Full Concert: Beethoven’s 6th & “The Rite of Spring”
In this April 7, 2024 performance livestreamed from the Fisher Center at Bard, The Orchestra Now (TŌN) and conductor Leon Botstein ring in spring with three very different musical tributes to the vernal equinox: Egon Wellesz’s “The Dawn of Spring”, Beethoven’s Pastoral Sixth Symphony, and Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”. The last work is performed by TŌN alongside members of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra.
0:44 Introductory remarks by TŌN horn player Tori Boell
9:44 Egon Wellesz Vorfrühling (The Dawn of Spring)
>Read concert notes by TŌN percussionist Nick Goodson
20:16 Beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
>Read concert notes by TŌN horn player Daniel Itzkowitz
1:04:42 Introductory remarks by TŌN violinist Samuel Frois
1:08:07 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
performed with musicians from the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra
>Read concert notes by TŌN bassoonist Kylie Bartlett