The Wall Street Journal writes:
While the “The Age of Anxiety” could describe our current times, the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein used the phrase, which comes from a 1947 W.H. Auden poem, as a subtitle for his second symphony. This week, “Anxiety” comes to New Jersey, as the New Jersey Symphony and pianist Kirill Gerstein—the work is, essentially a piano concerto in a symphony’s clothing—play it and Mahler’s first symphony in Newark, New Brunswick and Morris-town.