2009-2010

Apollo and Dionysus 05/09/2010 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Philosophers from Plato to Nietzsche used these mythological figures to represent human nature at war with itself: torn between reason, discipline, formal beauty—and sensuality, earthly pleasure, desire. Find out which god you follow in this concert of music inspired by the god of…

Robert Schumann: Scenes From Goethe’s Faust 04/09/2010 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center The greatest poetic rendering of the story of the man who sells his soul to the devil, set to music by a composer who knew very well what it is like to be haunted by demons. On the occasion of…

After the Thaw 02/24/2010 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center We don’t mean the weather. Stalin’s death resulted among other things in a blossoming of new musical compositions, full of ideas and innovations that shortly before would have resulted in a trip to Siberia. If you liked ASO’s 2008 concert Russian Futurists about composers…

The Remains of Romanticism 11/15/2009 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Romantic music seemed in danger of becoming obsolete in the modern world, but there were those who were determined to save it. Some of the greatest composers of the age tried to revive Romanticism through formal innovation, others by connecting it to…

Vincent d’Indy: Fervaal 10/14/2009 at 08:00 PM – Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Fervaal’s fate was set before he was born: renounce human passion and save his kingdom. But that was before he met the daughter of his enemy. D’Indy’s great opera was inspired by Wagner, but Debussy and Dukas thought Fervaal was even better than Wagner’s…