Vanguard Series

Take a spin with the ASO through the familiar and unfamiliar at these adventurous concerts that take on the worlds of art, opera, history, and more.

CONDUCTOR’S NOTES Leon Botstein shares the stories behind the music in these lively 30-minute Q&A sessions that begin one hour before each concert in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. Free for all ticket holders.

New York Avant-Garde
Thursday, October 3 at 8:00pm
Carnegie Hall
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From Varèse to Antheil to Copland, ASO presents a glimpse of New York’s modernist musical culture in the years surrounding the 1913 Armory Show, in partnership with New-York Historical Society’s retrospective on the historic exhibit.
  • George Antheil — A Jazz Symphony

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  • Charles Griffes — Poem

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  • Carl Ruggles — Men and Mountains

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  • Aaron Copland — Symphony for Organ and Orchestra

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  • Edgard Varèse — Amériques

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Elliott Carter: An American Original
Sunday, November 17 at 2:00pm
Carnegie Hall
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The ASO pays tribute to Elliott Carter, a life-long New Yorker and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, with six orchestral works by one of the greatest composers of the second half of the 20th century.
  • Clarinet Concerto

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  • Sound Fields

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  • Warble for Lilac-Time

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  • Voyage

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  • Concerto for Orchestra

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  • Pocahontas

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Strauss: Self-Portrait of the Artist
Sunday, December 15 at 2:00pm
Carnegie Hall
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ASO’s annual opera matinee spotlights Richard Strauss, who saw a vision of himself taking revenge on his critics as the vengeful, mighty sorcerer in his one-act opera Feuersnot (In Need of Fire).
  • Richard Strauss — Feuersnot

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This England
Friday, January 31, 2014 at 8:00pm
Carnegie Hall
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This concert reveals an explosion of creative energy in music in Britain after 1914 by highlighting works by some of the first modern British composers, from a suite from an H.G. Wells film to the volcanic eruption of a brass band.
  • Sir Arthur Bliss — Things to Come

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  • Frank Bridge — Phantasm

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  • Robert Simpson — Volcano

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  • William Walton — Symphony No. 2

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Moses
Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 8:00pm
Carnegie Hall
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Max Bruch’s moving oratorio tells Moses’ tale from the events at Mount Sinai, to his conflict with the Israelites, to his death on the eve of his people’s arrival in the promised land of Canaan.
  • Max Bruch — Moses

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Forged from Fire
Friday, May 30, 2014 at 8:00pm
Carnegie Hall
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New sensibilities regarding nation and homeland emerged following WWI. The ASO looks at the music that defined the ambitions of Germany, a new consciousness in Poland and the U.S., and the aspiring nationalism of the Jews of Europe and North America.
  • Max Reger — A Patriotic Overture

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  • Charles Ives — Orchestral Set No. 2

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  • Ernest Bloch — Israel Symphony

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  • Karol Szymanowski — Symphony No. 3

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