The Orchestra Now Presents

Strauss’s “Alpine Symphony”

All-Richard Strauss Program
Burleske
Die Tageszeiten (Times of the Day)
An Alpine Symphony

Leon Botstein conductor
Blair McMillen piano
Members of the Bard Festival Chorale
James Bagwell choral director
An Alpine Symphony performed with members of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra

After a string of successful tone poems, An Alpine Symphony was Richard Strauss’s first such composition after nearly a dozen years of focusing on opera. Written for a massive orchestra that includes such rarities as the heckelphone, thunder sheets, a wind machine, and other unusual effects, this gloriously opulent masterpiece takes listeners through the ascent and descent of a mountain in the Alps, with meadows, streams, storms, and vistas along the way. Also on the program are Strauss’s Burleske for Piano and Orchestra, performed with Blair McMillen, and the vivacious Die Tageszeiten (Times of the Day), a setting of four nature poems by Joseph von Eichendorff.

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For more information, call 212-247-7800, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://ton.bard.edu/events/an-alpine-symphony/.

Time: 7:00 pm – 9:10 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Carnegie Hall in NYC

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