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. The concert will last approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.

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.

Raise a glass! 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.

Richard Strauss Burleske in D Minor, TrV 145 Blair McMillen piano Richard Strauss Die Tageszeiten (Times of the Day), TrV 256, Op. 76 Members of the Bard Festival Chorale James Bagwell choral director Intermission Brief remarks by a TŌN musician Richard Strauss An Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie), TrV 233, Op. 64 Performed with members of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra

Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Tan Dun Selection from Four Secret Roads of Marco Polo
 Intermission Brief remarks by a TŌN musician Tan Dun Ten Thousand Galloping Horses
 Ravel Daphnis and Chloé Suite No. 2

Visions of Time: 20th-Century Reflections in Chamber Music.

TŌN Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert of audience favorites. The program comprises Rossini’s immensely popular William Tell Overture, Gounod’s glittering ballet music from his opera Faust, and the famous Symphony in D Minor of French composer César Franck.

2 pm Pre-concert celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year 3 pm Performance

Celebrate two holidays in one! On Valentine’s Day weekend, bring your loved ones and welcome the Year of the Horse at the 7th annual The Sound of Spring Chinese New Year concert. TŌN and conductor Jindong Cai perform a program in praise of love and horses—filling the Rose Theater with joyful Chinese and Western symphonic music for the whole family.

Special guest soloists include winds virtuoso Yazhi Guo, plus a selection of outstanding young performers with top international accolades from the legendary Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the groundbreaking US-China Music Institute at Bard College.

Be sure to arrive up to one hour before curtain for the ever-popular Chinese instrument demonstration and Chinese New Year activities, courtesy of the US-China Music Institute.

Celebrate two holidays in one! On Valentine’s Day, bring your loved ones and welcome the Year of the Horse at the 7th annual The Sound of Spring Chinese New Year concert. TŌN and conductor Jindong Cai perform a program in praise of love and horses—filling Sosnoff Theater with joyful Chinese and Western symphonic music for the whole family.

Special guest soloists include winds virtuoso Yazhi Guo, plus a selection of outstanding young performers with top international accolades from the legendary Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the groundbreaking US-China Music Institute at Bard.

Be sure to come early for the ever-popular Chinese instrument demonstration, with tea and snacks, courtesy of the US-China Music Institute.

Ukrainian musicians Tatiana Kalinichenko—co-founder, music director, and conductor of the New Era Orchestra in Kyiv—and violinist Dmytro Tkachenko—winner of the Carl Nielsen, Lysenko, and Wronski Solo Violin Competitions—bring their artistry to the Fisher Center for a one-night-only concert with TŌN. Tkachenko performs Dvořák’s elaborate and lyrical Violin Concerto, which includes a uniquely Czech finale featuring two popular folk dances. Kalinichenko also shares music by three Ukrainian composers with Fisher Center audiences: Levko Kolodub’s luxurious Ukrainian Carpathian Rhapsody No. 1; the U.S. premiere of Yevhen Stankovych’s expressive suite of music from his ballet The Vikings; and the U.S. premiere of Victoria Poleva’s powerful and triumphant 2022 composition Nova, a salute to the courage of the Ukrainian people.

TŌN Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert. The concert opens with Strauss’s beloved tone poem Don Juan. Then tenor Ryan Michki, a winner of the 2024 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, performs Vaughan Williams’ emotional English song cycle On Wenlock Edge, written after the composer had spent three months studying with Maurice Ravel in Paris. Also on the program are Steven Stucky’s arrangement of Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary, originally composed 330 years ago in 1695, and Samuel Barber’s epic and expansive Symphony No. 1 in One Movement.

The action-packed adventure pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, this epic film is sheer movie magic 65 million years in the making. Now audiences can experience Jurassic Park as never before: projected in HD with TŌN performing John Williams’ iconic score live to picture. Welcome… to Jurassic Park!

All proceeds support TŌN’s innovative graduate program that is training the next generation of music professionals to become creative ambassadors for classical music, offering students a full-tuition fellowship and stipend.

The action-packed adventure pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, this epic film is sheer movie magic 65 million years in the making. Now audiences can experience Jurassic Park as never before: projected in HD with TŌN performing John Williams’ iconic score live to picture. Welcome… to Jurassic Park!

