Wynton and Itzhak Perlman join lineup for Louisiana Philharmonic Benefit
Violinist Itzhak Perlman and Wynton will perform at the New York Philharmonic and Louisiana Philharmonic’s joint concert on October 28, 2005.
Conductors James Conlon, music director designate of the Los Angeles Opera, and Ted Sperling, music director of Broadway’s The Light in the Piazza, have also joined the lineup for the concert, which will benefit the New Orleans-based LPO as it recovers from the affects of Hurricane Katrina.
Those previously scheduled to appear at the concert at Avery Fisher Hall include singer-songwriter Randy Newman and soprano Audra McDonald; retired opera great Beverly Sills will host. New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel, National Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin, and LPO music director designate Carlos Miguel Prieto will conduct.
The all-American program will include Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine, the first movement of Barber’s Violin Concert with Perlman as soloist, the fourth movement of Copland’s Symphony No. 3, and “The Promise of Living” from Copland’s Tender Land Suite. Newman will perform his own “Dixie Flyer” and “Louisiana 1927,” and McDonald will sing Newman’s “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” Harold Arlen’s “Ain’t It the Truth,” “How Glory Goes” from Adam Guettel’s Floyd Collins, and “Somewhere” from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.
Wynton will perform with his quintet
Tickets for the concert are $25 to $500, and are available by calling 212-875-5656, visiting nyphil.org, or going to the Avery Fisher Hall box office.
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