrific program today bookended by two sets of variations. Enjoy the show. We'll hear her Symphony No.3, one of more than 300 compositions of hers, symphonies, concerto, chamber music, and choral music, most of which were lost for decades. My good friend Titus Underwood likes to often post the question to American orchestras, "Are we American orchestras or are we European approximations?" . Kelly Hall Tompkins, the concertmaster giving the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra a chance to retune after that Brahms opening. General Admission. Anthony Parnther | Photo by Konstantin Golovchinsky. You've been in the Gateways Orchestra since the start. People come to, I think, to concerts halls, not only to hear music but also to be affirmed culturally in their selves. Anthony studied music performance at Northwestern University and continued his musical studies at Yale University where he studied orchestral conducting with Lawrence Leighton Smith and Otto Werner Mueller. That's available to everyone. It's an ensemble made up entirely of classical musicians of African descent, from orchestras around the country. There is an improvisatory element to it. She's a person that no one really says no to. It's a real honor to be here with all of you and in my inaugural. She's never taken medication. 224. I suppose that Gateways is a little bit like that too because you don't get together very often. What does it mean to this orchestra? The Gateways Music Festival is getting ready for its Carnegie Hall debut. I'll share it with you now. He was known for his warm spirit and as a visionary behind the Gateways Music Festival, an event celebrating classical musicians of African descent. 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. We did that in Rochester also a couple of days ago when we presented this program minus the Batiste work. (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. Enjoy the rest of your brief intermission. Absolutely. 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. 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. 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 Orchestras Carnegie Hall debut! 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. Celebrating over two decades of music making, the Grammy-nominated Imani Winds has led a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet that inspires audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Jeff: From Carnegie Hall Live, the Symphony No. A A. ulang. 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. It's a beautiful moment. , 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. 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. We should also mention Kelly Hall Tompkins, if that's a familiar name to our WQXR listeners, there's a good reason for that. It's complex because each section has so many different contrasting qualities. Also at home playing classical music he has performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Rochester Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, and the Colour of Music Festival Orchestra. John: This program has an almost built-in encore, which is a work by James V. Cockerham Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing. Anthony: There was an assembly of musicians and people here within the organization that very carefully crafted this program along with Michael Morgan. Alex: Sure. Alex, thank you for stopping by. In 2015, Anthony was profiled by Los Angeles' KCET/TV as a "Local Hero" for his extensive community outreach and advocacy for the performance of works by Black, Latinx, and Women artists. I should have asked you that before this began, but I'll lay it on you anyway. To many Black musicians, the Gateways Music Festival represents a welcome haven from the isolation many face in their working lives. I asked him what was it like to be at Carnegie Hall. I think it is very much Jon. GUEST ARTISTS: MARIAN ANDERSON STRING QUARTET92ND STREET Y | 7:30 PM, GATEWAYS BRASS COLLECTIVETHE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | 5:30 PM, GATEWAYS PIANO QUARTETTHE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM | 7:30 PM, GUEST ARTISTS: HARLEM CHAMBER PLAYERS STRING QUARTETSCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCHIN BLACK CULTURE | 7:30 PM. If you can see it, you can be it, is the expression. Also particularly looking at it from the context of American orchestras. It's available to this art form too if it wants to. This is really, I think what Gateways does for us, in addition to bringing us together to make a joyful noise, in addition to bringing together a community that is often geographically separate but spiritually connected, it allows for an intellectual exchange that is captivating to us and we're finding to others as well. 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. Jeff: The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from Carnegie Hall Live. John: There were two halves to the concert, obviously before and after intermission. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, most of them at least are leaving the stage. We should mention too that I Can, this new work also is credit offered in the program to orchestrator Matt Wong. 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. 3; Florence B. Prices Symphony No. Those 5 Grammy Award wins came on the heels of 11 Grammy nominations an almost unheard-of hall for one artist, including a nomination in the best classical composition category. