BY GEORGE: CARNEGIE HALL GALA GERSHWIN CELEBRATION
MTT and the San Francisco Symphony open the 1998–99 season at Carnegie Hall and at home with a blowout centennial tribute to George Gershwin—and longtime MTT friend, actress and singer Audra McDonald, makes her Carnegie debut at these performances. Also lighting up the stage: Tony-winning actor and singer Brian Stokes Mitchell, opera superstar Frederica von Stade, and esteemed pianist Garrick Ohlsson.