Broadcast on YouTube and Facebook with the title "NY Phil ❤ NYC" and the following description:

"Join our first-ever virtual gala, a celebration of our hometown and the people who make it so vibrant, and help support the Philharmonic during this crucial time. Text NYPHIL to 24-365 to give today. Enjoy our performances spanning Beethoven and Julia Wolfe, with a bit of Bernstein and more — and try to ID all our special guests!"

Includes:

A new performance of Leonard Bernstein's Candide Overture, in which archival footage of Bernstein conducting is intercut with video of current New York Philharmonic musicians performing on stage at David Geffen Hall while socially distanced;

A montage of Allegro con brio, from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, as captured in New York Philharmonic performances led by Jaap van Zweden, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, Artur Rodzinski, Alan Gilbert, George Szell, Willem Mengelberg, Leonard Bernstein, Lorin Maazel, Arturo Toscanini, and Bruno Walter;

New performances of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now,” with Josh Groban and Kelli O’Hara and Nimrod from Elgar’s Enigma Variations;

Previous performances of Camryn Cowan's Harlem Shake; a selection from Factory, from Julia Wolfe’s Fire in My Mouth; Hoe-Down from Copland’s Rodeo;

Remarks from President and CEO Deborah Borda; Music Director Jaap van Zweden; honorees Larry Silverstein, Klara Silverstein, Alex Klabin, and Kristen Klabin; Emanuel Ax, Ethan Bensdorf (Trumpet), Jamie Bernstein, Michael Bloomberg, Yefim Bronfman, Candace Bushnell, Katie Couric, George Curran (Bass Trombone), Clive Davis, Renée Fleming, David Foster, John Lithgow, Itzhak Perlman, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Stephen Sondheim, Sherry Sylar (Associate Principal Oboe), Emma Thompson, John Williams;

A segment on the history of the New York Philharmonic, narrated by Joshua Bell;

A segment on the New York Philharmonic during previous turbulent times in history, narrated by Anderson Cooper.