The New York Philharmonic Orchestra; David Robertson, conductor; Kent Tritle, organist. Program Vaughan Williams (1872- 1958) Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Organ Symphony About the Performers Founded in 1842, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the oldest musical institutions in the United States and the oldest of the "Big Five" orchestras. The Philharmonic's home is David Geffen Hall, located in New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The music director of music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra David Robertson has been an artist on the Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, where he has conducted, among others, The Met Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. He appears regularly in Europe with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, Czech Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony and Dresden Staatskapelle orchestras and more. The organist of the New York Philharmonic Kent Tritle is a music director of the Oratorio Society of New York, and of choral activities at the Manhattan School of Music; director of cathedral music and organist at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divineand more. He is a member of the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School, chair of the organ department of the Manhattan School of Music.
New York City, NY; NYC