Witold Lutosławski: Overture for Strings | The Orchestra Now

The Orchestra Now (TŌN), conducted by Zachary Schwartzman, performs Witold Lutosławski’s Overture for Strings in a livestreamed, physically distanced concert from the Fisher Center at Bard on October 17, 2020. ​ Witold Lutosławski Born: 1/25/1913 in Warsaw Died: 2/7/1994 at age 81 in Warsaw Written: 1949, at age 36 Premiered: 11/9/1949 in Prague by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra; Grzegorz Fitelberg, conductor Concert notes by TŌN cellist Cameron Collins at