The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is a 125+ member ensemble of musicians of African descent under the leadership of conductor Anthony Parnther. You've been in the Gateways Orchestra since the start. Not heard in this place until just now by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. She's never taken medication. It's our greatest cultural export as a nation. Gateways Music Festival | Rochester NY It's an incredibly exciting week for all of us. Learn More In the Know with GFO Young Artists Program LEARN MORE Children's Outreach She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro five years ago. It is his heart. a series of exciting broadcast concerts drawing upon some of the finest live performances from Carnegie Halls stages over the past eleven years. There is an improvisatory element to it. Because of limited seating capacity in the Rose Auditorium, we urge you to get your tickets as soon as possible. He was known for his warm spirit and as a visionary behind the Gateways Music Festival, an event celebrating classical musicians of African descent. The Gateways Music Festival, in association with Eastman School of Music, runs from Tuesday, August 6 through Sunday, August 11. It's full orchestra and piano and just him. I agree with you when I saw the program that had been given to me. Anthony: I'm from the South, and I'm from the Baptist Church tradition, and Lift every voice and sing is sacred to my community. 3 James V. Cockerham: Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut this month led by Anthony Parnther . It is his voice. 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. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is a 125+ member ensemble of musicians of African descent under the leadership of conductor Anthony Parnther. Listen Monday June 20 at 8 p.m. Michael Morgan, our late and beloved music director called Gateways family reunion with instruments and it feels just like that. Armenta Hummings Dumisani, I think the term force of nature was created for her. Accuracy and availability may vary. 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. I just feel that as musicians, our first responsibility is to come together and create beauty. John: Alex Laing, the principal clarinet of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, also serves on their board of directors. 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. We don't actually have a complete score for the second. Jeff: Now, you, as a very busy conductor on sound stages in Hollywood, are accustomed to looking at a score and getting the musicians all organized and playing it. Jeff: Backstage at Carnegie Hall, I'm Jeff Spurgeon. 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. 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! We understand its importance, so that's really significant. He's having so many moments at one time, yes. Jeff: The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from Carnegie Hall Live. We are going to hear the world premiere of I Can. Well, I think that's another thing we're saying about what do we think can and should happen in a concert that would be called classical and where is this music coming from and who are our composers. She is deeply grateful for the many . It would come up. Anthony studied music performance at Northwestern University and continued his musical studies at Yale University where he studied orchestral conducting with Lawrence Leighton Smith and Otto Werner Mueller. Today, 110 years later, another African American orchestra is making its first appearance on the stage of Carnegie Hall. SAHAM. 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. Search University of South Carolina University of South Carolina Navigation. Black musicians and composers across the nation are prepared for virtual events. I should have asked you that before this began, but I'll lay it on you anyway. KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATREEastman School of Music60 Gibbs StreetRochester, NY. That's an unfair question. The historic concert was broadcast live on WXXI in Rochester and on the New York City classical station WQXR. It's our national anthem. Brahms: Haydn Variations George Walker: Sinfonia No. Butler is a Conn-Selmer clinician and performing artist. 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 . John: Can you distinguish for us the difference between the festival proper and the festival orchestra? Orchestra, Gateways Music Festival and Bellingham Festival of Music. Since its founding in 1993, Gateways chamber music groups have performed in locations throughout the host city on the Friday night of the Festival. 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. Conductor Anthony Parnther led this orchestra, all musicians of African descent, and The Variations on a Theme by Haydn as the work's known the music of Johannes Brahms. 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. I mean, it certainly felt like a religious experience on stage with him without a doubt. Jon: First, I would love to thank everyone who made it possible for us to be here, the ancestors who are watching over us. In addition to this, the festival includes 27 performances this week, chamber music, lectures, a screening of a film, panel discussions. Jeff: How was putting that piece together because it was put together pretty much in New York, I think? 