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Brandford Marsalis at the NY Phil
NY Phil presents, Andrey Boreyko and Branford Marsalis to perform works by Haydn, Glazunov, Schulhoff and Strauss.
Brandford Marsalis
Andrey Boreyko will lead the New York Philharmonic in works by Haydn, Glazunov, Schulhoff and Strauss. with appearances from saxophonist Branford Marsalis. Marsalis will be making his NY Phil Debut.
Andrey Boreyko will lead the New York Philharmonic in Haydn‘s Symphony No. 60, Il distratto; Glazunov‘s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Schulhoff‘s Hot-Sonate for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, performed by Marsalis.
Joseph Haydn‘s Symphony No. 60 was not originally composed as a symphony, at least not in the modern sense of the word. The work actually consists of an overture and incidental music for a play — Jean-François Regnard‘s 1697 farce Le Distrait (in Italian, Il distratto) — which was produced in 1774 at the palace of Esterházy, where Haydn was employed. The play concerns the ―absent-minded gentleman of the title who, among other things, nearly forgets to attend his own wedding. Haydn‘s score captures this same farcical spirit in musical form, including a famous joke in the finale wherein it seems that only after 16 bars do the first violins remember to tune their instruments.
The history of the saxophone can be traced back over 150 years. Although this seems like a long time, the saxophone is one of the newer instruments in the musical spectrum. It was invented by and named for Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax. He was an expert instrument maker and talented musician. The saxophone was patented on March 20, 1846.
By the time that the Russian composer Alexander Glazunov composed his Concerto for Alto Saxophone in 1934, very few other notable works for saxophone solo existed, but his concerto — which was to be his last major composition — still constituted a major contribution to a small repertoire. The well-crafted, concerto gives listeners a chance to hear the rich, complex sound of the saxophone afresh, far from the jazzy, modern associations the instrument usually suggests.
The New York Philharmonic performed the concerto for the first time in July 2010, with Andrey Boreyko and Branford Marsalis.
Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, born in 1960, has numerous musical interests, including jazz, blues, and funk as well as classical music. The three-time Grammy winner has continued to exercise and expand his skills as an instrumentalist, a composer, and as the head of Marsalis Music, the label he founded in 2002 for which he produces his own projects and those of the jazz world‘s most promising new and established artists.
Mr. Marsalis is equally at home on the stages of the world‘s greatest clubs and in concert halls. In recent years he has become increasingly sought after as a featured soloist with the Chicago, Detroit, Düsseldorf, and North Carolina symphony orchestras and the Boston Pops, in a growing repertoire that includes compositions by Copland, Debussy, Glazunov, Ibert, Mahler, Mihaud, Ned Rorem, and Vaughn Williams, in addition to modern classical composers.
He is also the honorary chair of the New Orleans Habitat for Humanity effort to rebuild the city, and, together with his friend Harry Connick, Jr., he conceived the Habitat Musicians‘ Village recently completed in the city‘s historic Ninth Ward.
Born in St. Petersburg, Andrey Boreyko has been the music director of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra since the beginning of the 2009–10 season. In Europe Andrey Boreyko has conducted the Vienna Symphony, Berlin, Munich, and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras, to name a few. In North America he has led the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Dallas, and Toronto symphony orchestras; Los Angeles Philharmonic; and the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras.
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