Nicely mixed crowd, young and old com­ing in.  Haven’t spot­ted any of my fel­low cranks … er, crit­ics tonight.  There’s more Andriessen at Carnegie tonight, of course.  I had been plan­ning on attend­ing the Andriessen con­cert at Zankel Sat­ur­day night, but then this happened:

But that’s what us live blog­gers are for, to fill the gaps.

Mae­stro Gilbert has now taken the stage to address some remarks to the audi­ence.  The gist: he’s excited about lead­ing a con­cert of con­tem­po­rary music as part of the New York Phil­har­monic.  John Schae­fer is offer­ing some open­ing remarks as well. The pro­gram is as follows:

• Sean Shep­erd; These Par­tic­u­lar Cir­cum­stances (a seven sec­tion work)
• Nico Muhly; Detailed Instruc­tions, for orchestra
• Matthias Pintscher; Songs from Solomon’s Gar­den; fea­tur­ing Thomas Hamp­son singing

Sean Shep­erd is now onstage to talk about his piece, and there’s a bit of flirt­ing with feed­back.  Next post will be as the music is playing.