1 in E Minor); and the orchestras signature closing piece, Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing, by African American film and classical music composer James Cockerham. Of course, personally, I would love to see this orchestra come together more frequently. I thought you were going to say George Gershwin because what strikes me is the similarity to the, -did not have fully finished at the time of the world premiere, and famously in the written score for the conductor, wrote the words, "Wait for a nod.". [crosstalk]. GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL, INC.26 Gibbs Street, Box 58Rochester, NY 14604, info@gatewaysmusicfestival.org(585) 274-1170. 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. 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). That's available to everyone. The concerts are free to attend. It's complex because each section has so many different contrasting qualities. 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. That composition is also being given its first hearing in Carnegie Hall in this performance. is a work for piano and orchestra called I Can. I wrote this poem in the summer of 2020. The film screening and lecture are both free and open to the public, but tickets are required. That's a narrative that can be true, but it doesn't just happen. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra Anthony Parnther, conductor Jon Batiste, piano and composer. It is his voice. 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. American conductor, Anthony Parnther, is the Music Director and Conductor of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra and the Southeast Symphony & Chorus in Los Angeles. We are about to hear this performance of the, , music by Johannes Brahms based on a theme that probably wasn't actually written by Haydn. [applause]. 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! Copyright 2022 New York Public Radio. To Learn More, Click Here Rochester, NY | APRIL 18-20, 2022 Festival Piano Recital This work that Jon Batiste is going to perform with the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra has that same kind of structure. John: There were two halves to the concert, obviously before and after intermission. 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. with high distinction from the Eastman School of Music and M.M. Featuring Johannes Brahmss Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B-flat Major, Op. I think we rose to the occasion. 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. 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. 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. , 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. Last week I spoke to Carl Craig, who is one of the pioneers of the second wave of Detroit techno, who played here as part of Carnegie's Afrofuturism festival. 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. It is interesting that you went to Mozart and Beethoven. I wrote this poem in the summer of 2020. The Gateways Music Festival opens Nov. 9 -13. She created Gateways. 4/25/2022 12:00 AM. This music we call classical likes to drape itself in narratives of universality and likes to position itself as being aracial and reflecting some universal culture. We don't actually have a complete score for the second. It's an ensemble made up entirely of classical musicians of African descent, from orchestras around the country. She thought, "If a five-year-old kid sees the Gateways orchestra up there and that kid will say, You know what, I can play hip hop. The Cleveland Orchestra. George Walker was the first Black composer to win a Pulitzer prize in music that was in 1996 for his piece, . The Walker in its own way is a set of variations as well. As soon as we hear that cord progression, our congregation stands, and we sing. 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. It's an incredibly exciting week for all of us. 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 a Theme by Haydn. I can play jazz, but I can also play Beethoven.'" Bagikan di Facebook . John: We should also mention Kelly Hall Tompkins, if that's a familiar name to our WQXR listeners, there's a good reason for that. My good friend Titus Underwood likes to often post the question to American orchestras, "Are we American orchestras or are we European approximations?" In addition to this, the festival includes 27 performances this week, chamber music, lectures, a screening of a film, panel discussions. Congratulations. is a work for piano and orchestra called. Take care. 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. There was an assembly of musicians and people here within the organization that very carefully crafted this program along with Michael Morgan. You've been in the Gateways Orchestra since the start. The project sought to, " . It seems like there was a real intention behind the planning of this program today. 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. Follow me. Jeff: Jon Batiste once at the center stage. You can hear that the audience, again, willing to go there and applaud each of the musicians as they stand. The performance was the first by an all-Black classical symphony orchestra in Carnegie Hall's history. When Gateways musicians walk out on stage, a new line of inquiry a new conversation is opened with the audience before we even play a note because the backdrop of classical music is that this is a white art form. Tuesdays at 8:00 pm The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall Fresh, exciting performances highlighting musicians of African descent The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is a 125+ member ensemble of musicians of African descent under the leadership of conductor Anthony Parnther. It's wonderful to have you here. It's this kind of dual mission. Gateways is an all-Black classical symphony orchestra created in 1993 by concert pianist and educator Armenta Adams (Hummings) Dumisani. The festival originated in Winston-Salem and then moved with our founder, Armenta Hummings Dumisani to Eastman where she was on faculty. 