Carnegie Hall.
In Wednesday’s (2/12) New York Times, an unsigned report states, “Carnegie Hall announced its 2025-26 season on Wednesday, with much of it devoted to celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States through a citywide festival featuring genres including jazz, rock, hip-hop, musical theater and classical music. Clive Gillinson, Carnegie’s executive and artistic director, said that the festival was meant to showcase ‘the sheer breadth and dynamism of America. Whether you look at film, Broadway, jazz or hip-hop, it’s all very vivid music-making,’ he said…. The season will open in October with the conductor Daniel Harding leading the NYO-USA All-Stars, an ensemble [of young musicians] affiliated with Carnegie, in works by Bernstein and Stravinsky. That performance will also include Yuja Wang leading Tchaikovsky’s grand Piano Concerto No. 1 from the keyboard. The composer Arvo Pärt, who turns 90 in September, will be honored at Carnegie all season, with his friends and collaborators leading performances of his works…. Carnegie’s season—some 170 performances—will also feature the conductor Marin Alsop, the pianist Lang Lang, the vocalist Isabel Leonard and the violinist Maxim Vengerov, who each will organize a series of Perspectives concerts.” Among the orchestras and conductors appearing at Carnegie Hall next season are the Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi; the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra with Marin Alsop; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Raphaël Pichon; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck; the Met Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin; the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer; the New York Pops and Steven Reineke; the American Composers Orchestra and Carolyn Kuan; the Vienna Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Andris Nelsons; the Seoul Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden; and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä.
