Carnegie Hall, which has been closed for 19 months, will reopen in October

After a year and a half of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, Carnegie Hall will resume performances in October. But until the return of the major orchestras in January next year, concerts and small ensembles have limited time to perform.

According to the Associated Press, the concert hall was initially intended to reopen with a virtual gala, but Carnegie executive director and artistic director Clive Gillinson said Carnegie would plan a live concert after New York Governor Gurdjie announced on May 5 that the Broadway Theater would reopen at full capacity in September.

Gillisson said the concert hall has reduced the initially planned 150 concerts to about 90, but is now considering adding as many as 10 concerts in the fall, including five with orchestras. The auditorium will move major events from autumn 2021 to spring 2022.

"The current environment is not at all unstable," he said. So people keep rethinking things according to doctors, medical experts, and governors. You're constantly modifying and redoing, trying to keep your business so you don't cause more damage to your business. ”

Carnegie Hall is currently scheduled to host a recital starting Oct. 9 with tenor Jonas Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch; and the New York Philharmonic will host a major orchestral concert on Jan. 6, conducted by conductor Susanna Malkki and saxophonist Branford M. Branford Marsalis played.

The International Orchestra will also return to the Concert Hall. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, will perform on January 31. The Vienna Philharmonic will resume touring the United States from February 25 to 27, with conductor Valery Gergiev hosting three shows.

The concert hall will host the "Afrofuturism" festival in February and March 2022, envisioning a future imagined through the lens of African-American culture, including music, visual arts, literature and politics. Carnegie's "Perspectives" series will be curated by composer/band conductor Jon Batiste and violinist Leonidas Kavakos, whose composer-chair will be Julia Wolfe, whose work Anthracite Fields won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.

Carnegie has been closed since March 13, 2020. Gillison said the covid-19 pandemic had cost concert halls $7.1 million in the fiscal year ending June 30 last year.

Carnegie is also unsure of the impact of the pandemic on his leasing business. Of the 700 leaseable days per year, the auditorium typically has 500 lease dates for events such as graduation ceremonies and corporate events.

In addition, Carnegie will introduce a new logo with a bespoke font inspired by the stained glass letters above poster boxes outside the concert hall. Designed by Champions Design, the logo replaces the logo since the 1980s with Goudy's vintage font.

(Compiled: GC)