The American Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2018-19 season at Carnegie Hall. The upcoming series of performances will feature a number of operatic and vocal works, which will be the focus of this article. The season kicks off with “A Walt Whitman Sampler,” which includes the US premiere of Otham Schoeck’s “Tommelschläge,” the New York premiere of Kurt Weill’s “Four {…}
Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra in Luigi Nono’s opera “Intolleranza 1960.” The performance will mark the final one of the ASO’s four-concert Vanguard series, on Thursday, March 1, 2018 at Carnegie Hall. The program is part of the series’ season-long theme examining the music composers have created under varied political leaderships. In “Intolleranza,” composer Luigi Nono attempted {…}
The American Symphony Orchestra will open its 57th season of its Vanguard series at Carnegie Hall with a program titled “The Sounds of Democracy.” The concert will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, at 8 p.m. beginning a four-concert series comprising of three at Carnegie Hall and one at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The series about American Democracy was shaped {…}
The American Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2017-18 season, which will feature a rarely performed opera among other vocal treats. The season’s main aim is to focus on music composed under a wide range of political regimes ranging from fascist to communist to democratic. Luigi Nono’s one-act opera “Intolleranza” will be showcased at the tail-end of the season on March {…}