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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: An Afternoon with Jeremy DenkPianist Jeremy Denk celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Bard Conservatory of Music Sunday, September 11, 2016 Music from Bach to Schubert and the Beatles to Ligeti:"A journey in two hours through seven centuries of Western music, from the 1300s until the present day. In a series of twenty-five short pieces, it will trace the evolution of the musical language, the soundscape—an epic story of human thought and ideals, of what we have found important to express in tones. The first half starts with the troubadors (Binchois’ famous “triste plaisir”), and with the great medieval master Machaut, then passes through the Renaissance (Byrd, Monteverdi), to the Baroque and of course Bach. A brief break, and then from there forward through the great flowering of the Romantic era, watching its expressivity become the chaos and loss of modernity. After this long story, of style succeeding style, the question is: what is style? Do we even know any more? The last piece returns to the beginning, back to the troubadors, now rethought by a millennial composer—trying to take stock of all the history behind us." Program to include: Binchois, Josquin, Dufay, Byrd, Frescobaldi, Purcell, Bach, CPE Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Schoenberg, Debussy, Prokofiev, Messiaen, the Beatles, Adams, and Ligeti.Benefit concert. Tickets: $50, $30https://fishercentertickets.bard.edu Time: 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Location: Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Sponsor: Bard College Conservatory of Music Contact: Conservatory Concert Office. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7900 Website: https://fishercentertickets.bard.edu If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/