NYC Symphony

David Eaton
October 1986

Violinist Aaron Rosand

During the past 18 months the New York City Symphony has been giving public concerts and making numerous appearances at various church- sponsored events. The orchestra will have a chance to grow and develop further through a series of five concerts to be given at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. This promises to be the most active year for the New York City Symphony since the church began its support of the orchestra in 1974.

Music Director David Eaton will conduct four of the concerts in the upcoming season (Oct. 28, Jan. 13, March 19, and April 21), and the young Russian Maestro Yakov Kreizberg will make a guest conducting, appearance on December 13, 1986.

Soprano Jamie Louise Baer

Highlights of the concerts will include the world premiere of a new work by Kevin Pickard for soprano and orchestra (April 21), a performance of Haydn's Missa Tempore Belli (March 19), and Aaron Rosand performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (Jan. 13). Mr. Rosand has been a longtime supporter of Father and the Unification Church and indeed visited Father in Danbury.

Kevin Pickard's new composition will include "Morning of an Age" which he composed for the Assembly of the World's Religions in November 1985 (text by Randolph Remmel). Soprano Jamie Louise Baer (Sheila Baer Vaughn's cousin), who is a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and performed with the orchestra at the Assembly, will be the soloist. This will be her Lincoln Center debut.

As the cultural dispensation continues to flourish, the New York City Symphony will undoubtedly play an important role in helping to establish a new vision for the arts.