THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic ALEC BALDWIN, Artistic Advisor September 13 17, 2016

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1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 4, 2016 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) ; 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.

2 THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic / 2 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 highdefinition, 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

3 THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic / 3 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

4 THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic / 4 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 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 preprofessional 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).

5 THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic / 5 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 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. Film screening of West Side Story is courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Film screening of Manhattan is presented by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Park Circus. Citi. Preferred Card of the New York Philharmonic.

6 Emirates is the Official Airline of the New York Philharmonic. THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic / 6 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 Single tickets start at $55. Tickets are available online at nyphil.org or by calling (212) , 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday; 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday; and noon to 5:00 p.m. Sunday. The Box Office opens at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at 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) (Ticket prices subject to change.) For press tickets, call Lanore Carr at the New York Philharmonic at (212) , or her at carrl@nyphil.org.

7 THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic / 7 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) # # # ALL PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE What s New Get the Latest News, Video, Slideshows, and More Photography is available in the New York Philharmonic s online newsroom, nyphil.org/newsroom/1617 or by contacting (212) or PR@nyphil.org. s