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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. Hear this program at the Fisher Center just days before TŌN performs it at Carnegie Hall.
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
All-Richard Strauss Program
Burleske
Die Tageszeiten (Times of the Day)
An Alpine Symphony
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Please join us on the portico in front of the Fisher Center starting at 2 pm on Sunday, May 10, as we toast the end of TŌN’s 11th season and our 2026 graduates! Free for all ticket holders.