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra was founded in 1993 by prominent pianist and educator Armenta Adams Dumisani. What's the potential of this orchestra? The orchestra comes together and you just dig into the music. Jeff: 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. It's a world premiere. The panel discussion is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. The festival originated in Winston-Salem and then moved with our founder, Armenta Hummings Dumisani to Eastman where she was on faculty. Bless the Michael Morgan. She thought, "If a five-year-old kid sees the Gateways orchestra up there and that kid will say, You know what, I can play hip hop. Gateways Music Festival is grateful to the following institutions for their generous support and belief in Gateways important mission. The film screening and lecture are both free and open to the public, but tickets are required. The concert also included works by the German composer Johannes Brahms (18331897); George Walker 56E (DMA) (19222018), the first composer of African descent to win a Pulitzer Prize (Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra, 1996); Florence Price (18871953), the first African American female composer to have her work performed by a major orchestra (1933 Chicago Symphony performance of Symphony No. THE COOPER UNIONFrederick P. Rose Auditorium41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue at East 7th Street) New York, NY 10003. Anthony Parnther | Photo by Konstantin Golovchinsky. 56a; George Walkers Sinfonia No. General Admission. 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. She created Gateways. It's a beautiful moment. Price, Corey Hunter, PhDGeneral admission. I think we rose to the occasion. Also, sometimes I think we've used it to absolve ourselves as an art form from the issues of the day. 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. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is a 125+ member ensemble of musicians of African descent under the leadership of conductor Anthony Parnther. The authoritative record of New York Public Radios programming is the audio record. John: For his album, We Are. Today, 110 years later, another African American orchestra is making its first appearance on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Well, Jon Batiste had a little church meeting going when he was reading his poem before the premiere of ". This is really, I think what Gateways does for us, in addition to bringing us together to make a joyful noise, in addition to bringing together a community that is often geographically separate but spiritually connected, it allows for an intellectual exchange that is captivating to us and we're finding to others as well. They're equally important to us. 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. That's a narrative that can be true, but it doesn't just happen. 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. The Walker in its own way is a set of variations as well. Carnegie Hall Live is a co-production of WQXR and Carnegie Hall. This is a guy, Jeff, who is having a moment. It can also serve as a beard or it can veil other, I think, less inclusive narratives. It is his voice. It was 110 years ago. Jeff: Absolutely. Anthony Parnther: It's a real honor to be here with all of you and in my inaugural. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. I think that's really a significant thing that's happening right now in real-time. 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. Description. Recent performances include Los Angeles; Washington D.C.; Toronto; Danbury, Connecticut; and an eight-concert Midwest tour. He resides in Los Angeles and Palm Springs. She was part of the inaugural class of the Artist Propulsion Lab at WQXR. It's a new work by Jon Batiste, the Grammy-winning pianist and band leader you may know from The Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Search University of South Carolina University of South Carolina Navigation. The members of the Gateways Orchestra are heading back out on stage at Carnegie Hall. Since its inception in 1993, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra has cultivated diversity in the classical music scene. It's available to this art form too if it wants to. The Eastman School of Music was founded in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman (1854-1932), founder of Eastman Kodak Company. Jeff: It's wonderful to have you here. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra 2023 tour dates. All rights reserved. KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE26 Gibbs StreetRochester, New York. What does it mean to have you and your colleagues in this place at this time? There was this outpouring of interest from all over the country. Not since the start, but since 2001. This work that Jon Batiste is going to perform with the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra has that same kind of structure. share this message of hope and healing to inspire communities throughout the world and affirm our unity." For 27 years . John: It was wonderful to see you turn and conduct the audience in that final piece as well. I think the possibility of spontaneity is what makes this particular live performance so deeply engaging and organic for everybody involved including the audience. Sure. John: Can you distinguish for us the difference between the festival proper and the festival orchestra? 3 James V. Cockerham: Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing. That annual festival, which features classical musicians of African descent, will include a performance this coming. I think the possibility of spontaneity is what makes this particular live performance so deeply engaging and organic for everybody involved including the audience. 1 in E Minor); and the orchestras signature closing piece, Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing, by African American film and classical music composer James Cockerham. 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. Our satisfied clients include youth, high school, college, university and adult groups, including church and alumni tours. 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. Copyright 2022 New York Public Radio. John: A terrific program today bookended by two sets of variations. 2023 New York Public Radio There was this outpouring of interest from all over the country. Another first for this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. 560 Music Center. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is a 125+ member ensemble of musicians of African descent under the leadership of conductor Anthony Parnther. . Does that resonate with you? is a work for piano and orchestra called. 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 . Jeff: Backstage at Carnegie Hall, I'm Jeff Spurgeon. That's an unfair question. The festival has just grown and grown and grown since 1993, from that vision. 