Bard Conservatory Orchestra Presents Concert with Maestro Leon Botstein on December 14
Maestro Leon Botstein conducts the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra. Photo by Karl Rabe
The Bard College Conservatory Orchestra presents a concert performance with Music Director Leon Botstein conducting and featuring soloists from the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program. The program includes Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B Minor “Unfinished”; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Psalm 42, Op. 42, Wie der Hirsch schreit (As the hart cries out); and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93. The performance will be held on Saturday, December 14, at 7 pm in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater. Tickets have a suggested donation of $15–$20 or free for Bard students and members of the Bard community. The performance will be livestreamed. Virtual livestream tickets are pay what you wish. All ticket sales benefit the Bard College Conservatory Scholarship Fund. For tickets and information visit fishercenter.bard.edu or call 845-758-7900 (Mon-Fri 10am-5pm).
Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B Minor “Unfinished,” composed just over 200 years ago, heralds a new Romantic sound in its orchestration, provides a supreme example of Schubert’s lyrical gifts, displays his bold harmonic daring, and projects an extraordinary range of emotions. Beginning in 1830, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy composed an impressive series of psalm settings and drafted Psalm 42 (“As the hart cries out for fresh water”) while on his honeymoon in the summer of 1837. Psalm 42 became one of his most popular religious compositions, unfolding in seven movements, beginning with a chorus that is calm and lyrical and ending in a triumphant finale. Dmitri Shostakovich began writing his Tenth Symphony in the summer of 1953, a few months after Stalin died, and completed it quickly. Premiering in Leningrad in December 1953, the work received a mixed reception but has since emerged for many listeners as Shostakovich’s greatest symphonic achievement. “In this work I wanted to convey human feelings and passions,” he has stated.
This concert in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater is dedicated to the late Richard B. Fisher, whom we celebrate on the 20th anniversary of his death. Richard Fisher was a man of deep intellectual curiosity, an enlightened patron of the arts, chairman emeritus of Morgan Stanley, and former chair of Bard College’s Board of Trustees. The magnificent Fisher Center building and the extraordinary arts experiences that take place within it are a tribute to his vision.
Post Date: 12-10-2024
Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B Minor “Unfinished,” composed just over 200 years ago, heralds a new Romantic sound in its orchestration, provides a supreme example of Schubert’s lyrical gifts, displays his bold harmonic daring, and projects an extraordinary range of emotions. Beginning in 1830, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy composed an impressive series of psalm settings and drafted Psalm 42 (“As the hart cries out for fresh water”) while on his honeymoon in the summer of 1837. Psalm 42 became one of his most popular religious compositions, unfolding in seven movements, beginning with a chorus that is calm and lyrical and ending in a triumphant finale. Dmitri Shostakovich began writing his Tenth Symphony in the summer of 1953, a few months after Stalin died, and completed it quickly. Premiering in Leningrad in December 1953, the work received a mixed reception but has since emerged for many listeners as Shostakovich’s greatest symphonic achievement. “In this work I wanted to convey human feelings and passions,” he has stated.
This concert in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater is dedicated to the late Richard B. Fisher, whom we celebrate on the 20th anniversary of his death. Richard Fisher was a man of deep intellectual curiosity, an enlightened patron of the arts, chairman emeritus of Morgan Stanley, and former chair of Bard College’s Board of Trustees. The magnificent Fisher Center building and the extraordinary arts experiences that take place within it are a tribute to his vision.
Post Date: 12-10-2024