NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Connick Jr. will premiere a composition for the one centesimal anniversary of his mom’s start for Carnegie Corridor’s 2025-26 season, which celebrates the Declaration of Independence with a pageant titled: “United in Sound: America at 250.”
Connick has tentatively titled the work “Elaboratio,” desirous to musically elaborate on his mom’s life. He’ll play piano within the efficiency for his Carnegie essential stage debut on Could 22, 2026, precisely 100 years after the start of Anita Frances Livingston. This system is to be repeated the next night time.
His supervisor referred to as Carnegie Corridor government director Clive Gillinson seven years in the past to order the date.
“I simply wished to do one thing that I believe would have made her proud and and honor her reminiscence by performing in a spot that she at all times wished me to play and to write down one thing that’ll final ceaselessly in her honor,” Connick mentioned throughout an interview after Wednesday’s information convention.
Connick’s mom died in 1981, when he was 13.
He’s nonetheless composing the work, which may have three actions about every of the locations she lived: New York; Nouaceur, Morocco; and New Orleans.
His solely Carnegie look has been within the smaller Zankel Corridor in 2005.
Carnegie’s pageant runs from January to July and can embody no less than 35 performances. Works by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Philip Glass, Wynton Marsalis and Julia Wolfe are featured in addition to underrepresented composers reminiscent of Amy Seaside, Florence Value and William Dawson. Jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, hip-hop, Broadway and bluegrass are among the many genres.
A March 2 live performance starring J. Harrison Ghee and Betsy Wolf will function “The Secret Life of the American Musical,” based mostly on Jack Viertel’s e book on the making of Broadway exhibits.
Conductor Marin Alsop, pianist Lang Lang, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and violinist Maxim Vengerov would be the artists of Carnegie’s Views collection. Arvo Pärt, who turns 90 in September, will maintain the Debs Composer’s Chair however might be not journey to New York due to his age, Gillinson mentioned.
Within the first of greater than 170 concert events, conductor Daniel Harding leads opening night time on Oct. 7 with alumni of the Nationwide Youth Orchestra of the USA of America and pianist Yuja Wang. This system consists of Bernstein’s choices from symphonic dances from “West Side Story,” Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto No. 1 and Stravinsky’s “The Firebird Suite.”
