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Bard College is hosting a multinational group of 16 university-level scholars and educators for a six-week academic exchange program from June 23 to August 5, 2013. Entitled “Grand Strategy in Context: Institutions, People, and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy,” this Study of the U.S. Institute is designed to foster a better understanding in academic institutions overseas of how U.S. foreign policy is formulated, implemented, and taught.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-7453, e-mail jmcmanig@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/civicengagement/usfp/.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Two singular voices from a troubled region share their music. Guitar genius and vocal stylist Mamadou Kelly has been an integral part of the most well known groups in Malian music, offering a captivating combination of traditional and contemporary West African sounds. The rumble and grit of Saharan nomads with electric guitars Imharhan have captured ears and imaginations worldwide. Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail jszu@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Tickets: $12
Claude Chabrol, 1960, France/Italy, 100 minutes
Claude Chabrol’s characteristic mixture of black humor, sophisticated mise-en-scène, and behavioral naturalism is abundantly evident in this nuanced depiction of the lives of four Parisian women (two of them played by New Wave icons Bernadette Lafont and Stéphane Audran).
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Tickets: $30, 60, 70, 90
Opera Talk with Leon Botstein
Sosnoff Theater, July 28 at 1 pm
American Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger
Madeleine Boyd, set designer
Mattie Ullrich, costume designer
JAX Messenger, lighting designer
Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) defied tradition when he composed his musical trilogy Oresteia. Rather than calling upon Russian history or folk tales, as most Russian operas had to that point, Taneyev looked to Greek antiquity, basing the libretto on Aeschylus’ powerful trilogy—Agamemnon, Choephorae, and Eumenides—which chronicles the calamities that befell the accursed House of Atreus.
This production at the Fisher Center is the first time this towering work has been staged in its entirety outside of Russia since its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. Sung in the original Russian, Oresteia is directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, who returns to SummerScape after his acclaimed productions in previous seasons of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang, and Emmanuel Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui.
Special support for this program is provided by Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander.
Reserve the best seats in the house and special parking for all your Fisher Center performances through premium seating. Call 845-758-7948 for these special seats and benefits.
Running time for this performance is approximately three hours and 40 minutes, including two intermissions.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
(18+ unless accompanied by an adult)
“Keeping the Weimar-era spirit of cultural resistance alive.”—Village Voice
Justin Vivian Bond returns to host the fourth season of Weimar New York at the Spiegeltent, a theatrical cabaret that uses Weimar-era Germany as inspiration for a fabulous gathering of burlesque, cabaret, comedy, drag, and East Village-scene performance artists. This collection of downtown stars continues a cabaret tradition of the past, infused with a new political edge. Curated by Earl Dax, this community of artists invites everyone to sing, dance, strip, and reflect on opposition, identity, dependence, and independence. (May contain nudity).
Click here to visit Weimar New York's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Tickets: $12
Claude Chabrol, 1995, France/Germany, 112 minutes
Sandrine Bonnaire and Chabrol veteran Isabelle Huppert develop an unusual friendship in this enigmatic and eerily ritualistic critique of complacency and hypocrisy.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Thursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $10 children 3 and older; $15 (2-for-1 adult)
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus show inaugurates three weekends of fun for young audiences at KinderSpiegel. Ringmistress Philomena's special guest stars for this weekend include aerialist Veronica Blair, star of UniverSoul Circus, Make-a-Circus, and Afrika! Afrika! in Germany; Drew Richardson, whose fearless physical comedic feats as Drew the Dramatic Fool inspire laughter built on the spectrum of human emotions; Cardone the Ultimate Vaudeville Magician with mysterious illusions and ventriloquism; Bindlestiff's own hobo clown Kinko and sideshow daredevil Mr. Pennygaff; and the supremely witty and vibrant musicianship of Sabrina Chap to tie it all together and provide the soundtrack.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Tickets: $12
Orphée, Jean Cocteau, 1950, France, 95 minutes
Jean Cocteau, who collaborated with Stravinsky on the opera Oedipus Rex in 1927, made this oneiric film about one of the most important Greek myths two years after Orpheus, the ballet Stravinsky developed with George Balanchine, premiered.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Tickets: $12
La belle noiseuse
Jacques Rivette, 1991, France/Switzerland, 238 minutes
Three Homerics
Stan Brakhage, 1993, USA, 6 minutes, 16mm
Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Béart, and Jane Birkin star in this masterpiece about the mysteries of art, which makes insightful use of excerpts from two Stravinsky ballets (Petrushka and Agon).
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
(18+ unless accompanied by an adult)
“Keeping the Weimar-era spirit of cultural resistance alive.”—Village Voice
Justin Vivian Bond returns to host the fourth season of Weimar New York at the Spiegeltent, a theatrical cabaret that uses Weimar-era Germany as inspiration for a fabulous gathering of burlesque, cabaret, comedy, drag, and East Village-scene performance artists. This collection of downtown stars continues a cabaret tradition of the past, infused with a new political edge. Curated by Earl Dax, this community of artists invites everyone to sing, dance, strip, and reflect on opposition, identity, dependence, and independence. (May contain nudity).
Click here to visit Weimar New York's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Thursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $10 children 3 and older; $15 (2-for-1 adult)
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus show inaugurates three weekends of fun for young audiences at KinderSpiegel. Ringmistress Philomena's special guest stars for this weekend include aerialist Veronica Blair, star of UniverSoul Circus, Make-a-Circus, and Afrika! Afrika! in Germany; Drew Richardson, whose fearless physical comedic feats as Drew the Dramatic Fool inspire laughter built on the spectrum of human emotions; Cardone the Ultimate Vaudeville Magician with mysterious illusions and ventriloquism; Bindlestiff's own hobo clown Kinko and sideshow daredevil Mr. Pennygaff; and the supremely witty and vibrant musicianship of Sabrina Chap to tie it all together and provide the soundtrack.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Tickets: $30, 60, 70, 90
Opera Talk with Leon Botstein
Sosnoff Theater, July 28 at 1 pm
American Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger
Madeleine Boyd, set designer
Mattie Ullrich, costume designer
JAX Messenger, lighting designer
Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) defied tradition when he composed his musical trilogy Oresteia. Rather than calling upon Russian history or folk tales, as most Russian operas had to that point, Taneyev looked to Greek antiquity, basing the libretto on Aeschylus’ powerful trilogy—Agamemnon, Choephorae, and Eumenides—which chronicles the calamities that befell the accursed House of Atreus.
This production at the Fisher Center is the first time this towering work has been staged in its entirety outside of Russia since its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. Sung in the original Russian, Oresteia is directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, who returns to SummerScape after his acclaimed productions in previous seasons of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang, and Emmanuel Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui.
Special support for this program is provided by Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander.
Reserve the best seats in the house and special parking for all your Fisher Center performances through premium seating. Call 845-758-7948 for these special seats and benefits.
Running time for this performance is approximately three hours and 40 minutes, including two intermissions.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $20
Doors at 5 pm
Dance instruction at 5:30 pm
Live band at 6:45 pm
Band ends at 9:15 pm
Venue closes at 10 pm
Noche Porteña!
