Music and masterpieces matched up at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum has paired music and masterpieces for its concert series Sight & Sound, organised in partnership with The Orchestra Now (TON, pronounced “tone”), a new music training and master’s degree programme at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson New York. On 7 February, the orchestra and its conductor Leon Botstein presented Strauss, Watteau and Nostalgia, which examined Richard Strauss’s 1912 suite for Moliere’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme (The Midd