Music Director and Bard College President Leon Botstein leads the orchestra in the opening program of its 9th season with an overture of music from The Merry Widow, Eduard Strauss’ train-themed polka Bahn frei!, and his brother Johann Jr.’s majestic Emperor Waltz, and a contrasting style from the same era with Mahler’s deeply personal and darkly passionate Symphony No. 6.
The Orchestra Now Performs Music of ‘Two Sides of Vienna’
Matt Dine