Woodstock Tango Presents a Night of Argentine Tango
Tango Beginners Class, Live Music for Dancing, and Special Dance Performance
Learn how they really tango in Buenos Aires, birthplace of the most sensual of dances! An amazing evening of traditional Tango Argentino, with live music for social dancing by the JP Jofre Hard Tango Trio—one of the hottest tango ensembles in North America —complemented by recorded music from the “Golden Age of Tango” with DJ La Rubia del Norte, who has spun tunes at the most famous milongas (social clubs) in Buenos Aires and New York City.
The evening includes a dazzling tango performance by internationally renowned performers, world tango champion Cristian Correa and Angeles Chañaha, and an introductory class taught by Woodstock Tango founder Ilene Marder. No partner or experience necessary.
For the past three years, tango night has been an enormous hit at the Spiegeltent, packing the house with dancers and tango aficionados of all levels. Advance tickets strongly suggested.
Click here to visit Woodstock Tango’s Facebook page.
Click here to visit JP Jofre webpage.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program One
Friday, August 9, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance: Alessio Bax, piano; Andrey Borisenko, bass; John Hancock, baritone; Kiera Duffy, soprano; Gustav Djupsjöbacka, piano; Melis Jaatinen, mezzo-soprano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Mikhail Vekua, tenor; Orion Weiss, piano; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Tickets: $25, 35, 50, 60
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Les Noces (1914–17)
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, rev. 1947)
Symphony of Psalms (1930)
Concerto for Two Pianos (1935)
Abraham and Isaac (1962–63)
Songs
All programs subject to change. Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Friday, August 9, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
“Ferocious energy and talent”—New York Times
Dubbed a “cello goddess” by the New Yorker, Maya Beiser has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity, eclectic repertoire, and relentless quest to redefine her instrument’s boundaries. The Boston Globe declares, “With virtuoso chops, rock-star charisma, and an appetite for pushing her instrument to the edge of avant-garde adventurousness, Maya Beiser is the postmodern diva of the cello.” Beiser and Fox will perform their unique take on the music of Astor Piazzolla and the early style of tango: a raw, provocative and sensual sound that developed on the streets of Buenos Aires in the 1920s and ’30s. The evening will also include original works and arrangements by Fox, and new works developed by Beiser during her residency at the Spiegeltent.
Click here to visit Maya Beiser's website.
Click here to visit Donal Fox's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Friday, August 9, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Thursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Panel One
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Olin Hall
10 am–noon: Christopher H. Gibbs, moderator; Leon Botstein; Marina Frolova-Walker; Stephen Walsh
Free and open to the publicSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $10 children 3 and older; $15 (2-for-1 adult)
"Completely endearing, endlessly entertaining and charming." —nytheatre.com
Circus in a Trunk is the critically acclaimed theatrical stage show created and performed by The Piccolini Trio.
A trio of clowns arrives with an antique trunk full of circus props and discovers that the audience is already waiting, but the circus is late. They decide to perform the show themselves, creating an amazing and hilarious performance full of clever surprises.
Combining contemporary and classic European style clowning, they bring to life a repertoire of routines using music, acrobatics, physical comedy, poetic whimsy, juggling, and pantomime. Intimate and engaging, the show is creative and current while evoking a nostalgic old-world charm.
Click here to visit the Piccolini Trio's website.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Two
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Marina Frolova-Walker
1:30 pm Performance: Matthew Burns, bass-baritone; Dover Quartet; Gustav Djupsjöbacka, piano; Laura Flax, clarinet; Me lis Jaatinen, mezzo-soprano; Piers Lane, piano; Orion Weiss, piano; and others
Tickets: $35
Limited seating available. Please call the Box Office for more information. 845-758-7900.
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Faun and Shepherdess, Op. 2 (1906–07)
Four Studies, for piano, Op. 7 (1908)
Three Movements from Petrushka, for piano solo (1921)
Mikhail Glinka (1804–57)
Trio Pathetique in D Minor (1832)
Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
Five Novelettes, for string quartet, Op. 15 (1886)
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Vers la flamme, Op. 72 (1914)
Serge Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Preludes Op. 23, No. 8 and 9 (1901–03)
Songs and piano works by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81), Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–93), Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951), and Mikhail Gnesin (1883–1957)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Special Event
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Olin Hall
Tickets: $12
A film by R. O. Blechman, with live musical accompaniment.
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Program Three
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Michael Beckerman
8 pm Performance: American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75
Limited seating available. Please call the Box Office for more information. 845-758-7900.
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Fireworks (1908)
The Rite of Spring (1913)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
Suite from The Invisible City of Kitezh (c. 1907)
Anatoly Liadov (1855–1914)
From the Apocalypse, Op. 66 (1910–12)
Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946)
Metamorphosen, Op. 10 (1913)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
One of the most buzzed-about jazz singers on the New York scene, Marianne Solivan mesmerizes audiences with her beautiful, smoke-filled voice and sensuous stage presence. In this romantic evening, Solivan channels the glamor and star power of legendary American singer and actress Julie London. Interpreting London’s sultry and languid sound, Solivan will sing such classic hits as Cry Me a River, Go Slow, and Hot Toddy, as well as a few lesser-known gems in an evening that honors London’s great contributions to jazz.
Click here to visit Marianne Solivan's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Thursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Panel Two
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Olin Hall
10 am–noon: Kenneth Archer; Lynn Garafola; Millicent Hodson
Free and open to the publicSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $10 children 3 and older; $15 (2-for-1 adult)
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Four
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Byron Adams
1:30 pm Performance: Alessio Bax, piano; Lucille Chung, piano; Gustav Djupsjöbacka, piano; Kiera Duffy, soprano; Benjamin Fingland, clarinet; Judith Gordon, piano; John Hancock, baritone; Melis Jaatinen, mezzo-soprano; Sharon Roffman, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Lance Suzuki, flute; Benjamin Verdery, guitar; Lei Xu, soprano; Bard Festival Chamber Players
Tickets: $35
Limited seating available. Please call the Box Office for more information. 845-758-7900.
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Three Japanese Lyrics (1912)
Pribaoutki (1914)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
En blanc et noir (1915)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Pierrot lunaire (1912)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (1913)
Maurice Delage (1879–1961)
Quatre poèmes hindous (1912–13)
Works by Erik Satie (1866–1925); Manuel de Falla (1876–1946); and Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $20
Doors at 5 pm
Dance instruction at 5:30 pm
Live band at 6:30 pm
Band ends at 9 pm
Venue closes at 10 pm
Professional swing dancers Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios, return to the Spiegeltent for a night of swing dancing to the fabulous music of Eight to the Bar. Both the band and the Freemans will have you up and dancing in no time! Drawing its musical influences from American roots music—swing, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, soul, and Motown—Eight to the Bar is known for its outstanding instrumentalists and colorful mix of ’40s jazz and swing, ’50s jump blues, and their own swing-influenced tunes and vocals. Don’t miss out!
Don't know how to dance? Linda and Chester will provide a lesson to kick off the night.
