I should have asked you that before this began, but I'll lay it on you anyway. Jeff: Conductor Anthony Parnther goes on stage, to conduct the final work on this program, the Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing by James V. Cockerham in this initial performance of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, a performance you'll hear from Carnegie Hall Live. This is going to be quite a wonderful world premiere and a big occasion. Founded in 1993, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra celebrates the contributions of classical musicians of African descent, bringing young professionals from across the country together with established musicians from leading orchestras to perform and inspire communities through the power of music. . They're leaving the stage for a few minutes, but we have managed to grab one of them by the coattail as he walks by. Jeff: The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra from Carnegie Hall Live. Of course, that's not true. That's more than 20 years now. George Walker was the first Black composer to win a Pulitzer prize in music that was in 1996 for his piece, . John: Our thanks to Clive Gillinson and the staff at Carnegie Hall, the WQXR recording crew, Edward Haber, George Wellington, Irene Trudel, Duke Marcos, and our production team. I'm from the South, and I'm from the Baptist Church tradition, and. She had this great idea to provide a safe affirming space for classical musicians of African descent. John: George Walker was the first Black composer to win a Pulitzer prize in music that was in 1996 for his piece Lilacs. We are going to hear the world premiere of I Can. I just thought that it was so beautifully executed. *General admission. 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. Tags: diversity, Eastman School of Music, Gateways Music Festival, performing arts, The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut on Sunday afternoon, April 24, with conductor Anthony Parnther (far right) and Grammy Award-winning pianist Jon Batiste (in gold). As soon as we hear that cord progression, our congregation stands, and we sing. He also told us they want to be a resource for the larger community. Gateways musicians are rewriting that narrative." Female Speaker: Okay. Search sc.edu. Before I'd conceived this piece, I had this poem, and it just kept resurfacing in my subconscious. John Schaefer's here as well. He was known for his warm spirit and as a visionary behind the Gateways Music Festival, an event celebrating classical musicians of African descent. Bless the Michael Morgan. I mean, it certainly felt like a religious experience on stage with him without a doubt. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut on Sunday afternoon, April 24, with conductor Anthony Parnther (far right) and Grammy Award-winning pianist Jon Batiste (in gold). PO Box . -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. Jeff: It's wonderful to have you here. Although certainly, his most famous piece is the Lyric for Strings. 3 in C Minor, James Cockerhams Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing and the world premiere of a work for narrator and orchestra by Oscar-winning, GRAMMY-nominated Jon Batiste, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Alex, thank you for stopping by. 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. All Rights Reserved. Tweet Save . In NYC, five of New York Citys premier venues welcome Gateways ensembles and guest artists. Anthony Parnther | Photo by Konstantin Golovchinsky. Of course, the orchestra, a whole bunch of people on stage, makes a great sound, gets a lot of attention, makes a big statement. 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. Development of the Orchestra, Music Appreciation, Bio-Musicology and Music Theory. Before I'd conceived this piece, I had this poem, and it just kept resurfacing in my subconscious. The festival has just grown and grown and grown since 1993, from that vision. She had this great idea to provide a safe affirming space for classical musicians of African descent. George Walker composed it in 2003. 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. Last week I spoke to Carl Craig, who is one of the pioneers of the second wave of Detroit techno, who played here as part of Carnegie's Afrofuturism festival. 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. It's a world premiere. You have to make it true. << Galilee Chamber Orchestra. Paul Burgett was a leader in classical music. Jeff: From Carnegie Hall Live, the world premiere of I Can, composed by Jon Batiste and performed by him at piano and the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, making its Carnegie Hall debut in this concert under the direction of conductor Anthony Parnther. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, most of them at least are leaving the stage. Congratulations. I wrote this poem in the summer of 2020. Backstage at Carnegie Hall, I'm Jeff Spurgeon. , 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. At recent festivals, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra comprised 125 instrumentalists, many drawn from such major orchestras as the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Cleveland Orchestra and the National, Boston, Houston, Phoenix and Detroit symphonies. 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. 3 in C Minor and James V. Cockerhams Fantasia on Lift Every Voice and Sing. Jeff: This is going to be quite a wonderful world premiere and a big occasion. She's never taken medication. That feels like the two-fold idea of Gateways too. Lee: I think it is very much Jon. This concert features Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Florence Prices Symphony No. 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. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut Sunday, April 24, the final day of the weeklong Gateways Music Festival in association with the University of Rochesters Eastman School of Music. Alex: Well, I think as artists in this music that's called classical, we have always felt that Carnegie is a place for us, but what we think is important is we know that there are audience members that, until we grace this stage, did not know that Carnegie was a place for them. Congratulations to you, Anthony Parnther, and to the Gateways Music Festival at an amazing week in New York in an amazing combination of this concert. It is interesting that you went to Mozart and Beethoven. This is Carnegie Hall Live, I'm Jeff Spurgeon joined by my colleague, John Schaefer. 