Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents

Signs, Games, and Messages 2026 - Program Four

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PROGRAM

Béla Bartók
Selections from For Children
Peasant’s Flute Children at Play Pillow Dance
Hey, Tulip, Tulip Round Dance
I Lost My Partner
Bagpipe II
Drinking Song Children’s Dance Dance Song
Ivy Chen, cimbalom
András Szalai, piano

György Kurtág
Tre pezzi, Op. 38
Dávid Kéringer, clarinet
András Szalai, cimbalom

György Kurtág
Un brin de bruyère à Witold (In memoriam Witold Lutosławski)
Ivy Chen, cimbalom

György Kurtág
Hommage à Halmágyi Mihály
Sophia Cornicello, piano
András Szalai, cimbalom

György Ligeti
Automne à Varsovie from Études
Sophia Cornicello, piano

György Kurtág
Herdecker Eurhythmie, Op. 14a
Self-Will
Hommage à J. S. B. Flowers We Are (1)
Quarrel and Gentleness Flowers We Are (2)
Liliána Szokol, flute
András Szalai, cimbalom

György Kurtág
Selections from Játékok (Games)
Beating
Tumble-bunny
Bluebell
Thistle
Labyrinthine D (with echo)
Vigorously
Hommage à Emil Petrovics
Stubbunny
Alexandra Balog, piano
András Szalai, cimbalom

György Kurtág
Hommage à Berényi Ferenc 70
Nathaniel Valsania, cimbalom

François Couperin 
Les Bergères (The Shepherdesses)
Nathaniel Valsania, cimbalom
András Szalai, piano

Béla Bartók
Sonatina
Dávid Kéringer, clarinet
András Szalai, cimbalom

INTERMISSION

Béla Bartók
Falun (Village Scenes), Sz. 78, BB 87a
Lucy Fitz Gibbons, soprano
Kayo Iwama, piano

György Kurtág
Egy téli alkony emlékére (In Memory of a Winter Sunset), Op. 8
1. Vivo
2. Sostenuto
3. Con moto, pesante
4. Presto agitato
Daphne Buan, soprano
András Szalai, cimbalom
Mira Wang, violin

Thomas Adès
Növények (Plants) for mezzo-soprano and piano sextet
Sydney Cornett, mezzo-soprano
Mira Wang, violin
Ziheng Xu, violin
Mason Haskett, viola
William Pilgrim, cello
Moises Chirinos, double bass
Alexandra Balog, piano

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Time: 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Chapel of the Holy Innocents

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