The Orchestra Now Featured in New York Times’s 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April
The TON April 10 program opens with Tania León’s “glittering” “Ácana,” from 2008. Photo of León by Miranda Barnes for the New York Times.
The Orchestra Now April 10 at 8 p.m.; theorchestranow.org; available on demand from April 15 through May 30.
“This impressive ensemble of graduate students at Bard College presents a characteristically adventurous program, conducted by Leon Botstein,” writes Anthony Tommasini of the April 10 concert. “It opens with Tania León’s glittering ‘Ácana,’ from 2008, followed by Bernstein’s ‘Serenade’: a rumination on Plato’s ‘Symposium’ that takes the form of an intense, episodic violin concerto, with Zongheng Zhang as soloist. The brilliant pianist Blair McMillen appears in Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, a terrific but seldom performed piece. The program ends with Mendelssohn’s spirited ‘Scottish’ Symphony.”
Post Date: 03-30-2021
“This impressive ensemble of graduate students at Bard College presents a characteristically adventurous program, conducted by Leon Botstein,” writes Anthony Tommasini of the April 10 concert. “It opens with Tania León’s glittering ‘Ácana,’ from 2008, followed by Bernstein’s ‘Serenade’: a rumination on Plato’s ‘Symposium’ that takes the form of an intense, episodic violin concerto, with Zongheng Zhang as soloist. The brilliant pianist Blair McMillen appears in Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, a terrific but seldom performed piece. The program ends with Mendelssohn’s spirited ‘Scottish’ Symphony.”
Post Date: 03-30-2021