Prokofiev
and His World

Program One

From Russia and Back: The Career of Sergey Prokofiev

Sosnoff Theater
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance: Michael Abramovich, piano; Chiara String Quartet; Jeremy Denk, piano; Soovin Kim, violin; John Hancock, baritone; Irina Mishura, mezzo-soprano; Julia Zilberquit, piano; members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
 
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
   Suggestion diabolique, from Four Pieces, Op. 4 (1910–12)
   Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, “Classical” (1916–17)
   Five Poems by Anna Akhmatova, Op. 27 (1916)
   March, from The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33ter (1922)
   Five Melodies, Op. 35bis (1925)
   String Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 50 (1930)
   Two Songs, from Lieutenant Kijé, Op. 60bis (1934)
   Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34bis (1919; orch. 1934)
   Sonata No. 7, in B-flat Major, for piano, Op. 83 (1939–42)

Tickets: $20, 35, 45

Please note that the Spiegeltent will be closed to dining on Friday, August 8, to accommodate the Bard Music Festival Gala Benefit.

Panel One

Prokofiev: The Man and His Music

Olin Hall
10 am–noon
Caryl Emerson, moderator; Marina Frolova-Walker; David Nice; Harlow Robinson
Free and open to the public
 

Program Two

Before Emigration: Teachers and Influences

Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: David Nice
1:30 pm Performance: Michael Abramovich, piano; Chiara String Quartet; Jeremy Denk, piano; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano; Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Sophie Shao, cello; Bard Festival Chamber Players
 
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
   Visions fugitive, Op. 22 (1915–17)
   Two Poems, Op. 9 (1910–11)
Reinhold Glière (1875–1956)
   Ballad, Op. 4 (1902)
Aleksandr Glazunov (1865–1936)
   String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39 (1891)
Nicolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945)
   Six Quartets for Four French Horns (1920)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
   Three Movements from Petroushka, for piano (1921)
   Piano works by Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) and Nicolas Medtner (1880–1951)

Tickets: $35

Program Three

The Silver Age: Mystic Symbols

Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Simon Morrison
8 pm Performance: Blair McMillen, piano; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
   Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, Op. 10 (1911–12)
   Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 44 (1928)
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
   Sadko, tone poem, Op. 5 (1891–92)
Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914),
   The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62 (1909)
Aleksandr Scriabin (1871–1915),
   Le poème de l’exstase, Op. 54 (1905–08)
Joseph Achron (1886–1943)
   Epitaph, in Memory of Aleksandr Scriabin (1915) (world premiere)

Tickets: $25, 40, 55

 

RELATED FILMS

Alexander Nevsky, August 7 at 7 pm; August 9 at 5 pm
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II, August 10 and 14 at 7 pm
All films are screened at the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center in the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center.

Tickets: $8

Panel Two

Prokofiev and Composing for Stage and Film

Olin Hall
10 am–noon Simon Morrison, moderator; Kevin Bartig; Caryl Emerson; Joan Neuberger

Free and open to the public

 

Program Four

The Paris Years

Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Byron Adams
1:30 pm Performance: Bard Festival Chamber Players; Amy Burton, soprano; Philip Edward Fisher, piano; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano; Robert Martin, cello; Anna Polonsky, piano
 
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
   Quintet in G Minor, Op. 39 (1924) (Trapèze)
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
   From Sports et divertissements (1914)
Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
   From Le cahier romand (1921–23)
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
   Trio, Op. 43 (1926)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
   Chansons madécasses (1926)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
   Octet (1922–23)
Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
   From Le train bleu, Op. 84 (1924; arr. Milhaud)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
   Chansons françaises (1930)
Georges Auric (1899–1983)
   Trio in D Major (1938)

Tickets: $35

Program Five

The Cult of the Child

Sosnoff Theater
5 pm Preconcert Talk: Mary E. Davis
5:30 pm Performance: Alessio Bax, piano; Lucille Chung, piano; Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Michael York, narrator; Members of the American Symphony Orchestra with guests from The Bard College Conservatory, Eckart Preu, conductor
 
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
   Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936)
   The Chatterbox, from Three Songs for Children, Op. 68 (1936)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
   Ma mere l’oye (1908–10)Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
   Histoire de Babar, le petit élephant, Op. 129 (1940–45)
John Alden Carpenter (1876–1951)
   Krazy Kat (1921; rev. 1940)
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
   Gymnope`dies (1888; orch. ?1896, Debussy)

Tickets: $20, 35, 45