Saturday, April 26, 2014 | | Bitó Conservatory Building
with Eri Nakamura, piano
Soprano Angela Aida Carducci is currently pursuing her M.M. at Bard College Conservatory of Music’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program under the direction of Dawn Upshaw. A native of Buffalo, New York, Angela Aida completed her undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Geneseo. She performs frequently as a soloist, most recently appearing in Autum Songfest at Bard and Carissimi’s Jephte and Baltazar. This past summer, Angela Aida participated in Urbino Musica Antica in Urbino, Italy, where she studied madrigals, Roman oratorio, and baroque singing under maestro Alessandro Quarta and baritone Furio Zanasi. Angela Aida along with three colleagues from Bard, premiered Casey Hale’s “True Lover’s Knot” at New York City’s Morgan Library and the Longy School of Music in Boston. She has recently appeared as the Witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society and in a collaborative recital in the Saugerties Pro Musica concert series.
Contact: Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: [email protected]
"New Restorations and Discoveries from Center for Visual Music" - a Film Program
Saturday, April 26, 2014 | | Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Film by John Cage and Richard Lippold, The Sun Film (1956)
From absolute film to psychedelia, this program of revelatory moments from the history of visual music and kinetic art explores lost, legendary and rare treasures from the archives of Center for Visual Music (CVM). Featuring the east coast premiere of the newly discovered film by John Cage and Richard Lippold, The Sun Film (1956), about the kinetic art sculpture. Rare works by Jordan Belson include his infamous LSD (1962); a presentation reel from the legendary San Francisco Vortex Concerts (1959) and Quartet (1983). Early films by Oskar Fischinger, an influence on Cage, Belson and many others, include 35mm prints of Spirals, Ornament Sound and Studie nr 5. Made in Upstate New York, Turn, Turn, Turn (1966) by Jud Yalkut is ‘a kinetic alchemy of the light and electronic works of Nicolas Schöffer, Julio Le Parc, USCO, and Nam June Paik, with sound by USCO.'
The program, featuring many newly preserved 16mm and 35mm prints, will be introduced by curator/archivist Cindy Keefer of CVM. Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, will introduce The Sun Film by Cage and Lippold.
Free admission, no reservations required.
Co-sponsored by the John Cage Trust at Bard College and The Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Saturday, April 26, 2014 | | Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Suggested donation: $20 (orchestra seating); $15 (parterre / first balcony); free to the Bard community with ID
Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director James Bagwell, chorus master
Featuring members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Longy Conservatory Orchestra and the Longy Chorale, Bard College Chamber Singers, and Bard Festival Chorale.
