2021-2022
Clarinet Quintet at St. Monica
Join us on Sunday, October 24 at 3:00pm for a free chamber music concert at the Church of St. Monica as part of their live concert series. The program will feature Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor and Trevor Weston’s Fudo Myoo. Church of St. Monica 413 East 79th St. New York, NY 10075…
Read MoreVisions Trio at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Join us on Thursday, September 30 at 6:00pm for a free chamber music concert at Pier 3 Greenway Terrace in Brooklyn Bridge Park. This eclectic trio will perform a variety of music from two distinct decades in our history, the 1920s and 2020s. The program, which includes music by Erwin Schulhoff, Astor Piazzolla, Bix Beiderbecke,…
Read MoreReawakening Quartet at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Join us on Thursday, September 16 at 6:00pm for a free chamber music concert at Pier 3 Greenway Terrace in Brooklyn Bridge Park. As the sun sets over the New York City skyline, a string quartet of ASO musicians invites you to reflect on our current journey of renewal and reawakening. This program includes pieces…
Read MoreWinds Among the Trees: American Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Trio
Together, the oboe, clarinet, and bassoon possess a wonderful sonority and range. Treat your ears to a program of impressive works for this woodwind trio by Canteloube, Tansman, Koechlin, and more for an evening that will both inform and delight! Get your tickets now! General Admission: $20 Artists, staff, and audience members will be required…
Read MoreBard Music Festival – Program Twelve
Boulanger’s Credo In 1962, when Boulanger led the New York Philharmonic in a program featuring the world premiere of Virgil Thomson’s powerful orchestral piece A Solemn Music and Fauré’s beloved Requiem, the Carnegie Hall audience included Botstein, then just 15 years old. Now, more than half a century later, Bard’s founder recreates this characteristic Boulanger coupling in Program…
Read MoreBard Music Festival – Program Nine
Remembering Ethel Smyth and Boulanger’s Circle at Home and Abroad The American Symphony Orchestra’s first concert at the Bard Music Festival opens with Fête galante by Dame Ethel Smyth, a Victorian-born English suffragist whose lovers included the Princesse de Polignac, and whose grand opera The Wreckers received its first fully staged American production at SummerScape…
Read MoreKing Arthur (Le roi Arthus) at Bard SummerScape
Idealism, treachery, honor, and perfidy collide in this richly lyrical opera by French composer Ernest Chausson. This opulently scored work, which premiered in 1903, lays bare the tragedy of King Arthur’s betrayal at the hands of his queen Guinevere and his trusted knight Lancelot. Considered one of the finest examples of French romanticism, King Arthur (Le…
Read MoreModernism in Mexico at Morris Museum
Modernism in Mexico explores string quartets by some of Mexico’s most important 20th-century composers: Manuel Ponce, Silvestre Revueltas, and Carlos Chávez. Ponce was Mexico’s leading classical musician, and this performance of his well-known song Estrellita is a new arrangement for string quartet. Carlos Chávez was his student and heir apparent, touring extensively as a conductor and producing an…
Read MoreItalian Expressiveness and Expressionists at Magazzino Italian Art
Experience the vibrancy of Italian chamber music in the courtyard of Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, NY. A string quartet of ASO musicians performs a program that spans four centuries, from Isabella Leonarda, a 17th century Ursuline Nun, to the 20th century expressionist and avant garde composer, Niccolò Castiglioni. The finale of the concert…
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