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Bard College’s The Orchestra Now, or TŌN, was invited by the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and made its first overseas trip ...
In Botstein’s view, the government’s demands of these schools do the opposite of fighting antisemitism. “The government is ...
On Friday, Aug. 8, the Bard Music Festival will return with a two-week exploration of “Martinu and His World.” ...
At the start of the first concert of the Bard Music Festival on Friday, at the Fisher Center in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., a thronging audience was, shall we say, encouraged to join the Bard ...
This August, the Bard Music Festival returns for its 34th season with an intensive two-week exploration of “Berlioz and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, the festival examines the ...
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON - This August, the Bard Music Festival returns with an intensive two-week exploration of “Martinů and His World.” In 11 themed concerts featuring its boldest and most ...
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Bard Music Festival will return this August with the two-week program “Berlioz and His World,” a tribute to French composer Hector Berlioz, according to … ...
Founded in 1990, the Bard Music Festival has established its unique identity in the classical concert field by presenting programs that, through performance and discussion, place selected works in ...
This year marks the 70th birthday of what became Shakespeare in the Park, which we celebrate with David Amram who, from 1956 to 1967, composed the music for 25 productions of its productions. Gail ...
Portrait of Hector Berlioz, by André Gill. Photo: Bard Music Festival Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. During his lifetime, composer Hector Berlioz (1803-69) was the great outsider of French music.
Indeed, the trappings of “ La Damnation de Faust,” which closed this year’s Bard Music Festival on Aug. 18, are familiar. There’s the core bargain and the love duet, and a bawdy barroom ode to a rat — ...