Three Dance Episodes from On the TownA Bite of the Apple“It Don’t Mean A Thing”

New York: In Town and OutShadow of the Wolf

New York City! Magic words that make people all over the world think of Times Square,Broadway shows, skyscrapers, taxis, and bagels. People know the New York they see inmovies, but they also know the New York sound in music. Many of the greatest Americancomposers have called New York home, and their work has transformed our city into music.

New York Transformed! What do you think it sounds like? What is it about New York that you would want to turninto music? Get ready for the New York Philharmonic, your Super Sonic Music Box, to show you New York asyou’ve never heard it before!

S A T U R D A Y , J A N U A R Y 2 4 , 2 0 1 5

T H E P R O G R A M

CASE SCAGLIONE conductorTHEODORE WIPRUD hostMICHAEL THOMAS HOLMES actorKEVIN DEL AGUILA scriptwriter and director

JAZZ COMBO DANIEL GOBLE saxophone, JOSEPH ALESSI trombone, DAVID J. GROSSMAN piano,

TIMOTHY COBB bass, CHRISTOPHER S. LAMB drums

Welcome to the Young People’s Concerts®!

BERNSTEIN KAREN LEFRAK ELLINGTONVERY YOUNG COMPOSERS

HAWA SAKHOLIAO SHUWEN

B eginning at 1:30PM, the Orchestra musicianswill come onto the stage, one by one, to warm-

up and get ready for their concert. You can identifywhich “family,” or group of instruments, they are inby the color of their shirt.

Orchestra Warm-Up Check-List

MetLife Foundation is the Lead Corporate Underwriter for the New York Philharmonic's Education Programs. Additional support by The Theodore H. Barth Foundation.

Sound Words

Now add your sound words to these lyrics from Bernstein’s On the Town, and see how it sounds when you saythem out loud. You can even try singing your creation to the tune “New York, New York,” which you’ll hear inBernstein’s “Times Square 1944.”

George Curran, bass tromboneHometown: Farmington Hills, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit)Years lived in New York: 2½ years Favorite place in New York: I think walking through Times Square is really cool — there are so many interesting people

everywhere and the lights are so bright, especially at night.Favorite thing to do in New York: I like to get out and walk or run inCentral Park or along the Hudson River

Can you find George warming up on stage? Why do you think he sits towards the back of the stage?

Richard Deane, hornHometown: Richmond, KentuckyYears lived in New York: 4½ years, in totalFavorite place in New York: it’s a tie between the practice room

at Avery Fisher Hall and the dining room of Babbo Ristorante.Favorite thing to do in New York: hang out with friends after a concert

Can you find Richard warming up on stage? Which way does the bell of his horn face?

Fiona Simon, violinHometown: London, EnglandYears lived in New York: 33 yearsFavorite place in New York: Riverside Park

Favorite thing to do in New York: when I’m not playing violin, I love to play tennis in Riverside Park

Can you find Fiona warming up on stage? How many other violins do you see?

Sherry Sylar, oboeHometown: Chattanooga, TennesseeYears lived in New York: 30 yearsFavorite place in New York: it’s a tie between the Bronx

Botanical Gardens and Central ParkFavorite thing to do in New York: I like to eat at one of the many great

restaurants in town and go to one of the many cultural events that areavailable to us: shows on Broadway and at Lincoln Center, or museums!

Can you find Sherry warming up on stage? Are the instruments to the left and behind her the same, or different?

Make your own “New York Sound” right in your seat at Avery Fisher Hall! There are some words that mimic familiarsounds: for example “vroom” sounds like a car and “achoo” sounds like a sneeze. See how many “sound words” you can make up for the following New York ingredients.1. A crosstown bus 2. The A train 3. A horse carriage in Central Park 4. A bike messenger 5. The fountain at Lincoln Center 6. City construction

New York, New York, it’s a (1.) of a town.

The (2.) up, but the (3.) is down.

The people (4.) in a (5.) in the ground.

New York, New York, it’s a (6.) of a town!

Our city is one of the busiest and most exciting in the world. The people, sites, and sounds give New York a special quality. How many New York “symbols” can you find in this picture?

