NEW YORK CITY– NEW YORK CITY (AP)– Harry Connick Jr. will certainly premiere a structure for the 100th wedding anniversary of his mom’s birth for Carnegie Hall’s 2025-26 period, which celebrates the Declaration of Independence with an event labelled: “United in Audio: America at 250.”
Connick has actually tentatively labelled the job “Elaboratio,” wishing to musically specify on his mom’s life. He will certainly play piano in the efficiency for his Carnegie major phase launching on May 22, 2026, specifically 100 years after the birth of Anita Frances Livingston. The program is to be duplicated the complying with evening.
His supervisor called Carnegie Hall exec supervisor Clive Gillinson 7 years ago to book the day.
” I simply wished to do something that I believe would certainly have made her proud and and recognize her memory by carrying out in an area that she constantly desired me to play and to compose something that’ll last permanently in her honor,” Connick stated throughout a meeting after Wednesday’s press conference.
Connick’s mom passed away in 1981, when he was 13.
He is still making up the job, which will certainly have 3 activities concerning each of the locations she lived: New york city; Nouaceur, Morocco; and New Orleans.
His only Carnegie look has actually remained in the smaller sized Zankel Hall in 2005.
Carnegie’s event ranges from January to July and will certainly consist of at the very least 35 efficiencies. Functions by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Fight It Out Ellington, George Gershwin, Philip Glass, Wynton Marsalis and Julia Wolfe are included in addition to underrepresented authors such as Amy Coastline, Florence Rate and William Dawson. Jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, hip-hop, Broadway and bluegrass are amongst the categories.
A March 2 show starring J. Harrison Ghee and Betsy Wolf will certainly include “The Secret Life of the American Music,” based upon Jack Viertel’s publication on the production of Broadway programs.
Conductor Marin Alsop, pianist Lang Lang, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and violinist Saying Vengerov will certainly be the musicians of Carnegie’s Point of views collection. Arvo Pärt, that transforms 90 in September, will certainly hold the Debs Author’s Chair yet will certainly be not take a trip to New york city as a result of his age, Gillinson stated.
In the very first of greater than 170 shows, conductor Daniel Harding leads opening up evening on Oct. 7 with graduates of the National Young People Band of the USA of America and pianist Yuja Wang. The program consists of Bernstein’s choices from symphonic dancings from “West Side Tale,” Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto No. 1 and Stravinsky’s “The Firebird Collection.”
