Perlman, Rana and Gaffigan Featured in New York Times Fall 2022 Season Preview
Itzhak Perlman, Beatrice Rana and James Gaffigan are featured in the New York Times
Classical Music and Opera This Fall: 59 Programs, Premieres and More
By Joshua Barone and Zachary Woolfe
The New York Times
September 8, 2022
James Gaffigan / National Symphony Orchestra / Kennedy Center
Leonard Bernstein’s maximalist, multigenre MASS was one of the works to inaugurate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1971. Now it is back to conclude the center’s 50th anniversary celebrations, with James Gaffigan leading the National Symphony Orchestra and the baritone Will Liverman in the role of the Celebrant. (Sept. 15-18; Kennedy Center, Washington)
Beatrice Rana / Philadelphia Orchestra / Carnegie Hall
Another season, another de facto residency at Carnegie Hall for this ensemble and its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. A day after their season opener at home, with Lang Lang and BalletX performing choreography by Tiler Peck of New York City Ballet, the Philadelphians headline Carnegie’s gala on Sept. 29, with Nézet-Séguin leading works by Ravel, Gabriela Lena Frank and Dvorak, as well as Liszt, with a hand from the pianist Daniil Trifonov. More Carnegie appearances follow in the fall: a concert with Beatrice Rana (Oct. 28); and a starry Mahler Fourth, with Pretty Yende, following a new work by Xi Wang (Dec. 13) that premieres a few nights earlier in Philadelphia (Dec. 8-10). That’s not the only premiere in store: The violinist Jennifer Koh plays a new concerto by Nina Young in a Philadelphia concert conducted by Marin Alsop (Nov. 17-19). (Kimmel Center, Philadelphia)
Itzhak Perlman / Itzhak Perlman and Friends / Carnegie Hall
An evening led by one of our most famous violinists, Itzhak Perlman, features as its guests the pianists Emanuel Ax and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, as well as the Juilliard String Quartet, joined by its new violist, Molly Carr, who was brought on earlier this year after the death of Roger Tapping. (Dec. 14; Carnegie Hall)
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