WOODWINDS = greenBRASS = blue

PERCUSSION = orange

HARP AND KEYBOARDS = light blue

STRINGS = red or pink

The New York Philharmonic is dressed by UNIQLO.

About The ArtistsCase Scaglione began his tenure as AssistantConductor of the New York Philharmonic in September 2011,the same year he received the Conductor’s Prize by the SoltiFoundation U.S. He made his Philharmonic subscription debut inNovember 2012, stepping in to lead the opening work on a concert otherwise conducted by Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur. He has also conducted seven New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts. In September 2014 he was elevatedto Associate Conductor, a position revived for him by Music Director Alan Gilbert. Case was music director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra of LosAngeles from 2008 to 2011 and founded 360° Music, which took that orchestra toinner-city schools. He has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra and Los AngelesPhilharmonic and assisted at the St. Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,and Baltimore Opera. A native of Texas, Case studied at the Cleveland Institute ofMusic and Peabody Institute.

Theodore Wiprud leads educational activities at theNew York Philharmonic as Vice President, Education, TheSue B. Mercy Chair. The Philharmonic’s education programsinclude the historic Young People’s Concerts, Very YoungPeople’s Concerts, Very Young Composers, and many other programs for school children, aspiring orchestral performers, and adults. Ted has also created innovativeeducation programs for other ensembles, such as the Brooklyn Philharmonic,American Composers Orchestra, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He has worked as ateaching artist and resident composer in a number of New York City schools. Ted’sViolin Concerto (Katrina) was recently released on Champs Hill Records.

Michael Thomas Holmes recently appeared acrossthe country in the 25th anniversary production of ThePhantom of the Opera (Monsieur Reyer), in the York TheatreCompany’s production of Sondheim’s Saturday Night, andmade his Broadway debut in Oklahoma! (Ali Hakim). He alsotoured with The Producers (with Jason Alexander and Martin Short), played NathanDetroit in John Rando’s Guys and Dolls (at Barrington Stage) and was Clown 2 in The 39 Steps at the George Street Playhouse. Michael received his MFA in actingfrom the University of California, Irvine, appeared on the television series Smash and Law & Order, and portrayed Stormtrooper Rolf in The Producers: The MovieMusical. Also a BFA-trained graphic designer, he has worked simultaneously as an actor / designer for more than 20 years.

Kevin Del Aguila is an actor, writer, and director inNew York City. He wrote the book for the Off-Broadwaymusical Altar Boyz and received the Heideman Award for hisplay The Greekest of Tragedies. Other works include his stageadaptation of the DreamWorks film Madagascar and Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live,both of which played engagements at Radio City Music Hall. He has been commis-sioned to write many stage adaptations of children’s books for Theatreworks USA,including Click Clack Moo and Skippyjon Jones, and has written for several children’stelevision shows, including the Emmy Award–winning Peg + Cat (PBS). Theatergoersmay recognize him as Smee from Broadway‘s Peter and the Starcatcher, and childreneverywhere have heard him as a singing troll in the Disney blockbuster Frozen.

New York Transformed

Ellington

Very YoungComposers

Bernstein

Duke Ellington (1899–1974) is one of the most important composers in jazz history. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington, D.C., he earned the nickname “Duke” for his perfect manners and elegant dress. He began studying piano at age seven and composed his first piece, “Soda Fountain Rag,”when he was a teenager. He moved to New York to play with a band called TheWashingtonians and before long he was leading the band and playing at Harlem’sglamorous Cotton Club. Ellington was a fantastic pianist as well as a bandleaderand composer, much loved by fans for his warm personality and wonderful music.

“It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” quickly became a jazz standard when it was composed in 1931. Since then, it has been performed by the world’s most recognized vocalists (including Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, who recorded it as part of the album they released together last year!). The song foreshadowed the “Big Band” or “Swing” era — a time in the 1930s and 40s when jazz orchestras supplied rhythms that young people loved to dance to and which soloists could improvise to, or make up their own swinging tunes on the spot.

The New York Philharmonic believes in young people’s imaginations! More than 100 kids, ages 10 to 18, are composing for Philharmonic musicians every year through the Very Young Composers program, and the idea is spreading around the world. You may have heard some works by

Very Young Composers during YPC Overtures. Now you will hear some of theirwork for the full orchestra.

