Yes. . This was a real challenge, but a little bit of everything. 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. The orchestra comes together and you just dig into the music. Favorites More Music Features Michael Morgan, our late and beloved music director called Gateways family reunion with instruments and it feels just like that. Anthony: Exactly. I'll share it with you now. Accuracy and availability may vary. Can you distinguish for us the difference between the festival proper and the festival orchestra? 3 by George Walkerthe first African-American Pulitzer Prize for Music Laureate and whose centennial falls in 2022. Since then, musicians have been eagerly performing this real treasure trove of music. Ticket prices vary by location. Jeff: Absolutely. 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. John: 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. 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. Sure. John: There were two halves to the concert, obviously before and after intermission. John: I Can, the name of that piece. Over the course of each six-day festival, the musicians give a full orchestral . We exist outside of space, time or this place." 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. Media Contacts: Dolores Orman, Gateways Music Festival, 585-271-5185, dolores.orman@gmail.com Jessica Kaufman, Eastman School of Music, 585-274-1057, jkaufman@esm.rochester.edu After a highly successful 2019 season, Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music, announced today it will become an annual event starting in the fall of 2020. 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. For a complete listing of Gateways events, repertoire and artists plus ticket purchase information, visit the Gateways web site at: www.gatewaysmusicfestival.org. 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. Alex: Sure. Click on individual event for more information and to purchase tickets. Gateways Music Festival Overview 530 views 10 months ago The Gateways Music Festival 2022 will take place from April 18-24, culminating in the Gateways Orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut,. The Festival was initially scheduled for this November, with a Rochester kick-off, but was rescheduled to next Spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. 3. It is his voice. What else is Gateways beyond this? John: A terrific program today bookended by two sets of variations. It takes active participation to do that. It's our greatest cultural export as a nation. From August 6 through 11, 2019, 125 professional classical musicians of African descent are invited to Rochester, NY from across the . Backstage at Carnegie Hall, I'm Jeff Spurgeon. I think also really significant for us is this is the first time that the orchestra or the festival has toured, has branched out of being in one place. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra 2023 tour dates. Alex Laing, the principal clarinet of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, also serves on their board of directors. 230 were here. Exhausting, but exciting. She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro five years ago. The Gateways Music Festival is getting ready for its Carnegie Hall debut. Jeff: The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from Carnegie Hall Live. 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. GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL, INC. 26 Gibbs Street, Box 58 Rochester, NY 14604. info@gatewaysmusicfestival.org (585) 274-1170. You can hear that the audience, again, willing to go there and applaud each of the musicians as they stand. I just thought that it was so beautifully executed. A Gateways Orchestra concert in New York City's famed Carnegie Hall will highlight the 2022 Gateways Music Festival, in association with Eastman School of Music, according to plans announced today. Lee Koonce: Armenta Hummings Dumisani, I think the term force of nature was created for her. John: It is interesting that you went to Mozart and Beethoven. I'll share it with you now. [crosstalk]. Our satisfied clients include youth, high school, college, university and adult groups, including church and alumni tours. I just feel that as musicians, our first responsibility is to come together and create beauty. 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. That's a narrative that can be true, but it doesn't just happen. Congratulations to you, Anthony Parnther, and to the Gateways Music Festival at an amazing week in New York in an amazing combination of this concert. I love the way this harkens back to the days of Mozart and Beethoven, who would also write works that contained a great deal of written music finished for the players but also places for them to improvise. The performance was the first by an all-Black classical symphony orchestra in Carnegie Hall's history. 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. . . Not surprisingly, he will be the piano soloist in that piece. CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS National Youth Orchestra of the United States of . That's a narrative that can be true, but it doesn't just happen. The all-Black Gateways orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut on April 24, after a week of events at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and other key NYC cultural spots.The orchestra represents a supportive artistic home for its members, all of whom are professional classical musicians of African descent. 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. This is Carnegie Hall Live, I'm Jeff Spurgeon joined by my colleague, John Schaefer. There is an improvisatory element to it. We did that in Rochester also a couple of days ago when we presented this program minus the Batiste work. The 120-member Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, whose distinguished players hail from the nations foremost orchestras and conservatory faculties, is renowned for its bold sound, exciting interpretations and uncompromising pursuit of artistic excellence. Of course, that's not true. I suppose that Gateways is a little bit like that too because you don't get together very often. 3, which has a little more of a modernist aspect to it, at least at the beginning, although the texture clears out a little bit as the piece goes along. We exist outside of space, time or this place." this new work also is credit offered in the program to orchestrator Matt Wong. To many Black musicians, the Gateways Music Festival represents a welcome haven from the isolation many face in their working lives. Although certainly, his most famous piece is the, , I urge you to check out George Walker's. The Orchestra made its stunning Carnegie Hall debut on April 24, 2022 as the first all-Black orchestra to be presented by the . Gateways Orchestra concert, 4:00 p.m. at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre on Sunday, August 11, $15 for adults, $10 for students and senior citizens with ID, and free for youth under 18. John: Alex Laing, the principal clarinet of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, also serves on their board of directors. Anthony: I just feel that as musicians, our first responsibility is to come together and create beauty. Thank you so much. They'll open the second half of the program with a big work by prolific American composer, Florence Price. 3 in C Minor, James Cockerhams Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing and the world premiere of a work for narrator and orchestra by Oscar-winning, GRAMMY-nominated Jon Batiste, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. It's available to this art form too if it wants to. We know that it is, and that's what we're doing. Congratulations. We understand its importance, so that's really significant. That's available to everyone. To come to a place where there are folks who've had a shared life experience, it's extraordinary for them. From Carnegie Hall Live, the Symphony No. The role this hall plays in this music is understood by all. . This concert is part of his perspective series. What was the idea there? We are going to hear the world premiere of I Can. I wrote this poem in the summer of 2020. All Rights Reserved. Only one ticket is required for both the film screening and the lecture. I would love to see this orchestra record especially literature that has been under-recorded or not recorded at all by underrepresented composers. She's never taken medication. Another curtain call for Conductor Anthony Parnther. 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. It is interesting that you went to Mozart and Beethoven. The Gateways Music Festival, in association with Eastman School of Music, runs from Tuesday, August 6 through Sunday, August 11. Because of limited seating capacity in the Rose Auditorium, we urge you to get your tickets as soon as possible. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. THE COOPER UNIONFrederick P. 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