Bernstein Century Part II on tonight’s “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Mozart’s “Overture to The Magic Flute” and Copland’s “Clarinet Concerto”.  Also on the program Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story” and Barber’s “2nd Essay for Orchestra”.

Monday September 3 (Labor Day 2018): “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 18-49)

A Century of Bernstein, Part II (Leonard Bernstein conducts, except where noted)

New York Philharmonic: Four Improvisations by the Orchestra

Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute, K. 620

Copland: Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp, & Piano Stanley Drucker, clarinet

Mahler: Adagietto from Symphoy No. 5

Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra

Shchedrin: Mischievous Folk Ditties

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Alan Gilbert, conductor

Beethoven: Gloria from Mass in D, Op. 123, "Missa solemnis” Eileen Farrell, soprano; Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano; Jon Vickers, tenor; Donald Bell, baritone; Schola Cantorum, dir. Hugh Ross

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

Bernstein: Overture to Candide