The Orchestra Now returns to Carnegie Hall.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
Life isn't easy for a training orchestra. Consider if you will The Orchestra Now, which is in its third year of existence and played Carnegie Hall on Thursday night. The idea of TON (as it is styled) is simple enough: an opportunity for grad students in music, studying at Bard College and playing a spate of professional-level gigs at New York venues every season, usually at the direction of longtime Bard president, lecturer, conductor and musicologist Leon Botstein. This year, the first class of TON is about to graduate, and this concert marked a serious and solemn occasion om the great stage of Carnegie Hall.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Leon Botstein leads The Orchestra Now in concert at Carnegie Hall. Photo by Jito Lee © 2017 The Orchestra Now |
