Bard College Professor Joan Tower Wins Musical America's 2020 Composer of the Year Award
Bard College Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts Joan Tower has been honored with one of the music industry’s most prestigious awards: Musical America’s Composer of the Year. “Trained in an era when academic modernism reigned, she developed from a composer of intensely wrought chamber works into a creator of dramatic orchestral music that can only be described as, well, towering,” writes Musical America.
Bard College Names New Chairs and Distinguished Professorships
Appointees include Susan Aberth in Art History, Valeria Luiselli in Written Arts, Kelly Reichardt in Film and Electronic Arts, and An-My Lê in Photography. Read More >>Bard Prison Initiative Presents Screening of College Behind Bars at Bard’s Fisher Center on October 21
The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) will present a special screening of the upcoming PBS documentary series College Behind Bars at Bard’s Fisher Center on Monday, October 21, at 5 pm. Directed by Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive-produced by Ken Burns, College Behind Bars explores the lives of several BPI students as they try to earn Bard College degrees through the program. Read More >>More Bard News
- Bard Professor Michelle Murray Speaks at the Carnegie Council on the Struggle for Recognition in International Relations
- Review: Thomas Chatterton Williams’s Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
- Bard Alumna Tschabalala Self ’12 among Black Artists Headlining Exhibitions at Museums and Galleries Throughout the UK This Fall
- Catch and Kill: Bard Alum Ronan Farrow ’04 Recounts Chasing the Harvey Weinstein Story in New Book
- Bard Alumna, La Voz Editor Mariel Fiori ’05 Is a Voice for Change in Kingston
- Business Insider Highlights Artworks by Bard Students and Alumni/ae at New York’s Freehand Hotel
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College Behind Bars
5:00 pm Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater - 10/24Thursday
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