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. General Admission. Price. 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. He's also just won an Oscar-. It's intermission at the Carnegie Hall debut concert of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. Celebrating classical musicians of African descent. I think it is very much Jon. Because of limited seating capacity in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, we urge you to get your tickets as soon as possible. 3. This concert is in fact part of his Perspectives series, but today's premier. The performance was the first by an all-Black classical symphony orchestra in Carnegie Hall's history. The Orchestra made its stunning Carnegie Hall debut on April 24, 2022 as the first all-Black orchestra to be presented by the famed venue. 2023 New York Public Radio That is as Lee Koonce told us again and again, that's one of the most important things that's happening here this afternoon. 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. 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. Not since the start, but since 2001. 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. It's a beautiful moment. It's available to this art form too if it wants to. Alex: Sure. We should mention too that. It's a world premiere. 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. This is the intermission of this concert, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. 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. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from Carnegie Hall Live. . This is Carnegie Hall Live. 3. During the Gateways Music Festival, 125 professional classical musicians of African descent come from across the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and South America to Rochester,. This artist has also appeared with: This artist not appeared with any other performers that we know of. BRUNO WALTER AUDITORIUMNEW YORK LIBRARY FORTHE PERFORMING ARTSLincoln Center111 Amsterdam AvenueNew York, NY. 56a; George Walkers Sinfonia No. John: A terrific program today bookended by two sets of variations. One of which is to support musicians of African descent who are isolated even in the ensembles in which they play as happens in other kinds of workplaces in the world, but also looking out at, as you said, the audience members who haven't found that Carnegie Hall is for them as well. 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. 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 . Thank you so much. The authoritative record of New York Public Radios programming is the audio record. Sure. I asked him what was it like to be at Carnegie Hall. Jeff: This is going to be quite a wonderful world premiere and a big occasion. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is a 125+ member ensemble of musicians of African descent under the leadership of conductor Anthony Parnther. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. Adults: $15 | Seniors and Students: $10 | Children/Youth (Under 18): Free, Film ScreeningCaged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Lee: It's this kind of dual mission. This is really, I think what Gateways does for us, in addition to bringing us together to make a joyful noise, in addition to bringing together a community that is often geographically separate but spiritually connected, it allows for an intellectual exchange that is captivating to us and we're finding to others as well. The concert featured conductor Anthony Parnther of the San Bernadino Symphony Orchestra and Southeast Symphony & Chorus in Los Angeles; and Grammy Awardwinning pianist and composer Jon Batiste, who performed the world premiere of a commission for the orchestra. Price, Corey Hunter, PhD*General admission. It opens up all these realms of possibility. This April, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, comprised entirely of classical musicians of African descent, presents events around NYC, culminating with its eagerly anticipated Carnegie Hall debut on April 24. It takes active participation to do that. All right. This place for musicians is key and essential and critical to the mission because most of our players work in environments where there are very, very, very few people, if any, who look like them. Three-movement work played by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra in their Carnegie Hall debut from Carnegie Hall Live. You have to make it true. What else is Gateways beyond this? First, I would love to thank everyone who made it possible for us to be here, the ancestors who are watching over us. Best known popularly in the world these days is the music director for. as the work's known the music of Johannes Brahms. GATEWAY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. He serves as teaching artist for Aspen Music Festival and the National Youth Orchestras program at Carnegie Hall. Next performances this artist is scheduled to appear at: This artist has no upcoming performances - yet! That was our mentor's vision. