Yale in New York

The Yale School of Music announces an especially exciting third season of Yale in New York. From September 26 through April 30, four concerts will feature the classical legacy of Benny Goodman, undiscovered Prokofiev, Penderecki conducting Penderecki, and great voices from the famed Oral History of American Music project.

September 26, 2009
Zankel Hall
The Classical Legacy of Benny Goodman

Music commissioned by Benny Goodman, performed by David Shifrin and other faculty artists as well as selected alumni and students

Part of the week-long Benny Goodman Centenary Celebration at Yale
Bartók: Contrasts
Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata
Alan Shulman: Rendezvous
Morton Gould: Benny's Gig; Music for Recovery
Copland: Clarinet Concerto

February 9, 2010
Zankel Hall
Prokofiev Rediscovered: Rarely-heard music and three world premieres

Music for Physical Exercises (world premiere)
Fragment from the opera To the Distant Seas (world premiere)
Music for the ballet Trapeze (world premiere)
Schubert waltzes transcribed for two pianos by Prokofiev

April 8, 2010
Zankel Hall
Voices of American Music: A tribute to the Oral History of American Music project at Yale

Music by Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Steve Reich, and more
Interviews from the great archives with Ives, Copland, Boulanger, Ellington, and many others

April 30, 2010
Stern Auditorium
Penderecki Conducts Penderecki

Four orchestral works spanning his career
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)
Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra (1967) - Syoko Aki, violin (who performed it with Penderecki at Yale in 1974)
Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, "Winterreise" (2008) - William Purvis, horn (U.S. premiere)
Symphony No. 4, "Adagio" (1989) - winner of the Grawemeyer Prize

Programs and performers are subject to change.