{"id":11975,"date":"2023-09-18T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:44:28","slug":"new-york-philharmonic-receives-40m-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/09\/18\/new-york-philharmonic-receives-40m-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Philharmonic Receives $40M Donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The donation is the largest of its kind in the company\u2019s history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11976\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/NYP-Orchestra.jpg\" alt=\"New York Philharmonic Orchestra\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/NYP-Orchestra.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/NYP-Orchestra-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/NYP-Orchestra-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/NYP-Orchestra-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oscar L. Tang, the New York Philharmonic\u2019s chairman, and his wife, art historian and archaeologist Dr. H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, donated $40 million to endow a chair for Gustavo Dudamel. Dudamel becomes Music Director Designate in 2025 and Music Director of the Philharmonic in the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n<h3>The Why<\/h3>\n<p>Oscar and Agnes Hsu-Tang described coming to New York City during the Golden Age of the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein. The Hsu-Tangs believe Dudamel, along with the new President and CEO Gary Ginstling, will take the orchestra into another Golden Age.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Ginstling joined the New York Philharmonic as CEO in July 2023 after a strong history of fundraising, increasing ticket sales, and forming relationships with communities during his work with the National Symphony Orchestra. The superstar Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel is well-known for his work bringing classical music to underserved communities as well as his excellence on the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Another golden age for the NYPhil? Let\u2019s see how things play out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar L. Tang, the New York Philharmonic\u2019s chairman, and his wife, art historian and archaeologist Dr. H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, donated $40 million to endow a chair for Gustavo Dudamel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":11976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,3,255],"tags":[67],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/09\/NYP-Orchestra.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11977,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions\/11977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}