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The center runs a Middle School Jazz Academy, a High School Jazz Academy, and a Summer Academy, all in New York City, all of them with free tuition. Every year the orchestra tours and visits schools throughout the U.S. [5] The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival takes place every year at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City. Known officially as the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., [1] and globally known as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) [2] [3] or the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, [4] it is one of the leading American orchestras popularly called the "Big Five". [5]
The orchestra's recordings are produced by Recursive Classics, and are distributed through Apple, Amazon, Spotify and other retailers. The current music director is David Bernard . The symphony regularly features soloists such as David Chan (concertmaster, Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra), Carter Brey (cellist, New York Philharmonic), and ...
The New York Pops is the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States, [citation needed] and the only professional symphonic orchestra in New York City specializing in popular music. Led by Music Director Steven Reineke , [ 1 ] the orchestra performs an annual subscription series and birthday gala at Carnegie Hall .
The New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962, is widely regarded as one of the most controversial in the orchestra's history. Featuring a performance by Glenn Gould of the First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms, conducted by its music director, Leonard Bernstein, the concert became famous because of Bernstein's remarks from the podium prior to the concerto.
The Knights are a New York–based orchestra founded by brothers Eric and Colin Jacobsen. [1] While music students in the late 1990s, the brothers were interested in performing classical and modern music. These gatherings turned into public recitals and the ensemble The Knights of the Many-Sided Table was formed.
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[4] The five were the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra. But the concept and the list are now outmoded. Music critics today include more orchestras on their lists of "top" American orchestras. [5] Notable U.S. orchestras are listed here by state.