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Bard Music Festival — Program 11

Aug 13

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Program Eleven presents Vaughan Williams’ opera, Sir John in Love, in a semi-staged production by American director Alison Moritz, whose projects have been called “raw, funny, surreal, and disarmingly human” (Opera News)….

Bard Music Festival — Program 9

Aug 12

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Program Nine marks the American Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the festival, presenting two of his late symphonies alongside other key orchestral works of the period. While drawing on his…

Henri VIII at Bard SummerScape

Opens July 21

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Henri VIII is French grand opera at its most magnificent. In this love triangle for the ages, an infamous Tudor king is determined to divorce Catherine of Aragon in favor of…

America UNBOUND

May 23

Bryant Park

Experience the world premiere of this new piece by percussionist Javier Diaz, whose studio credits include Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights. Commissioned by the American Symphony…

America UNBOUND – World Premiere

May 22

Bryant Park

Experience the world premiere of this new piece by percussionist Javier Diaz, whose studio credits include Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights. Commissioned by the American Symphony…

A Century of Great American Jazz Composers

May 16

Bryant Park

The American Symphony Orchestra explores a truly American genre—jazz, with an ensemble comprised of ASO musicians and other featured artists active in the New York jazz scene today. The program…

A Century of Great American Jazz Composers

May 15

Bryant Park

The American Symphony Orchestra explores a truly American genre—jazz, with an ensemble comprised of ASO musicians and other featured artists active in the New York jazz scene today. The program…

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…

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…

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…

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Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music From the Studio Ghibli Films

July 11, 12 & 13

Madison Square Garden

Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki will take place July 11, 12 & 13. We are thrilled to be making our third appearance…

Le prophète at Bard SummerScape

July 26–Aug 4

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Religion, power, ego, and manipulation collide in composer Giacomo Meyerbeer’s glorious psychodrama. Director Christian Räth (Die schweigsame Frau, 2022 and Das Wunder der Heliane, 2019) returns for a third SummerScape to…

Bard Music Festival: Berlioz and His World

Aug 17 & 18

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

The 34th Bard Music Festival: Berlioz and His World A singular composer, writer, and conductor, Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) is the definitive Romantic composer. Drawing music and sound into dialogue with…

Beyond the Hall

Sept 6

Bryant Park

The ASO presents a free concert as part of the Picnic Performance series at Bryant Park with a program of music sourced from dance salons, opera houses, cabaret, and the silver screen. For our…

Beyond the Hall

Sept 7

Kupferberg Center for the Arts

The ASO will co-present a free Saturday matinee with Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College/CUNY. Beyond the Hall explores music that draws its inspiration from outside the traditional concert setting….

Bach at St. Bart’s – Sold Out

Jan 24

St. Bartholomew's Church

This performance is now SOLD OUT. Doors will open at 6pm and seating will remain open through the pre-concert talk, which is free for all attendees. Within General and Priority sections,…

Tapping into the Twenties

March 23

David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center

The ASO’s first concert at the new David Geffen Hall focuses on music of composers who came of age in the 1920s. Chief among them was Edgard Varèse. Varèse’s symphonic…

Strauss’s Guntram

June 6

Carnegie Hall

Completed in 1893, Richard Strauss’s very first opera is rarely performed today. The ASO’s presentation marks its first performance in New York City in this century. A riveting story of…

The Glenwood Quartet at PAC

Apr 19

Perelman Performing Arts Center

Join us for a performance by a string quartet of ASO musicians on the Lobby Stage at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. As part of the Park Avenue Artists’ Spotlight…

Woodwind Quintet at Bryant Park Upper Terrace

May 20 & 21

Bryant Park

Join us for a performance by a woodwind quintet of ASO musicians, with pieces by American composers including William Grant Still, Amy Beach, and John Philip Sousa. Curated by ASO…