2009–10 Season

Year One of a Two-Year Beethoven Celebration

The American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director, announces another year of exceptional orchestral music.

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Of their performance at the 18th Bard Music Festival (Elgar and His World), as the festival's resident orchestra, the New York Times wrote:


Highlights of the 2009–10 season include Beethoven's first five symphonies—some of the most beautiful symphonic music ever written. All concerts are preceded by a 6:45 pm preconcert talk, given by a music scholar, in the Sosnoff Theater.

The season's schedule:

Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2009

Ludvig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36

Shulamit Ran 
The Show Goes On, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (U.S. premiere)
Laura Flax, clarinet

Harold Farberman
Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra
Jonathan Haas, timpani

Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6, 2010

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 3

Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 ("Eroica")

Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 107

Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67