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. During the Gateways Music Festival, 125 professional classical musicians of African descent come from across the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and South America to Rochester,. 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. 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. 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. Those 5 Grammy Award wins came on the heels of 11 Grammy nominations an almost unheard-of hall for one artist, including a nomination in the best classical composition category. The conclusion of seven days of performances in New York City. Adults: $15 | Seniors and Students: $10 | Children/Youth (Under 18): Free, STERN AUDITORIUM / PERELMAN STAGEAT CARNEGIE HALL57th Street and 7th AvenueNew York, NY, THE GATEWAYS ORCHESTRAAnthony Parnther, conductorJon Batiste, piano. I suppose that Gateways is a little bit like that too because you don't get together very often. The work we'll hear today is a bigger piece by George Walker, his Sinfonia No. We principally had one and a half days to piece this work together. 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. ICS was also the ensemble in residence at the 2010 and 2013 Southampton Arts Festival in Long Island, New York. Guest engagements include Chicago Sinfonietta, the Chamber Orchestra of New York, the Colour of Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, and the Gateways Music Festival. The two pieces are musical cousins and were actually intended to be so. We're talking of the depression years in America, a work in four movements meant to evoke music from African American tradition. During April 2022 Festival, the Gateways Orchestra became the first all-Black classical symphony orchestra ever presented by New York City's Carnegie . 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. All Gateways Music Festival performances are free and open to the public. Anthony has restored and performed orchestral works by Florence Price, Zenobia Powell Perry, Margaret Bonds, William Grant Still, Duke Ellington, and Samuel Coleridge Taylor. 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. It is his heart. HATCH RECITAL HALLEastman School of Music433 East Main StreetRochester, New York. The chairs can be adjusted and the Brahms piano can be pushed out. What else is Gateways beyond this? I asked him what was it like to be at Carnegie Hall. 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. This concert is in fact part of his Perspectives series, but today's premier. 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. Carnegie Hall Live is a co-production of WQXR and Carnegie Hall. Here are your tickets. This concert features Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Florence Prices Symphony No. Alex: Well, I think as artists in this music that's called classical, we have always felt that Carnegie is a place for us, but what we think is important is we know that there are audience members that, until we grace this stage, did not know that Carnegie was a place for them. It turns out that Gateways isn't just an organization that serves musicians. This performance is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. You'll receive the most up-to-date information about our musicians, venues and performances delivered right to your email inbox. This is a guy, Jeff, who is having a moment. She had this great idea to provide a safe affirming space for classical musicians of African descent. Media Only: Dolores Orman, Gateways Music Festival, 585-271-5185, dolores.orman@gmail.com For a complete listing of Gateways events, repertoire and artists plus ticket purchase information, visit the Gateways web site at: www.gatewaysmusicfestival.org. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster) You can hear that the audience, again, willing to go there and applaud each of the musicians as they stand. Oh, it was a wonderful variety of sounds as you say, and a really wonderful performance. The historic concert was broadcast live on WXXI in Rochester and on the New York City classical station WQXR. You have to make it true. Before everyone dressed all in black, second half, everybody has a splash of color. Copyright 2022 New York Public Radio. What was the idea there? Learn More In the Know with GFO Young Artists Program LEARN MORE Children's Outreach The orchestra just rehearsed his new piece for the first time on Thursday, it's called I can. As you know, you're moving an orchestra or a music festival across a giant state like this is a big effort. Exactly. Anthony: Lift Every Voice and Sing. When 7:30 p.m. March 3, 2 p.m. March 5 Where Kirkwood Performing Arts Center, 210 East Monroe Avenue, Kirkwood How much $20-$65 More info 314-865-0038; winteroperastl.org. Dmitri Berlinsky Dmitri Berlinsky is professor of violin and artist teacher at the MSU College of Music. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra Anthony Parnther, conductor Jon Batiste, piano and composer. It's full orchestra and piano and just him. We had to really be on our feet, go with Jon wherever he decided to go at any given minute. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra (photo: Keith Bullis) Gateways Music Festival has received a substantial award of $800,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. John: It turns out that Gateways isn't just an organization that serves musicians. Featuring five of Gateways most popular pianists performing works by Black and other composers. The 120-member Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, whose distinguished players hail from the nations foremost orchestras and conservatory faculties, is renowned for its bold sound, exciting interpretations and uncompromising pursuit of artistic excellence. Gateways musicians let their hair down in a fun, club-like environment and perform pop, R&B, Jazz, gospel, reggae and everything in between! Thank you, gentlemen. Jon Batiste once at the center stage. Yes. Jeff: Oh, it was a wonderful variety of sounds as you say, and a really wonderful performance. Made up entirely of classical musicians of African descent under the leadership conductor. 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