When is the next free New York Philharmonic concert in Central Park being held?
It’s time to pack up your picnic basket and head for the park. Honoring a beloved tradition, the New York Philharmonic will perform two free concerts—on the evenings of Tuesday, July 14 and Friday, July 17—on Central Park’s Great Lawn. Fireworks will follow both concerts. If the weather is clear, New Yorkers will probably start assembling late in the afternoon, spreading out their picnic blankets in choice locations near the stage, dishing out fried chicken, zipping open cans of beer and even popping bottles of champagne. The concerts begin at 8:00 PM, but it pays to get their early, if you can. Alan Gilbert, the Philharmonic’s new music director who officially replaces Lorin Maazel in September, will conduct both concerts—Mozart and Beethoven on Tuesday, Copeland, Mozart and Mahler on Friday. Gilbert is the child of two Philharmonic violinists and they were his first teachers. His father, Michael Gilbert, is retired, but his mother, Yoko Takebe, will now be playing under her son’s bat
Honoring a beloved tradition, the New York Philharmonic will perform two free concerts—on the evenings of Tuesday, July 14 and Friday, July 17—on Central Park’s Great Lawn. Fireworks will follow both concerts. The concerts begin at 8:00 PM, but it pays to get their early, if you can. Alan Gilbert, the Philharmonic’s new music director who officially replaces Lorin Maazel in September, will conduct both concerts—Mozart and Beethoven on Tuesday, Copeland, Mozart and Mahler on Friday. Friday, July 17, 2009, 8:00 PM – Nathan Gunn, Baritone Copland: Old American Songs (selections) Mozart: Selected arias Mahler: Symphony No. 1 For weather updates, call the Parks Hotline: (212) 875-5709 Sources: http://www.examiner.