All proceeds support TŌN’s innovative graduate program that is training the next generation of music professionals to become creative ambassadors for classical music, offering students a full-tuition fellowship and stipend.

This program spotlights Eastern European works from the late-19th and early-20th centuries that confront cultural struggles resulting from the oppressiveness of the Russian Empire. More familiar pieces like Rimsky-Korsakov’s charming Overture on Russian Themes and Tchaikovsky’s grand Festival Coronation March, written to celebrate the coronation of Alexander III, are performed alongside lesser-known works. The symphonic poem In the Forest, by Lithuanian composer and painter M.K. Čiurlionis, won a competition in Warsaw and was among the composer’s earliest musical successes. The formidable Military Sinfonietta of Vítězslava Kaprálová was composed upon her graduation from the Prague Conservatory, and brought her international exposure as the work received the prestigious Smetana Foundation award. Borys Liatoshynsky’s Third Symphony was premiered in his native Ukraine in 1951, but was then revised after being banned by Soviet authorities. TŌN performs the original version in this concert.

This program spotlights Eastern European works from the late-19th and early-20th centuries that confront cultural struggles resulting from the oppressiveness of the Russian Empire. More familiar pieces like Rimsky-Korsakov’s charming Overture on Russian Themes and Tchaikovsky’s grand Festival Coronation March, written to celebrate the coronation of Alexander III, are performed alongside lesser-known works. The symphonic poem In the Forest, by Lithuanian composer and painter M.K. Čiurlionis, won a competition in Warsaw and was among the composer’s earliest musical successes. The formidable Military Sinfonietta of Vítězslava Kaprálová was composed upon her graduation from the Prague Conservatory, and brought her international exposure as the work received the prestigious Smetana Foundation award. Borys Liatoshynsky’s Third Symphony was premiered in his native Ukraine in 1951, but was then revised after being banned by Soviet authorities. TŌN performs the original version in this concert.

This program spotlights Eastern European works from the late-19th and early-20th centuries that confront cultural struggles resulting from the oppressiveness of the Russian Empire. More familiar pieces like Rimsky-Korsakov’s charming Overture on Russian Themes and Tchaikovsky’s grand Festival Coronation March, written to celebrate the coronation of Alexander III, are performed alongside lesser-known works. The symphonic poem In the Forest, by Lithuanian composer and painter M.K. Čiurlionis, won a competition in Warsaw and was among the composer’s earliest musical successes. The formidable Military Sinfonietta of Vítězslava Kaprálová was composed upon her graduation from the Prague Conservatory, and brought her international exposure as the work received the prestigious Smetana Foundation award. Borys Liatoshynsky’s Third Symphony was premiered in his native Ukraine in 1951, but was then revised after being banned by Soviet authorities. TŌN performs the original version in this concert.

The eighth annual China Now Music Festival returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center for Music in Motion, offering two exhilarating programs of contemporary Chinese music. The opening concert presents TŌN performing three generations of Chinese composers. These groundbreaking symphonic works demonstrate the momentum of musical development in China through the decades at the turn of the millennium. Featuring Ye Xiaogang’s epic masterpiece The Song of the Earth for orchestra, soprano and baritone, the concert is conducted by festival artistic director Jindong Cai.

The eighth annual China Now Music Festival returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center for Music in Motion, offering two exhilarating programs of contemporary Chinese music. The opening concert presents TŌN performing three generations of Chinese composers. These groundbreaking symphonic works demonstrate the momentum of musical development in China through the decades at the turn of the millennium. Featuring Ye Xiaogang’s epic masterpiece The Song of the Earth for orchestra, soprano and baritone, the concert is conducted by festival artistic director Jindong Cai.

For the fourth year in a row, TŌN opens the season with a Mahler symphony. The Third is the composer’s longest work, a deeply personal and all-encompassing masterpiece that stands as a towering monument to nature and humankind’s place within it. Mahler described the symphony as having a “steady intensification of feeling, from the indistinct, unyielding, elemental existences (of the forces of nature), to the tender formation of the human heart, which in turn points toward and reaches a region beyond itself (God).” Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe—a Musical America Vocalist of the Year, Opera News, and Richard Tucker Award-winner—joins the orchestra for two of the symphony’s six movements, singing text by Nietzsche telling of joy transcending death and worldly suffering, and then a German folk poem about heavenly joy rewarding the faithful.