Concert: The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, Music Director

On Saturday, March 11, at 8:00 p.m., Leon Botstein, music director and conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (JSO), brings the JSO to the Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College, where it will perform in the acoustically superb Sosnoff Theater. The concert, part of the JSO’s 20-city U.S. tour, represents the first time this internationally renowned orchestra has performed in the Hudson Valley region. The program will feature Martinů’s Memorial to Lidice; Strauss’s Concerto in D Major for Oboe and Orchestra, Laura Albeck, oboe; and Prokofiev’s Symphony Number 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100.

The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra’s 2006 tour is made possible by the American Friends of the Jerusalem Symphony, the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust, the Crown Family Foundation, and the Jerusalem Foundation.

Tickets are $20, $35, and $45.