Click here to visit Got2Lindy’s website.
Click here to visit Eight to the Bar's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Five
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
5 pm Preconcert Talk: Mary Davis
5:30 pm Performance: Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano; John Hancock, baritone; Melis Jaatinen, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Ann McMahon Quintero, mezzo-soprano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Orion Weiss, piano; members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; designed and directed by Anne Patterson
Tickets: $25, 35, 50, 60
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Ragtime (1918)
Mavra (1921-22, rev.1947)
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
Parade (1916–17; arr. piano four-hand)
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Le travail du peintre, song cycle for voice and piano, Op. 161 (1956)
Georges Auric (1899–1983), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
Les mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921)
André Souris (1899–1970)
Choral, marche, et galop (1925)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ltdirect@bard.edu, or visit http://landt.bard.edu/.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
For more information, call 845-758-7141, or e-mail ap2652@bard.edu.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $20
“What Cheer? dominated the Newport Folk Fest like a headliner.”—SPIN
A 19-piece brass band mixing Bollywood, the Balkans, New Orleans, samba, and hip-hop, played with unequalled intensity. A raucous live experience, the Brigade defies categorization, appealing equally to punks and farmers, old and young. An unplugged concert that proves that great parties need no electricity.
Click here to visit What Cheer Brigade's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Special Event
Friday, August 16, 2013
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
5 pm: Commentary by Charles M. Joseph
Free and open to the public.
During the 1950s and ’60s, Stravinsky became the most filmed composer of the 20th century. The subject of numerous European and North American documentaries, the composer’s notoriety was exploited widely by a television industry that embraced the arts as part of its cultural mission. This session will present clips from some of the more important film documentaries of the time.
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Program Six
Friday, August 16, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
8 pm Performance: Eric Beach, percussion; Judith Gordon, piano; Jonathan Greeney, percussion; Imani Winds; Piers Lane, piano; Peter Serkin, piano; Gilles Vonsattel, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players and students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music, conducted by Leon Botstein
Tickets: $25, 35, 50, 60
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Madrid (1950)
Concerto for Piano and Winds (1923–24)
Sonata for Two Pianos (1943–44)
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz 110 (1937)
Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
Octandre (1923)
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2 (1922)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)
from Quatre études de rythme (1949–50)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
(18+ unless accompanied by an adult )
"Old-fashioned variety entertainment of the sort Ed Sullivan so astutely scooped up, but with twists.”—New York Times
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents My Last Cirkus, an all-new 90-minute circus theater work, created in residency this August at the Spiegeltent. Set against the stunning backdrop of the mirrored jewel-box, Ringmistress Philomena faces fear, aging, and the inevitable pull of the ring. Will she run away from the Cirkus and finally join a town? Featuring a dynamic, world-class cast of contemporary circus artists from an intriguing variety of backgrounds, including former Russian rhythmic gymnastics champion and Cirque du Soleil artist Ekaterina Sknarina; innovative prop manipulator Brian P. Dailey; acrobat and B-boy Richard Maguire; and Bindlestiff cofounders Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson. Written and scored by Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey and Circus Smirkus composer Peter Bufano; with percussionist and actor Michael Dobson. Directed by physical comedian and star clown of Parallel Exit Physical Theater Company and Big Apple Circus's Step Right Up! Joel Jeske; in collaboration with Spiegeltent host Michael McQuilken.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Thursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Panel Three
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Olin Hall
10 am–noon: Tamara Levitz, moderator; Tomi Mäkelä; Simon Morrison; Michael Beckerman
Free and open to the publicSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
This production is appropriate for children 12+
Tickets: $10 for children, $15 for adults (2-for1 adult)
Acclaimed performer Carlo Adinolfi plays Geppetto, aka G, in this heart-wrenching and hilarious tale of a poor Italian immigrant puppeteer whose life unravels when his closest companions, two well-worn puppets he created for his shows, begin to fall apart. After the passing of his beloved wife and fellow-puppeteer Donna, G and his puppets struggle to create a new play. But as his puppets begin to disintegrate and his own heart breaks, G must try fix them and heal himself so that the show, and his life, can go on. Drawing inspiration from Pinocchio, The Old Man and the Sea, and the inspiring true story of double-amputee Hugh Herr’s incredible return to rock climbing, Geppetto is an exploration of resilience and ingenuity in the face of loss and change.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Seven
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Manuela Schwartz
1:30 pm Performance: Xak Bjerken, piano; Randolph Bowman, flute; Sara Cutler, harp; Jordan Frazier, double bass; Marka Gustavsson, viola; Robert Martin, cello; Jesse Mills, violin; Harumi Rhodes, violin; Sharon Roffman, violin; Laurie Smukler, violin; Bard Festival Chamber Players
Tickets: $35
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Les cinq doigts, for piano (1921)
Octet for Wind Instruments (1922–23)
Duo Concertant (1931–32)
Albert Roussel (1869–1937)
Sérénade, for flute, harp, and string trio, Op. 30 (1925)
Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
String Quartet No. 4, H. 256 (1937)
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56 (1932)
Arthur Lourié (1892–1966)
Sonata for Violin and Double Bass (1924)
Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986)
Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1925)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Program Eight
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance: John Relyea, bass-baritone; Rebecca Ringle, mezzo-soprano; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Jeu de cartes (1936)
Symphony in Three Movements (1942–45)
Ode (1943)
Requiem Canticles (1965–66)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Kol Nidre, Op. 39 (1938)
Works by Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Tickets: $35 (inner ring table); $30 (outer ring table);
$25 (booth); $20 (standing room)
(18+ unless accompanied by an adult)
"Old-fashioned variety entertainment of the sort Ed Sullivan so astutely scooped up, but with twists.”—New York Times
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents My Last Cirkus, an all-new 90-minute circus theater work, created in residency this August at the Spiegeltent. Set against the stunning backdrop of the mirrored jewel-box, Ringmistress Philomena faces fear, aging, and the inevitable pull of the ring. Will she run away from the Cirkus and finally join a town? Featuring a dynamic, world-class cast of contemporary circus artists from an intriguing variety of backgrounds, including former Russian rhythmic gymnastics champion and Cirque du Soleil artist Ekaterina Sknarina; innovative prop manipulator Brian P. Dailey; acrobat and B-boy Richard Maguire; and Bindlestiff cofounders Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson. Written and scored by Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey and Circus Smirkus composer Peter Bufano; with percussionist and actor Michael Dobson. Directed by physical comedian and star clown of Parallel Exit Physical Theater Company and Big Apple Circus's Step Right Up! Joel Jeske; in collaboration with Spiegeltent host Michael McQuilken.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
Thursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Program Nine
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Olin Hall
10 am Performance: Commentary by Klára Móricz, with Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; Frank Corliss, piano
Tickets: $30
