Tony Bennett, Céline Dion and Andrea Bocelli brought a gift of free music to Central Park in New York in a special concert, to be televised on PBS this December. Céline Dion, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti and David Foster joined tenor Andrea Bocelli for his September 15 Central Park concert with the New York Philharmonic. This concert will be taped in HD by PBS's "Great Performances" and broadcast as part of PBS' Fall Arts Festival on December 2 at 9pm. According to PBS, the concert was joined by the Westminster Symphonic Choir, conducted by Joe Miller and featured music direction by Alan Glibert, will also feature sopranos Ana María Martínez and Pretty Yende, violinist Nicola Benedetti, bass baritone Bryn...
- 9/17/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Tody at the PBS Press Tour in the Beverly Hilton, it was announced that the free concert offered by internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli will take place on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15, 2011, and will be recorded in high definition by Thirteen.s Great Performances. Accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, under the direction of music director Alan Gilbert, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, conducted by Joe Miller, with special guest artists to be announced, the gala event is a special gift to New York City. "Bringing artists of this magnitude to audiences is core to our mission at Thirteen," said Neal Shapiro, Wnet CEO and president, of the Bocelli event. "This free concert in New York City's...
- 8/1/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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