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American Symphony Orchestra's Vanguard Series Concerts for Two in New York City

Item Number: C400

Estimated Value: 400 USD
Sold: 180 USD to navahoe

Number of Bids: 20 - Bid History

Item Description

Go beyond the “greatest hits” to extraordinary music with the American Symphony Orchestra's Vanguard Series concerts!

The winning bidder will receive two tickets for each of ASO’s six Vanguard Series concerts at Carnegie Hall in 2013-2014 (see below for listing). All Vanguard Series concerts are performed at Carnegie Hall in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, located on 57th Street at the corner of 7th Avenue in New York City.

2013 - 2014 Vanguard Series Listing

1. NEW YORK AVANT-GARDE
Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 at 8 PM
From Strauss to Antheil to Copland, ASO presents a glimpse of New York’s modernist musical culture in the years surrounding the 1913 Armory Show, in partnership with New-York Historical Society’s retrospective on the historic exhibit.

2. ELLIOT CARTER: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL
Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013 at 2 PM
The ASO pays tribute to Elliott Carter a life-long New Yorker and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, with six orchestral works by one of the greatest composers of the second half of the 20th century.

3. STRAUSS – SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013 at 2 PM
Richard Strauss saw a vision of himself in each of the works on this program: as the vengeful, mighty sorcerer in his one-act opera Feuersnot (In Need of Fire), and in his family life in Symphonia Domestica.

4. THIS ENGLAND
Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 at 8 PM
This concert reveals an explosion of creative energy in music in Britain after 1914 by highlighting works by some of the first modern British composers, from an H.G. Wells film to the volcanic eruption of a brass band.

5. MOSES
Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 2 PM
Max Bruch’s moving oratorio tells Moses’ tale from the events at Mount Sinai, to his conflict with the Israelites, to his death on the eve of his people’s arrival in the promised land of Canaan.

6. FORGED FROM FIRE
Friday, May 30, 2014 at 8 PM
New sensibilities regarding nation and homeland emerged following WWI. The ASO looks at the music that defined the ambitions of Germany, a new consciousness in Poland and the U.S., and the aspiring nationalism of the Jews of Europe and North America.