Choral works by Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Gesualdo da Venosa (1566–1613), Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956), Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), and Ernst Krenek (1900–91)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent
This production is appropriate for children 12+
Tickets: $10 for children, $15 for adults (2-for1 adult)
Acclaimed performer Carlo Adinolfi plays Geppetto, aka G, in this heart-wrenching and hilarious tale of a poor Italian immigrant puppeteer whose life unravels when his closest companions, two well-worn puppets he created for his shows, begin to fall apart. After the passing of his beloved wife and fellow-puppeteer Donna, G and his puppets struggle to create a new play. But as his puppets begin to disintegrate and his own heart breaks, G must try fix them and heal himself so that the show, and his life, can go on. Drawing inspiration from Pinocchio, The Old Man and the Sea, and the inspiring true story of double-amputee Hugh Herr’s incredible return to rock climbing, Geppetto is an exploration of resilience and ingenuity in the face of loss and change.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Ten
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Richard Wilson
1:30 pm Performance: Rieko Aizawa, piano; Imani Winds; Alexandra Knoll, oboe; Piers Lane, piano; Jesse Mills, violin; Bard Festival Chamber Players
Tickets: $35
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Circus Polka, arranged for piano (1942, arr. 1944)
Septet (1952–53)
Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Variations for Piano, Op. 27 (1936)
Walter Piston (1894–1976)
Suite, for oboe and piano (1931)
Aaron Copland (1900–90)
Nonet (1960)
Elliott Carter (1908–2012)
Woodwind Quintet (1948)
Ellis Kohs (1916–2000)
Sonatina for Violin and Piano (1948)
Carlos Chávez (1899–1978)
Fugas, for piano (1942)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Program Eleven
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
3:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Tamara Levitz
4:30 pm Performance: Kathleen Chalfant, narrator; Gordon Gietz, tenor; Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano; William Ferguson, tenor; Sean Panikkar, tenor; John Relyea, bass-baritone; Jean Stilwell, narrator; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; Jean Stilwell, narrator; direction and design by Doug Fitch
Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Perséphone (1933–34, rev. 1948)
Oedipus Rex (1926–27, rev. 1948)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Olin Hall
For more information, call 845-758-7141, or e-mail ap2652@bard.edu.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Olin Language Center, Room 115
Join us for an evening lecture with sustainability expert and Bard MBA Faculty, Hunter Lovins. Lovins will discuss her work with the government of Bhutan and the UN to develop a new roadmap for global economic sustainability. Please join her for a progress report. All are welcome to attend.
Hunter Lovins, Bard MBA Faculty; President of Natural Capitalism, Inc.
Hunter Lovins J.D., Loyola Law School; B.S. (Sociology, Political Science). L. Hunter Lovins is president and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS). NCS educates senior decision makers in business, government, and civil society to restore and enhance natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. Lovins is also currently a faculty member at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and the chief insurgent of the Madrone Project. Lovins has consulted for scores of industries, governments, and large and small companies worldwide. Recipient of such honors as the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award, and Leadership in Business, she was named Time Magazine 2000 Hero of the Planet and in 2009 Newsweek dubbed her a “Green Business Icon.” She has co-authored nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 book Natural Capitalism, 2006 e-book Climate Protection Manual for Cities, and the 2009 book Transforming Industry in Asia. She has served on the boards of governments, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies. Lovins’s areas of expertise include natural capitalism, sustainable development, globalization, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, fire rescue, and emergency medicine. She developed the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development. She was a founding professor of business at Presidio Graduate School, one of the first accredited programs offering an M.B.A. in sustainable management.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7388, or e-mail kvansant@bard.edu.
Academic Exchange Program on Foreign Policy with U.S. State Department
Sunday, June 23, 2013 – Monday, August 5, 2013
Bard College CampusBard College is hosting a multinational group of 16 university-level scholars and educators for a six-week academic exchange program from June 23 to August 5, 2013. Entitled “Grand Strategy in Context: Institutions, People, and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy,” this Study of the U.S. Institute is designed to foster a better understanding in academic institutions overseas of how U.S. foreign policy is formulated, implemented, and taught.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-7453, e-mail jmcmanig@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/civicengagement/usfp/.
Save this event: Imharhan and Mamadou Kelly
Music of Mali
Thursday, August 1, 2013
8:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTwo singular voices from a troubled region share their music. Guitar genius and vocal stylist Mamadou Kelly has been an integral part of the most well known groups in Malian music, offering a captivating combination of traditional and contemporary West African sounds. The rumble and grit of Saharan nomads with electric guitars Imharhan have captured ears and imaginations worldwide. Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail jszu@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Film: Les bonnes femmes
Friday, August 2, 2013
7 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterTickets: $12
Claude Chabrol, 1960, France/Italy, 100 minutes
Claude Chabrol’s characteristic mixture of black humor, sophisticated mise-en-scène, and behavioral naturalism is abundantly evident in this nuanced depiction of the lives of four Parisian women (two of them played by New Wave icons Bernadette Lafont and Stéphane Audran).
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Oresteia
by Sergey Taneyev
Friday, August 2, 2013
7 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterTickets: $30, 60, 70, 90
Opera Talk with Leon Botstein
Sosnoff Theater, July 28 at 1 pm
American Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger
Madeleine Boyd, set designer
Mattie Ullrich, costume designer
JAX Messenger, lighting designer
Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) defied tradition when he composed his musical trilogy Oresteia. Rather than calling upon Russian history or folk tales, as most Russian operas had to that point, Taneyev looked to Greek antiquity, basing the libretto on Aeschylus’ powerful trilogy—Agamemnon, Choephorae, and Eumenides—which chronicles the calamities that befell the accursed House of Atreus.
This production at the Fisher Center is the first time this towering work has been staged in its entirety outside of Russia since its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. Sung in the original Russian, Oresteia is directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, who returns to SummerScape after his acclaimed productions in previous seasons of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang, and Emmanuel Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui.
Special support for this program is provided by Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander.
Reserve the best seats in the house and special parking for all your Fisher Center performances through premium seating. Call 845-758-7948 for these special seats and benefits.
Running time for this performance is approximately three hours and 40 minutes, including two intermissions.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Weimar New York
Friday, August 2, 2013
8:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
(18+ unless accompanied by an adult)
“Keeping the Weimar-era spirit of cultural resistance alive.”—Village Voice
Justin Vivian Bond returns to host the fourth season of Weimar New York at the Spiegeltent, a theatrical cabaret that uses Weimar-era Germany as inspiration for a fabulous gathering of burlesque, cabaret, comedy, drag, and East Village-scene performance artists. This collection of downtown stars continues a cabaret tradition of the past, infused with a new political edge. Curated by Earl Dax, this community of artists invites everyone to sing, dance, strip, and reflect on opposition, identity, dependence, and independence. (May contain nudity).