Hawa Sakho is 13 years old and attends the Robert F. Wagner Middle School inManhattan. She is passionate about music and sports and started singing and writing ata young age. She hopes to turn her love for music into a professional career. New York:

In Town and Out is made up of two parts: the first — fun and upbeat — is about the different and exotic cultures, people, music, and food that we see, taste, and hear in New York City; the second — calm and smooth — is about Upstate New York and howeverything and everyone seems so peaceful, birds fly, and animals run around. Hawa says, “I want my piece to tell a story about people and things you see in the street. I want my piece to reach out and touch the listeners’ hearts.”

Liao Shuwen lives in Shanghai, China, and attends the middle school affiliated withShanghai Conservatory of Music, where she majors in composition. Last summer, while traveling, she created a poem about a favorite animal: the wolf. As she says, Wolves are unruly but united. Wolves are proud and aloof.” Shuwen then transformed her poem into music called Shadow of the Wolf. Listen for three sections: 1) Wolves are fierce, like a wild wind. 2) Wolves are howling in the moonlight. 3) Wolves are crying

fiercely and chasing like lightning.

What’s Coming Up…Saturday, February 21 2015The sounds that a symphony orchestracan produce are almost limitless, as varied as the personalities of composerswho create for it. Survey the remarkablerange of sonorities produced by differentcombinations of instruments.

New York has always been known for

MUSICAL THEATER—Broadway shows and, before

that, Tin-Pan Alley. You can hear the influence in the big, attention-

grabbing sound of New York’s music, and in melodies that

seem to sing with a New York

accent.

OrchestraTransformed

Karen LeFrak

Karen LeFrak is a New York composer, always enthusiastic about her home city. She grew up playing

the piano and studying musicology, worked as a music teacher, and then devoted herself to composing, writing children’s books like Jake the Philharmonic Dog – and raising show poodles! Her musicincludes ballet scores composed for American Ballet Theatre and formany musicians of the New York Philharmonic. A Bite of the Apple isher first work performed by the full New York Philharmonic. "I was born in New York and have always had the sounds of the city around me,” Ms. LeFrak says. “Whether I listen to cars honking in traffic, kids riding the carousel in the park, or builders constructing, it allbecomes music to my ears! I wrote A Bite of the Apple as mymusical portrayal of how I hear this beautiful Big Apple!"

Listen for different sights and sounds of New York as you travel through the piece.

JAZZ has been a big influence

on the New York sound.Listen for “swing” rhythm,“blue” notes bent to sound

like a singer, and lots of“improvisation” — musicians

coming up with originalmusic on the

spot.

Conductor, pianist, composer, author, and educator, Leonard Bernstein (1918–90) was only 25 years old when he rocketed to world fame in 1943 as a last-minute substituteconductor of a New York Philharmonic concert that was broadcast across the nation. Hebecame the Philharmonic Music Director and then Laureate Conductor, and led the Orchestrain 1,244 concerts and more than 200 recordings. Bernstein was greatly admired for his diversemusical talents: he composed hit Broadway shows as well as symphonies and concertos, and he opened up the world of music for adults and kids through television — then a new medium — in a variety of programs, including the Young People’s Concerts.

Audiences at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1944 were so wild about Bernstein and JeromeRobbins’s new ballet, Fancy Free, the composer and choreographer were inspired to develop theballet into a Broadway musical, On the Town. Three sailors have 24 hours to explore New YorkCity — the musical portrays their fanciful adventures set against the backdrop of World War II. “TheGreat Lover,” the first of three orchestral episodes from the show, is about the romantic dreams ofone of the sailors, Gabey, who falls in love with a picture of “Miss Turnstile of the Month” on display in a subway station and decides to search for her. “Lonely Town” — slow and lyrical —depicts how a city, even if it’s bustling and filled with people, can feel so lonely if you can’t find that special someone to share it with. Finally, in “Times

Square 1944,” all the sailors on leave gather together for a whirlwind night of dancing and fun!

