Enlightenment by the American Classical Orchestra
Enlightenment proved that reason and rapture can share a single stage. Under Thomas Crawford’s genial guidance, the American Classical Orchestra’s period-instrument artists made Mozart sigh and Haydn laugh, and Elise Bonhivert’s handmade basset clarinet sang like a voice from 1789. Season 42 now beckons, from Berwald’s American premiere and Beethoven at Alice Tully Hall to Bach at Old St. Patrick’s and Jeff…