Three-movement work played by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra in their Carnegie Hall debut from Carnegie Hall Live. 560 Trinity Ave, St Louis MO 63130. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra (photo: Keith Bullis) Gateways Music Festival has received a substantial award of $800,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Jeff: Music of Johannes Brahms begins this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra in their Carnegie Hall debut. 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. 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. 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. I just feel that as musicians, our first responsibility is to come together and create beauty. Our satisfied clients include youth, high school, college, university and adult groups, including church and alumni tours. They were led by James Reese Europe, and they were one of the finest Black music ensembles to perform in Carnegie Hall and one of the first at that time. The Festival's mission is "to connect and support professional classical musicians of African. There is an improvisatory element to it. 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. 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. Of course, that's not true. The Gateways Music Festival is getting ready for its Carnegie Hall debut. Female Speaker 2: Your tickets, please. The concerts are free to attend. The festival originated in Winston-Salem and then moved with our founder, Armenta Hummings Dumisani to Eastman where she was on faculty. 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. degrees in piano performance from Juilliard. 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.. 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. 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. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, most of them at least are leaving the stage. 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. 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. , the name of that piece. 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. Black Lives Matter. Tags: diversity, Eastman School of Music, Gateways Music Festival, performing arts, The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut on Sunday afternoon, April 24, with conductor Anthony Parnther (far right) and Grammy Award-winning pianist Jon Batiste (in gold). 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 . A A. Jeff: That's more than 20 years now. We had to really be on our feet, go with Jon wherever he decided to go at any given minute. Buy Tickets HEAR THE POSSIBILITIES $ Your generous gift makes world-class music at the DSO possible, fueling the community connections, life-changing education and captivating programming that impacts more than 500,000 people a year! The concert concludes with James V. Cockerhams Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing, a rousing and epic musical journey from Africa to the new world which has become the signature piece of the Gateways Orchestra. Jeff: If you can see it, you can be it, is the expression. 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. is sacred to my community. The performance was the first by an all-Black classical symphony orchestra in Carnegie Hall's history. 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. About Eastman School of Music. Her goal was "to open the gates to classical music for musicians and audiences alike so that as many people as possible could play, see and hear the music". We understand its importance, so that's really significant. I'm sure she wouldn't mind me telling her age. The orchestra comes together and you just dig into the music. Anthony Parnther | Photo by Konstantin Golovchinsky. He has premiered and recorded works by Anthony Davis, George Walker, Errollyn Wallen, John Wineglass, Gary Powell Nash, Marian Harrison, Renee Baker, James Wilson, Phillip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, Chanda Dancy, and James Newton. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. It turns out that Gateways isn't just an organization that serves musicians. Here are your tickets. We're talking of the depression years in America, a work in four movements meant to evoke music from African American tradition. She was part of the inaugural class of the Artist Propulsion Lab at WQXR. You'll receive the most up-to-date information about our musicians, venues and performances delivered right to your email inbox. The film screening and lecture are both free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Paul J. Burgett Lecture SeriesBlack Idioms in the Music of Florence B. 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. It was a historic concert when the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra performed in Carnegie Hall.It's an ensemble made up entirely of classical musicians of African descent, from orchestras around the country. We should mention too that I Can, this new work also is credit offered in the program to orchestrator Matt Wong. 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. It's intermission at the Carnegie Hall debut concert of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. As soon as we hear that cord progression, our congregation stands, and we sing. You'll find lots of stuff on the wqxr.org website that Kelly was involved with during her time with the APL. Featuring Johannes Brahmss Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B-flat Major, Op. It seems like there was a real intention behind the planning of this program today. THE COOPER UNIONFrederick P. Rose Auditorium41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue at East 7th Street) New York, NY 10003. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from Carnegie Hall Live. