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THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic ALEC BALDWIN, Artistic Advisor

September 13–17, 2016

SCORES PERFORMED LIVE TO FILM

Iconic New York City Films Presented as Part of

Philharmonic’s 175th Anniversary Celebration

WEST SIDE STORY Conducted by DAVID NEWMAN

September 13–15, 2016

MANHATTAN Conducted by ALAN GILBERT

WORLD PREMIERE of Score Performed Live to Film

Featuring Special Guest Tony Roberts

September 16–17, 2016

The New York Philharmonic will present the fourth season of THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film

Week at the Philharmonic September 13–17, 2016, featuring complete screenings of two iconic

films set in New York City with ties to the New York Philharmonic: West Side Story, conducted by

David Newman, and Manhattan, conducted by Alan Gilbert, with the scores — by Leonard

Bernstein and George Gershwin, respectively — performed live to the films. Actor and

Philharmonic Board Member Alec Baldwin continues as Artistic Advisor of THE ART OF THE

SCORE.

“Ever since we began THE ART OF THE SCORE, I have hoped to be able to arrange to present

Manhattan with the New York Philharmonic playing that marvelous all-Gershwin score —

which it recorded for the original sound track — live,” said Alec Baldwin, Artistic Advisor of

THE ART OF THE SCORE. “Now is just the right time for it to finally happen, as it fits

perfectly with the Orchestra’s salute to New York as part of its 175th anniversary season. This

great city has inspired countless filmmakers, so the challenge was selecting which movie to pair

with the Woody Allen classic. When we thought of West Side Story, with its magnificent music

and Bernstein’s connection to this great Orchestra, the choice was inevitable.”

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WEST SIDE STORY

THE ART OF THE SCORE will open September 13–15, 2016, with a complete screening of West

Side Story with New York Philharmonic Laureate Conductor Leonard Bernstein’s score performed

live to the film, conducted by David Newman. The re-mastered film will be projected in high-

definition, with original vocals and dialogue intact.

Leonard Bernstein was composing the score for West Side Story when, in November 1956, he

was appointed Joint Principal Conductor of the New York Philharmonic (he became Music

Director in September 1958). Set in Manhattan’s Upper West Side of the 1950s, which later

became the New York Philharmonic’s home with the establishment of and move to Lincoln

Center, West Side Story features Bernstein’s iconic score, which appeared in both the 1957

Broadway musical and the 1961 film, leans heavily on jazz and Latin American influences, and

includes classic songs such as “America,” “Tonight,” “Somewhere,” and “Maria.” A Robert

Wise Production, the film was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, and features

Robbins’s choreography, Ernest Lehman’s screenplay, Arthur Laurents’s book, and Stephen

Sondheim’s lyrics. Winner of ten Academy Awards® including Best Picture and the most of any

musical film in history, this electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in

the slums of 1950s New York and stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer. The New York

Philharmonic performed the score to West Side Story live to the film in September 2011, led by

David Newman, in celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary.

The Philharmonic inaugurated THE ART OF THE SCORE, highlighting some of the genre’s

most distinctive uses of music, in September 2013 with two programs of film music: Hitchcock!

— which celebrated Alfred Hitchcock and the music written for his films by composers

including Bernard Herrmann, Lyn Murray, and Dimitri Tiomkin through film clips accompanied

by live performances of the scores — and 2001: A Space Odyssey — which was screened in its

entirety as the Orchestra performed the score live, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert. The

second season featured La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema — highlighting iconic

Italian film scores by Nino Rota, Andrea and Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, and others — and

Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times: The Tramp at 100 — paying tribute to Charlie Chaplin and the

100th birthday of his character, The Little Tramp, including a complete screening of Modern

Times with the reconstructed score, composed by Chaplin with Alfred Newman’s help,

performed live to the film. The third season featured two complete Academy Award®–winning

films screened with live performances of their acclaimed scores: On the Waterfront, featuring

Bernstein’s Oscar®–nominated score, and The Godfather, featuring Nino Rota’s score.

