The Orchestra Now Presents "Transcription as Translation" at the Fisher Center at Bard College

The Orchestra Now begins the winter/spring portion of its 10th anniversary season with "Transcription as Translation," a concert of orchestral transcriptions of works by Beethoven, Chopin, and Smetana, led by music director Leon Botstein on Feb. 8 and 9 at the Fisher Center at Bard. Hear this program at the Fisher Center just days before The Orchestra Now performs it at Carnegie Hall!

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In 1910, the last year of his life, Russian composer and pianist Mily Balakirev transcribed four pieces into an orchestral suite to celebrate the centenary of Chopin’s birth. To honor another centenary in 1927, that of Beethoven’s death, Austrian conductor and composer Felix Weingartner crafted a full orchestration of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29, the Hammerklavier. While teaching composition at Mannes College of Music in 1940, acclaimed Hungarian-born American conductor George Szell created an orchestral transcription of Smetana’s E-minor String Quartet, From My Life.