This certificate entitles to 2 tickets to each of American Symphony Orchestra’s Vanguard Series concerts at Carnegie Hall in 2012-2013

THE CAGE CONCERT
Thu, Dec 13, 2012 7 PM Conductor’s Notes Q&A
8 PM Concert
For his 100th birthday, ASO features some of legendary Amer-ican composer John Cage’s important later works, as well as a few by his friends, contemporaries, and inspirations

WHAT MAKES A MASTERPIECE
Fri, Jan 25, 2013 7 PM Conductor’s Notes Q&A
8 PM Concert
To mark his 20th year with the ASO, Music Director Leon
Botstein offers a signature program, uncovering rarely-performed pieces by well-known composers that deserve to be called masterpieces.

TRUTH OR TRUFFLES
Sun, Feb 10, 2013 1 PM Conductor’s Notes Q&A
2 PM Concert
From an escapist ballet about dancing candy to an apocalyptic setting of a Biblical catastrophe, this concert looks at two compos-ers’ very different responses to a century of war.

THE VAMPIRE
Sun, Mar 17, 2013 1 PM Conductor’s Notes Q&A
2 PM Concert
Leave your garlic at home for this opera-in-concert about a vampire who can only stay alive for another year if he murders three virgins in one day.

HUNGARY TORN
Thu, May 2, 2013 7 PM Conductor’s Notes Q&A
8 PM Concert
This concert pays tribute to a few of the young Hungarian Jewish composers who met a tragic end in WWII, featuring their