MANHATTAN

THE ART OF THE SCORE’s second program, September 16–17, 2016, will feature the World

Premiere screening of Woody Allen’s complete 1979 film Manhattan with the score, composed

by Gershwin, performed live to the film, conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert. On

September 16 Alec Baldwin and special guest Tony Roberts, the actor who has appeared in

several Woody Allen films, will introduce the film. The New York Philharmonic, led by then

Music Director Zubin Mehta, recorded 10 of the 13 Gershwin works featured in the film,

including the rendition of Rhapsody in Blue that opens and closes the black-and-white film, on

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the same stage in which this year’s performances will take place. The score has been restored for

live performance for the first time, using the parts from the Philharmonic’s recording session that

were recovered in the Orchestra’s Music Library in 2015, and reconstructing other musical

elements to match their treatment in the film, including three selections recorded for the film by

the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Then Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker recalled Woody Allen, also a jazz clarinet player,

smiling and giving him a thumbs-up after Mr. Drucker recorded the opening solo of Rhapsody in

Blue. Then flutist Renée Siebert said, “I remember Woody Allen being quite taken with the

sound of that very familiar music coming to him ‘live’ from such a great orchestra.” Woody

Allen said that Manhattan “evolved from the music. I was listening to a record album of

overtures from famous George Gershwin shows, and I thought ‘This would be a beautiful thing

to make a movie in black-and-white, you know, and make a romantic movie.’”

Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, and Ann

Byrne star in Woody Allen’s extraordinary and funny film that explores the embattled life and

loves of a successful New York comedy writer. With music by George Gershwin, the film is a

Jack Rollins–Charles H. Joffe Production written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, and

directed by Woody Allen. Manhattan was nominated for two Academy Awards® including Best

Original Screenplay.

Artists

David Newman (West Side Story) is one of today’s most accomplished creators of music for

film. In his 30-year career he has scored more than 110 films, ranging from War of the Roses,

Matilda, Bowfinger, and Heathers to the more recent Five Flights Up and Serenity. His music

has brought to life the critically acclaimed dramas Brokedown Palace and Hoffa; top-grossing

comedies Galaxy Quest and Throw Mama from the Train; and award-winning animated films Ice

Age, The Brave Little Toaster, and Anastasia. Mr. Newman holds an Academy Award

nomination for his score to Anastasia, and was the first composer to have a piece — 1001 Nights

— performed in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s FILMHARMONIC series, conducted by Esa-

Pekka Salonen. Mr. Newman is also a highly sought-after conductor and appears with leading

orchestras throughout the world, including the New York, Los Angeles, and Royal philharmonic

orchestras; San Diego and Boston Symphony Orchestras; Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras;

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. He is

currently on a mini-tour performing live, with orchestra, movies such as West Side Story, Back to

the Future, Star Trek Into Darkness, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (leading the last of these

with the New York Philharmonic in May 2017). The son of nine-time Oscar-winning composer

Alfred Newman and an active composer for the concert hall, David Newman has composed

works that have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, and

Long Beach Symphony, as well as at the Ravinia Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Chicago’s

Grant Park Music Festival. He also composed a violin-orchestra suite for Sarah Chang based on

the songs from West Side Story. Passionate about nurturing the next generation of musicians, Mr.

Newman serves on the Board of the American Youth Symphony, a 51-year-old pre-professional

orchestra based in Los Angeles, and in 2010 he served on the faculty of the Aspen Music

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Festival in the Film Scoring Program. David Newman made his New York Philharmonic debut

conducting the score of West Side Story live to the complete film in September 2011; his most recent

appearance with the Orchestra was in A John Williams Celebration, the Spring Gala, in May 2016.

As Music Director of the New York Philharmonic since 2009, Alan Gilbert (Manhattan) has

introduced the positions of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, The Mary and

James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, and Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music

series; the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, an exploration of today’s music; and the New York

Philharmonic Global Academy, partnerships with cultural institutions to offer training of pre-

professional musicians, often alongside performance residencies. The Financial Times called him

“the imaginative maestro-impresario in residence.”

Alan Gilbert concludes his final season as Music Director with four programs that reflect themes,

works, and musicians that hold particular meaning for him, including Beethoven’s Ninth

Symphony alongside Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, Wagner’s complete Das Rheingold

in concert, and an exploration of how music can effect positive change in the world. Other

highlights include three World Premieres, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Ligeti’s Mysteries of the

Macabre, and Manhattan, performed live to film. He also leads the Orchestra on the EUROPE /

SPRING 2017 tour and in performance residencies in Shanghai and Santa Barbara. Past highlights

include acclaimed stagings of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen,

Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson (2015 Emmy

nomination), and Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake starring Marion Cotillard; 28 World

Premieres; a tribute to Boulez and Stucky during the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL; The Nielsen

Project; the Verdi Requiem and Bach’s B-minor Mass; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey,

performed live to film; Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony on the tenth anniversary of 9/11;

performing violin in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time; and ten tours around the world.

Conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and former principal guest

conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Alan Gilbert regularly conducts leading

orchestras around the world. This season he returns to the foremost European orchestras,

including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw,

and Orchestra della Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He will record Beethoven’s complete

piano concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Inon Barnatan, and conduct

Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, his first time leading a staged opera

there. He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor

Atomic in 2008, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award, and he conducted Messiaen’s

Des Canyons aux étoiles on a recent album recorded live at the Santa Fe Chamber Music

Festival. Mr. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The Juilliard School,

where he holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies. His honors include Honorary

Doctor of Music degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music (2010) and Westminster Choir

College (2016), Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award (2011), election to The

American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2014), a Foreign Policy Association Medal for his

commitment to cultural diplomacy (2015), Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2015), and

New York University’s Lewis Rudin Award for Exemplary Service to New York City (2016).

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Alec Baldwin (Artistic Advisor of THE ART OF THE SCORE) is the Radio Host of the New

York Philharmonic. Since 1980 Mr. Baldwin has appeared in numerous productions on stage, in

films, and on television. He has received a Tony nomination (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1992),

an Oscar nomination (The Cooler, 2004), and has won two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes,

and seven consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male

Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC’s 30 Rock. His films include The Hunt for Red

October, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, The Edge, It’s Complicated, Blue Jasmine, Still Alice,

and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, among many others. Alec Baldwin earned a bachelor

of fine arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1994, and received

an honorary doctorate in 2010. He is co-chairman of the Board of the Hamptons International

Film Festival. Mr. Baldwin has two daughters, Ireland Elliese Baldwin and Carmen Gabriela

Baldwin, and a son, Rafael Thomas Baldwin. He is married to Hilaria Thomas Baldwin. In 2016

Mr. Baldwin is hosting a summer package of episodes of Match Game, the classic television

game show, the proceeds of which Mr. Baldwin and his wife will donate to charity.

Actor Tony Roberts (Manhattan) has appeared in six Woody Allen films as well as five

Broadway hits produced by David Merrick. He also starred in the recent Manhattan Theatre Club

revival of The Royal Family and in the Tony-nominated staging of Xanadu. These were preceded

by the Broadway productions of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; Victor/Victoria; Cabaret; The

Sisters Rosensweig; Doubles; Absurd Person Singular; They’re Playing Our Song; Jerome

Robbins’ Broadway; Sugar; How Now, Dow Jones (Tony Award nomination); Promises,

Promises; Play It Again, Sam (Tony Award nomination); Don’t Drink The Water; Barefoot in

the Park; and a dozen other productions. He won the London Critic’s Poll Award for his

performance in Promises, Promises, and his versatility was on display at Madison Square

Garden playing Scrooge in Alan Menken’s A Christmas Carol, as well as in the New York City

Opera productions of Brigadoon and South Pacific. His films include Serpico, The Taking of

Pelham One Two Three (original 1974 version), 18 Again, Star Spangled Girl, Switch, and many

others. On television he was seen in Arthur Miller’s The American Clock, Saul Bellow’s Seize

the Day, and a host of other shows. Mr. Roberts has recorded more than 50 audiobooks,

including the popular Stuart Woods detective series featuring Stone Barrington. He also starred

in the first New York revival of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame at the Irish Repertory Theatre. A

New Yorker by birth, he graduated from The High School of Music & Art and Northwestern

University.

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Film screening of West Side Story is courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.

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Film screening of Manhattan is presented by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

Inc. and Park Circus.

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Citi. Preferred Card of the New York Philharmonic.

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Emirates is the Official Airline of the New York Philharmonic.

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Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural

Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the

New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the

New York State Legislature.

Tickets

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noon on Sunday. On performance evenings, the Box Office closes one-half hour after

performance time; other evenings it closes at 6:00 p.m. To determine ticket availability, call the

Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656. (Ticket prices subject to

change.)

For press tickets, call Lanore Carr at the New York Philharmonic at (212) 875-5714, or e-mail

her at carrl@nyphil.org.

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THE ART OF THE SCORE: FILM WEEK AT THE PHILHARMONIC

Alec Baldwin, THE ART OF THE SCORE Artistic Advisor

WEST SIDE STORY

David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 15, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

David Newman, conductor

BERNSTEIN West Side Story (score performed live to complete film) ________________________________________

THE ART OF THE SCORE: FILM WEEK AT THE PHILHARMONIC

Alec Baldwin, THE ART OF THE SCORE Artistic Advisor

MANHATTAN

David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

Friday, September 16, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, September 17, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Tony Roberts, special guest (September 16)

GERSHWIN Manhattan (World Premiere–score performed

live to complete film)

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