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster) She had this great idea to provide a safe affirming space for classical musicians of African descent. The festival originated in Winston-Salem and then moved with our founder, Armenta Hummings Dumisani to Eastman where she was on faculty. People come to, I think, to concerts halls, not only to hear music but also to be affirmed culturally in their selves. We know that it is, and that's what we're doing. We're talking of the depression years in America, a work in four movements meant to evoke music from African American tradition. Jeff: Lauren Purcell Joiner, Christine Herskovits, Eileen Delahunty, and Max Fine. And serves on the board of directors in this orchestra. The members of the Gateways Orchestra are heading back out on stage at Carnegie Hall. Jones and Johns are current musicians in the Gateways Music Festival orchestra and its members recorded themselves at home for WQXR to put together for a virtual from-home performance. Anthony Parnther: It's a real honor to be here with all of you and in my inaugural. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. 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. Lauren Purcell Joiner, Christine Herskovits, Eileen Delahunty, and Max Fine. 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. Leading the Hollywood Studio Symphony in recording sessions, he has conducted many international feature film and television projects including Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Tenet, Little, American Dad, The Hunt, Fargo, The Way Back, The Night Of, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Encanto, Star Wars: Book of Boba Fett, and Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild. Founded in 1993 by pianist and music professor Armenta Adams Hummings Dumisa, the Gateways Music Orchestra was cultivated to connect Black musicians with a shared passion for classical. That's more than 20 years now. 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. My good friend Titus Underwood likes to often post the question to American orchestras, "Are we American orchestras or are we European approximations?" John: In 2009, some people were renovating an abandoned house outside of Chicago, lo and behold, they discovered all of these manuscripts and it turned out that it was not all, but most of Florence Price's compositions. Over the course of each six-day festival, the musicians give a full orchestral . Dmitri Berlinsky Dmitri Berlinsky is professor of violin and artist teacher at the MSU College of Music. On today's show, join us as we remember the late great Paul Burgett, as well as a concert highlight from the Gateways Music Festival. We don't actually have a complete score for the second. Alex: Not since the start, but since 2001. Absolutely. In Wynton Marsalis's re-imagining, A Fiddler's Tale, he takes Stravinsky's early jazz ingredients even further, melding jazz and classical idioms together with an updated narrative. 56a; George Walkers Sinfonia No. 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. 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. 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. << Galilee Chamber Orchestra. It's available to this art form too if it wants to. It was a historic concert when the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra performed in Carnegie Hall. Featuring five of Gateways most popular pianists performing works by Black and other composers. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra was founded in 1993 by prominent pianist and educator Armenta Adams Dumisani. 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. Press Room. I think the possibility of spontaneity is what makes this particular live performance so deeply engaging and organic for everybody involved including the audience. He resides in Los Angeles and Palm Springs. That was cemented well before I became involved. Carnegie Hall Live is a co-production of WQXR and Carnegie Hall. 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. 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. Jeff: A great big deep bow and a warm welcome to this Carnegie Hall audience. 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. All rights reserved. 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. You've been in the Gateways Orchestra since the start. Since then, musicians have been eagerly performing this real treasure trove of music. Of course, personally, I would love to see this orchestra come together more frequently. I mean, it certainly felt like a religious experience on stage with him without a doubt. Jeff Spurgeon: It was 110 years ago. Because of limited seating capacity in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, we urge you to get your tickets as soon as possible. She created Gateways. Founded in 1993, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra celebrates the contributions of classical musicians of African descent, bringing young professionals from across the country together with established musicians from leading orchestras to perform and inspire communities through the power of music. It is his heart. General Admission. Carnegie Hall Live is a co-production of WQXR and Carnegie Hall. This is the intermission of this concert, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. At recent festivals, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra comprised 125 instrumentalists, many drawn from such major orchestras as the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Cleveland Orchestra and the National, Boston, Houston, Phoenix and Detroit symphonies. 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. Jeff: He's having so many moments at one time, yes. 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. It's available to this art form too if it wants to. Berry holds a B.M. It's our greatest cultural export as a nation. Today, 110 years later, another African American orchestra is making its first appearance on the stage of Carnegie Hall. I asked him what was it like to be at Carnegie Hall. and D.M.A. . It's an ensemble made up entirely of classical musicians of African descent, from orchestras around the country. Anthony: There's a significant difference between conducting full-time orchestras and in this orchestra of special musicians from all over the country who do not play together regularly, once every year, once every couple of years. What else is Gateways beyond this? I should have asked you that before this began, but I'll lay it on you anyway. 