GREAT PERFORMANCES returns to Carnegie Hall’s famed stage for a celebration with the Berliner Philharmoniker, including highlights from the two-week “Berlin in Lights” festival.

GREAT PERFORMANCES returns to Carnegie Hall's famed stage for a celebration with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Featuring the orchestra under the baton of music director and conductor Sir Simon Rattle, the program will include highlights from the hall's two-week "Berlin in Lights" festival in November 2007, celebrating the explosion of creativity taking place in Berlin today. Anchoring the program is the orchestra's complete performance of Gustav Mahler's towering Symphony No. 9. Also appearing as part of "Berlin in Lights" will be the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela - which the Berliner Philharmoniker mentors - and its brilliant young conductor Gustavo Dudamel (recently announced as the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic). "Carnegie Hall Celebrates Berlin" will feature excerpts of the youth orchestra's performance of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, as well as 120 Manhattan public school students who join the Philharmoniker for a specially choreographed performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring .