[Music]
New York Philharmonic welcomes yacht
funds favor as its new music director in
the 2018-19 season and with him an
ambitious schedule of adventurous music
making connections with New York City
and explorations of music and the social
conscience New York City thrives on the
energy of generations of immigrants who
have called it home Yop funds Faden and
the philharmonic will pay tribute to
them with New York stories threads of
our city the centerpiece will be the
world premiere of Julia Wolf's fire in
my mouth based on the 1911 Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory fire this new piece
for the Philharmonic is the third piece
in a series of pieces about the American
worker I had been thinking about women
in the workforce and we're talking about
immigrant women from Russia Eastern
Europe and southern Italy and they came
with the skill set they know how to sew
and they wind up working on these huge
factory floors the title was actually
said by Clara Lemlich who's one of the
amazing Politico leaders of the time
there was an interview with her later
that sometime around 1950s 1960s and she
said ah then I had fire in my mouth it's
a multimedia piece my collaborators Jeff
SOG he's creating a projection design
we're working with photographs and other
kinds of archival material such a gift
really to be able to lay that on these
super high level musicians with Jaap
conducting it's really thrilling since
its memorial for Abraham Lincoln in 1865
monic has engaged the crises and
questions of its time
with music of conscience yup fun Staton
and the philharmonic will explore the
intersection of music and social issues
my symphony came about because I was
overcome by the number of friends are
lost who died of AIDS and so I have the
conscience of a need to do that just as
the when I saw the quilt I felt the
immediacy of the quilt when you look
down and see beautiful tapestries and
then you stretch your eye as far as the
horizon consume you see more fruits and
I thought music could do music and being
intimate with a turn of the solo violin
or Symphony learning to be a huge
Symphony Orchestra's demonstrating the
tragedy and there felt that had to do
that maestro knows how to handle the big
forces and this is a very large
Orchestra super large Orchestra and
requires a mullerian kind of performance
but Jaap is a man who can do that and
will do that and I'm so thrilled he's
conducting this piece one of the things
that happened to me when I was young as
I saw a production of Fidelio on the one
hand I thought it was amazing that here
was this opera that was based on
political impulse and yet it was an
opera that tried to downplay the
political implications of it I thought
on ever since then how great it would be
to try to figure out how to make that
political story go farther
there's no Beethoven music in my piece
and there's no Beethoven libretto I take
things which I think are odd or not
pushed farther I rewrite them it's a
version which is made for a symphony
orchestra to be an integral part of the
performance so one of the things I'm
very excited about is the New York
Philharmonic and their incredible power
virtuosity and clarity I'm very excited
that on Yap has such great connection to
the original music and to music being
written
ever since it gave the US premiere of
Beethoven's Eroica Symphony in 1843 the
Philharmonic has championed the music of
its time building on the Philharmonic's
commitment to nurturing long term
relationships with today's composers
Jaap fund statement will immerse
Orchestra and audience in the music of
his Dutch compatriot Louis Andreessen I
for a long time already as certainly
since I had read The Odyssey of
Ramirez Homer they say here I had a kind
of fear but also addressed in Agamemnon
I had the idea of I should make a piece
on him and then I thought of a symphonic
poem experience a season of timely
themes that Kindle personal reflection
and collective action with the
Philharmonic's new maestro got one
statement
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