Most of the concerts will feature Prokoviev's Suite From Romeo and Juliet and Tchaikovsky's Coronation March and Violin Concerto, with Jennifer Koh as soloist and associate conductor Xian Zhang on the podium.
The exceptions are a brass ensemble concert in Holmdel on July 10 (the program has not yet been announced) and the parks finale on the Great Lawn on July 18, at which Marin Alsop will lead John Adams' The Chairman Dances from Nixon in China, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Leila Josefowicz is the soloist. All of the concerts except for the Holmdel event will conclude with fireworks.
A complete schedule for the parks concerts is below.
The third annual Summertime Classic series at Avery Fisher Hall will run June 29-July 8; Bramwell Tovey, the music director of the Vancouver Symphony, will again conduct, leading music by Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Bernstein, Copland, Aaron Jay Kernis, John Philip Sousa, Rossini, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Ravel. Soloists include pianist Alexander Kobrin; jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, who will play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; and pianists Benjamin Hochman and Orion Weiss.
As previously reported, the Philharmonic's fourth annual residency at Bravo! will run July 21-28; Tovey, Alsop, and Zhang will conduct. The residency opens with an all-Beethoven concert featuring pianist Jonathan Biss; other soloists include Josefowicz, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Koh, and pianist Yuja Wang. In the final concert, Tovey will conduct and perform Rhapsody in Blue.
2006 New York Philharmonic Concerts In The Parks
All concerts at 8:00 p.m.
Program I
Monday, July 10: PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
Brass Ensemble from the New York Philharmonic
Musicians and program TBA
Program II
Tuesday, July 11: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Wednesday, July 12: The Great Lawn, Central Park, Manhattan
Thursday, July 13: Cunningham Park, Queens
Friday, July 14: Snug Harbor, Staten Island
Saturday, July 15: Heckscher State Park, East Islip, Long Island
Monday, July 17: Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx
Xian Zhang, conductor
Jennifer Koh, violin
Tchaikovsky: Coronation March
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Program III
Tuesday, July 18: The Great Lawn, Central Park, Manhattan
Marin Alsop, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
John Adams: The Chairman Dances
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5