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster), downloading the latest version of Internet Explorer, Gateways Music Festival Orchestra makes Carnegie debut, Fantastic Rochester undergraduate research highlighted at annual expo, How to get a job after college: 5 tips for juniors and seniors. This work that Jon Batiste is going to perform with the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra has that same kind of structure. There was this outpouring of interest from all over the country. It's a real honor to be here with all of you and in my inaugural. 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. 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. There are parts that are written out, and then, there are parts that he will improvise. Jeff: Now, all the orchestra on its feet and with Maestro Parnther bow to this Carnegie audience this afternoon. I can play gospel. Here are your tickets. Also particularly looking at it from the context of American orchestras. Description. 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. Does that resonate with you? GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL, INC.26 Gibbs Street, Box 58Rochester, NY 14604, info@gatewaysmusicfestival.org(585) 274-1170. This concert is in fact part of his Perspectives series, but today's premier. Anthony has conducted artists spanning every musical genre including Joshua Bell, Jessye Norman, Yundi Li, Lynn Harrell, Frederica von Stade, Roderick Williams, Canadian Brass, Jennifer Holliday, Kanye West, Imagine Dragons, Omar Apollo, and Alan Walker. Jeff: From Carnegie Hall Live, the Symphony No. We know that it is, and that's what we're doing. We did that in Rochester also a couple of days ago when we presented this program minus the Batiste work. My good friend Titus Underwood likes to often post the question to American orchestras, "Are we American orchestras or are we European approximations?" The Brahms is a set of variations that are primarily based on toying around with the melody, but Walker toys around with interval and rhythm in a very particular way with a much more sense of harmony. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, most of them at least are leaving the stage. There are some elements of truth to that, but what's happening in a concert hall is not just a celebration of Brahms and Walker and Batiste and Price, but it's also a celebration of the audience. It turns out that Gateways isn't just an organization that serves musicians. There are parts that are written out, and then, there are parts that he will improvise. The Brahms to begin, and then the Variations on "Lift Every Voice and Sing" to conclude and in between, four works by four composers of African descent that even if they weren't world premieres like Jon Batiste's work, were the first time they were being heard on the Carnegie Hall stage. I suppose that Gateways is a little bit like that too because you don't get together very often. . Jeff: That feels like the two-fold idea of Gateways too. I should have asked you that before this began, but I'll lay it on you anyway. You can hear that the audience, again, willing to go there and applaud each of the musicians as they stand. 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. . To come to a place where there are folks who've had a shared life experience, it's extraordinary for them. 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. 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). John Schaefer's here as well. Favorites More Music Features 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. They'll open the second half of the program with a big work by prolific American composer, Florence Price. The Orchestra made its stunning Carnegie Hall debut on April 24, 2022 as the first all-Black orchestra to be presented by the . Copyright 2022 New York Public Radio. CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS National Youth Orchestra of the United States of . This is really, I think what Gateways does for us, in addition to bringing us together to make a joyful noise, in addition to bringing together a community that is often geographically separate but spiritually connected, it allows for an intellectual exchange that is captivating to us and we're finding to others as well. 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. We should mention too that I Can, this new work also is credit offered in the program to orchestrator Matt Wong. I believe she's 84-85 years old. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. to conclude and in between, four works by four composers of African descent that even if they weren't world premieres like Jon Batiste's work, were the first time they were being heard on the Carnegie Hall stage. We are going to hear the world premiere of. 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. Exactly. Instead of a minuet or scherzo with trio you got a Juba. In May 2016, Gateways Music Festival formally affiliated with the Eastman School of Music, a festival partner since 1995, but remains an independent non-profit organization. Featuring five of Gateways most popular pianists performing works by Black and other composers. Alex Laing, the principal clarinet of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, also serves on their board of directors. This was a real challenge, but a little bit of everything. General admission. 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. Jeff: A great big deep bow and a warm welcome to this Carnegie Hall audience. 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. Also, sometimes I think we've used it to absolve ourselves as an art form from the issues of the day. 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