"Oh, well this is classical music. The work we'll hear today is a bigger piece by George Walker, his Sinfonia No. Also, sometimes I think we've used it to absolve ourselves as an art form from the issues of the day. Michael Morgan, our late and beloved music director called Gateways family reunion with instruments and it feels just like that. 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. This was a real challenge, but a little bit of everything. I want to come back to Jeff's first question to you, which was about the significance of being here. It is his heart. Carnegie Hall Live is a co-production of WQXR and Carnegie Hall. 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. We did that in Rochester also a couple of days ago when we presented this program minus the Batiste work. 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. conducting engagements include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Chineke! 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,. In no time he charmed us with his wit and delighted us with his energetic performances. Free, but tickets are required.. Alcohol served. John: In fact, the third movement is called Juba, which is a type of body percussion and dance that was widely found in musical traditions of enslaved Afro-Caribbean people. I suppose that Gateways is a little bit like that too because you don't get together very often. , 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. Although certainly, his most famous piece is the, , I urge you to check out George Walker's. George Walker was the first Black composer to win a Pulitzer prize in music that was in 1996 for his piece, . She's a person that no one really says no to. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra are set to perform at Carnegie Hall on April 24th, 2022, making them the first all-Black orchestra to do so in the renowned venue's 130-year history. 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. "The first time I played in an all-Black orchestra was at . That was cemented well before I became involved. Alex: Yes. It is his voice. To come to a place where there are folks who've had a shared life experience, it's extraordinary for them. The orchestra just rehearsed his new piece for the first time on Thursday, it's called I can. Take care. She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro five years ago. 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. It's complex because each section has so many different contrasting qualities. Alex: Yes. I'd love to see this orchestra personally go on tour so that audiences outside of New York State have the privilege of witnessing the power and beauty of such a special ensemble. Well, Jon Batiste had a little church meeting going when he was reading his poem before the premiere of ". Not surprisingly, he will be the piano soloist in that piece. 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. It is interesting that you went to Mozart and Beethoven. . The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is a 125+ member ensemble of musicians of African descent under the leadership of conductor Anthony Parnther. I would love to see this orchestra record especially literature that has been under-recorded or not recorded at all by underrepresented composers. Visit our website. During April 2022 Festival, the Gateways Orchestra became the first all-Black classical symphony orchestra ever presented by New York City's Carnegie . We are going to hear the world premiere of. It's our national anthem. Enjoy the rest of your brief intermission. We understand its importance, so that's really significant. Since 1995, Gateways Music Festival has brought together professional classical musicians of African descent in Rochester, NY to both celebrate the contributions and increase the visibility of. What does it mean to have you and your colleagues in this place at this time? Conductor Anthony Parnther is also out on the stage now with the rest of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. The Gateways Music Festival opens Nov. 9 -13. Lee: I think it is very much Jon. We should mention too that I Can, this new work also is credit offered in the program to orchestrator Matt Wong. Since then, musicians have been eagerly performing this real treasure trove of music. 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. is a work for piano and orchestra called. Today, 110 years later, another African American orchestra is making its first appearance on the stage of Carnegie Hall. This concert is part of his perspective series. GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL, INC.26 Gibbs Street, Box 58Rochester, NY 14604, info@gatewaysmusicfestival.org(585) 274-1170. Here are your tickets. Today, 110 years later, another African American orchestra is making its first appearance on the stage of Carnegie Hall. As long as we stick to that principle, I think that's the vision. a series of exciting broadcast concerts drawing upon some of the finest live performances from Carnegie Halls stages over the past eleven years. In Wynton Marsalis's re-imagining, A Fiddler's Tale, he takes Stravinsky's early jazz ingredients even further, melding jazz and classical idioms together with an updated narrative. Armenta Hummings Dumisani, I think the term force of nature was created for her. This is Carnegie Hall Live, I'm Jeff Spurgeon joined by my colleague, John Schaefer. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from Carnegie Hall Live. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut this month led by Anthony Parnther . 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. Before I'd conceived this piece, I had this poem, and it just kept resurfacing in my subconscious. 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. To come to a place where there are folks who've had a shared life experience, it's extraordinary for them. Jeff: Jon Batiste once at the center stage. 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. The members of the Gateways Orchestra are heading back out on stage at Carnegie Hall. Another first for this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. THE COOPER UNIONFrederick P. Rose Auditorium41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue at East 7th Street) New York, NY 10003. You have to make it true. Of course, that's not true. . This was a real challenge, but a little bit of everything. That composition is also being given its first hearing in Carnegie Hall in this performance. He resides in Los Angeles and Palm Springs. Because of limited seating capacity in the Hatch Hall, we urge you to get your tickets as soon as possible. You can hear that the audience, again, willing to go there and applaud each of the musicians as they stand. General Admission. Michael Morgan, our late and beloved music director called Gateways family reunion with instruments and it feels just like that. A A. ulang. Gateways Music Festival | Rochester NY Jeff: He's having so many moments at one time, yes. It can also serve as a beard or it can veil other, I think, less inclusive narratives. It's a big event for the members of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra coming down to Carnegie Hall from their home in Rochester, in upstate New York. Jeff: Backstage at Carnegie Hall, I'm Jeff Spurgeon. Price, Corey Hunter, PhD*General admission. It was wonderful to see you turn and conduct the audience in that final piece as well. The orchestra comes together and you just dig into the music. Gateways is receiving an $800,000 award from the. You have to make it true. 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. 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. The performance was the first by an all-Black classical symphony orchestra in Carnegie Hall's history. There are parts that are written out, and then, there are parts that he will improvise. She created Gateways. The members of the Gateways Orchestra are heading back out on stage at Carnegie Hall. It's complex because each section has so many different contrasting qualities. I wrote this poem in the summer of 2020. 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 turns out that Gateways isn't just an organization that serves musicians. WQXR is a proud media partner of the Gateways Music Festival 1,198 views Apr 19, 2022 On April 24, 2022, at 3pm WQXR is proud to present a live broadcast of the Gateways Music Festival. Only one ticket is required for both the film screening and the lecture. I just thought that it was so beautifully executed. She's a person that no one really says no to. This is the intermission of this concert, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. I wonder if in working with them now if any vision has occurred to you? That's a narrative that can be true, but it doesn't just happen. Jon: First, I would love to thank everyone who made it possible for us to be here, the ancestors who are watching over us. We purposely did not do it in Rochester because we wanted this to be the world premiere. Click on individual event for more information and to purchase tickets. Anthony Parnther | Photo by Konstantin Golovchinsky. 3; Florence B. Prices Symphony No. Black Lives Matter. For the 12th consecutive season,Carnegie HallandWQXRproudly unite to presentCarnegie Hall Live,a series of exciting broadcast concerts drawing upon some of the finest live performances from Carnegie Halls stages over the past eleven years. His live orchestral concert appearances for e-sports titan League of Legends in Barcelona, Beijing, Seoul, and Los Angeles are among the most widely viewed symphonic concerts in the world, with live audiences of 50,000-75,000 spectators and a viewership that outpaces the World Series with approximately 100 million live streaming each League of Legends Finals Opening Ceremony concert. The mission of Gateways Music Festival is to connect and support professional classical musicians of African descent and enlighten and inspire communities through the power of performance. My good friend Titus Underwood likes to often post the question to American orchestras, "Are we American orchestras or are we European approximations?" New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. I asked him what was it like to be at Carnegie Hall. 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. That feels like the two-fold idea of Gateways too. We know that it is, and that's what we're doing. He's having so many moments at one time, yes. There is an improvisatory element to it. Featuring Johannes Brahmss Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B-flat Major, Op. Jon Batiste is pointing to Maestro Parnther and to the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. LEARN MORE Become a GFO Volunteer Help us serve the St. Louis community LEARN MORE Our Story It began on a barge in the Mississippi. Orchestra Hall GATEWAY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. 