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Other highlights of Carnegie Hall’s 2018-19 season include a seven-concert series curated by conductor, composer and educator Michael Tilson Thomas that features performances by the Vienna Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, among other groups.

Other highlights of Carnegie Hall’s 2018-19 season include a seven-concert series curated by conductor, composer and educator Michael Tilson Thomas that features performances by the Vienna Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, among other groups.


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Charles Passy

Jan. 25, 2018 12:00 p.m. ET



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At a time when immigration is a hot-button issue, Carnegie Hall will host a citywide festival that “traces the movements of people” to and within the U.S.

Called “Migrations: The Making of America,” the festival, slated to run March 9, 2019-April 15, 2019, is one of the anchors of the Manhattan venue’s 2018-19 season.

Carnegie officials unveiled the season lineup on Thursday.

The festival will incorporate performances by a variety of artists, from klezmer clarinetist

Andy Statman

to Scottish singer-songwriter

Karine Polwart.

Programs will focus on the stories of different groups that made their way to the U.S., such as the Scottish and Irish in the 18th and 19th centuries and the Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Latin-American and Asian migration also will be represented in the programming, Carnegie officials said.

Moreover, the festival will concentrate on the migration of African-Americans from the South to other parts of the U.S.

In a statement, Carnegie Hall Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson said the festival will offer “listeners the chance to explore musical legacies” of people who “helped shape what we consider to be American arts and culture today.”

Carnegie Hall has had success in recent seasons presenting similar thematic events. It currently is hosting a festival spotlighting the political and cultural legacy of the ‘60s.

Other highlights of the venue’s 2018-19 season include a seven-concert series curated by conductor, composer and educator

Michael Tilson Thomas

that features performances by the Vienna Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, among other groups. The programs will spotlight works by composers who Mr. Tilson Thomas has championed during his five-decade career, including Mahler, Ives and Stravinsky.

Meanwhile, Carnegie officials have appointed composer, vocalist and mandolin virtuoso

Chris Thile

to hold its composer’s chair for the 2018-19 season. Mr. Thile will be involved in several programs, including one that features Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers, two acoustic groups of which he is a founding member.