Epic Narratives: Gernsheim and Brahms

  • Fri & Sat, Sep 18 & 19, 2026 at 7 pm
  • Fisher Center at Bard, Sosnoff Theater

Program & Artists

Friedrich Gernsheim Zu einem Drama
Friedrich Gernsheim Symphony No. 3, “Song of Miriam”
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1

Leon Botstein conductor
Orion Weiss piano

Tickets

  • Starting at $15

Tickets and livestream RSVP available starting August 7.

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Part of the Gernsheim Festival: Rediscovering a Master

Gernsheim and Brahms were friendly contemporaries who championed each other’s music in performance. This concert celebrates some of their pivotal orchestral works: Gernsheim’s powerful tone poem Zu einem Drama and his dramatic third symphony, based on the legend of the Song of Miriam; alongside Brahms’s gigantic First Piano Concerto, written over a five-year period in the 1850s.

These concerts will also be livestreamed on TŌNtube.

The Gernsheim Festival is graciously underwritten by E&V ProArte.

Concert Details

The concert will last approximately two hours and 15 minutes including one 20-minute intermission.

Brief remarks by a TŌN musician

Friedrich Gernsheim Zu einem Drama
20 min
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Friedrich Gernsheim Symphony No. 3, “Song of Miriam”
32 min
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Intermission
20 min

Brief remarks by a TŌN musician

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Orion Weiss piano
44 min
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All timings are approximate. Program and artists subject to change.

Sample the Music

Friedrich Gernsheim Zu einem Drama

Friedrich Gernsheim Symphony No. 3, “Song of Miriam”

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1

Photo: Friedrich Gernsheim

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