The Orchestra Now
Mahler & Strauss
September 14–15
The Orchestra Now
September 14–15
Leon Botstein conductor
Jana McIntyre soprano
Mahler
Symphony No. 4
Schoenberg
Five Pieces for Orchestra
Strauss
Four Last Songs
TŌN’s tenth anniversary season kicks off with works by three master composers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The concert begins with Gustav Mahler’s mystical Fourth Symphony. Soprano Jana McIntyre, a Metropolitan Opera National Council grand finalist, performs the final movement’s beautiful “Das himmlische Leben” (“The Heavenly Life”). She also joins the orchestra for Richard Strauss’ lush and serene Four Last Songs. The program also includes Arnold Schoenberg’s rhapsodic Five Pieces for Orchestra.
Please join us on the portico in front of the Fisher Center on Saturday at 6 pm to toast the start of TŌN’s Tenth Anniversary Season! Free for all ticket holders.
Leon Botstein is founder and music director of The Orchestra Now (TŌN), music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO), artistic codirector of Bard SummerScape and the Bard Music Festival, and conductor laureate and principal guest conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (JSO), where he served as music director from 2003 to 2011. He has been guest conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Taipei Symphony, Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, and Sinfónica Juvenil de Caracas in Venezuela, among others. In 2018, he assumed artistic directorship of Campus Grafenegg and Grafenegg Academy in Austria.
Recordings include acclaimed recordings of Othmar Schoeck’s Lebendig begraben with TŌN, Hindemith’s The Long Christmas Dinner with the ASO, a Grammy-nominated recording of Popov’s First Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra, and other various recordings with TŌN, ASO, the London Philharmonic, NDR Orchestra Hamburg, and JSO, among others. He is editor of The Musical Quarterly and author of numerous articles and books, including The Compleat Brahms (Norton), Jefferson’s Children (Doubleday), Judentum und Modernität (Bölau), and Von Beethoven zu Berg (Zsolnay). Honors include Harvard University’s prestigious Centennial Award; the American Academy of Arts and Letters award; and Cross of Honor, First Class, from the government of Austria, for his contributions to music. Other distinctions include the Bruckner Society’s Julio Kilenyi Medal of Honor for his interpretations of that composer’s music, the Leonard Bernstein Award for the Elevation of Music in Society, and Carnegie Foundation’s Academic Leadership Award. In 2011, he was inducted into the American Philosophical Society.
Soprano Jana McIntyre is a George and Nora London Foundation Competition Award Winner as well as a Finalist in The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. In the 2024–25 season she debuts at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and returns to Opera Santa Barbara as Marie in La fille du régiment. On the concert stage, she debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with performances in Los Angeles, New York, and Bogotà.
Ms. McIntyre began last season with a return to Opera Santa Barbara for La Divina: The Art of Maria Callas. Additional season engagements included debuts with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for Carmina Burana, and Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra for a Rodgers and Hammerstein celebration. Additionally, she joined the roster of the San Francisco Opera for Die Zauberflöte and Innocence.
In the 2022–23 season, Ms. McIntyre returned to Opera Santa Barbara as Giulia in Rossini’s comic one-act La scala di seta, and to Tulsa Opera as Cinderella in Into the Woods. She debuted Carmina Burana with the Santa Barbara Symphony and the Seattle Symphony. Additional concerts included her Carnegie Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra as the title role in Richard Strauss’ rarely heard Daphne conducted by Music Director Leon Botstein. In 2021–22, she sang the title role in Semele with Opera Santa Barbara, as well as Aminta in Die Schweigsame Frau in a new production at Bard SummerScape. With The Rally Cat in New York City, she created the role of Marianne in a recording and workshop of Aferidan Stephens and Marella Martin Koch’s Elinor and Marianne, based on the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility. She also performed in chamber concerts with Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate and Tulsa’s Signature Symphony.
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