NEW YORK (AP) — Carnegie Hall's 2024-25 season will feature a festival celebrating Latin music titled “Nuestros Sonidos (Our Sounds).” Gustavo Dudamel will open the season and the festival will open in October.
NEW YORK (AP) — Carnegie Hall's 2024-25 season will feature a festival celebrating Latin music titled “Nuestros Sonidos (Our Sounds).”
Gustavo Dudamel will open the season and festival on October 8th, leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Lang Lang and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, and baritone Gustavo Castillo and Ginastera's ballet Estancia. played. Dudamel's three concerts will include a new work written by Gabriela Ortiz for cellist Alisa Weilerstein, Mendelssohn's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” narrated by Spanish actress María Valverde, and Mexican singer Performances will include songwriter Natalia Laforcade.
Twelve festival concerts were announced Wednesday, with more to come and events to be held across New York City.
Past festivals have focused on “Honor: A Celebration of African American Cultural Heritage,” “Ubuntu: South African Music and Art,” and “Afrofuturism.” His 2011-12 season at Carnegie presented “Voices from Latin America.”
“Since I arrived in 2005, we have put Black music front and center,” said Carnegie Executive Director Clive Gillinson. “Even though Latin music is such a big part of American culture and American music, it may not have gotten enough of the spotlight in recent years.”
Carnegie returned to its full pre-pandemic schedule of approximately 170 events this season and expects to maintain that level next season, with an average attendance rate of 93%.
“The key is not to try to be fashionable or follow the trends of the day, but to just keep doing what you think is important,” Gillinson said.
Highlights of the season include the Berlin Philharmonic, which will perform three concerts with principal conductor Kirill Petrenko from November 17th, Riccardo Muti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from January 21st, and February Starting from the 28th, three concerts will be held with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The London Symphony Orchestra, in its first season with Antonio Pappano as principal conductor, will perform at Carnegie Hall for the first time since 2005 when it performs on March 5, 2025.
Pianist Igor Levit will give a recital on January 12th, playing Liszt's arrangement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
Soprano Asmik Grigorian will give a recital on December 17th, then perform Strauss's “Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)” with the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Möst on March 18th. Come back to perform.
Associated Press
