The Orchestra Now Spring Season at Bard College
Matt Dine
The Orchestra Now’s six-concert winter-spring season at Bard Fisher Center will begin on January 25 with its performance in The Sound of Spring, a Chinese New Year concert presented by the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Central Conservatory of Music, China. TŌN’s subscription series continues on February 8–9 with an all-Beethoven program in tribute to the 250th anniversary of the master composer’s birth. The soloist is pianist Anna Polonsky, a recipient of the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award and frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Rest in Pieces, a special program presented by the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, will celebrate the life of opera with the family and friends of Mozart, Strauss, Bizet, Copland, and Puccini, and will be performed on March 6 and 8.
Also of note is the program Into the Wilderness, offering the first New York performances in more than 50 years of two works: Vincent d’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Air with solo pianist Blair McMillen—a winner of Juilliard’s Gina Bachauer Competition and faculty member of both Bard College Conservatory and the Mannes School of Music—and Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 7 (Sinfonia Antartica), featuring Filipino-American soprano Diana Schwam. In addition, the program will present the U.S. premiere of César Franck’s What You Hear on the Mountain, possibly the first symphonic poem in musical history (April 25–26). The Orchestra’s series will culminate with a performance of Mahler’s massive Resurrection Symphony featuring the combined forces of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Bard College Chamber Singers, and Bard Festival Chorale led by conductor James Bagwell.
Visit fishercenter.bard.edu for more details.
Post Date: 01-16-2020
Also of note is the program Into the Wilderness, offering the first New York performances in more than 50 years of two works: Vincent d’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Air with solo pianist Blair McMillen—a winner of Juilliard’s Gina Bachauer Competition and faculty member of both Bard College Conservatory and the Mannes School of Music—and Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 7 (Sinfonia Antartica), featuring Filipino-American soprano Diana Schwam. In addition, the program will present the U.S. premiere of César Franck’s What You Hear on the Mountain, possibly the first symphonic poem in musical history (April 25–26). The Orchestra’s series will culminate with a performance of Mahler’s massive Resurrection Symphony featuring the combined forces of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Bard College Chamber Singers, and Bard Festival Chorale led by conductor James Bagwell.
Visit fishercenter.bard.edu for more details.
Post Date: 01-16-2020