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Reports on some of the compositions that will be performed by Colin Davis and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York City starting March 8, 2001.

Focuses on music conductor Lorin Maazel's two concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City. His candidacy for music director of the New York Philharmonic; Career highlights; Review of the concerts.

Cites the performance of the Nashville Symphony at the Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York with its conductor, Kenneth Schermerhorn. Songs performed by the group; Focus of the performance.

Previews the concert of Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, New York on April 6, 2000. Works by Rachmaninoff, Britten, Strauss and Barber that will be performed at the concert; Wind-and-wave imagery of the song `Sea Interludes.'

Deals with the reconstruction of Johann Sebastian Bach's lost work `St. Mark Passion,' performed by Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra on April 9, 2000 in New York. Questions about the limitations and reasons for reconstructing Bach's works; Bach's collaborator; Setting and framework of his work `St. Mark Passion; Ways on how reconstructors dealt with the loss of the Gospel portions; Appeal of Bach's music.

Deals with debates surrounding Johann Sebastian Bach's `St. John Passion' to be performed by Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, New York. Components of Bach's `St. John Passion' libretto; Negative references to the Jews; Reference to Martin Luther's book `On the Jews and Their Lies.'

Deals with the performance of conductor Benjamin Zander on Mahler's Symphony No. 8 at Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Extended sections of the symphony; Background information on Zander.

Evaluates the performance of the New York Philharmonic, New York Choral Artists, American Boychoir and selected vocal soloists for the program titled `Concert of the Millennium' held on December 31, 1999 in New York, New York. Symphonies played; Role of conductor Kurt Masur on the event; Biggest surprise of the evening.

Evaluates the performance of Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic in New York City, New York on November 11, 1999. Quality of the program; Songs performed.

Offers a look at the performance of Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic orchestra during the 1999 Lincoln Center Festival. Contribution of the Philharmonic on the concert; Songs rendered by Emanuel Ax, the soloist; Details on other highlights of the event.

Focuses on the performance of Franz Welser-Most as musical director of the Cleveland Orchestra in New York City, New York. Complaints on the rehearsals of Welser-Most in New York; Implication of the appointment of Welser-Most at the London Philharmonic.

Focuses on conductor Franz Welser-Most's New York Philharmonic concert in New York City, New York on May 13, 1999. Highlights of the event; Comment on the performance of the orchestra.

Reviews a February 21, 1999 performance of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, directed by Ton Koopman, at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, with soloist Yo-Yo Ma, who performed on a Stradivarius cello.

Evaluates the performance of musical compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gustav Mahler by the Metropolitan Orchestra. Highlights of the performance at Carnegie Hall, New York; Assessment on conductor James Levine; Background information on the composers.

Reports on the rendering of the music of Rossini, Verdi Cilea and others by the soprano Montserrat Caballe with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra led by Jose Callado at Carnegie Hall on April 13, 1995.

Announces a concert of opera and zarzuela arias by Montserrat Caballe in association with the New Jersey Symphony at the Carnegie Hall on April 13, 1995. Agenda for the concert.

Comments on a performance by the Kirov Orchestra under Valery Gergiyev in August 1996 in New York City. Interpretation of Sergei Prokofiev's `Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution'; `Zdravista.'

Comments on the interpretation of composer Dmitri Shostakovich's `Fourth Symphony,' by conductor Valery Gergiev with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on April 18, 1996. Attack on Shostakovich's formalism and style in 1936; Complicated rhythmic oppositions.

Focuses on the guest appearance of Chinese-born composer, Tan Dun as he conducted with the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, New York City on May 24, 1998. Details on Tan's performance; How the ochestra's players responded to Tan.

Discusses the 1998 Memorial Day concert held by the New York Philharmonic orchestra and conducted by Kurt Masur, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, New York. History of the concert; Reference to previous Memorial Day concerts; Information on music performed by the orchestra; Details on the concert. INSET: Philharmonic on Memorial Day.

Reports on the performance of pianist Anton Kuerti in collaboration with the Jupiter Symphony, conducted by Jens Nygaard at the 92d Street Y, New York City on January 31, 1997. Discussion of the performance; Identification of the selection `Emperor.'

Focuses on the opening performance of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which was conducted by Kurt Masur, in its 34th annual series of free concerts, on July 21, 1998, in Central Park, New York City, New York. Who is sponsoring the series; Information on the series.