The Orchestra Now (TŌN)

Stephanie Blythe Sings Brahms

February 03, 2024

Description

Part of TŌN’s Fisher Center concert series

Award-winning mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, artistic director of Bard Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, joins TŌN for an all-Brahms concert. She performs his profound and dramatic Alto Rhapsody, based on a Goethe poem, which he composed as a wedding gift for the daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann, for whom he once carried a torch. The program also includes tenor Joshua Blue in the sweeping cantata Rinaldo, inspired by another Goethe poem about a knight who has been enchanted by a cunning sorceress. And we conclude with Brahms’ masterful First Symphony, which the composer toiled over for 14 years before its debut performance.

These concerts will also be livestreamed on TŌNtube.

Mendelssohn & Sibelius

February 18, 2024

Description

Part of TŌN’s Free Concerts series

TŌN Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert. The program comprises Mendelssohn’s fiery Ruy Blas Overture; Prokofiev’s masterful Violin Concerto No. 2 with soloist Yangxin Song, a winner of the 2022 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition; and Sibelius’ voluptuous Symphony No. 1.

Program & Artists

Mendelssohn Ruy Blas Overture
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
Sibelius Symphony No. 1

Zachary Schwartzman conductor
Yangxin Song ’25 violin

Tickets

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