SEASON 3 2017–18 NEW YORK CITY | ANNANDALE | HUDSON | BERKSHIRES SEASON 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS “We LOVE the talks given by orchestra members . we learn something new every time!” 2 –James & Andrea Nelkin, TŌN patrons TŌN at the Fisher Center Annandale-on-Hudson, NY We lift the curtain so 8 TŌN at Carnegie Hall you can explore music New York City with us. Our vibrant young musicians, 10 who are hand-picked from the Sight & Sound at world’s leading conservatories— The Metropolitan Museum of Art including The Juilliard School, New York City New England Conservatory, and the Curtis Institute of Music— 14 are not only thrilling audiences TŌN at Rose Theater with their critically acclaimed performances, but also New York City enlightening curious minds by: 16 • giving on-stage introductions TŌN at Alice Tully Hall and demonstrations New York City • writing concert notes from the musicians’ perspective 18 • having one-on-one Around Town – Free Concerts discussions with patrons during intermissions New York City; Hudson, NY; Great Barrington, MA We invite you to 22 check out TŌN and The TŌN Fund discover music in 24 the making! Season Calendar Photos: Cover & Pages 4–5, 6 & 20: Jito Lee; Inside cover & Pages 3 & 7: Matt Dine; Pages 1, 9, 10–11, 12–13, 15, 17 & 22: David DeNee; Page 2: Steve J. Sherman; Page 8: Sarah Kenyon, Studio Route 7; Page 14: Simon Leon Botstein van Boxtel; Page 16: David Adam Beloff; Page 21: Melissa Zgouridi Headshots: All by Jito Lee except: Page 9 (Voigt): Christina Kuhlman Music Director Photography; Page 13: Celine Admiraal THEORCHESTRANOW.ORG | 31 TŌN AT THE FISHER CENTER The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Sosnof Theater Annandale-on-Hudson, NY SEP 23/24 2017 OCT 21/22 2017 Tchaikovsky’s Beethoven’s Third Symphony Ninth Symphony Saturdays at 8 PM “TŌN IS DYNAMIC! ITS Sundays at 2 PM YOUNG PERFORMERS Conducted by Conducted by Orchestra seats just $35! GIVE IT FRESH STYLE.” Buy 3 or more concerts in this series Leon Botstein Leon Botstein –Ginny & Guenther May, TŌN patrons music director of The Orchestra Now and the and save 25% American Symphony Orchestra Tickets for this series THEORCHESTRANOW.ORG or ishercenter.bard.edu Mussorgsky Frank Martin Fisher Center: 845.758.7900 Night on Bald Mountain Six Monologues from Jedermann Fisher Center box oice in the Wild and wicked Eerie and emotionally charged lobby of Sosnof Theater with Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone Prokoiev a winner of the Bard College Conservatory 2016 Concerto Competition Piano Concerto No. 2 /// SPECIAL GUEST Prickly and ierce Beethoven with ChaoJun Yang, piano a winner of the Bard College Conservatory Symphony No. 9 GERARD SCHWARZ 2016 Concerto Competition with Chloé Olivia Moore, soprano Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano John Pickle, tenor Gerard Schwarz is the music director of the Tchaikovsky Alfred Walker, bass-baritone All-Star Orchestra and the Eastern Music Symphony No. 3 Festival, and is conductor laureate of the and the Bard College Chamber Singers & Bard Festival Chorale Seattle Symphony. He has also served as “I think this symphony music director of New York’s Mostly Mozart is both elegant and Festival, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, lyrical, and highlights “Who doesn’t love this the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky’s skills as a piece? It’s joyous, epic, and the New York Chamber Symphony. brilliant orchestrator.” monumental.” –Philip Brindise, French horn –Dan Honaker, tuba Mr. Schwarz previously conducted TŌN at The Town Hall in 2016. He returns to conduct works by Bruckner and Goossens on Nov 18 at the Fisher Center at Bard College, and on Nov 19 at Symphony Space in NYC. 2 | @TheOrchNow TŌN AT THE FISHER CENTER | 3 “EVEN AFTER WITNESSING MUSIC ACROSS NEARLY 50 COUNTRIES, TŌN IS OUR FAVORITE.” –Vincent Dicks & James Larney, TŌN patrons NOV 18 2017 (Saturday only) Eugene Goossens FEB 3/4 2018 Jennifer Higdon Bruckner’s Jubilee Variations Gershwin’s blue cathedral Romantic Brassy and rhythmic An American in Both exuberant and ethereal Symphony Bruckner Paris Gershwin Symphony No. 4, Romantic An American in Paris Conducted by “This one got me into the Bruckner Conducted by “Although this was written about Paris, its Gerard Schwarz symphonies. You can just relax and let the James Bagwell hectic and bustling nature also reminds music director of piece unfold.” associate conductor of me of my years living in New York City.” The All-Star Orchestra and –Gabe Cruz, trombone The Orchestra Now –Holly Nelson, violin the Eastern Music Festival, and conductor laureate of the Seattle Symphony Schumann Symphony No. 2 Rebellious and optimistic 4 | Text TON to 33233 for email updates TŌN AT THE FISHER CENTER | 5 FEB 17/18 2018 Mahler’s Seventh Symphony Conducted by Leon Botstein Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 Wild and wicked with Elias Rodriguez, clarinet