Monday (5/13) on the WQXR Blog, Brian Wise writes, “While a deteriorating European economy has the continent’s carmakers singing the blues, officials at Volkswagen are counting on a happier tune on Tuesday when the New York Philharmonic performs a concert webcast at its factory in Dresden. The Philharmonic, which is in the middle of a nine-city, 15-day tour of Europe, will perform at the Transparent Factory, a facility where Volkswagen assembles its Phaeton luxury sedan line. The program will include Magnus Lindberg’s Kraft, a score that calls on the performers to use locally-sourced scrap metal as part of the percussion battery—in this case, metal parts provided by Volkswagen. Music director Alan Gilbert will conduct the performance, which will be webcast free on Medici.TV at 2 pm ET. Also on the program are Prospero’s Rooms by Philharmonic composer-in-residence Christopher Rouse and Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade featuring violinist Joshua Bell. … The Philharmonic played Kraft in 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall, after Lindberg and members of the percussion section visited a salvage yard on Staten Island for local junk to be used in the performance.”
Posted May 14, 2013
