Archive for October 2012
The ASO at Fifty
The ASO at Fifty By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Fiftieth Birthday Celebration, performed on Oct 26, 2012 at Carnegie Hall. Tonight’s concert is not just a season opener; it marks fifty years of concerts by the American Symphony Orchestra. The founding of the ASO was an act of vision by the great conductor…
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10/26/2012 at 08:00 PM – Carnegie Hall 1962 Prices! $1.50/$3/$4/$5/$6/$7 ASO celebrates its Golden Jubilee with a concert of its “greatest hits,” starting with the first piece the orchestra ever played, Stokowski’s arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner. You’ll also hear Mahler’s massive 8th Symphony, which received great acclaim at the 2002 Bard Music Festival, and…
Read MoreCharles Ives, Symphony No. 4
Charles Ives, Symphony No. 4 By Christopher H. Gibbs Written for the concert Fiftieth Birthday Celebration, performed on Oct 26, 2012 at Carnegie Hall. The genesis, musical substance, and fate of Charles Ives’s Fourth Symphony are in many respects representative of the singularly strange career of this unusual American composer. The son of a Connecticut…
Read MoreGustav Mahler, Symphony No. 8
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 8 By Christopher H. Gibbs Written for the concert Fiftieth Birthday Celebration, performed on Oct 26, 2012 at Carnegie Hall. “On the first day of the holidays, I went up to the hut in Maiernigg with the firm resolution of idling the holiday away (I needed to so much that year)…
Read MoreAn Alpine Symphony
An Alpine Symphony 10/14/2012 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space Build a package with two or more concerts and save up to 15%! Single tickets $35 After a dozen years focusing on opera, Richard Strauss returned to symphonies in a massive way with his opulent Alpine Symphony. Leon Botstein and the orchestra explain…
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