The Orchestra Now Opens Its 2025–26 Season of Concerts in New York City with Sounds and Echoes of Empire at Carnegie Hall on October 13

Performance Pairs Rarely-Heard Works by Čiurlionis, Kaprálová, and Lyatoshynsky with Pieces by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky

The Orchestra Now (TŌN) launches its 11^th season of New York City concerts led by Music Director Leon Botstein with Sounds and Echoes of Empire, on October 13, at Carnegie Hall.  The program features both neglected and more familiar Eastern European works from the late-19^th and early-20^th centuries that reflect the nationalism of the Russian Empire. The first of two performances at Carnegie Hall this season, the concert will initially be performed at the Fisher Center at Bard on October 11-12 and livestreamed on TŌNtube.

TŌN will next perform a FREE concert in Manhattan featuring Strauss’s beloved tone poem Don Juan and works by Vaughan Williams, Henry Purcell, and Samuel Barber led by Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman at Peter Norton Symphony Space on November 23.

For detailed information about the 2025-26 season, visit ton.bard.edu.

Sounds and Echoes of Empire
Monday, October 13, 2025, at 7 pm
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
The Orchestra Now
Leon Botstein, conductor
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture on Russian Themes in D Major, Op. 28
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: In the Forest (Miške)
Vítězslava Kaprálová: Military Sinfonietta, Op. 11 (Vojenská Symfonieta)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Festival Coronation March, TH 50
Boris Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 50
The evening presents familiar pieces like Rimsky-Korsakov’s Overture on Russian Themes and Tchaikovsky’s grand Festival Coronation March, written to celebrate the coronation of Alexander III, alongside lesser-known works from the same time period. The symphonic poem In the Forest, by Lithuanian composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, was among his earliest musical successes. The Military Sinfonietta of Vítězslava Kaprálová brought international exposure when the work received the prestigious Smetana Foundation award. Boris Lyatoshynsky’s Third Symphony was premiered in his native Ukraine in 1951, but was later revised after being banned by Soviet authorities. TŌN performs the original version in this concert.

Tickets, priced at $29-$50, are available at carnegiehall.org, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212.247.7800, or at the Carnegie Hall box office at 57^th & 7th Avenue.

Post Date: 09-18-2025