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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm
July 15
Carnegie Hall
The ASO presents the U.S. Premiere of Sergei Taneyev’s final work, At the Reading of a Psalm. Conceived as a massive statement of Russian Orthodox faith at the onset of…
String Quartet at the Statue of Liberty
June 21
Statue of Liberty
Forty years ago, France launched the Fête de la Musique, a national holiday to celebrate music, open to everyone who wants to perform, with thousands of free concerts on streets…
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…
String Quartet at Brooklyn Bridge Park
June 9
Brooklyn Bridge Park
A string quartet of ASO musicians performs a program of Italian chamber music. The finale of the concert will feature the soaring melodies and filigreed lines of the 19th century…
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Bach at St. Bart’s
Jan 24
St. Bartholomew's Church
Long associated with the instrumental genre, Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach is most well-known for his concertos, sonatas, and symphonies. These works earned him a leading position in the years 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…
String Quartet at Bryant Park Upper Terrace
May 13 & 14
Bryant Park
A string quartet of ASO musicians performs works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still, and Antonín Dvořák, in a program curated by violinist Ashley Horne, a longtime member of the American Symphony Orchestra….
Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder
March 22
Carnegie Hall
One hundred and fifty years after the composer’s birth—and more than 90 years since ASO founder Leopold Stokowski premiered the work in the U.S. with the Philadelphia Orchestra—the ASO presents…
Dvořák’s Requiem
Jan 25
Carnegie Hall
Dating from the composer’s late creative period, Antonín Dvořák’s Requiem mystifyingly remains a rarity in his impressive oeuvre. It is nowhere near as well known, or as frequently performed, as…
String Quartet at City Winery
Jan 3
City Winery Grand Central
Join us at City Winery Grand Central Terminal in the magnificent Vanderbilt Hall for a musician-curated program featuring a selection of works for string quartet that highlight connections in the…
Judas Maccabaeus
Dec 14
The Riverside Church
This holiday season the ASO offers an alternative to George Frideric Handel’s Messiah with another oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus. Set amidst the story of Hanukkah, the oratorio is a dramatization of…
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…
America UNBOUND – Canceled
Sept 25
Bryant Park
Due to inclement weather, this performance has been canceled. A new work commissioned by the American Symphony Orchestra, written by composer and percussionist Javier Diaz, whose studio credits include Steven Spielberg’s West Side…