From Bard’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Bard Fisher Center for the performing Arts
SummerScape
June 28–August 19, 2018
The fifteenth annual Bard SummerScape festival features seven weeks of world-class opera, theater, dance, cabaret, film, and music, including the 29th annual Bard Music Festival, Rimsky-Korsakov and His World.
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Opera
Anton Rubinstein’s Demon
American Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leon Botstein
Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger
The rich choruses and fiery libretto of Rubinstein’s 1871 masterpiece will be performed by an all-Russian cast in this rare new American production.
July 27–August 5
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Bard Music Festival
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World
Bard Music Festival weekends include orchestral concerts, chamber and choral music performances, panel discussions, special events, and opera in concert.
Weekend One: August 10–12
Inventing Russian Music: The Mighty Five
Weekend Two: August 17–19
Rimsky-Korsakov and His Followers
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Theater
Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan
After the play by J. M. Barrie
Directed by Christopher Alden
Returning to New York for the first time since 1950, the Broadway smash hit is rediscovered for Leonard Bernstein’s centennial. This intimate new production grows by turns whimsical and sinister, joyful and dark, creating a gripping portrait of the boy who wouldn’t grow up.
June 28–July 22
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The Spiegeltent
Cabaret and More
Hosted by Mx. Justin Vivian Bond
Mx. Bond’s fifth season at the Spiegeltent, an internationally renowned destination of magic and mayhem, has surprises in store all summer long. Enchanted evenings await with unforgettable performances of cabaret and jazz, food and drink, and dancing under the sparkling lights of the historic tent of mirrors.
June 29–August 18
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Film Series
Rimsky-Korsakov and the
Poetry of Cinema
Fantasia, 1940, ©Walt Disney Productions/Photofest
The 2018 SummerScape film series explores the influence of Russian nationalism, folk music, and exoticism in pieces by Rimsky-Korsakov and other members of The Mighty Five on Russian directors like Aleksandr Sokurov and in international films ranging from Walt Disney’s Fantasia to Louis Malle’s Atlantic City.
July 26–August 19
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About Us
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, designed by Frank Gehry, illustrates the College’s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. The Center’s adventurous programs and world-class facilities provide an outstanding environment in which to create, perform, learn, and experience. The Center bears the name of Richard B. Fisher, the former chair of Bard’s Board of Trustees. This magnificent building and the extraordinary arts experiences that take place within it are a tribute to his vision, generosity, and leadership.
The mission of the Fisher Center is to:
bring leading artists to the Hudson Valley to engage with the public and the College;
produce and present adventurous and in-depth programs, including new, rare, and undiscovered works;
support the development of new work by artists at all stages of their careers; and
provide a home for Bard student and faculty work in the performing arts.
Bard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation. The undergraduate curriculum is designed to address central, enduring questions facing succeeding generations of students. Academic disciplines are interconnected through multidisciplinary programs; a balance in the curriculum is sought between general education and individual specialization. Students pursue a rigorous course of study reflecting diverse traditions of scholarship, research, speculation, and artistic expression. They engage philosophies of human existence, theories of human behavior and society, the making of art, and the study of the humanities, science, nature, and history.
Bard’s approach to learning focuses on the individual, primarily through small group seminars. These are structured to encourage thoughtful, critical discourse in an inclusive environment. Faculty are active in their fields and stress the connection between the contemplative life of the mind and active engagement outside the classroom. They strive to foster rigorous and free inquiry, intellectual ambition, and creativity.
Bard acts at the intersection of education and civil society, extending liberal arts and sciences education to communities in which it has been underdeveloped, inaccessible, or absent. Through its undergraduate college, distinctive graduate programs, commitment to the fine and performing arts, civic and public engagement programs, and network of international dual-degree partnerships, early colleges, and prison education initiatives, Bard offers unique opportunities for students and faculty to study, experience, and realize the principle that higher-education institutions can and should operate in the public interest.
The Bard College of today reflects in many ways its varied past.
Bard was founded as St. Stephen’s College in 1860, a time of national crisis. While there are no written records of the founders’ attitude toward the Civil War, a passage from the College’s catalogue of 1943 applies also to the time of the institution’s establishment:
“While the immediate demands in education are for the training of men for the war effort, liberal education in America must be preserved as an important value in the civilization for which the War is being fought. . . . Since education, like life itself, is a continuous process of growth and effort, the student has to be trained to comprehend and foster his own growth and direct his own efforts.”
This philosophy molded the College during its early years and continues to inform its academic aims.
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For new music by living composers
newsounds.org from New York Public Radio
https://www.wnyc.org/
93.9FM
https://www.wqxr.org/
105.9FM
http://www.thegreenespace.org/
For great Jazz
88.3FM http://wbgo.org/
WPRB 103.3FM
Dan Buskirk Spinning Jazz Mondays 11:00AM-1:00PM
Will Constantine Jr, Blues Bop and Beyond Thursdays 11:00-2:00 featuring Latin Jazz
Jerry Gordon Serenade to a Cookoo Frdays 11:00AM-2:00PM with Jerry’s Room at 1:00Pm
Jeannie Becker Sunday Jazz 10:00AM-1:00Pm
Please visit The Jazz Loft Project based on the work of Sam Stephenson
Please visit The Jazz Loft Radio project from New York Public Radio
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