Photo credit: Israeli Opera The Orchestra Now (TŌN) opens its 2023-24 Carnegie Hall season with the New York City premiere of Josef Tal’s “Exodus,” staring baritone Noam Heinz. The program titled “Exodus: Jewish Composers in Exile” features seldom-heard works by Jewish composers Alexandre Tansman, Josef Tal, Walter Kaufmann, and Marcel Rubin. The two NYC premieres on the docket, “Exodus,” and {…}
The Orchestra Now has unveiled its 2023-24 season. “As we approach the ninth successful season of TŌN, I am exceedingly proud of all we have accomplished since the Orchestra was launched in 2015,” said Music Director Leon Botstein in an official press statement issued by the company. “I am delighted to continue that impressive record in the 2023-24 season with {…}
The Orchestra Now has announced two performances for May 2023. First up will be “Before and After Soviet Communism” on May 4. The concert will feature Eastern European works including Karol Szymanowski’s “Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin,” Boris Tishchenko’s Fifth Symphony, and György Kurtág’s “… concertante….” The concert will feature mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce, violinist Luosha Fang, and violist Rosemary Neils. {…}
Photo: Arielle Doneson The Orchestra Now (TŌN), led by Leon Botstein, will close its Carnegie Hall season on May 12, 2022, with “New Voices from the 1930s,” a concert spotlighting seldom-heard works from the late 1930s and featuring mezzo-soprano Deborah Nansteel. Nansteel will perform in Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Symphony No. 1, “Essay for a Requiem,” a work that speaks to conditions {…}
(Credit: Photo by Trans-Siberian Art Festival) On Nov. 18, 2021, The Orchestra Now will give its first Carnegie Hall concert of the season. The program will feature the world premiere of award-winning composer Scott Wheeler’s “Birds of America,” performed by violinist Gil Shaham, as well as the venue’s first full performance of Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater,” performed by mezzo-soprano Briana {…}
(Credit: Fay Fox) The Orchestra Now is set to kick off its New York City Season on Halloween day with a unique performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The performance, which kicks off at 3 p.m. on Oct. 31, 2021, will be headlined by mezzo-soprano Solange Merdinian and conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto as they take on music by Messiaen, Debussy, {…}
The Orchestra Now has unveiled its 2020 winter-spring season, which will include 16 concerts. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on operatic and vocal concerts. The company’s first major vocal showcase will be “Rest in Pieces,” which will be presented by the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Art Program. The event will celebrate opera, with music by {…}
The Orchestra Now has unveiled its 2019-20 season, which will include a plethora of unique works. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on opera and vocal performances. Over at the Sosnoff Theater at Bard College’s Fisher Center, audiences will get a chance to hear Strauss’ “Four Songs, Op. 27” in addition to a performance of Galina Ustvolskaya’s {…}
On September 30, 2018, The Orchestra Now (TON) will take to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to launch their 2018 fall season. The concerts come as part of TON’s “Sight & Sound” series held at the museum. The September 30 performance, titled “Mahler and the Feminine Ideal,” will feature the art of Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso with Mahler’s “Kindertotenlier,” which {…}
The Orchestra Now (TŌN) kicks off its popular Sight & Sound series with a program Schoenberg, Munch & Expressionism. Music director Leon Botstein will lead TŌN and Metropolitan Opera soprano Kirsten Chambers in an afternoon exploring the links between Schoenberg and Edvard Munch’s artwork. The program, which will be held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be presented in conjunction with “Edvard {…}
The Orchestra Now has announced its fall season, which will feature a ton of vocal performances. The big one that all eyes will surely be on is the Oct. 21 and 22 showcases of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which will feature soprano Chloé Olivia Moore, mezzo Teresa Buchholz, bass-baritone Alfred Walker, and tenor John Pickle. Bard College Conservatory 2016 Concerto Competition {…}
