Music director Leon Botstein leads The Orchestra Now's (T?N) last New York City concert this season, titled Debussy & French Painting: Beyond Realism, in an afternoon comparing Debussy's Nocturnes and the artwork of the French Impressionists as part of the Orchestra's Sight & Sound series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Orchestra Now (TON) concludes its third season at Carnegie Hall under the baton of music director Leon Botstein on May 3 with music by Bela Bartok and two other composers with whom he collaborated on research of native folk music. Featured soloists are Grammy award-winning American pianist Peter Serkin and distinguished Russian pianist Anna Polonsky.
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, April 18, 2018 - The Orchestra Now (T?N) concludes its third season at Carnegie Hall under the baton of music director Leon Botstein on May 3 with music by Bela Bartok and two other composers with whom he collaborated on research of native folk music. Featured soloists are Grammy award-winning American pianist Peter Serkinand distinguished Russian pianist Anna Polonsky.
The York Symphony Orchestra will present Back in the USSR on Saturday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Appell Center for the Performing Arts in York. The performance features guest artist, Katherine Pracht, a talented mezzo-soprano who won the "Outstanding Mezzo Award" in the Metropolitan Opera Competition. Single tickets starting at $9 for adults and $5 for students are available online at www.YorkSymphony.org or by calling 717-846-1111.
The Orchestra Now (TON) offers a FREE concert at City College Center for the Arts at Aaron Davis Hall. The performance is part of the ensemble's popular Around Town series, which attracts dynamically diverse new audiences of all ages. These free community outreach events have become crowd-pleasing neighborhood activities and are a great opportunity to introduce families and new explorers to the joys of classical music.
The Orchestra Now (T?N) has a prolific spring season offering no less than five concerts in New York City. Music director Leon Botstein conducts the next performance on March 29 including Berlioz's spectacular Symphonie fantastique and providing an exceptional chance to hear Braunfels's Fantastic Appearances of a Theme by Berlioz, at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall.
The Orchestra Now (T?N) has a prolific spring season offering no less than five concerts in New York City. Music director Leon Botstein conducts the next performance on March 29 including Berlioz's spectacular Symphonie fantastique and providing an exceptional chance to hear Braunfels' Fantastic Appearances of a Theme by Berlioz, at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall.
The Orchestra Now (T?N) will feature a prolific spring season offering no less than five concerts in New York City beginning on March 16, when associate conductor James Bagwell leads a FREE concert of works by Bizet, Part, and Virgil Thomson at The Great Hall at Cooper Union, part of the Orchestra's ever popular and family-friendly Around Town series. The concert will be repeated at Hudson Hall in Hudson, NY on March 18.
Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra in Luigi Nono's opera Intolleranza 1960, the final performance this season in the ASO's four-concert Vanguard series, on Thursday, March 1, 8 PM at Carnegie Hall. The program is part of the series' season-long theme examining the music composers have created under varied political leaderships.
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Oklahoma! is making its way back to New York. St. Ann's Warehouse and Eva Price will present a limited run of the Bard SummerScape production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, directed by Daniel Fish.
Music director Leon Botstein will conduct Shostakovich, Michelangelo, & the Artistic Conscience, the second installment this season in The Orchestra Now's (T?N) popular Sight & Sound series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday, February 11. The program will present Shostakovich's Suite on Verses of Michelangelo in conjunction with the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue until February 12, 2018. As with all Sight & Sound concerts, on-screen artworks are staged in a lively discussion alongside musical excerpts performed by the Orchestra, followed by a full performance and audience Q & A.
MetLiveArts has announced its February performances. Check out the full listing information here.
Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra in Hollow Victory: Jews in Soviet Russia After the World War, the third installment in the ASO's four-concert Vanguard series on Sunday, January 28, at 2 PM at Carnegie Hall. The program continues the season's political focus by examining the music composers have created under various types of leadership, in this case Stalin's dictatorship and anti-Semitic rule.
JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, returns to guest conduct The Orchestra Now (T?N) for the third consecutive year in a special concert at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on December 14. The program will be highlighted by the NYC premiere of Penderecki's Double Concerto with the BPO's concertmaster and principal cellist, Dennis Kim and Roman Mekinulov, in addition to Holst's celebrated The Planets and Adams' popular Short Ride in a Fast Machine.
The New Amsterdam Singers (NAS) celebrating 50 years of leadership under Music Director Clara Longstreth, launches its 2017-18 season with a program titled Sing, Sing Ye Muses, featuring a world premiere-NAS commission by Carol Barnett.
The New Amsterdam Singers will celebrate 50 years of leadership under its Music Director Clara Longstreth in the 2017 18 season, with three sets of concerts and three world-premiere commissioned works.
Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra in Triumph of Art, the second installment in the ASO's four-concert Vanguard series today, December 7, at 8 PM at Alice Tully Hall.
JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, returns to guest conduct The Orchestra Now (T?N) for the third consecutive year in a special concert at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on December 14. The program will be highlighted by the NYC premiere of Penderecki's Double Concerto with the BPO's concertmaster and principal cellist, Dennis Kim and Roman Mekinulov, in addition to Holst's celebrated The Planets and Adams' popular Short Ride in a Fast Machine.
This Week at the Metropolitan Museeum of Art: Aizuri Quartet Performs Works by Composers in Isolation and the Sight and Sound Series Returns with Schoenberg and Munch. See full details below!
Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra in Triumph of Art, the second installment in the ASO's four-concert Vanguard series on Thursday, December 7, at 8 PM at Alice Tully Hall.
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