Click here to visit Weimar New York's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Film: La cérémonie
Friday, August 2, 2013
9 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterTickets: $12
Claude Chabrol, 1995, France/Germany, 112 minutes
Sandrine Bonnaire and Chabrol veteran Isabelle Huppert develop an unusual friendship in this enigmatic and eerily ritualistic critique of complacency and hypocrisy.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
After Hours at the Spiegeltent
Friday, August 2, 2013
10 pm – 12:30 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Kinder Spiegel
Saturday, August 3, 2013
11 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $10 children 3 and older; $15 (2-for-1 adult)
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus show inaugurates three weekends of fun for young audiences at KinderSpiegel. Ringmistress Philomena's special guest stars for this weekend include aerialist Veronica Blair, star of UniverSoul Circus, Make-a-Circus, and Afrika! Afrika! in Germany; Drew Richardson, whose fearless physical comedic feats as Drew the Dramatic Fool inspire laughter built on the spectrum of human emotions; Cardone the Ultimate Vaudeville Magician with mysterious illusions and ventriloquism; Bindlestiff's own hobo clown Kinko and sideshow daredevil Mr. Pennygaff; and the supremely witty and vibrant musicianship of Sabrina Chap to tie it all together and provide the soundtrack.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Film: Orpheus
Saturday, August 3, 2013
2 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterTickets: $12
Orphée, Jean Cocteau, 1950, France, 95 minutes
Jean Cocteau, who collaborated with Stravinsky on the opera Oedipus Rex in 1927, made this oneiric film about one of the most important Greek myths two years after Orpheus, the ballet Stravinsky developed with George Balanchine, premiered.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Film: La belle noiseuse and Three Homerics
Saturday, August 3, 2013
7 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterTickets: $12
La belle noiseuse
Jacques Rivette, 1991, France/Switzerland, 238 minutes
Three Homerics
Stan Brakhage, 1993, USA, 6 minutes, 16mm
Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Béart, and Jane Birkin star in this masterpiece about the mysteries of art, which makes insightful use of excerpts from two Stravinsky ballets (Petrushka and Agon).
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Weimar New York
Saturday, August 3, 2013
8:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
(18+ unless accompanied by an adult)
“Keeping the Weimar-era spirit of cultural resistance alive.”—Village Voice
Justin Vivian Bond returns to host the fourth season of Weimar New York at the Spiegeltent, a theatrical cabaret that uses Weimar-era Germany as inspiration for a fabulous gathering of burlesque, cabaret, comedy, drag, and East Village-scene performance artists. This collection of downtown stars continues a cabaret tradition of the past, infused with a new political edge. Curated by Earl Dax, this community of artists invites everyone to sing, dance, strip, and reflect on opposition, identity, dependence, and independence. (May contain nudity).
Click here to visit Weimar New York's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
After Hours at the Spiegeltent
Saturday, August 3, 2013
10 pm – 12:30 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Kinder Spiegel
Sunday, August 4, 2013
11 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $10 children 3 and older; $15 (2-for-1 adult)
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus show inaugurates three weekends of fun for young audiences at KinderSpiegel. Ringmistress Philomena's special guest stars for this weekend include aerialist Veronica Blair, star of UniverSoul Circus, Make-a-Circus, and Afrika! Afrika! in Germany; Drew Richardson, whose fearless physical comedic feats as Drew the Dramatic Fool inspire laughter built on the spectrum of human emotions; Cardone the Ultimate Vaudeville Magician with mysterious illusions and ventriloquism; Bindlestiff's own hobo clown Kinko and sideshow daredevil Mr. Pennygaff; and the supremely witty and vibrant musicianship of Sabrina Chap to tie it all together and provide the soundtrack.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Oresteia
by Sergey Taneyev
Sunday, August 4, 2013
3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterTickets: $30, 60, 70, 90
Opera Talk with Leon Botstein
Sosnoff Theater, July 28 at 1 pm
American Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger
Madeleine Boyd, set designer
Mattie Ullrich, costume designer
JAX Messenger, lighting designer
Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) defied tradition when he composed his musical trilogy Oresteia. Rather than calling upon Russian history or folk tales, as most Russian operas had to that point, Taneyev looked to Greek antiquity, basing the libretto on Aeschylus’ powerful trilogy—Agamemnon, Choephorae, and Eumenides—which chronicles the calamities that befell the accursed House of Atreus.
This production at the Fisher Center is the first time this towering work has been staged in its entirety outside of Russia since its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. Sung in the original Russian, Oresteia is directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, who returns to SummerScape after his acclaimed productions in previous seasons of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang, and Emmanuel Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui.
Special support for this program is provided by Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander.
Reserve the best seats in the house and special parking for all your Fisher Center performances through premium seating. Call 845-758-7948 for these special seats and benefits.
Running time for this performance is approximately three hours and 40 minutes, including two intermissions.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/.
Midsummer Dancing: Tango
Sunday, August 4, 2013
5:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20
Doors at 5 pm
Dance instruction at 5:30 pm
Live band at 6:45 pm
Band ends at 9:15 pm
Venue closes at 10 pm
Noche Porteña!
Woodstock Tango Presents a Night of Argentine Tango
Tango Beginners Class, Live Music for Dancing, and Special Dance Performance
Learn how they really tango in Buenos Aires, birthplace of the most sensual of dances! An amazing evening of traditional Tango Argentino, with live music for social dancing by the JP Jofre Hard Tango Trio—one of the hottest tango ensembles in North America —complemented by recorded music from the “Golden Age of Tango” with DJ La Rubia del Norte, who has spun tunes at the most famous milongas (social clubs) in Buenos Aires and New York City.
The evening includes a dazzling tango performance by internationally renowned performers, world tango champion Cristian Correa and Angeles Chañaha, and an introductory class taught by Woodstock Tango founder Ilene Marder. No partner or experience necessary.
For the past three years, tango night has been an enormous hit at the Spiegeltent, packing the house with dancers and tango aficionados of all levels. Advance tickets strongly suggested.
Click here to visit Woodstock Tango’s Facebook page.
Click here to visit JP Jofre webpage.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program One
The 20th Century's Most Celebrated Composer
Friday, August 9, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance: Alessio Bax, piano; Andrey Borisenko, bass; John Hancock, baritone; Kiera Duffy, soprano; Gustav Djupsjöbacka, piano; Melis Jaatinen, mezzo-soprano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Mikhail Vekua, tenor; Orion Weiss, piano; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Tickets: $25, 35, 50, 60
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Les Noces (1914–17)
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, rev. 1947)
Symphony of Psalms (1930)
Concerto for Two Pianos (1935)
Abraham and Isaac (1962–63)
Songs
All programs subject to change. Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Maya Beiser with Special Guest Donal Fox
The Music of Astor Piazzolla and Beyond
Friday, August 9, 2013
8:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
“Ferocious energy and talent”—New York Times
Dubbed a “cello goddess” by the New Yorker, Maya Beiser has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity, eclectic repertoire, and relentless quest to redefine her instrument’s boundaries. The Boston Globe declares, “With virtuoso chops, rock-star charisma, and an appetite for pushing her instrument to the edge of avant-garde adventurousness, Maya Beiser is the postmodern diva of the cello.” Beiser and Fox will perform their unique take on the music of Astor Piazzolla and the early style of tango: a raw, provocative and sensual sound that developed on the streets of Buenos Aires in the 1920s and ’30s. The evening will also include original works and arrangements by Fox, and new works developed by Beiser during her residency at the Spiegeltent.
Click here to visit Maya Beiser's website.
Click here to visit Donal Fox's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
After Hours at the Spiegeltent
Friday, August 9, 2013
10 pm – 12:30 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Panel One
Who was Stravinsky?
