12:04 — Chair­man Gary Parr is intro­duc­ing mae­stro Gilbert.

12:05 — I appear to be the only per­son here actu­ally live blogging …

12:06 — Parr is quot­ing from Mahler, who of course was a music direc­tor, which says so much about the impor­tant his­tory of the Phil, and also why it’s so excit­ing to see the Phil con­cerned about con­tin­u­ing to add to its own his­tory and the over­all his­tory of clas­si­cal music.

12:07 — Mae­stro Gilbert is now speaking

12:10 — Hey, tweep Steve Smith is here …

12:12 — And I must men­tion that it pleases me to see the Hand­some Actor him­self, Alec Baldwin …