Singer

Program Nine marks the American Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the festival, presenting two of his late symphonies alongside other key orchestral works of the period. While drawing on his own incidental music for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic, the Sinfonia Antartica, his Seventh Symphony, is nonetheless a fully realized modern masterpiece. Scored for vast forces including bells, organ, wind machine, and wordless women’s chorus, this darkly atmospheric work is adventurous both timbrally and harmonically. Brighter in tone yet no less sonically bold, the vividly orchestrated Eighth Symphony was recognized with a New York Critics Circle Award. These late symphonies share the program with Proud Thames, Elizabeth Maconchy’s commanding, winning entry to a Coronation Overture-writing competition; the sparkling Partita for Orchestra by William Walton, then emerging as one of the next generation’s leading lights; and Andante festivo, an earlier work by Jean Sibelius, to whom Vaughan Williams had dedicated his Fifth Symphony and, like many British composers, felt indebted.

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Bard Music Festival — Program 9

Sosnoff Theater

Julia Roberts would never have wooed Richard Gere, and Nicole Kidman wouldn’t have rocked the Moulin Rouge without La Traviata! Prepare to be swept away by one of opera’s most tragic love stories and the inspiration for these two iconic films: Pretty Woman and Moulin Rouge! The tale of the stunning courtesan Violetta and the hopelessly romantic Alfredo is woven with some of the best-known music in the repertoire. La Traviata’s high points are matched with tears in the tragic end. See for yourself why this story endures!

Brandie Inez Sutton

Soprano

Events

Aug 12, 2023

Bard Music Festival — Program 9 · American Symphony Orchestra

3 - 19 Mar, 2023

La Traviata · Virginia Opera

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