2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Blum Hall 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Friday, April 19, 2024
Olin Hall 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto in G minor “per l’Orchestra di Dresda,” RV 577 J. S. Bach – Brandenburg Concert No. 4, BWV 1049 J. S. Bach – Sinfonia in F, BWV 1046a J. S. Bach – Hunting Cantata, BWV 208: Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd Renée Anne Louprette, director Christopher Nelson & Joas Erasmus, violins David Keringer & Kelsey Burnham, recorders David Zoschnick & Shawn Hutchison, oboes Adelaide Braunhill & HanYi Huang, bassoons Jaclyn Hopping & Megan Maloney, sopranos Sam Warshauer, tenor Joey Breslau, baritone Tyler Duncan, guest reader Free and Open to the Public Download: PROGRAM - FINAL (17APR24).pdf |
Thursday, April 18, 2024
The Power of a Feeling: Black Music, Literature, and the Creation of an Aesthetic.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm EDT/GMT-4 • A performance by Marcus Roberts (piano) with Marty Jaffe (bass), Dave Potter (drums), Boyce Griffith (alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet). • A class by Professors Donna Ford Grover and Marcus Roberts This performance by Bard Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music Marcus Roberts showcases the blues in its many shades and colors and will demonstrate how the blues in jazz connects with other great art forms including literature. This performance grows from the spring 2024 class entitled “The Power of a Feeling: Black Music, Literature, and the Creation of an Aesthetic”. Some of the seminal literary works from the class include Sonny's Blues (James Baldwin), The Blacker the Berry (Wallace Thurman), and Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston). The themes in these stories involve black life and identity in America and each author expresses their unique personality through their prose. Jazz musicians do the same. From Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington, and on to the present day, each jazz musician has an individual sound and identity. The blues also appears throughout American music and has as much variety as there are people who play it. This performance showcases the enduring influence of the blues in music and American life. Please join Professors Donna Grover and Marcus Roberts who, with his fellow musicians, will explore the connection between the blues and these great American literary works. This class/performance is free and open to the public. |
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents 7:15 pm – 8:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Friday, April 12, 2024 – Sunday, April 14, 2024
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann Directed by Liz Peterson Music Direction by David Sytkowski Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Set in a Gotham-like city in the not-so-distant future, Urinetown is a scathing satire with a tragic love story at its heart. In it, we see how a community is torn apart by an oppressive for-profit system, how figures of liberation rise up, and the impossible choices they are left with. Featuring music inspired by so many other musicals, this is a show that both celebrates and satirizes the tradition of musical theater. April 12 at 7:30 pm, April 13 at 2:00 pm AND 7:30 pm, April 14 at 4:00 pm Fisher Center, LUMA Theater https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/urinetown/ |
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Sunday, April 7, 2024
Olin Hall 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Bard Hall 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
A performance anxiety and mindfulness workshop. For musicians, but open to everyone! |
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Seven pianists perform works by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) and Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49).
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to the public. Download: Scarlatti:Chopin Program.pdf |
Friday, March 1, 2024
Debussy in Paris: Poets, Politics, and the Piano Intertwined
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Pianist Catherine Kautsky presents a lecture-recital placing Debussy's piano music in the context of fin-de siècle Paris. We’ll look at fairies and clowns, writers and painters, arabesques and castanets, and along the way we’ll encounter the many issues of race, gender, colonialism, and nationalism that affected (and afflicted) Paris c. 1900. Catherine Kautsky, Chair of Keyboard at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, has been lauded by the New York Times as “a pianist who can play Mozart and Schubert as though their sentiments and habits of speech coincided exactly with hers … The music spoke directly to the listener, with neither obfuscation nor pretense.” Her recording of the Debussy Preludes, released by Centaur in September, 2014, was said to “bring out all the power, majesty, and mystery of Debussy’s conception.“ Ms Kautsky has just released a 24 video set, “Great Works for the Piano” for Great Courses/Wondrium, and is also presenting courses on piano literature for the Juilliard Extension Division and the 92nd Street Y of New York City. Free and open to the public. Download: Catherine Kautsky biography.pdf |
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Blum Hall 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
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Friday, February 23, 2024
Wind quintet performs recent works by contemporary women composers.
Olin Hall 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The one-hour program includes: Alyssa Morris, Dumbarton Oaks Amanda Harberg, Suite for Winds Jennifer Higdon, Autumn Music Valerie Coleman, Afro Cuban Concerto Grace Ann Lee (Heritage Winds Commission), The Woman Air Force Service Pilots Free and open to the public. |
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Olin Hall 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Free and open to the public. The West Point Brass Quintet is the primary chamber ensemble of the Army’s oldest musical organization, the West Point Band. Stationed at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Quintet provides support for West Point ceremonies as well as other outreach events throughout the Northeast. |
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Sunday, February 11, 2024
Works by Beethoven, Iman Habibi, Jocelyn Morlock, and Jeffrey Ryan.
Olin Hall 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 This is not your typical St. Valentine’s concert. Our partnership began with Lieder, drawing us away from our home of British Columbia, Canada, to pursue studies in Germany. Through the veil of an unfamiliar language and culture, we felt the pull of home, and a wish to express our feelings of connection to each other and our shared geography through music. These song cycles reflect the quarter century we have spent together on and off the stage. They tell a story of a complicated, messy, lasting, and wonderful collaboration, through the incredible music of Beethoven, Habibi, Morlock, and Ryan and the inspiring poetry of Zwicky, Ashton, Khayyãm, and Jeitteles. “Home, the ache of the invisible” – Jan Zwicky. Free and open to the public. |
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Disco and Deception at the Opera
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The popular Bard Opera Workshop returns again this year with student singers performing a selection of scenes from the operatic canon. The performance is directed by Bard alum Emily Cuk ’11 and accompanied by an orchestra of Bard students. |
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Disco and Deception at the Opera
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The popular Bard Opera Workshop returns again this year with student singers performing a selection of scenes from the operatic canon. The performance is directed by Bard alum Emily Cuk ’11 and accompanied by an orchestra of Bard students. |
Friday, February 2, 2024
Disco and Deception at the Opera
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The popular Bard Opera Workshop returns again this year with student singers performing a selection of scenes from the operatic canon. The performance is directed by Bard alum Emily Cuk ’11 and accompanied by an orchestra of Bard students. |