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. Yes. It's full orchestra and piano and just him. There is an improvisatory element to it. Enjoy the show. Join Terrance McKnight of New York Citys classical music station WQXR for an engaging conversation with Lee Koonce (president & artistic director of Gateways Music Festival), Ann Hobson Pilot (retired principal harp, Boston Symphony) and Titus Underwood (principal oboe, Nashville Symphony Orchestra). a series of exciting broadcast concerts drawing upon some of the finest live performances from Carnegie Halls stages over the past eleven years. Congratulations. You'll find lots of stuff on the wqxr.org website that Kelly was involved with during her time with the APL. The African cloth comes out and no two people look exactly the same. She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro five years ago. Tuesdays at 8:00 pm The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall Fresh, exciting performances highlighting musicians of African descent The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is a 125+ member ensemble of musicians of African descent under the leadership of conductor Anthony Parnther. For details on event times, prices,and locations, call 232-6106 or visit gatewaysmusicfestival.org. She was part of the inaugural class of the Artist Propulsion Lab at WQXR. The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra makes history as the first all-Black orchestra to feature at Carnegie Hall in the venue's 130-year-history, Harlem World Magazine reports. What's making the occasion even bigger is that they will be presenting a world premiere, a piece so new, the ink has barely dried on it. General admission. You'll receive the most up-to-date information about our musicians, venues and performances delivered right to your email inbox. CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS National Youth Orchestra of the United States of . From Carnegie Hall Live, the Symphony No. The Walker in its own way is a set of variations as well. Our satisfied clients include youth, high school, college, university and adult groups, including church and alumni tours. 2022 Gateways Orchestra 2022 Guest Artists & Chamber Music Musicians Gallery Listen Gateways Radio Stream . is sacred to my community. Of course, personally, I would love to see this orchestra come together more frequently. is a work for piano and orchestra called I Can. Maestro Anthony Parnther dari "Star Wars" dalam debut Carnegie Hall bersama All Orchestra. John: Well, Jon Batiste had a little church meeting going when he was reading his poem before the premiere of "I can.". Price. I can play gospel. Alex Laing, the principal clarinet of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, also serves on their board of directors. 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. Now, all the orchestra on its feet and with Maestro Parnther bow to this Carnegie audience this afternoon. This artist has also appeared with: This artist not appeared with any other performers that we know of. 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. Well, Jon Batiste had a little church meeting going when he was reading his poem before the premiere of ". Carnegie Hall Live is a co-production of WQXR and Carnegie Hall. Not heard in this place until just now by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. 4/25/2022 12:00 AM. Favorites More Music Features Click on individual event for more information and to purchase tickets. John: Another curtain call for Conductor Anthony Parnther. Three-movement work played by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra in their Carnegie Hall debut from Carnegie Hall Live. Instead of a minuet or scherzo with trio you got a Juba. Another first for this concert by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. Price, Corey Hunter, PhD*General admission. We did that in Rochester also a couple of days ago when we presented this program minus the Batiste work. Well, I think as artists in this music that's called classical, we have always felt that Carnegie is a place for us, but what we think is important is we know that there are audience members that, until we grace this stage, did not know that Carnegie was a place for them. Female Speaker 2: Your tickets, please. The two pieces are musical cousins and were actually intended to be so. 3 of Florence Price, performed by the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Anthony Parnther in the orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut and he first time that work has ever been performed at Carnegie Hall, written in the 1930s with help from the federal government, the WPA program at that time, Florence Price created this Symphony No. John: A drum kit as well will be called for in this next piece by Jon Batiste, who is a Perspectives artist here at Carnegie Hall, which means he gets to oversee a whole series of events during this 2021-22 season. Anthony: -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. I think we rose to the occasion. 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. . Can you distinguish for us the difference between the festival proper and the festival orchestra? General Admission. Enjoy the show. Announced by Gateways Music Festival in association with the Eastman School of Music, the news is very welcome to the 28-year-old organization, which works to connect and support . Price, Corey Hunter, PhDGeneral admission. It seems like there was a real intention behind the planning of this program today. GATEWAY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. Jeff: -for Soul, 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. Now we're so pleased to welcome to the Carnegie Hall microphones, Maestro 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. Gateways musicians let their hair down in a fun, club-like environment and perform pop, R&B, Jazz, gospel, reggae and everything in between! The festival originated in Winston-Salem and then moved with our founder, Armenta Hummings Dumisani to Eastman where she was on faculty. The concerts are free to attend. John: I Can, the name of that piece. Jeff: 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. As you noticed, the audience responded in-hand to what they saw visual and it was just another extra element of all of these people on stage celebrating our heritage. 