The Score | Training by the TON in NYC

The students in Bard College’s new Master of Music Program in Curatorial, Critical, and Performance Studies are aiming for orchestral careers, and their three-year curriculum combines an intensive schedule of rehearsals and concerts with education and community-engagement activities, exercises in program curation, and independent study in such areas as managing ensembles and exploring social topics through music. Their performance laboratory is The Orchestra Now (TON), which under conductor and Bard College President Leon Botstein has played in numerous New York-area venues since its debut last fall, both in formal settings like Carnegie Hall and in audience-interactive formats such as a “Sight and Sound” series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One Met concert featured Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony paired with a discussion of Louis-Léopold Boilly’s 1810 painting The Public Viewing David’s “Coronation” at the Louvre.