In Tuesday’s (3/10) New York Times, Adam Nagourney writes, “The New York Philharmonic season for 2026-27 … will be Gustavo Dudamel’s first as the music and artistic director…. The season will begin on Sept. 10 not at the orchestra’s Lincoln Center home, David Geffen Hall, but at Radio City Music Hall. The next day, it will give a memorial concert at the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, observing the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks there. Dudamel will conduct his first Lincoln Center performance with his new title a week later, with a world premiere by Zosha Di Castri and a performance of John Adams’s Sept. 11-inspired ‘On the Transmigration of Souls’ … Dudamel will also conduct Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 … There will be four performances in May of ‘Egmont,’ Beethoven’s music for the Goethe play, with new text by the playwright Jeremy O. Harris…. The season will end in June with ‘Mass’ … by Leonard Bernstein, a former Philharmonic music director … Dudamel said of ‘Mass,’ ‘We are planning to bring in community choirs, singers, to interact, to make this piece be a part of the social life of New York.’ ” The article lists other programming highlights of the coming season.
