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The American Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1962 by Leopold Stokowski, who defined its mission “to offer great music within the means of everyone.” Under its current Music Director, Leon Botstein, the American Symphony has enhanced that mission by pioneering the performance of thematically organized concerts, linking music to the visual arts, literature, politics, and history. It also specializes in the revival of underplayed repertoire from the last 200 years, all as part of its effort to make orchestral music accessible as well as affordable to everyone.
The American Symphony performs its Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall. In addition, it offers a celebrated lecture/concert series with audience interaction, entitled Classics Declassified, at Peter Norton Symphony Space. It is also the resident orchestra of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, where it performs an annual winter concert series, as well as participating in Bard’s annual SummerScape Festival and the Bard Music Festival. The American Symphony also recently became the resident orchestra of The Collegiate Chorale, performing regularly in the Chorale’s New York concert series. ASO’s award-winning music education program is active in numerous high schools throughout New York, New Jersey, and Long Island.
Many of the American Symphony’s concerts are now available on the Internet for download. Among its CDs are music by Copland, Sessions, Perle, and Rands (New World Records); music of Ernst von Dohnányi (Bridge Records); Richard Strauss’s opera Die ägyptische Helena with Deborah Voigt and Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae (Telarc); Franz Schubert: Orchestrated (Koch); and Johannes Brahms’s Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11 (Vanguard). The American Symphony inaugurated São Paolo’s new concert hall and has made several tours of Asia and Europe. It has a long history of appearing in charitable and public benefits for such organizations as the Jerusalem Foundation and PBS.
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Photo: © Richard Termine
George Antheil (1900 - 59)
Ballet mécanique (1953)
Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957)
Lebendig begraben, Op. 40 (1926)
