News & Notes
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Bard College Landscape and Arboretum Program Renews Accreditation from ArbNet
The Landscape and Arboretum Program at Bard College has renewed its Level II accreditation with ArbNet, an interactive, collaborative, international community of arboreta and tree-focused professionals. ArbNet facilitates the sharing of knowledge, experience, and other resources to help tree-based botanical gardens meet their institutional goals and works to help elevate practices through the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program, the only global initiative to officially recognize arboreta based on a set of professional standards.
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Bard College Approved to Build “New Pedestrian Path Linking Bard to Montgomery Place,” Reports Daily Catch
A new project to further connect Bard’s Montgomery Place Campus to main campus, supported by a $40,000 grant from the Hudson River Greenway, won approval from the Red Hook Town Planning Board. Now, Bard may “move forward on the construction of a pedestrian and cyclist path” connecting the two, writes Victor Feldman for the Daily Catch.
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Bard College Awarded $26,532 Grant from New World Foundation and Partners for Climate Action Hudson Valley for Sustainability Project
Bard College is pleased to announce that it has received a $26,532 grant from the New World Foundation and the Partners for Climate Action Hudson Valley for the project “Bard Bee-Lives: Making Space for At-Risk Pollinators.” Managed by Laurie Husted, Chief Sustainability Officer at Bard, the project was the result of a student proposal developed in the spring of 2022 in an Open Society University Network (OSUN) social entrepreneurship practicum: Leading Change in Organizations.
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Nineteenth-Century Black Master Gardener of Montgomery Place Honored with Cemetery Marker
The 19th-century Black master gardener who tended hundreds of plants and an arboretum at Montgomery Place, who hybridized two flower species, and who mentored white gardeners in Rhinebeck was recognized with a plaque astride his burial place at the Methodist Church Cemetery on Cherry Street in Red Hook. In an interview, Bard Professor Myra Young Armstead discusses the fascinating history of Alexander Gilson.
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Bard Summerscape Announces Casting for “Most Happy In Concert,” Conceived by Tony Award Nominee Daniel Fish and His Oklahoma! Music Collaborators Daniel Kluger and Nathan Koci
Bard SummerScape today announces casting for Most Happy in Concert, a setting of Frank Loesser’s songs for The Most Happy Fella from director Daniel Fish and arrangers Daniel Kluger and Nathan Koci, who previously collaborated on the Tony Award-winning production of Oklahoma! that originated at Bard SummerScape in 2015. The live-in-person performances take place on the evenings of August 5, 6, and 7 on an outdoor stage being constructed at Bard’s Montgomery Place campus on the Hudson River.
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Live, July 25–Aug 1: Bard SummerScape Presents First Fully Staged American Production of Ernest Chausson’s Only Opera, King Arthur (“Le roi Arthus”)
This year’s immersion in “Nadia Boulanger and Her World” presents the long overdue first fully staged American production of King Arthur (“Le roi Arthus”), the only opera by Boulanger’s compatriot and close contemporary Ernest Chausson. Featuring charismatic baritone Norman Garrett and celebrated mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke in an original staging by Princess Grace Award-winner Louisa Proske, King Arthur will run for four performances, anchored by the American Symphony Orchestra and Bard Festival Chorale under the leadership of festival founder and co-artistic director Leon Botstein.
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Bard SummerScape Presents Black Roots Summer, a Cross-Genre Series of Concerts Organized by Curator-Educator-Producer Musicians Michael Mwenso and Jono Gasparro, July 23–31, Outdoors at Montgomery Place
Bard SummerScape celebrates the uplifting spirit of Black music with Black Roots Summer, presented in association with Electric Root and organized and led by the rousing vocalist, bandleader, cultural commentator, and antiracism educator Michael Mwenso and his longtime collaborator Jono Gasparro, former curator of Ginny’s Supper Club in Harlem. The series features original concerts over two weekends (July 23–24 and July 29–31) on an outdoor stage at Bard’s Montgomery Place campus on the Hudson River.
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Bard SummerScape Presents Live World Premiere of I was waiting for the echo of a better day: Major New SummerScape Dance Commission from Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz and Composer Jessie Montgomery (July 8–10)
Bard SummerScape 2021 opens with the live world premiere of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a major new commission from Pam Tanowitz, the Fisher Center’s inaugural choreographer in residence, with Jessie Montgomery, next composer in residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Performed by eight members of Pam Tanowitz Dance with live musical accompaniment from a string quintet featuring Montgomery on violin, I was waiting for the echo of a better day premieres July 8–10 at Bard’s Montgomery Place campus.
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Bard Visual Resources Curator Amy Herman on American Mycologist Violetta White Delafield
Mycologist Violetta White Delafield painted over 600 stunning watercolors of mushrooms as part of her fieldwork. Bard Visual Resources Curator Amy Herman talks about the significance of Delafield’s discoveries.
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Bard College Presents Montgomery Place Fall Salon Series on Renewable Energies
Renewable Energies: Balancing Outputs and Historic Landscapes continues at Montgomery Place with Session 2: Hydro Energy, on Tuesday, December 3, 3–5 p.m.