BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Bard College//Calendars//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152374_1786075200_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T183000 CATEGORIES:Special Event/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Bard Music Festival Opening Night Social DESCRIPTION:Before the opening night concert, celebrate the official start of the Bard Music Festival at the magnificent and picturesque 1916 Ward Manor House. Take in expansive views of the Catskill Mountains ... LOCATION:Manor House URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152374 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152373_1786075200_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T200000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program One • The Many Facets of Mozart DESCRIPTION:The 36th Bard Music Festival launches with Program One, “The Many Facets of Mozart.” Harnessing Bard’s unusual ability to integrate orchestral, vocal, and chamber works within a single event, ... LOCATION:Fisher Center\, Sosnoff Theater URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152373 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152376_1786161600_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T120000 CATEGORIES:Panel/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Panel One • Gottlieb or Amadé? Who Was Mozart? DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion and Q&A with scholars to be announced. \nFree and open to the public. \nSilhouette profile of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Hieronymus Löschenkohl (1785) © Music-Images, Lebrecht ... LOCATION:Olin Hall URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152376 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152383_1786161600_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T143000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Two • Fathers and Sons DESCRIPTION:Program Two, “Fathers and Sons,” helps contextualize Mozart among his older contemporaries. His first significant violin sonata (K296), the first of his Viennese Quartets, and several of his ... LOCATION:Olin Hall URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152383 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152378_1786161600_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T200000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Three • Mozart and Prague DESCRIPTION:Mozart enjoyed immense popularity and personal happiness in Prague, famously declaring, “My Praguers understand me.” Marking the festival’s first all-orchestral concert, Program Three, ... LOCATION:Fisher Center\, Sosnoff Theater URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152378 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152384_1786248000_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260809T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260809T120000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Four • Theatrical Life in Vienna: Hanswurst, Leporello, and Papageno DESCRIPTION:In a thoughtfully curated concert with commentary, Program Four, “Theatrical Life in Vienna: Hanswurst, Leporello, and Papageno,” scholar Lisa de Alwis investigates the popular Viennese theater ... LOCATION:Olin Hall URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152384 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152379_1786248000_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260809T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260809T160000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Five • Rivalries and Conspiracies DESCRIPTION:The Habsburg Emperor Joseph II pitted Mozart against his Italian peers in two historic contests, both brought back to life in Program Five, “Rivalries and Conspiracies.” On the first such ... LOCATION:Fisher Center\, Sosnoff Theater URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152379 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152385_1786593600_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T200000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Six • I live with God ever before me: Mozart’s Religion DESCRIPTION:Following the past three seasons’ sold-out concerts in nearby Rhinebeck, the Bard Music Festival returns off-campus for Program Six, “I live with God ever before me: Mozart’s Religion.” ... LOCATION:Church of the Messiah\, Rhinebeck URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152385 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152380_1786680000_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260814T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260814T200000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Seven • Beauty, Charity, and Reason DESCRIPTION:Mozart was similarly close to Haydn’s less well-remembered younger brother Michael Haydn, then a successful composer whose Requiem, partly inspired by the death of his infant daughter, would ... LOCATION:Fisher Center\, Sosnoff Theater URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152380 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152377_1786766400_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T120000 CATEGORIES:Panel/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Panel Two • The Age of What?: Absolutism and Enlightenment or Revolution and Romanticism DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion and Q&A with scholars to be announced. \nFree and open to the public. \nAudience of Moroccan Ambassador by Joseph II (1783); Johann Hieronymus Löschenkohl (1753—1807); Wein ... LOCATION:Olin Hall URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152377 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152386_1786766400_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T143000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Eight • The Pinnacle of Achievement DESCRIPTION:Bard’s next chamber concert, Program Eight, “The Pinnacle of Achievement,” celebrates the music of Mozart and Joseph Haydn, when both were in their prime. Featured works include Mozart’s ... LOCATION:Olin Hall URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152386 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152381_1786766400_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T200000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Nine • Friends, Family, and Students DESCRIPTION:Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos and his sophisticated “Linz” Symphony, composed in just four days, are two of the composer’s mature orchestral works. Program Nine, “Friends, Family, and ... LOCATION:Fisher Center\, Sosnoff Theater URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152381 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152387_1786852800_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260816T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260816T123000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Ten • A Lasting Influence: Mozart’s Legacy DESCRIPTION:A master of all genres who revolutionized the opera and concerto forms, Mozart was instrumental in shaping the trajectory of Western concert music. Rather than attempting to capture the full scope of ... LOCATION:Olin Hall URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152387 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:152382_1786852800_calendar@www.bard.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260816T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260816T160000 CATEGORIES:Classical/Bard Music Festival/Bard Music Festival SUMMARY:Program Eleven • “Too beautiful”: Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio DESCRIPTION:Mozart was commissioned to write The Abduction from the Seraglio (“Die Entführung aus dem Serail”) by Joseph II, who hoped to promote a German-language National Singspiel to rival Italian opera. ... LOCATION:Fisher Center\, Sosnoff Theater URL:https://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=152382 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR