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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Follow the Lieder: World Premieres of Ten New Songs 

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Songs by Bard Student Composers Performed by Graduate Vocal Arts Program Singers and Collaborative Piano Fellows
Ten new songs will receive their world premieres, performed by singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and undergraduate vocal students in the college. As part of Follow the Lieder, a weekly seminar by faculty composer Missy Mazzoli, the Bard student composers worked with the singers to create songs specifically for their voices over the course of the semester. These new songs include settings of whaling ship logs, texts by Michelangelo and Virginia Woolf, poems by T.S. Eliot, and much more. 

Download: Program and texts FOLLOW THE LIEDER .pdf

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.

Time: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space

Music Program and Bard College Conservatory of Music Present

Follow the Lieder: World Premieres of Ten New Songs 

Songs by Bard Student Composers Performed by Graduate Vocal Arts Program Singers and Collaborative Piano Fellows

Ten new songs will receive their world premieres, performed by singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and undergraduate vocal students in the college. As part of Follow the Lieder, a weekly seminar by faculty composer Missy Mazzoli, the Bard student composers worked with the singers to create songs specifically for their voices over the course of the semester. These new songs include settings of whaling ship logs, texts by Michelangelo and Virginia Woolf, poems by T.S. Eliot, and much more.  Download: Program and texts FOLLOW THE LIEDER .pdf