ASO ONLINE

In addition to our live performances, the ASO will continue to add new content to our streaming platform, ASO online. Content includes live video recordings of SummerScape operas, video recordings from our live chamber performances, and short films—all of which you can enjoy in your home for free.

We are grateful to the ASO's orchestra committee, the American Federation of Musicians, Bard's SummerScape festival, and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts who worked with us to make this content available.

Streaming Now

Ficciones

Short film, 2023

Online

Ficciones is an immersive concert film experience featuring Roberto Sierra’s newly commissioned Concerto for Electric Violin, which presents a mixture of Sierra’s Latin-influenced ideas and modern compositional techniques through the…

A Salute to America’s Jazz Royalty: The Count, The Duke and The King

Livestream, 2022

Online

A truly American genre, the ASO presented this jazz ensemble as a salute to America’s jazz royalty: New Jersey-native jazz pianist, organist, and composer Count Basie, considered one of the…

United We Play

Short film, 2020

Online

United We Play is a short film inspired by the current turbulent times, and the belief that strength comes through adversity—where there is divide, there is also community. The project…

The Miracle of Heliane

Opera, 2019

Online

Set in an unnamed totalitarian state, The Miracle of Heliane (Das Wunder der Heliane) features an intricate, erotic triangle between a ruthless despot, The Ruler; his beautiful and neglected wife, Heliane; and…

Euryanthe

Composer in Context: Carl Maria von Weber

Opera, 2014

Online

In collaboration with Bard’s Fisher Center, ASO Online illuminates the work of German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber, featuring his Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1 and…

Dimitrij

Opera, 2017

Online

A great nation in turmoil after the abrupt end to a ruling dynasty leaving no clear path forward. This was Russia in the Time of Troubles, the seventeenth-century period in…

Demon

Opera, 2018

Online

SummerScape’s production of Anton Rubinstein’s operatic masterpiece Demon first premiered to great acclaim in 1871. Although performed frequently in Russia, the work remains something of a rarity in the West…

Le Roi Malgré Lui

Opera, 2012

Online

A contemporary of Saint-Saëns, Emmanuel Chabrier was an independent-minded and important innovator—many saw him as having paved the way for French modernism. With his comic opera The King in Spite…

Composer in Context: Sergey Taneyev

Opera, 2009

Online

A highly gifted pianist and composer, Taneyev was a protégé and champion of Tchaikovsky’s, serving as a soloist in early performances of the older composer’s piano concertos. Taneyev was one…

The Wreckers

Opera, 2015

Online

Written by Dame Ethel Smyth, English composer and leader in the women’s suffrage movement, The Wreckers was first performed in Germany in 1906 and was mounted in the composer’s homeland…

Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss

Opera, 2011

Online

One of the most revered Romantic composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Richard Strauss’s symphonic poems and operas remain an indispensable feature of the standard repertoire. This…

String Quartet No. 1, “Calvary”

March 18, 2021

Online

“When I sat down to write this string quartet, I was not trying to write something Black, I was just writing out of my experience,” said Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) about his…

String Quartet No. 1, Lyric

March 4, 2021

Online

In 1946, American composer George Walker (1922-2018) wrote what would become one of his most notable works at the young age of 24: String Quartet no. 1. Walker was introduced to music at 5 years…

Juba for String Quartet

Jan 28, 2021

Online

The latest ASO Online release was performed live this past September during a socially-distanced chamber music performance at the Washington Lake Park Amphitheater in Sewell, NJ. A string quartet of…

String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 (1935)

Oct 9, 2020

Online

The middle movement of Samuel Barber’s String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 (1935), later arranged by the composer for orchestra as Adagio for Strings, is “one of the most…

The Magic of Nino Rota

Sept 30, 2020

Online

A string quartet of ASO musicians performs the works of Italian-born Nino Rota (1911-1979). Born into a family of musicians, Rota was no stranger to music and was a child…

Past Offerings

Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm

Live Concert Film, 2023

Online

The ASO presents Sergei Taneyev’s final work, At the Reading of a Psalm in a live concert film experience. Conceived as a massive statement of Russian Orthodox faith at the…

American Expressions

Livestream, 2023

Online

Performed live at Bryant Park on September 7, 2023, American Expressions highlights the different forms of expression and musical languages that emerged in the 1920s, including new elements of dance,…

Celebrating New York

Livestream, 2022

Online

Performed live at Bryant Park on September 17, 2022, Celebrating New York, highlighted composers who have influenced the artistic landscape of New York and works that were inspired by our…

World Opera Day: King Arthur

October 25, 2021

Online

“Richly costumed and dramatically effective…Botstein, leading the American Symphony Orchestra, an impressive cast and the excellent Bard Festival Chorale, made a compelling case for the piece.”—New York Times, August 2021…

ASO ONLINE

In addition to our live performances, the ASO will continue to add new content to our streaming platform, ASO online. Content includes live video recordings of SummerScape operas, audio recordings from previous ASO concerts, video recordings from our live chamber performances, and short films—all of which you can enjoy in your home.