Saturday, August 10, 2013
10 am
Olin Hall10 am–noon: Christopher H. Gibbs, moderator; Leon Botstein; Marina Frolova-Walker; Stephen Walsh
Free and open to the publicSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Kinder Spiegel: The Piccolini Trio
Saturday, August 10, 2013
11 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $10 children 3 and older; $15 (2-for-1 adult)
"Completely endearing, endlessly entertaining and charming." —nytheatre.com
Circus in a Trunk is the critically acclaimed theatrical stage show created and performed by The Piccolini Trio.
A trio of clowns arrives with an antique trunk full of circus props and discovers that the audience is already waiting, but the circus is late. They decide to perform the show themselves, creating an amazing and hilarious performance full of clever surprises.
Combining contemporary and classic European style clowning, they bring to life a repertoire of routines using music, acrobatics, physical comedy, poetic whimsy, juggling, and pantomime. Intimate and engaging, the show is creative and current while evoking a nostalgic old-world charm.
Click here to visit the Piccolini Trio's website.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Two
The Russian Context
Saturday, August 10, 2013
1:30 pm
Olin Hall1 pm Preconcert Talk: Marina Frolova-Walker
1:30 pm Performance: Matthew Burns, bass-baritone; Dover Quartet; Gustav Djupsjöbacka, piano; Laura Flax, clarinet; Me lis Jaatinen, mezzo-soprano; Piers Lane, piano; Orion Weiss, piano; and others
Tickets: $35
Limited seating available. Please call the Box Office for more information. 845-758-7900.
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Faun and Shepherdess, Op. 2 (1906–07)
Four Studies, for piano, Op. 7 (1908)
Three Movements from Petrushka, for piano solo (1921)
Mikhail Glinka (1804–57)
Trio Pathetique in D Minor (1832)
Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
Five Novelettes, for string quartet, Op. 15 (1886)
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Vers la flamme, Op. 72 (1914)
Serge Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Preludes Op. 23, No. 8 and 9 (1901–03)
Songs and piano works by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81), Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–93), Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951), and Mikhail Gnesin (1883–1957)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Special Event
Film: The Soldier's Tale
Saturday, August 10, 2013
5 pm
Olin HallTickets: $12
A film by R. O. Blechman, with live musical accompaniment.
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Program Three
1913: Breakthrough to Fame and Notoriety
Saturday, August 10, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7 pm Preconcert Talk: Michael Beckerman
8 pm Performance: American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75
Limited seating available. Please call the Box Office for more information. 845-758-7900.
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Fireworks (1908)
The Rite of Spring (1913)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
Suite from The Invisible City of Kitezh (c. 1907)
Anatoly Liadov (1855–1914)
From the Apocalypse, Op. 66 (1910–12)
Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946)
Metamorphosen, Op. 10 (1913)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
A Tribute to Julie London with Jazz Vocalist Marianne Solivan
Saturday, August 10, 2013
8:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
One of the most buzzed-about jazz singers on the New York scene, Marianne Solivan mesmerizes audiences with her beautiful, smoke-filled voice and sensuous stage presence. In this romantic evening, Solivan channels the glamor and star power of legendary American singer and actress Julie London. Interpreting London’s sultry and languid sound, Solivan will sing such classic hits as Cry Me a River, Go Slow, and Hot Toddy, as well as a few lesser-known gems in an evening that honors London’s great contributions to jazz.
Click here to visit Marianne Solivan's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
After Hours at the Spiegeltent
Saturday, August 10, 2013
10 pm – 12:30 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Panel Two
The Ballets Russes and Beyond: Stravinsky and Dance
Sunday, August 11, 2013
10 am
Olin Hall10 am–noon: Kenneth Archer; Lynn Garafola; Millicent Hodson
Free and open to the publicSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Kinder Spiegel: The Piccolini Trio
Sunday, August 11, 2013
11 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $10 children 3 and older; $15 (2-for-1 adult)
"Completely endearing, endlessly entertaining and charming." —nytheatre.com
Circus in a Trunk is the critically acclaimed theatrical stage show created and performed by The Piccolini Trio.
A trio of clowns arrives with an antique trunk full of circus props and discovers that the audience is already waiting, but the circus is late. They decide to perform the show themselves, creating an amazing and hilarious performance full of clever surprises.
Combining contemporary and classic European style clowning, they bring to life a repertoire of routines using music, acrobatics, physical comedy, poetic whimsy, juggling, and pantomime. Intimate and engaging, the show is creative and current while evoking a nostalgic old-world charm.
Click here to visit the Piccolini Trio's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.Circus in a Trunk is the critically acclaimed theatrical stage show created and performed by The Piccolini Trio.
A trio of clowns arrives with an antique trunk full of circus props and discovers that the audience is already waiting, but the circus is late. They decide to perform the show themselves, creating an amazing and hilarious performance full of clever surprises.
Combining contemporary and classic European style clowning, they bring to life a repertoire of routines using music, acrobatics, physical comedy, poetic whimsy, juggling, and pantomime. Intimate and engaging, the show is creative and current while evoking a nostalgic old-world charm.
Click here to visit the Piccolini Trio's website.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Four
Modernist Conversations
Sunday, August 11, 2013
1:30 pm
Olin Hall1 pm Preconcert Talk: Byron Adams
1:30 pm Performance: Alessio Bax, piano; Lucille Chung, piano; Gustav Djupsjöbacka, piano; Kiera Duffy, soprano; Benjamin Fingland, clarinet; Judith Gordon, piano; John Hancock, baritone; Melis Jaatinen, mezzo-soprano; Sharon Roffman, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Lance Suzuki, flute; Benjamin Verdery, guitar; Lei Xu, soprano; Bard Festival Chamber Players
Tickets: $35
Limited seating available. Please call the Box Office for more information. 845-758-7900.
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Three Japanese Lyrics (1912)
Pribaoutki (1914)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
En blanc et noir (1915)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Pierrot lunaire (1912)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (1913)
Maurice Delage (1879–1961)
Quatre poèmes hindous (1912–13)
Works by Erik Satie (1866–1925); Manuel de Falla (1876–1946); and Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Midsummer Dancing: Swing
Sunday, August 11, 2013
5:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20
Doors at 5 pm
Dance instruction at 5:30 pm
Live band at 6:30 pm
Band ends at 9 pm
Venue closes at 10 pm
Professional swing dancers Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios, return to the Spiegeltent for a night of swing dancing to the fabulous music of Eight to the Bar. Both the band and the Freemans will have you up and dancing in no time! Drawing its musical influences from American roots music—swing, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, soul, and Motown—Eight to the Bar is known for its outstanding instrumentalists and colorful mix of ’40s jazz and swing, ’50s jump blues, and their own swing-influenced tunes and vocals. Don’t miss out!
Don't know how to dance? Linda and Chester will provide a lesson to kick off the night.
Click here to visit Got2Lindy’s website.
