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Daphne

March 23

Carnegie Hall

The ASO spotlights Richard Strauss’s seldom heard pastoral opera Daphne. With its lush orchestral palette, endlessly shifting harmonic motion, sumptuous melodies, combined with a diaphanous serenity typical of Strauss’s later…

Past Performances

The Silent Woman (Die Schweigsame Frau) at Bard SummerScape

Opens July 22

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Considered Strauss’s only true comic opera, this rarely performed work is by turns elegiac and incisively witty. The brilliantly written libretto by Stefan Zweig (loosely based on the Renaissance play…

Bard Music Festival – Program 3

Aug 6

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

It was the runaway success of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto that helped restore his confidence after the depression and writer’s block triggered by his First Symphony’s failure. Marking the ASO’s…

Bard Music Festival – Program 6

Aug 7

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Anchored by the ASO, this all-Rachmaninoff event opens with the First Symphony, which the composer abandoned after its ill-starred premiere, and died without hearing a second time. Nevertheless, the work…

Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert at Radio City Music Hall

Aug 13-17

Radio City Music Hall

These performances have been rescheduled: Saturday, August 13, 2022 Monday, August 15, 2022 Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Thursday, August 18, 2022 Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music…

Celebrating New York

Sept 17

Bryant Park

Continuing a partnership forged between the American Symphony Orchestra and the Bryant Park Corporation in the wake of COVID-19, the ASO will present a free concert to celebrate its 60th…

String Quartet at Bryant Park Upper Terrace

Sept 20 & 21

Bryant Park

Musicians from American Symphony Orchestra performs pillars from the string quartet repertoire: Haydn’s Quartet op 76 No 5, nicknamed at various points in history “Largo” for its particularly comforting but…

Organ + Orchestra

Jan 27

St. Bartholomew's Church

The ASO and St. Bartholomew’s Church share a connection rooted deep in the history of both institutions. ASO founder Leopold Stokowski began his American career as organist and choirmaster of…

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Daphne

March 23

Carnegie Hall

The ASO spotlights Richard Strauss’s seldom heard pastoral opera Daphne. With its lush orchestral palette, endlessly shifting harmonic motion, sumptuous melodies, combined with a diaphanous serenity typical of Strauss’s later…

MORE INFO

Past Performances

The Silent Woman (Die Schweigsame Frau) at Bard SummerScape

Opens July 22

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Considered Strauss’s only true comic opera, this rarely performed work is by turns elegiac and incisively witty. The brilliantly written libretto by Stefan Zweig (loosely based on the Renaissance play…

MORE INFO

Bard Music Festival – Program 3

Aug 6

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

It was the runaway success of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto that helped restore his confidence after the depression and writer’s block triggered by his First Symphony’s failure. Marking the ASO’s…

MORE INFO

Bard Music Festival – Program 6

Aug 7

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Anchored by the ASO, this all-Rachmaninoff event opens with the First Symphony, which the composer abandoned after its ill-starred premiere, and died without hearing a second time. Nevertheless, the work…

MORE INFO

Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert at Radio City Music Hall

Aug 13-17

Radio City Music Hall

These performances have been rescheduled: Saturday, August 13, 2022 Monday, August 15, 2022 Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Thursday, August 18, 2022 Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music…

MORE INFO

Celebrating New York

Sept 17

Bryant Park

Continuing a partnership forged between the American Symphony Orchestra and the Bryant Park Corporation in the wake of COVID-19, the ASO will present a free concert to celebrate its 60th…

MORE INFO

String Quartet at Bryant Park Upper Terrace

Sept 20 & 21

Bryant Park

Musicians from American Symphony Orchestra performs pillars from the string quartet repertoire: Haydn’s Quartet op 76 No 5, nicknamed at various points in history “Largo” for its particularly comforting but…

MORE INFO

Organ + Orchestra

Jan 27

St. Bartholomew's Church

The ASO and St. Bartholomew’s Church share a connection rooted deep in the history of both institutions. ASO founder Leopold Stokowski began his American career as organist and choirmaster of…

MORE INFO