American Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher Gibbs
8 pm Performance

Tickets: $25, 35, 40

This season the Fisher Center’s orchestra-in-residence performs major orchestral works by Gustav Mahler, Béla Bartók, and Igor Stravinsky (whose life and musical legacy will be the subject of the 2013 Bard Music Festival). Other composers to be featured include Maurice Ravel, Sergey Prokofiev, Witold Lutosławski, Godfrey Winham, and two contemporaries—Howard Shore, whose Mythic Gardens, a concerto for cello and orchestra, will receive its world premiere, and Christopher Brubeck. Featured soloists include Sophie Shao, cello; Jiazhi Wang, violin; Tamas Markovics, trombone; and Julia Bullock, soprano.

Concert II
Maurice Ravel
La valse, poème chorégraphique
Sergey Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63
Jiazhi Wang, violin
Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring

Programs and performances are subject to change.