Click here to visit Eight to the Bar's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Five
Sight and Sound: From Abstraction to Surrealism
Sunday, August 11, 2013
5:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater5 pm Preconcert Talk: Mary Davis
5:30 pm Performance: Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano; John Hancock, baritone; Melis Jaatinen, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Ann McMahon Quintero, mezzo-soprano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Orion Weiss, piano; members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; designed and directed by Anne Patterson
Tickets: $25, 35, 50, 60
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Ragtime (1918)
Mavra (1921-22, rev.1947)
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
Parade (1916–17; arr. piano four-hand)
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Le travail du peintre, song cycle for voice and piano, Op. 161 (1956)
Georges Auric (1899–1983), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
Les mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921)
André Souris (1899–1970)
Choral, marche, et galop (1925)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Language and Thinking Program
Monday, August 12, 2013 – Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Bard College CampusFor more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ltdirect@bard.edu, or visit http://landt.bard.edu/.
Eban Goodstein, Director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy: “Free to Choose: Will Miami Drown, and What Does it Mean to Me?”
Thursday, August 15, 2013
9–10:30 am
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomJournalist Jeff Goodell, quoted in a Rolling Stone article this summer: "“Goodbye, Miami: By century’s end, rising sea levels will turn the nation’s urban fantasyland into an American Atlantis. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin".
Does this have to be the future (for Miami, and New York, and Shanghai, and Buenos Aires, and Venice, and London)? And what does this mean for the way we all live our lives today? This talk will focus on fatalism, activism, and global warming.
Sponsored by: Language and Thinking (L&T) Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7141, or e-mail ap2652@bard.edu.
What Cheer? Brigade
Street Brass Revelry
Thursday, August 15, 2013
8:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20
“What Cheer? dominated the Newport Folk Fest like a headliner.”—SPIN
A 19-piece brass band mixing Bollywood, the Balkans, New Orleans, samba, and hip-hop, played with unequalled intensity. A raucous live experience, the Brigade defies categorization, appealing equally to punks and farmers, old and young. An unplugged concert that proves that great parties need no electricity.
Click here to visit What Cheer Brigade's website.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Special Event
Filming Stravinsky: Preserving Posterity's Image
Friday, August 16, 2013
5 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema5 pm: Commentary by Charles M. Joseph
Free and open to the public.
During the 1950s and ’60s, Stravinsky became the most filmed composer of the 20th century. The subject of numerous European and North American documentaries, the composer’s notoriety was exploited widely by a television industry that embraced the arts as part of its cultural mission. This session will present clips from some of the more important film documentaries of the time.
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Program Six
Against Interpretation and Expression: The Aesthetics of Mechanization
Friday, August 16, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
8 pm Performance: Eric Beach, percussion; Judith Gordon, piano; Jonathan Greeney, percussion; Imani Winds; Piers Lane, piano; Peter Serkin, piano; Gilles Vonsattel, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players and students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music, conducted by Leon Botstein
Tickets: $25, 35, 50, 60
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Madrid (1950)
Concerto for Piano and Winds (1923–24)
Sonata for Two Pianos (1943–44)
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz 110 (1937)
Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
Octandre (1923)
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2 (1922)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)
from Quatre études de rythme (1949–50)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: My Last Cirkus
World Premiere
Friday, August 16, 2013
8:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
(18+ unless accompanied by an adult )
"Old-fashioned variety entertainment of the sort Ed Sullivan so astutely scooped up, but with twists.”—New York Times
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents My Last Cirkus, an all-new 90-minute circus theater work, created in residency this August at the Spiegeltent. Set against the stunning backdrop of the mirrored jewel-box, Ringmistress Philomena faces fear, aging, and the inevitable pull of the ring. Will she run away from the Cirkus and finally join a town? Featuring a dynamic, world-class cast of contemporary circus artists from an intriguing variety of backgrounds, including former Russian rhythmic gymnastics champion and Cirque du Soleil artist Ekaterina Sknarina; innovative prop manipulator Brian P. Dailey; acrobat and B-boy Richard Maguire; and Bindlestiff cofounders Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson. Written and scored by Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey and Circus Smirkus composer Peter Bufano; with percussionist and actor Michael Dobson. Directed by physical comedian and star clown of Parallel Exit Physical Theater Company and Big Apple Circus's Step Right Up! Joel Jeske; in collaboration with Spiegeltent host Michael McQuilken.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
After Hours at the Spiegeltent
Friday, August 16, 2013
10 pm – 12:30 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Panel Three
Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Music, Ethics, and Politics
Saturday, August 17, 2013
10 am
Olin Hall10 am–noon: Tamara Levitz, moderator; Tomi Mäkelä; Simon Morrison; Michael Beckerman
Free and open to the publicSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Kinder Spiegel: Concrete Temple Theatre
Saturday, August 17, 2013
11 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThis production is appropriate for children 12+
Tickets: $10 for children, $15 for adults (2-for1 adult)
Acclaimed performer Carlo Adinolfi plays Geppetto, aka G, in this heart-wrenching and hilarious tale of a poor Italian immigrant puppeteer whose life unravels when his closest companions, two well-worn puppets he created for his shows, begin to fall apart. After the passing of his beloved wife and fellow-puppeteer Donna, G and his puppets struggle to create a new play. But as his puppets begin to disintegrate and his own heart breaks, G must try fix them and heal himself so that the show, and his life, can go on. Drawing inspiration from Pinocchio, The Old Man and the Sea, and the inspiring true story of double-amputee Hugh Herr’s incredible return to rock climbing, Geppetto is an exploration of resilience and ingenuity in the face of loss and change.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Seven
Stravinsky in Paris
Saturday, August 17, 2013
1:30 pm
Olin Hall1 pm Preconcert Talk: Manuela Schwartz
1:30 pm Performance: Xak Bjerken, piano; Randolph Bowman, flute; Sara Cutler, harp; Jordan Frazier, double bass; Marka Gustavsson, viola; Robert Martin, cello; Jesse Mills, violin; Harumi Rhodes, violin; Sharon Roffman, violin; Laurie Smukler, violin; Bard Festival Chamber Players
Tickets: $35
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Les cinq doigts, for piano (1921)
Octet for Wind Instruments (1922–23)
Duo Concertant (1931–32)
Albert Roussel (1869–1937)
Sérénade, for flute, harp, and string trio, Op. 30 (1925)
Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
String Quartet No. 4, H. 256 (1937)
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56 (1932)
Arthur Lourié (1892–1966)
Sonata for Violin and Double Bass (1924)
Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986)
Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1925)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Program Eight
The Émigré in America
Program Eight
Saturday, August 17, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance: John Relyea, bass-baritone; Rebecca Ringle, mezzo-soprano; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Jeu de cartes (1936)
Symphony in Three Movements (1942–45)
Ode (1943)
Requiem Canticles (1965–66)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Kol Nidre, Op. 39 (1938)
Works by Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: My Last Cirkus
World Premiere
Saturday, August 17, 2013
8:30 pm
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentTickets: $35 (inner ring table); $30 (outer ring table);
$25 (booth); $20 (standing room)
(18+ unless accompanied by an adult)
"Old-fashioned variety entertainment of the sort Ed Sullivan so astutely scooped up, but with twists.”—New York Times
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents My Last Cirkus, an all-new 90-minute circus theater work, created in residency this August at the Spiegeltent. Set against the stunning backdrop of the mirrored jewel-box, Ringmistress Philomena faces fear, aging, and the inevitable pull of the ring. Will she run away from the Cirkus and finally join a town? Featuring a dynamic, world-class cast of contemporary circus artists from an intriguing variety of backgrounds, including former Russian rhythmic gymnastics champion and Cirque du Soleil artist Ekaterina Sknarina; innovative prop manipulator Brian P. Dailey; acrobat and B-boy Richard Maguire; and Bindlestiff cofounders Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson. Written and scored by Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey and Circus Smirkus composer Peter Bufano; with percussionist and actor Michael Dobson. Directed by physical comedian and star clown of Parallel Exit Physical Theater Company and Big Apple Circus's Step Right Up! Joel Jeske; in collaboration with Spiegeltent host Michael McQuilken.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
After Hours at the Spiegeltent
Saturday, August 17, 2013
10 pm – 12:30 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThursday, July 11 and 18
Fridays and Saturdays, July 5 to August 17
10 pm to 12:30 am
$10 cover, free with same-day ticket to any performance
All-summer access with the $50 After-Hours Pass *
Drinks and after-hours dining available
Late nights at the Spiegeltent are an all-live music affair with our new house band, an eerily elegant and ineffably alluring gang of misfits called The Mayday Kingdom. Host Michael McQuilken (of Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra) welcomes you to a celebration of summer sundown with timeless music from the 1940s to the present. Come rattle your dancing bones to songs made famous by Louis Prima, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, and many others. Raise a glass in the company of friends, festival artists, and friendly spirits After Hours.