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. Jeff: Music of Johannes Brahms begins this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra in their Carnegie Hall debut. People come to, I think, to concerts halls, not only to hear music but also to be affirmed culturally in their selves. We purposely did not do it in Rochester because we wanted this to be the world premiere. Anthony: I just thought that it was so beautifully executed. Gateways musicians let their hair down in a fun, club-like environment and perform pop, R&B, Jazz, gospel, reggae and everything in between! Carnegie Hall Live is a co-production of WQXR and Carnegie Hall. Gateways Music Festival Overview 530 views 10 months ago The Gateways Music Festival 2022 will take place from April 18-24, culminating in the Gateways Orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut,. 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! We should also mention Kelly Hall Tompkins, if that's a familiar name to our WQXR listeners, there's a good reason for that. John: Another curtain call for Conductor Anthony Parnther. Not heard in this place until just now by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. From August 6 through 11, 2019, 125 professional classical musicians of African descent are invited to Rochester, NY from across the . The festival originated in Winston-Salem and then moved with our founder, Armenta Hummings Dumisani to Eastman where she was on faculty. The African cloth comes out and no two people look exactly the same. Anthony: I just feel that as musicians, our first responsibility is to come together and create beauty. I believe she's 84-85 years old. Gateways Orchestra concert, 4:00 p.m. at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre on Sunday, August 11, $15 for adults, $10 for students and senior citizens with ID, and free for youth under 18. Before everyone dressed all in black, second half, everybody has a splash of color. Carnegie Hall Presents Across the Stars: The Music of John Williams . Not since the start, but since 2001. This performance is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Media Only: Dolores Orman, Gateways Music Festival, 585-271-5185, dolores.orman@gmail.com It seems like there was a real intention behind the planning of this program today. The festival originated in Winston-Salem and then moved with our founder, Armenta Hummings Dumisani to Eastman where she was on faculty. The Gateways Music Festival is getting ready for its Carnegie Hall debut. 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. I'd love to see this orchestra personally go on tour so that audiences outside of New York State have the privilege of witnessing the power and beauty of such a special ensemble. You'll receive the most up-to-date information about our musicians, venues and performances delivered right to your email inbox. Congratulations. Our satisfied clients include youth, high school, college, university and adult groups, including church and alumni tours. Thank you, gentlemen. Alex, thank you for stopping by. 4/25/2022 12:00 AM. We're talking of the depression years in America, a work in four movements meant to evoke music from African American tradition. The orchestra just rehearsed his new piece for the first time on Thursday, it's called. To many Black musicians, the Gateways Music Festival represents a welcome haven from the isolation many face in their working lives. 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. 2023 New York Public Radio General Admission. He serves as teaching artist for Aspen Music Festival and the National Youth Orchestras program at Carnegie Hall. Gateways Music Festival was founded in 1993 by Armenta Adams Hummings Dumisani in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The film screening and lecture are both free and open to the public, but tickets are required. 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. The most recent Gateways Music Festival took place in April 2022 in both Rochester and New York City and featured seven days of performances, panel discussions, lectures, film showings and more before a live audience of nearly 7,000 and a live radio audience of more than 100,000. Gateways Music Festival is grateful to the following institutions, foundations and governmental agencies for their generous support of the 2022 Gateways Music Festival. Before everyone dressed all in black, second half, everybody has a splash of color. Alex, thank you for stopping by. There was this outpouring of interest from all over the country. Anthony: There was an assembly of musicians and people here within the organization that very carefully crafted this program along with Michael Morgan. Can you distinguish for us the difference between the festival proper and the festival orchestra? 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. These and additional COVID-related policies can be found here. George Walker composed it in 2003. I should have asked you that before this began, but I'll lay it on you anyway. Jeff: If you can see it, you can be it, is the expression. Jones and Johns are current musicians in the Gateways Music Festival orchestra and its members recorded themselves at home for WQXR to put together for a virtual from-home performance. I think we rose to the occasion. Anthony: Lift Every Voice and Sing. It's a beautiful moment. is sacred to my community. Thank you!!! I suppose that Gateways is a little bit like that too because you don't get together very often. And serves on the board of directors in this orchestra. Conductor Anthony Parnther is also out on the stage now with the rest of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. Copyright 2022 New York Public Radio. In NYC, five of New York Citys premier venues welcome Gateways ensembles and guest artists. In May of 1912 at Carnegie Hall, where the stage welcomed a large ensemble of African American musicians, the Clef Club Symphony Orchestra. Bagikan di Facebook . This work that Jon Batiste is going to perform with the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra has that same kind of structure. 