According to daily revelations New York Post, a few years before assuming the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump expressed the wish, to Alain Gilbert, musical director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, to conduct the orchestra himself on occasion of a concert. A proposal that has not been followed up.
Donald Trump submitted this idea to Alan Gilbert during an ice hockey game
In his famous Page Six (dedicated to celebrity news) the New York Post of this Monday relates that, a few years before he was elected in 2016 as President of the United States, Donald Trump had expressed the wish to conduct the famous New York Philharmonic (NYP). In any case more seriously than in May 1989, when he was seen symbolically directing the New York Pops in an interpretation of “New York, New York” (the song from the film by Martin Scorsese), during the annual Carnegie charity concert. Lobby.
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It was during a New York Rangers ice hockey meeting he was attending that Alan Gilbert, the musical director of the New York Philharmonic at the time, was called out by Donald Trump, he was also present at this match. The future president, without complex, then offered to conduct the orchestra during a concert. Alan Gilbert, well behaved, did not say no, even offering to organize a charity event for the occasion. Telephone numbers have been exchanged but this proposal has never gone further than this exchange of intentions. Perhaps one of the reasons which led to a very clear cooling of relations between the two men at the start of the 45e American president.
Since 2019, Alan Gilbert has conducted the Hamburg Philharmonic
Indeed, in June 2017, a year before the end of his 2e tenure at the head of the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert (replaced in 2018 by Jaap van Zweden) had the idea of organizing a series of “unity” concerts which brought together, to perform the 7e Symphony of Gustav Mahler, around the members of the orchestra, instrumentalists from all over the world such as the cellist of Chinese origin Yo-Yo Ma but also, musicians from Iraq and Iran, 2 countries targeted by an anti -immigration signed by Donald Trump.
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While he said at the time that this idea had come to him long before the signing of this decree, Alan Gilbert, whose mother is Japanese, admitted that it was clearly a message sent to President Trump whom he criticized for ” create division and opposition ”, adding ” it’s a dangerous period, I think it’s a period when art and beauty are perhaps more important and relevant than ever (…) We need as musicians to assert ourselves more and more powerfully, to show that there is truth and that there is still beauty in the world ”. Since 2019, Alan Gilbert has been conducting the Elbphilharmonie Orchester in Hamburg.
Philippe Gault
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