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Sit Inside the Sound: The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s 2026–2027 Season
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Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

Sit Inside the Sound: The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s 2026–2027 Season

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s 2026–2027 season seats audiences inside the orchestra through its patented InsideOut Concerts® format. Music Director David Bernard opens in November with three Romeo and Juliets — Prokofiev, Bernstein, Tchaikovsky — then leads two Nutcrackers in December, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Sean Lee in February, and a Dvořák–Brahms program in May. The season closes at Merkin Hall in June with Special Music School concerto winners. Family and Full Experience performances available.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
American Classical Orchestra Turns the Key on Haydn and Beethoven
Choral Music
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

American Classical Orchestra Turns the Key on Haydn and Beethoven

urning the Key provides more than a compelling juxtaposition of Haydn and Beethoven. It demonstrates how wit, faith, fear, and hope coexist within a single musical tradition. Thomas Crawford, the American Classical Orchestra, its chorus, and four distinguished soloists restore the music’s human scale while preserving its sublimity. The ACO’s ongoing Beethoven cycle offers performances that let familiar masterpieces engage, challenge, and console listeners, ultimately revealing new interpretive possibilities.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
New York Resounds: The ASO Marks Twenty-Five Years Since 9/11 at Bryant Park
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Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

New York Resounds: The ASO Marks Twenty-Five Years Since 9/11 at Bryant Park

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein turned Bryant Park into a place of sanctuary. Copland’s fanfare, Walker’s lament, Ives’s firemen’s parade, Haydn’s Mourning Symphony, and Mahler’s unfinished Adagio marked a journey from grief to gratitude, with luminous playing from concertmaster Cyrus Beroukhim and the ASO’s principals. Free, fearless, and profoundly humane, this is the orchestra New York deserves. Seek out the ASO’s 2026–27 season at Riverside Church and Carnegie Hall, and go.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
Young Virtuosos & Classic Magic: The Barbara Brandt Winners’ Concert with the PACS
Concerto
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

Young Virtuosos & Classic Magic: The Barbara Brandt Winners’ Concert with the PACS

Five teenage laureates, one believing orchestra, and an evening that proved to us why the concerto endures: as a stage for the brave individual voice. The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s 2025–26 season — including its immersive InsideOut Concerts — awaits the curious listener. Seek out the exciting 2026-27 season, take a seat in the sound, and let these musicians astonish you, too.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
Spellbinding Strauss: David Bernard and the PACS
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Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

Spellbinding Strauss: David Bernard and the PACS

Spellbinding Strauss was a luminous reminder of why the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has become indispensable to New York’s cultural landscape. Maestro Bernard and Sara Beth Pearson delivered an unforgettable journey through Strauss’s life and art — all from inside the orchestra itself. Don’t miss the remainder of the 2025–26 Immersions and Explorations season; Sublime Schubert and more await. Step inside the music. You will leave transformed, inspired, and yearning, like Strauss’s own pilgrim at sunset, for the next halcyon encounter.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
The Orchestra Now: Strauss Unbound at Carnegie Hall
Choral Music
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

The Orchestra Now: Strauss Unbound at Carnegie Hall

Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now closed their 2025–26 season with Strauss writ glorious: an evening of mountain air mastery, scholarly programming, and youthful artistry. Audiences hungry for living Romanticism should follow Botstein’s TN and the American Symphony Orchestra into their next season, where neglected masterworks and cherished classics await, brilliantly performed.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
Heroic at Alice Tully Hall: The ACO Ignites Lincoln Center
Concerto
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

Heroic at Alice Tully Hall: The ACO Ignites Lincoln Center

Season 42 of the American Classical Orchestra promises to be nothing short of magnificent. From Haydn’s “Lord Nelson” Mass and transcendent J.S. Bach motets to Mozart, Berwald, and not one but three more Beethoven symphonies—including the thunderous Fifth—the coming season is a feast for the historically curious and the passionately musical alike. These are concerts to circle on your calendar, to bring a friend, and above all: do not miss a single note.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
American Symphony Orchestra Conjures Romantic Fire at Carnegie Hall
Choral Music
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

American Symphony Orchestra Conjures Romantic Fire at Carnegie Hall

The American Symphony Orchestra is one of New York’s most adventurous, intellectually vital, and musically rewarding ensemble. Season after season, under Leon Botstein’s visionary leadership, they illuminate music the world has forgotten it needed. Their 2025–2026 season promises more of the same: revelatory repertoire, world-class soloists, and performances of thrilling conviction at Carnegie Hall. Don’t merely admire them from a distance — go. You will not regret it.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
David Bernard: The Maestro From the Inside Out
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Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

David Bernard: The Maestro From the Inside Out

The European Classical Music Awards Annual Grand Prix 2025 has recognized in David Bernard something the musicians of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony have long known: that this is a conductor of exceptional gifts, whose accomplishments are inseparable from the community of musicians he has gathered, shaped, and — in Bernstein’s word — made them want to play.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
Sight & Sound: The Orchestra Now Unites Sibelius and Schjerfbeck at The MET Museum
Music
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

Sight & Sound: The Orchestra Now Unites Sibelius and Schjerfbeck at The MET Museum

The Orchestra Now under Leon Botstein continues to enchant and enlighten with immersive concerts that unite visual art and orchestral mastery. Their 2025–2026 season promises more revelatory programming at The Met, Carnegie Hall, and beyond. Do not miss these extraordinary musical experiences—discover TŌN and let their passionate artistry transform your understanding of what a concert can be.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
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