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. Jeff: The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from Carnegie Hall Live. The conclusion of seven days of performances in New York City. It's a real honor to be here with all of you and in my inaugural. What does it mean to this orchestra? [applause]. That was our mentor's vision. Of course, the orchestra, a whole bunch of people on stage, makes a great sound, gets a lot of attention, makes a big statement. 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 just feel that as musicians, our first responsibility is to come together and create beauty. 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. I think it's really interesting, Alex, that this idea that-- Representation, of course, is important, but this idea of the narrative of classical music is beyond race, is something universal. See locations and times below. Bless the Michael Morgan. It is his voice. Also particularly looking at it from the context of American orchestras. The concert features Jon Batiste, who just won five Grammys at this year's ceremony, including the highly-coveted title, "Album of the Year". I'm sure she wouldn't mind me telling her age. Jeff: That's more than 20 years now. We principally had one and a half days to piece this work together. Learn More In the Know with GFO Young Artists Program LEARN MORE Children's Outreach Because of limited seating capacity in the Rose Auditorium, we urge you to get your tickets as soon as possible. We don't actually have a complete score for the second. The festival has just grown and grown and grown since 1993, from that vision. Anthony: I mean, it certainly felt like a religious experience on stage with him without a doubt. This is a guy, Jeff, who is having a moment. A very gala-feel to this event. The authoritative record of New York Public Radios programming is the audio record. We are going to hear the world premiere of I Can. 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. 56a; George Walkers Sinfonia No. As you know, you're moving an orchestra or a music festival across a giant state like this is a big effort. -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. Over the course of each six-day festival, the musicians give a full orchestral . Press Room. It's an ensemble made up entirely of classical musicians of African descent, from orchestras around the country. 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. Kelly Hall Tompkins, the concertmaster giving the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra a chance to retune after that Brahms opening. The Brahms to begin, and then the Variations on ". " Sure. Search University of South Carolina University of South Carolina Navigation. He also told us they want to be a resource for the larger community. Does that resonate with you? I think the possibility of spontaneity is what makes this particular live performance so deeply engaging and organic for everybody involved including the audience. They'll open the second half of the program with a big work by prolific American composer, Florence Price. Okay. May 12, 2021. PO Box . Gateways Music Festival Orchestra (photo: Keith Bullis) Gateways Music Festival has received a substantial award of $800,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 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. GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL, INC. 26 Gibbs Street, Box 58 Rochester, NY 14604. info@gatewaysmusicfestival.org (585) 274-1170. Gateways is an all-Black classical symphony orchestra created in 1993 by concert pianist and educator Armenta Adams (Hummings) Dumisani. Adults: $20 | Seniors and Students: $15 | Children/Youth (Under 18): Free, ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH132 W 138th StreetNew York, NY. I think we're really making some ground today in terms of that piece of it, in terms of, is this a space that celebrates and uplifts Black people, Black culture, not just Black performers. Butler is a Conn-Selmer clinician and performing artist. How was putting that piece together because it was put together pretty much in New York, I think? 3 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage Read More Thursday. 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. Gateways Music Festival Orchestra was founded in 1993 by prominent pianist and educator Armenta Adams Dumisani. She was part of the inaugural class of the Artist Propulsion Lab at WQXR. The final . Kelly Hall Tompkins, the concertmaster giving the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra a chance to retune after that Brahms opening. Paul J. Burgett Lecture SeriesBlack Idioms in the Music of Florence B. From hall music by the late American composer, George Walker, his SinfoniaNo. The group was originally based in North Carolina but later moved to Rochester, New York in 1995 after its founder joined the faculty of the Eastman School of Music. 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