Henri Dutilleux Attends New World Symphony Rehearsal from Across the Atlantic

During rehearsal on February 2 for a concert of music including Henri Dutilleux's Correspondances, the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy, remotely connected with Dutilleux and two other composers, Wolfgang Rihm Marc-Andre Dabavie,  via Internet2, an advanced broadband technology the New World Symphony uses for long-distance teaching and communications. Dutilleux and Dalbavie were at a studio at Paris’s IRCAM, where they observed and interacted in real time with the rehearsal taking place in Miami Beach. Rihm participated from a studio at Karlsruhe’s Hochschule für Musik. Reinbert de Leeuw conducted, with soprano Barbara Hannigan as the soloist for Dutilleux's Correspondances.

Douglas Merilatt, New World’s senior vice president for programs, comments:

“With this technology we have greatly amplified the extent to which we are connecting both our fellows and our audience with leading composers around the globe. The interaction is immediate and natural, much as though the composers were with us in person. This is now the routine at the New World Symphony, and our experiences of contemporary music are all the more engaging for it.” 

The use of Internet2 will be at the heart of the New World Symphony’s new campus facility, which has been designed by architect Frank Gehry to facilitate experimentation with new ways of teaching and experiencing classical music. Due to break ground in mid-2007, the new facility will include a recording and web casting infrastructure that is fully outfitted with Internet2, further extending the organization’s reach and allowing the New World’s fellows to connect with musical artists, composers, educators and audiences around the world.

For more information on Henri Dutilleux, please visit www.schott-music.com.

For more information on the New World Symphony, please visit www.nws.edu.

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