People’s minds are transformed by The New York Philharmonic’s concert in the Park on 6.10.2026
As the music began, people’s consciousness seemed to be drawn into the sound. Saint-Saëns and Ravel’s Boléro filled the air, and you could see everyone there gradually being filled by the music itself.
On the grass lay bread, ham, and wine that people had brought with them. Above was the bright June sky of New York, and before us stood a massive orchestra. But as the performance went on, people forgot their food, the scenery, even themselves, and simply listened.
American families, couples, men and women who had come alone, children speaking Spanish — people from many different backgrounds gathered there and lost themselves and their sense of time in the same music. The children, especially, responded to the sound with complete naturalness.
The noise of cars on the nearby road. The sound of airplanes crossing the sky. Ordinary sounds that would usually distract us disappeared during the final Boléro. The huge orchestra gently enveloped us with tones as delicate as a music box, and when I looked up, countless fireflies were moving through the night.
The people gathered there were surrounded by the glow of countless fireflies and the sound of the New York Philharmonic, connected through music beyond family, romance, nationality, or language. The New York Philharmonic’s park concert was a place where music transformed human consciousness in a world without walls.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 8:00 p.m.
Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx
New York Philharmonic
Elim Chan, Conductor
Carter Brey, Cello
COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
Joan TOWER Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 1 (1986)
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor,
(1835–1921) Op. 33 (1872)
BERLIOZ Le Corsaire Overture (1844; rev. ca. 1852)
New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers
Celine KIM Happy Cities (2026)
Peace DIXON Orchestra on E (2026)
DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1897)
RAVEL Boléro (1928)
and one encore
壁のない世界
ニューヨーク・フィルの公園コンサート
音楽が始まると、人々の意識が音へ吸い込まれていく。サン＝サーンスやラヴェルのボレロが鳴り、その場にいた誰もが少しずつ音楽で満たされていくのが見えた。
芝生の上には、持参したパンやハムやワインが並んでいる。六月のニューヨークのよく晴れた空が広がり、目の前には巨大なオーケストラがある。しかし演奏が進むにつれ、人々の意識は食事も景色も、自分のことも忘れ、ただ音楽を聴いている。
アメリカ人の家族、恋人同士、一人で訪れた男性や女性、スペイン語を話す子どもたち。さまざまな背景を持つ人々が集まって同じ音楽に自分と時間を忘れる。特に子どもたちは、音に対して自然に反応していた。
近くの大きな道路を走る車の音。空を横切る飛行機の音。普段なら気になるはずの環境音も、最後のボレロでは消え、巨大なオーケストラがそっとオルゴールのように繊細な音色で、私たちを包み込み、上を見上げると無数のホタルの光が飛び交っていた。
集まった人々は、無数のホタルの光とニューヨーク・フィルの音色に包まれ、家族も恋人も国籍も言語も超え、音楽でつながっていた。ニューヨーク・フィルの公園コンサートは、壁のない世界で音楽が人間の意識を変容させる場所だ。