QUICK TAKES - Jan. 13, 2009
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The New York Philharmonic will perform for the first time in Hanoi and Abu Dhabi next season.
Alan Gilbert, in his debut season as music director of the nation’s oldest orchestra, will lead the musicians in the three-week tour in October, the Philharmonic announced Monday.
The orchestra, which made a historic trip to communist North Korea last winter, has performed in 59 countries but never in Vietnam or in Abu Dhabi, an oil-rich Middle Eastern emirate.
The orchestra also said it is getting Alec Baldwin to host its weekly national radio broadcasts.
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