Beethoven’s 9th Symphony featured on tonight’s “New York Philharmonic This Week” broadcast

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”.  Music Director Alan Gilbert leads the Philharmonic, a quartet of vocal soloists, and the Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Also on the program, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Frieze”.

Thursday December 18:

The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP) (#15-11)

Alan Gilbert, conductor;

****Julianna Di Giacomo, soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Russell Thomas, tenor; Shenyang, bass; Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus; Kent Tritle, director

Mark-Anthony TURNAGE (b. 1960, England): Frieze   

****BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, “Choral”