Bard Conservatory Orchestra Presents Concert with Maestro Leon Botstein on December 14

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—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.
About the Bard College Conservatory
The Bard College Conservatory of Music expands Bard’s spirit of innovation in arts and education. The Conservatory, which opened in 2005, offers a five-year, double-degree program at the undergraduate level and, at the graduate level, programs in vocal arts, conducting, and instrumental performance, as well as Chinese music and culture. Also at the graduate level, the Conservatory offers an Advanced Performance Studies program and a two-year Postgraduate Collaborative Piano Fellowship. The US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, established in 2017, offers a unique degree program in Chinese instruments. The Bard Conservatory Orchestra has performed twice at Lincoln Center, and has completed three international concert tours: to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; Russia and six cities in Central and Eastern Europe; and three cities in Cuba. The orchestra also performs annually at area prisons. This year, the Conservatory has enrolled more than 200 undergraduate and graduate students from 25 countries and 31 states. In recognition of their academic and musical excellence, many students hold named scholarships, including the Bettina Baruch Foundation Scholarship, Y. S. Liu Foundation Scholarship, Joan Tower Composition Scholarship, Dr. Ingrid A. Spatt ’69 Memorial Flute Scholarship, and Stephen and Belinda Kaye Scholarship, among others. bard.edu/conservatory

About Bard College
Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place and Massena properties, Bard’s campus consists of more than 1,200 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; advanced degrees through 13 graduate programs; nine early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 164-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at the main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.
 

Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcom-orchestra-dec-2024/

This event was last updated on 12-10-2024

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