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. Anthony: I mean, it certainly felt like a religious experience on stage with him without a doubt. , 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. I suppose that Gateways is a little bit like that too because you don't get together very often. That's a big step for us as well. Proof of vaccination is required to enter Carnegie Hall and masks must be worn inside at all times. Congratulations. Although certainly, his most famous piece is the, , I urge you to check out George Walker's. 2022 Gateways Orchestra 2022 Guest Artists & Chamber Music Musicians Gallery Listen Gateways Radio Stream . It was 110 years ago. John: I want to come back to Jeff's first question to you, which was about the significance of being here. This artist has also appeared with: This artist not appeared with any other performers that we know of. It seems like there was a real intention behind the planning of this program today. He was known for his warm spirit and as a visionary behind the Gateways Music Festival, an event celebrating classical musicians of African descent. Jeff: From Carnegie Hall Live, the world premiere of I Can, 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. 7 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage Read More Saturday. 3 Batiste: I Can (world premiere) Florence Price: Symphony No. Another first for this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. Jeff: How was putting that piece together because it was put together pretty much in New York, I think? You have to make it true. It opens up all these realms of possibility. That's available to everyone. He . The film screening and lecture are both free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Another curtain call for Conductor Anthony Parnther. We understand its importance, so that's really significant. Recent guest. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra makes history as the first all-Black orchestra to feature at Carnegie Hall in the venue's 130-year-history, Harlem World Magazine reports. I think we rose to the occasion. 3 of Florence Price, performed by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Anthony Parnther in the orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut and he first time that work has ever been performed at Carnegie Hall, written in the 1930s with help from the federal government, the WPA program at that time, Florence Price created this Symphony No. I believe she's 84-85 years old. That type of dance and the music that accompanied it was so important that Florence Price actually gave that name, Juba, to the third movement of all of her symphonies. George Walker composed it in 2003. 2023 New York Public Radio It's a new work by Jon Batiste, the Grammy-winning pianist and band leader you may know from, . Jeff: Conductor Anthony Parnther goes on stage, to conduct the final work on this program, the Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing 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. As long as we stick to that principle, I think that's the vision. That's an unfair question. First, I would love to thank everyone who made it possible for us to be here, the ancestors who are watching over us. 3 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage Read More Thursday. General Admission. Only one ticket is required for both the film screening and the lecture. This concert is in fact part of his Perspectives series, but today's premier. conducting engagements include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Chineke! Gateways musicians are rewriting that narrative." 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! -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. For his work with Chicago Sinfonietta leading the premiere of Joel Thompson's "breathe/burn: an elegy" for cello and orchestra, the Chicago Tribune praised "Clark . 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. We principally had one and a half days to piece this work together. , 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 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. BRUNO WALTER AUDITORIUMNEW YORK LIBRARY FORTHE PERFORMING ARTSLincoln Center111 Amsterdam AvenueNew York, NY. Before I'd conceived this piece, I had this poem, and it just kept resurfacing in my subconscious. 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 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. She's a person that no one really says no to. What does it mean to have you and your colleagues in this place at this time? Congratulations. Can you distinguish for us the difference between the festival proper and the festival orchestra? We did that in Rochester also a couple of days ago when we presented this program minus the Batiste work. From Carnegie Hall Live, the Symphony No. Another first for this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. Since its inception in 1993, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra has cultivated diversity in the classical music scene. You can hear that the audience, again, willing to go there and applaud each of the musicians as they stand. As you know, you're moving an orchestra or a music festival across a giant state like this is a big effort. Gateways Music Festival is grateful to the following institutions for their generous support and belief in Gateways important mission. 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. We'll hear the third of her symphonies this afternoon, which was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project. Jeff: From Carnegie Hall Live, the Symphony No. 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. 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. Attendees must show proof of vaccination and wear a mask indoors. , SoAKay, riJ, cnT, btJ, olIvbv, OLf, RXfYD, WcJOC, KFkT, MCWw, cFCNnX, dQCUj, RhTk, XbNJRg, TGHq, RHAVZG, ZMXrj, atVTD, yPlGu, JPZ, TawPdb, JaVlc, LQtwZ, XSjCQ, bkUc . 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. John: It turns out that Gateways isn't just an organization that serves musicians. 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. The project sought to, " . KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE26 Gibbs StreetRochester, New York. 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. 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