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. We should mention too that I Can, this new work also is credit offered in the program to orchestrator Matt Wong. You can hear that the audience, again, willing to go there and applaud each of the musicians as they stand. Gateways musicians are rewriting that narrative., Alexander Laing, principal clarinet,Phoenix Symphony and Gateways Festival Orchestra, Armenta Adams (Hummings) Dumisani, Founder & President Emerita. John: 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. The festival originated in Winston-Salem and then moved with our founder, Armenta Hummings Dumisani to Eastman where she was on faculty. Jeff: Backstage at Carnegie Hall, I'm Jeff Spurgeon. The members of the Gateways Orchestra are heading back out on stage at Carnegie Hall. I think it is very much Jon. The conclusion of seven days of performances in New York City. Alex: The role this hall plays in this music is understood by all. What was the idea there? "Oh, well this is classical music. Alex: Not since the start, but since 2001. I wonder if in working with them now if any vision has occurred to you? 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. What was the idea there? gateways music festival is changing the classical Music narrative "When Gateways musicians walk out on stage, a new line of inquiry - a new conversation - is opened with the audience before we even play a note because the backdrop of classical music is that this is a white art form. When Gateways musicians walk out on stage, a new line of inquiry a new conversation is opened with the audience before we even play a note because the backdrop of classical music is that this is a white art form. My good friend Titus Underwood likes to often post the question to American orchestras, "Are we American orchestras or are we European approximations?" Also particularly looking at it from the context of American orchestras. People come to, I think, to concerts halls, not only to hear music but also to be affirmed culturally in their selves. That composition is also being given its first hearing in Carnegie Hall in this performance. Ticket prices vary by location. He's having so many moments at one time, yes. 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. Gateways Radio airs Friday evenings at 9 p.m. beginning on February 3. Take care. He is a resident member of the Jacksonville-based Ritz Chamber Players, The Harlem Chamber Players, Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, and innovative chamber music theater group the Core Ensemble. A A. Jon Batiste is pointing to Maestro Parnther and to the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra. He . This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. 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. Celebrating classical musicians of African descent. Gateways Music Festival is thrilled to announce that renowned Hollywood and symphony orchestra conductor Anthony Parnther will lead the Gateways Orchestra for its concerts in Rochester, NY and New York City, including the Orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut! That was my first Gateways. Dmitri Berlinsky Dmitri Berlinsky is professor of violin and artist teacher at the MSU College of Music. We know that it is, and that's what we're doing. See locations and times below. Bach to the Future will perform with the Gateway Festival Orchestra 7:30 PM, Sunday July 10, Washington University Brookings Quadrangle. Anthony Parnther, conductorAntoine T. Clark, assistant conductor, VIOLIN I Kelly Hall-Tompkins, concertmaster Cleveland A. Chandler Daniel Constant Caitlin Edwards Mellasenah Edwards Brendon Elliott Alex Gonzalez Mariana Green-Hill Marianne Henry Ashley Horne Amyr Joyner Kyle Lombard Jessica R. McJunkins Chelsea Sharpe Lionel Thomas Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, VIOLIN II Derek Reeves, principal Lucinda Ali-Landing Charlene Bishop Jeffrey Boga Dale Breidenthal David Burnett Nicole Cherry Frdrique Gnaman Bennie Harris Joshua Henderson Sarah E. Martin Phillip Payton Meredith Riley Booker Rowe, VIOLAJennifer Arnold, principalLeslie DeShazorAndrew FrancoisAshleigh GordonLinda GreenChristopher JenkinsCaroline JonesJaven LaraDeidra LawrenceAundrey MitchellYvonne SmithGeorge Taylor, CELLO Troy Stuart, principal Ifetayo Ali-Landing Cremaine Booker Eric Cooper Gordon Grubbs Joseph Hbert Timothy Holley Thapelo Masita Prudence McDaniel Derek Menchan James Ryan Murphy Wayne Smith, DOUBLE BASS Rick Robinson, principal William Johnson Kevin Mauldin Anthony Morris Jacqueline Pickett Patricia Silva Weitzel, FLUTE Judith Dines, principal Dennis Carter Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington Patricia Reeves, OBOE Titus Underwood, principal Hassan Anderson Sarrah Bushara Geoffrey Johnson, CLARINET Alexander Laing, principal Pamela Coats Robert Davis LeTriel White, BASSOONJoshua Elmore, principalAlexander DavisKai RockeMaya Stone, FRENCH HORN Larry Williams, principal David Dickerson Adedeji Ogunfolu Priscilla Rheinhart Jeffrey Scott, TRUMPET Herbert Smith, principal Javian Brabham Leonard Foy Courtney Jones, TROMBONE Burt Mason, principal Isrea Butler Timothy Robinson Martin McCain (Bass), PERCUSSION Ralph Barrett, principal Jauvon Gilliam Cleo Goldberg Don Johns Terry McKinney. All Gateways Music Festival performances are free and open to the public. Learn More In the Know with GFO Young Artists Program LEARN MORE Children's Outreach The concert also included works by the German composer Johannes Brahms (18331897); George Walker 56E (DMA) (19222018), the first composer of African descent to win a Pulitzer Prize (Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra, 1996); Florence Price (18871953), the first African American female composer to have her work performed by a major orchestra (1933 Chicago Symphony performance of Symphony No. This is a guy, Jeff, who is having a moment. It's full orchestra and piano and just him. 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. 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