08/07/08
The Bard Music Festival begins this weekend! Here's a chance to see members of the Orchestra before the season opener on September 21st. Click here for schedule and ticketing options.
07/14/08
REMINDER! Single tickets go onsale to the public for BOTH ClassicsDeclassified & Avery Fisher Hall Series on August 1st!
Be sure to renew your subscriptions soon, tickets are expected to go fast!
Announcing the American Symphony Orchestra's 2008-2009 Season as part of Lincoln Center Presents Great Performers at Avery Fisher Hall, under the baton of Music Director Leon Botstein:
Friday, October 3, 2008 – 8 pm
Le roi d’Ys
Edouard Lalo: Le roi d’Ys (1875-88) Opera-in-concert
Sunday, December 7, 2008 – 3 pm
Against the Avant-garde: Romanticisms of the 1920s
Walter Braunfels: Don Juan, Op. 34 (1923) U.S. Premiere
Hermann Suter: Violin Concerto, Op. 23 (1924) U.S. Premiere
Josef Marx: Eine Herbstsymphonie (1921) U.S. Premiere
Sunday, January 25, 2009 – 3 pm
Music of the Other Germany
Hanns Eisler: Auferstanden aus Ruinen, Hymne der DDR (1949)
Paul Dessau: In memoriam Bertolt Brecht (1957) U.S. Premiere
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny: Mythological Figures (1951)
Udo Zimmermann: Sinfonia come una grande lamento, in memory of F. Garcia Lorca (1977) U.S. Premiere
Hanns Eisler: Goethe Rhapsody (1949) U.S. Premiere
Siegfried Matthus: Responso (1977) New York Premiere
Friday, February 20, 2009 – 8 pm
Persecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience
Luigi Dallapiccola: Volo di notte (1939) Opera-in-concert
Luigi Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero (1948) Opera-in-concert
Sunday, March 22, 2009 – 3 pm
Revisiting William Grant Still
George Whitefield Chadwick: Tam O’Shanter (1917)
William Grant Still: Darker America (1924)
Edgard Varèse: Offrandes (1921) | Hyperprism (1921) | Intégrales (1924)
William Grant Still: Suite for Violin and Orchestra (1943)
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 2 (1937)
Sunday, May 31, 2009 – 3 pm
Composing a Nation: Israel’s Musical Patriarchs
Erich-Walter Sternberg: The Twelve Tribes of Israel (1938) U.S. Premiere
Mordecai Seter: Midnight Vigil, Op. 39a (1958) U.S. Premiere
Josef Tal: Symphony No. 2 (1960) U.S. Premiere
Odeon Partos: Ein gev, Symphonic Fantasy (1952) U.S. Premiere
Paul Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 2 (1948) U.S. Premiere
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