Leon Botstein Archives

Concert Review: American Symphony Orchestra – Arnold Schoenberg, ‘Gurre-Lieder’ (22 March 2024, NYC)

4 weeks ago Avant-garde, Choral, Classical, Concert Music, Concert Reviews, Editor Pick: Music, Editor Picks, Music, Reviews music Comments Off on Concert Review: American Symphony Orchestra – Arnold Schoenberg, ‘Gurre-Lieder’ (22 March 2024, NYC)

The Bard Festival Chorale and soloists joined Leon Botstein and the ASO for Schoenberg's massively orchestrated, rarely heard cantata.

November 9, 2023 Avant-garde, Classical, Concert Reviews, Editor Pick: Music, Editor Picks, Music, Reviews music Comments Off on Concert Review: The Orchestra Now – ‘Exodus: Jewish Composers in Exile’

The Orchestra Now presented music from the 1940s by four composers who had fled their European homelands to escape the Nazis.

March 29, 2023 Classical, Editor Pick: Culture and Society, Music, Opera Comments Off on Concert Opera Review: Richard Strauss, ‘Daphne’ – American Symphony Orchestra and Soloists, 23 March 2023

Strauss's rarely heard 'Daphne' gets a superb concert performance led by Leon Botstein with a top-notch cast of soloists and musicians.

March 29, 2022 Classical, Concert Music, Editor Pick: Music, Jazz, Music Comments Off on Concert Review: American Symphony Orchestra and Marcus Roberts Trio Play the Music of Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington's concert music gets its due as the ASO and the Marcus Roberts Trio celebrate his fusion of jazz and classical at Carnegie Hall.