winner of TŌN’s 2017 Concerto Competition Mahler Symphony No. 7 “I SOOO ENJOY “Mahler’s writing is extremely emotive, with a complexity of character unlike any THE ORCHESTRA NOW! other composer. Strings have Beethoven and Mozart, but brass and winds have Mahler!” IT IS TRULY A PLEASURE –Chris Moran, trumpet TO SUPPORT THESE APR 14/15 2018 All-Stravinsky Program Stravinsky’s Funeral Song The Rite of Spring Emotionally powerful TALENTED YOUNG The Rite of Spring “In the opening solo Symphony of Psalms of this work, PEOPLE.” Solemn and spiritual the highest Conducted by with the Bard College register of Leon Botstein –Kayce Waters, TŌN patron Chamber Singers & the bassoon Bard Festival Chorale is used in an exposed and lyrical way that was never Requiem Canticles heard before 1913. Today, Taut and acerbic it’s thrilling to attempt with Katherine Pracht, to recreate the purity, mezzo-soprano; sublimity, and quivering Jonathan Beyer, baritone; mystery in this gorgeous and the Bard College musical line.” Chamber Singers & –Dávid A. Nagy, bassoon Bard Festival Chorale 6 | THEORCHESTRANOW.ORG TŌN AT THE FISHER CENTER | 7 TŌN AT CARNEGIE HALL Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage 57th and Seventh, NYC Fri, Nov 3 at 7:30 PM “THANK YOU, THANK Thu, May 3 at 7 PM YOU, THANK YOU! THE NOV 3 2017 MAY 3 2018 Parquet seats just $50! VIBRANT ENERGY OF Herrmann’s Bartók’s Psycho Suite Concerto for Two Pianos Tickets for this series THE ORCHESTRA WAS THEORCHESTRANOW.ORG SENSATIONAL!” or carnegiehall.org –Lindsay Emery, TŌN patron Conducted by Conducted by CarnegieCharge: 212.247.7800 Leon Botstein Leon Botstein Carnegie Hall box oice music director of The Orchestra Now and the at 57th & Seventh American Symphony Orchestra Presented by The Orchestra Now Herrmann László Lajtha Psycho Suite Symphony No. 7, Revolution /// SPECIAL GUEST “I love that this suite only uses Gloomy and melancholic string instruments, because they are chilling and full of Bartók PETER SERKIN suspense. It makes me want Concerto for Two Pianos, to watch the movie again!” Percussion, and Orchestra American pianist Peter Serkin’s musical heritage –Lili Sarayrah, violin with Peter Serkin, piano extends back several generations, to his Grammy Award winner grandfather, violinist and composer Adolf Busch, and his father, pianist Rudolf Serkin. He has Herrmann and Anna Polonsky, piano winner of the 2011 Andrew Wolf Chamber performed with the world’s major symphony Symphony No. 1 Music Award orchestras and is a dedicated chamber musician. Powerful, with soaring melodies At age 19 he won the Grammy Award for Best “This piece is unbelievable. New Classical Artist, and three of his recordings Erich Wolfgang Korngold It’s energetic, powerful, have been nominated for Grammy Awards. and inventive, with Symphony in F-sharp virtuosic soloists.” Mr. Serkin previously performed with TŌN at Bard Dramatic and adventurous –Tyson J. Voigt, percussion College at Simon’s Rock in 2016. He returns to perform Bartók’s Concerto for Two Pianos on Ahmed Adnan Saygun May 3 at Carnegie Hall. Symphony No. 4 Contains a muscular, surging energy 8 | @TheOrchNow TŌN AT CARNEGIE HALL | 9 SIGHT & SOUND AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium 5th Ave at 82nd St, NYC Conductor and music historian Leon Botstein explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. First, on-screen artworks are discussed alongside musical excerpts performed by The Orchestra Now. Then, a full DEC 3 2017 Schoenberg’s Erwartung (“Expectation”) performance and audience Q&A. Schoenberg, and the artwork of Munch & others & with Kirsten Chambers, soprano Munch performer with the Metropolitan Opera & New York City Opera Sundays at 2 PM “SUPERB IN EVERY Expressionism At the climax of Schoenberg’s compact operatic Orchestra seats just $40! RESPECT. IT COULD NOT monodrama, a woman screams upon inding the 3-concert series from $75 HAVE BEEN A BETTER Conducted by dead body of her lover. The close connections Bring the Kids for $1 Leon Botstein between Schoenberg’s score and Munch’s symbolism AFTERNOON!” Ticket includes museum admission music director of extend beyond the composer’s expressionist music. –Tom Dean, TŌN patron The Orchestra Now and The composer was also a painter, heavily inluenced the American Symphony Tickets for this series Orchestra by Munch. THEORCHESTRANOW.ORG or metmuseum.org/sightandsound “Written in 1909 (the same year he The Met: 212.570.3949 Presented in conjunction with the ‘emancipated dissonance’), this work The Great Hall box oice at The exhibition Edvard Munch: Between is a masterpiece of early atonal writing the Clock and the Bed, on view at The in reaction to the Romantic Period. Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Breuer Nov 14, 2017–Feb 4, 2018 –Drew Youmans, violin 10 | Text TON to 33233 for email updates SIGHT & SOUND | 11 “OUTSTANDING! I COULD FEEL THE ADMIRATION AND RESPECT AMONG THE SOLOISTS, ORCHESTRA, AND LEON BOTSTEIN.