We are grateful to the ASO's orchestra committee, the American Federation of Musicians, Bard's SummerScape festival, and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts who worked with us to make this content available.

Streaming Now

Ficciones

Short film, 2023

Online

Ficciones is an immersive concert film experience featuring Roberto Sierra’s newly commissioned Concerto for Electric Violin, which presents a mixture of Sierra’s Latin-influenced ideas and modern compositional techniques through the…

MORE INFO

A Salute to America’s Jazz Royalty: The Count, The Duke and The King

Livestream, 2022

Online

A truly American genre, the ASO presented this jazz ensemble as a salute to America’s jazz royalty: New Jersey-native jazz pianist, organist, and composer Count Basie, considered one of the…

MORE INFO

United We Play

Short film, 2020

Online

United We Play is a short film inspired by the current turbulent times, and the belief that strength comes through adversity—where there is divide, there is also community. The project…

MORE INFO

The Miracle of Heliane

Opera, 2019

Online

Set in an unnamed totalitarian state, The Miracle of Heliane (Das Wunder der Heliane) features an intricate, erotic triangle between a ruthless despot, The Ruler; his beautiful and neglected wife, Heliane; and…

MORE INFO
Euryanthe

Composer in Context: Carl Maria von Weber

Opera, 2014

Online

In collaboration with Bard’s Fisher Center, ASO Online illuminates the work of German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber, featuring his Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1 and…

MORE INFO

Dimitrij

Opera, 2017

Online

A great nation in turmoil after the abrupt end to a ruling dynasty leaving no clear path forward. This was Russia in the Time of Troubles, the seventeenth-century period in…

MORE INFO

Demon

Opera, 2018

Online

SummerScape’s production of Anton Rubinstein’s operatic masterpiece Demon first premiered to great acclaim in 1871. Although performed frequently in Russia, the work remains something of a rarity in the West…

MORE INFO

Le Roi Malgré Lui

Opera, 2012

Online

A contemporary of Saint-Saëns, Emmanuel Chabrier was an independent-minded and important innovator—many saw him as having paved the way for French modernism. With his comic opera The King in Spite…

MORE INFO

Composer in Context: Sergey Taneyev

Opera, 2009

Online

A highly gifted pianist and composer, Taneyev was a protégé and champion of Tchaikovsky’s, serving as a soloist in early performances of the older composer’s piano concertos. Taneyev was one…

MORE INFO

The Wreckers

Opera, 2015

Online

Written by Dame Ethel Smyth, English composer and leader in the women’s suffrage movement, The Wreckers was first performed in Germany in 1906 and was mounted in the composer’s homeland…

MORE INFO

Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss

Opera, 2011

Online

One of the most revered Romantic composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Richard Strauss’s symphonic poems and operas remain an indispensable feature of the standard repertoire. This…

MORE INFO

String Quartet No. 1, “Calvary”

March 18, 2021

Online

“When I sat down to write this string quartet, I was not trying to write something Black, I was just writing out of my experience,” said Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) about his…

MORE INFO

String Quartet No. 1, Lyric

March 4, 2021

Online

In 1946, American composer George Walker (1922-2018) wrote what would become one of his most notable works at the young age of 24: String Quartet no. 1. Walker was introduced to music at 5 years…

MORE INFO

Juba for String Quartet

Jan 28, 2021

Online

The latest ASO Online release was performed live this past September during a socially-distanced chamber music performance at the Washington Lake Park Amphitheater in Sewell, NJ. A string quartet of…

MORE INFO

String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 (1935)

Oct 9, 2020

Online

The middle movement of Samuel Barber’s String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 (1935), later arranged by the composer for orchestra as Adagio for Strings, is “one of the most…

MORE INFO

The Magic of Nino Rota

Sept 30, 2020

Online

A string quartet of ASO musicians performs the works of Italian-born Nino Rota (1911-1979). Born into a family of musicians, Rota was no stranger to music and was a child…

MORE INFO

Past Offerings

Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm

Live Concert Film, 2023

Online

The ASO presents Sergei Taneyev’s final work, At the Reading of a Psalm in a live concert film experience. Conceived as a massive statement of Russian Orthodox faith at the…

MORE INFO

American Expressions

Livestream, 2023

Online

Performed live at Bryant Park on September 7, 2023, American Expressions highlights the different forms of expression and musical languages that emerged in the 1920s, including new elements of dance,…

MORE INFO

Celebrating New York

Livestream, 2022

Online

Performed live at Bryant Park on September 17, 2022, Celebrating New York, highlighted composers who have influenced the artistic landscape of New York and works that were inspired by our…

MORE INFO

World Opera Day: King Arthur

October 25, 2021

Online

“Richly costumed and dramatically effective…Botstein, leading the American Symphony Orchestra, an impressive cast and the excellent Bard Festival Chorale, made a compelling case for the piece.”—New York Times, August 2021…

MORE INFO