Three Dance Episodes from On the TownA Bite of the Apple“It Don’t Mean A Thing”

New York: In Town and OutShadow of the Wolf

New York City! Magic words that make people all over the world think of Times Square,Broadway shows, skyscrapers, taxis, and bagels. People know the New York they see inmovies, but they also know the New York sound in music. Many of the greatest Americancomposers have called New York home, and their work has transformed our city into music.

New York Transformed! What do you think it sounds like? What is it about New York that you would want to turninto music? Get ready for the New York Philharmonic, your Super Sonic Music Box, to show you New York asyou’ve never heard it before!

S A T U R D A Y , J A N U A R Y 2 4 , 2 0 1 5

T H E P R O G R A M

CASE SCAGLIONE conductorTHEODORE WIPRUD hostMICHAEL THOMAS HOLMES actorKEVIN DEL AGUILA scriptwriter and director

JAZZ COMBO DANIEL GOBLE saxophone, JOSEPH ALESSI trombone, DAVID J. GROSSMAN piano,

TIMOTHY COBB bass, CHRISTOPHER S. LAMB drums

Welcome to the Young People’s Concerts®!

BERNSTEIN KAREN LEFRAK ELLINGTONVERY YOUNG COMPOSERS

HAWA SAKHOLIAO SHUWEN

B eginning at 1:30PM, the Orchestra musicianswill come onto the stage, one by one, to warm-

up and get ready for their concert. You can identifywhich “family,” or group of instruments, they are inby the color of their shirt.

Orchestra Warm-Up Check-List

MetLife Foundation is the Lead Corporate Underwriter for the New York Philharmonic's Education Programs. Additional support by The Theodore H. Barth Foundation.

Sound Words

Now add your sound words to these lyrics from Bernstein’s On the Town, and see how it sounds when you saythem out loud. You can even try singing your creation to the tune “New York, New York,” which you’ll hear inBernstein’s “Times Square 1944.”

George Curran, bass tromboneHometown: Farmington Hills, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit)Years lived in New York: 2½ years Favorite place in New York: I think walking through Times Square is really cool — there are so many interesting people

everywhere and the lights are so bright, especially at night.Favorite thing to do in New York: I like to get out and walk or run inCentral Park or along the Hudson River

Can you find George warming up on stage? Why do you think he sits towards the back of the stage?

Richard Deane, hornHometown: Richmond, KentuckyYears lived in New York: 4½ years, in totalFavorite place in New York: it’s a tie between the practice room

at Avery Fisher Hall and the dining room of Babbo Ristorante.Favorite thing to do in New York: hang out with friends after a concert

Can you find Richard warming up on stage? Which way does the bell of his horn face?

Fiona Simon, violinHometown: London, EnglandYears lived in New York: 33 yearsFavorite place in New York: Riverside Park

Favorite thing to do in New York: when I’m not playing violin, I love to play tennis in Riverside Park

Can you find Fiona warming up on stage? How many other violins do you see?

Sherry Sylar, oboeHometown: Chattanooga, TennesseeYears lived in New York: 30 yearsFavorite place in New York: it’s a tie between the Bronx

Botanical Gardens and Central ParkFavorite thing to do in New York: I like to eat at one of the many great

restaurants in town and go to one of the many cultural events that areavailable to us: shows on Broadway and at Lincoln Center, or museums!

Can you find Sherry warming up on stage? Are the instruments to the left and behind her the same, or different?

Make your own “New York Sound” right in your seat at Avery Fisher Hall! There are some words that mimic familiarsounds: for example “vroom” sounds like a car and “achoo” sounds like a sneeze. See how many “sound words” you can make up for the following New York ingredients.1. A crosstown bus 2. The A train 3. A horse carriage in Central Park 4. A bike messenger 5. The fountain at Lincoln Center 6. City construction

New York, New York, it’s a (1.) of a town.

The (2.) up, but the (3.) is down.

The people (4.) in a (5.) in the ground.

New York, New York, it’s a (6.) of a town!

Our city is one of the busiest and most exciting in the world. The people, sites, and sounds give New York a special quality. How many New York “symbols” can you find in this picture?

WOODWINDS = greenBRASS = blue

PERCUSSION = orange

HARP AND KEYBOARDS = light blue

STRINGS = red or pink

The New York Philharmonic is dressed by UNIQLO.