*The After Hours Summer Pass is your ticket to seaon-long access to After Hours at the Spiegeltent with our house band The Mayday Kingdom. Pass holders pay no cover charge for admission to After Hours events. Please note that the Pass is non-transferrable.
Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.
Program Nine
Stravinsky, Spirituality, and the Choral Tradition
Sunday, August 18, 2013
10 am
Olin Hall10 am Performance: Commentary by Klára Móricz, with Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; Frank Corliss, piano
Tickets: $30
Choral works by Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Gesualdo da Venosa (1566–1613), Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864–1956), Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), and Ernst Krenek (1900–91)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents
Kinder Spiegel: Concrete Temple Theatre
Sunday, August 18, 2013
11 am
Fisher Center, SpiegeltentThis production is appropriate for children 12+
Tickets: $10 for children, $15 for adults (2-for1 adult)
Acclaimed performer Carlo Adinolfi plays Geppetto, aka G, in this heart-wrenching and hilarious tale of a poor Italian immigrant puppeteer whose life unravels when his closest companions, two well-worn puppets he created for his shows, begin to fall apart. After the passing of his beloved wife and fellow-puppeteer Donna, G and his puppets struggle to create a new play. But as his puppets begin to disintegrate and his own heart breaks, G must try fix them and heal himself so that the show, and his life, can go on. Drawing inspiration from Pinocchio, The Old Man and the Sea, and the inspiring true story of double-amputee Hugh Herr’s incredible return to rock climbing, Geppetto is an exploration of resilience and ingenuity in the face of loss and change.Sponsored by: Bard SummerScape.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Program Ten
The Poetics of Music and After
Program Ten
Sunday, August 18, 2013
1:30 pm
Olin Hall1 pm Preconcert Talk: Richard Wilson
1:30 pm Performance: Rieko Aizawa, piano; Imani Winds; Alexandra Knoll, oboe; Piers Lane, piano; Jesse Mills, violin; Bard Festival Chamber Players
Tickets: $35
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Circus Polka, arranged for piano (1942, arr. 1944)
Septet (1952–53)
Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Variations for Piano, Op. 27 (1936)
Walter Piston (1894–1976)
Suite, for oboe and piano (1931)
Aaron Copland (1900–90)
Nonet (1960)
Elliott Carter (1908–2012)
Woodwind Quintet (1948)
Ellis Kohs (1916–2000)
Sonatina for Violin and Piano (1948)
Carlos Chávez (1899–1978)
Fugas, for piano (1942)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Program Eleven
The Classical Heritage
Program Eleven
Sunday, August 18, 2013
4:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater3:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Tamara Levitz
4:30 pm Performance: Kathleen Chalfant, narrator; Gordon Gietz, tenor; Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano; William Ferguson, tenor; Sean Panikkar, tenor; John Relyea, bass-baritone; Jean Stilwell, narrator; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; Jean Stilwell, narrator; direction and design by Doug Fitch
Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Perséphone (1933–34, rev. 1948)
Oedipus Rex (1926–27, rev. 1948)
All programs subject to change.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Helena Baillie, violin, and Tanya Gabrielian, piano, Bard College Conservatory of Music “Out of the Abyss: Stravinsky and Schnittke Reframe the Past in Pulcinella and Suite in the Old Style”
Friday, August 23, 2013
2–3:30 pm
Olin HallIn this concert lecture, Helena Baillie and Tanya Gabrielian explore how Igor Stravinsky and Alfred Schnittke recast music of the Baroque period through a 20th-century lens, using modern techniques such as irregular rhythmic patterns and chromaticism within the structure and tonality of 18th-century music. After applying the constraints of Baroque forms through stylized dance patterns and the tonal progressions of a basso continuo, Stravinsky and Schnittke inserted subtle, playful and often ironic references to the language of 20th-century music, thus asserting their creative freedom within a narrowly established framework.
Sponsored by: Language and Thinking (L&T) Program.For more information, call 845-758-7141, or e-mail ap2652@bard.edu.
Can Gross National Happiness Guide the Global Economy
Friday, August 23, 2013
7 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115Join us for an evening lecture with sustainability expert and Bard MBA Faculty, Hunter Lovins. Lovins will discuss her work with the government of Bhutan and the UN to develop a new roadmap for global economic sustainability. Please join her for a progress report. All are welcome to attend.
Hunter Lovins, Bard MBA Faculty; President of Natural Capitalism, Inc.
Hunter Lovins J.D., Loyola Law School; B.S. (Sociology, Political Science). L. Hunter Lovins is president and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS). NCS educates senior decision makers in business, government, and civil society to restore and enhance natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. Lovins is also currently a faculty member at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and the chief insurgent of the Madrone Project. Lovins has consulted for scores of industries, governments, and large and small companies worldwide. Recipient of such honors as the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award, and Leadership in Business, she was named Time Magazine 2000 Hero of the Planet and in 2009 Newsweek dubbed her a “Green Business Icon.” She has co-authored nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 book Natural Capitalism, 2006 e-book Climate Protection Manual for Cities, and the 2009 book Transforming Industry in Asia. She has served on the boards of governments, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies. Lovins’s areas of expertise include natural capitalism, sustainable development, globalization, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, fire rescue, and emergency medicine. She developed the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development. She was a founding professor of business at Presidio Graduate School, one of the first accredited programs offering an M.B.A. in sustainable management.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7388, or e-mail kvansant@bard.edu.