(New York, NY - December 13, 2004) Conductor David Hayes will lead The Mannes Orchestra on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 8:00 p.m., at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, 65th Street and Broadway, NYC. The concert will feature Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, rev. 1945-7), Bart�k’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste (1936), and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica.”
To obtain tickets to this free concert, contact the Box Office at Alice Tully Hall at (212) 875-5050 or go to www.lincolncenter.org.
The next concert in the Mannes Orchestra series will take place on Thursday, April 7, 2005 with Yves Abel, conductor, at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.
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Mannes College of Music, founded in 1916, is one of the world’s major conservatories of music. A division of New School University, Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a Professional Studies Diploma program. Notable alumni from Mannes include soprano Frederica von Stade, pianists Murray Perahia and Richard Goode, and conductors Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, JoAnn Falletta and Julius Rudel. Joel Lester is Dean of the College. For further information on Mannes, call (212) 580-0210 or visit the Web site at www.mannes.edu.