The Orchestra Now has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is the one vocal performance during the season. During the Fisher Center Series at Bard, JoAnn Falletta will conduct soprano Bibi Nguyen in Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24. The program will include Joaquin Turina’s Danzas fantásticas, Op. 22 and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44. Performance {…}
The Orchestra Now (TŌN) is set to perform its final concert on may 12 at Carnegie Hall. The all-Richard Strauss program will be conducted by Music Director Leon Botstein. The evening includes Strauss’s “Alpine Symphony,” which has an immense score that features Members of the Bard Festival Chorale, led by James Bagwell, and the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra alongside The {…}
The Orchestra Now (TŌN) has unveiled its 2025-26 season. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. Mahler’s Third Symphony takes the spotlight at The Fisher Center at Bard. Stephanie Blythe will be the soloist. The program also includes the Bard Conservatory Preparatory Chorus and Bard College Chamber Singers. Leon Botstein conducts. Performance Date: Sept. 20 & 21, 2025 {…}
The Fisher Center at Bard has unveiled its fall 2024 season. Here are the vocal highlights on offer. First up is “China Now Music Festival Composing the Future,” which features Hao Weiya’s “AI’s Variation,” a sci-fi opera for three voices and a chamber orchestra. It explores the story of a troubled artist who lets his identity be enhanced by AI {…}
The Orchestra Now has unveiled its 2024-25 season, the 10th in its history. “As The Orchestra Now celebrates the milestone of its 10th anniversary season, I am deeply gratified by what we’ve achieved,” said Music Director and founder Leon Botstein in an official press release. “What began as an idealistic vision in 2015 has fully blossomed and taken root around {…}
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,” starring 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, {…}