Prolific Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, who was also a violinist, pianist, and accomplished author, is represented with her contemplative Partita for Orchestra. Internationally-acclaimed Russian violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky joins TŌN for Hungarian composer Joseph Joachim’s Variations for Violin and Orchestra. Then the orchestra gives the U.S. premiere of a recently discovered concerto by famed Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe. The program concludes with the energetic and passionate Second Symphony of Romanian composer George Enescu, written at a time when he was also one of the most in-demand concert violinists in the world.

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Violinist as Composer

Fisher Center at Bard

Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.

Senior Projects in Dance

Dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassador, Tan Dun, has made an indelible mark on the world’s music scene with a repertoire that spans the boundaries of classical music, multimedia performance, and Eastern and Western traditions.  On May 11, Tan Dun conducts the Conservatory Orchestra.

Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Tan Dun

The Bard College Community Orchestra is a diverse group of players, including Bard College students, faculty and staff, local high school players, and community members of level 5 NYSSMA standard and higher. The orchestra is a full symphony orchestra and plays a variety of repertoire. This spring’s program will include winners from the annual BCCO concerto competition.

Bard College Community Orchestra

James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and/or defeated readers for over a century. Building on a rich history of staging modernist works—Gatz, The Sound and the Fury, The Select (The Sun Also Rises)—Elevator Repair Service (ERS) takes on this Mount Everest of twentieth-century literature in their Fisher Center debut.

Ulysses

“I grew up performing in floor shows in Black neighborhoods in a segregated Kansas City in the 1950s & 60s. My mother was a dancer and a jazz singer, and my father sold real estate and ran a bar called Al and Bud’s. During this era, Black businesses were booming, and there was great hope for upward mobility after World War II.

SCAT!

Let’s celebrate the official start of summer in Annandale—the opening of SummerScape 2024! We are excited to kick off our annual festival of premiere productions that include music, theater, opera, and dance.

Summer Kick-Off

Shepherded by a trio of sinister Anabaptists, the simple innkeeper Jean de Leyde is persuaded into proclaiming himself king of Münster. Armed with charismatic leadership, Jean mobilizes the masses into a tumultuous religious uprising, denouncing his mother, Fidès, and antagonizing his beloved Berthe along the way.

Le prophète

Program One • Staging the Musical Imagination

A panel discussion with noted scholars, which includes a short Q&A; participants to be announced.

Panel One • A Revolutionary Life in a Revolutionary Era

Program Two • Anxieties of Influence: Models, Teachers, and Classmates

Program Three • The Sounds of a Nation: Patriotism and Antiquity

Songs and arias by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864); Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868); Franz Liszt (1811–86); Richard Wagner (1813–83); Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Georges Bizet (1838–75); Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924); and others

Program Four • Chansons, romances, et mélodies: Vocal Music from Cosmopolitan Paris

Works by Louise Farrenc (1804–75); Luise Bertin (1805–77); Marie de Grandval (1828–1907); and others

Program Five • Women in Berlioz’s Circle

The organ at the Church of the Messiah was installed in 1923 by the celebrated E.M. Skinner Company of Boston. The company, which had a reputation for creating instruments of superb quality and great tonal beauty, built organs for prominent churches and universities, including both the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and St. Thomas Church in New York. A gift to the parish by Captain Vincent Astor, the organ has just returned to the church following a major reconditioning by Quimby Pipe Organs of Warrensburg, Missouri.

Program Six • Sacred Music in France

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Works by Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840); Fromental Halévy (1799–1862); Adolphe Adam (1803–56); Johann Strauss Sr. (1804–49); Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812–65); and others

Program Seven • Berlioz: The Composer as Writer

Panel Two • Romanticism and Literature

Works by Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47); Robert Schumann (1810–56); Franz Liszt (1811–86); Ferdinand Hiller (1811–85); Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–69)

Program Eight • Literary Romanticisms

As SummerScape ends and the Bard Music Festival draws to a close, there is one more chance to come together and celebrate.

Summer Soirée

Bard College

Program Nine • An Evening with the Orchestra

Works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908); Claude Debussy (1862–1918); Richard Strauss (1864–1949); Edgard Varése (1883–1965); Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)

Bard College

4 - 5 May, 2024

Violinist as Composer

9 - 11 May, 2024

Senior Projects in Dance

May 11, 2024

Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Tan Dun

May 13, 2024

Bard College Community Orchestra

Jun 20 - Jul 14, 2024

Ulysses

Bard College

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