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The New York Philharmonic has announced the schedule for its free Concerts in the Parks series, presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer and conducted by Thomas Wilkins.
The series runs June 11-14, with the concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park taking place on June 12 at 8 p.m. (with a fireworks display to follow!).
[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]This summer, Thomas Wilkins conducts the Orchestra in a program that ranges from classics by Beethoven, Elgar, and Rimsky-Korsakov to Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, with Randall Goosby as soloist, to new music by Carlos Simon and NY Phil Very Young Composers.
[/perfectpullquote]Though this marks Wilkins’ first time conducting the Concerts in the Parks, he made his NY Phil debut in 2015, when he led a subscription program titled “Great African American Singers and Their Legacy.: Wilkins has since conducted and hosted numerous Young People’s Concerts, and returns in October 2024 for the Philharmonic’s exploration of Afromodernism on a program that features a New York Premiere by Nathalie Joachim and a reprise of Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances.
The New York Philharmonic’s free parks concerts have become an iconic New York summer experience since they began in 1965, transforming parks throughout the boroughs into a patchwork of picnickers and music lovers, providing the city an opportunity to hear classical music for free. More than 15 million listeners have been delighted by the performances since their inception.
Admission is free and tickets are not required. Learn more here.
When is the NY Phil going to learn its fireworks for this the opening of event are an “eff the neighbors”?
Will it be this summer season?
Dude are you serious? It’s one night a year. Does July 4th “eff” the neighbors too? Try watching them and put some joy in your life.
Sass:
Inappropriate fireworks are hardly a one night a year event in Central Park, there’s also the night before the Marathon, and often other “events”.
So it’s one inappropriate event amongst too many.
The 4th of July fireworks are NOT boxed in by buildings on 2 sides.
Your response ignorant of the problem and arrogant about what people should have to endure.
Thank you Sass! Further, these are rarely more than 15 mins, lovely.
Do jaded, opinionated NY-ers say this stuff thinking they’re clever? Or purposely be grouchy just to say something. . anything. . to be heard, under the disguise of being ‘thoughtful’?
Likely the type, of which there are too many, who complains about people having dinner at a restaurant outside their building on a nice sunny summer day too.
There are a lot of places that have no fireworks, nor music, parks, restaurants, and bars. Nor summer streets, nor free concerts in the park by globally accomplished and sought after musicians.
Please, drop the keys to your rent-stabilized apartment and leave; stop ruining things for everyone else.
Inconsiderate:
Like Sass you are ignorant of how obnoxious the problem is.
The fireworks are boxed in by the buildings around the park, and it’s not just one Central Park firework event per year.
You clearly live nowhere near Central Park in the 70s, but yet you suppose you can speak for those who do.
Thank you Sass! Further, these are rarely more than 15 mins, lovely.
Do jaded, opinionated NY-ers say this stuff thinking they’re clever? Or purposely be grouchy just to say something. . anything. . to be heard, under the disguise of being ‘thoughtful’?
There are a lot of places that have no fireworks, nor music, parks, restaurants, and bars. Nor summer streets, nor free concerts in the park by globally accomplished and sought after musicians.
Please, drop the keys to your rent-stabilized apartment and leave; stop ruining things for everyone else.