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‘Apollo and Dionysus’

American Symphony Orchestra

Leon Botstein, conductor

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center

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On Sunday, May 9, the American Symphony Orchestra closes out its 2009-10 season at Avery Fisher Hall with Apollo and Dionysus, a concert of music that explores the opposite ends of human nature: reason, discipline and formal beauty versus sensuality, pleasure and desire.

Hailed by New York Magazine as “one of the best-programmed music series in New York,” the American Symphony Orchestra allows audiences to explore and discover rare symphonic masterworks at Avery Fisher Hall, under the baton of Music Director Leon Botstein. Coupled with Maestro Botstein's illuminating pre-concert discussions, ASO concerts are an experience like nothing else.

The American Symphony Orchestra uncovers truly rare works in a style all its own. Already this season, ASO audiences have been treated to obscure works that are not well known even in New York, as the orchestra opened its season last October with a concert version of French composer Vincent d’Indy’s opera Fervaal. This was followed by thematic concerts programmed and conducted by Maestro Botstein: The Remains of Romanticism, including Richard Strauss’s rarely-heard Symphony No.2; An American Biography, a program of music by the 19^th century American composer Henry Cowell; After the Thaw, works by Russian modernist composers; and a complete performance of Schumann’s oratorio-cum-opera, Scenes from Goethe’s Faust.

Apollo and Dionysus comprises five works by 20^th century Europeans, beginning with the New York premiere of Hymn to Apollo by British composer Arthur Bliss. Italian master Luigi Dallapiccola is represented by Frammenti Sinfonici from his ballet Marsia; after the great German composer Hans Werner Henze’s Symphony No. 3, a work by another Englishman, Granville Bantock, Prelude to The Bacchanals follows. Ending the concert is Frenchman Albert Roussel’s Bacchus et Ariane, Suites 1and 2.

All tickets for all ASO concerts are $25.

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