American Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by music director Leon Botstein, the American Symphony Orchestra concert series continues in February with Ravel's La valse, poème chorégraphique, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63, featuring violinist Jiazhi Wang, and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
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2012 SummerScape

Bard SummerScape 2012 presents seven weeks of opera, music, theater, dance, films, and cabaret. Season highlights include The King in Spite of Himself, an opéra-comique about a reluctant ruler by Saint-Saëns’s contemporary Emmanuel Chabrier, a French dance company that seamlessly blends the baroque and the contemporary, a production of Molière’s hilarious comedy The Imaginary Invalid, an unusual and provocative film festival, and the lively cabaret and eclectic musical acts of the Spiegeltent. More >

23rd Bard Music Festival
Saint-Saëns and His World

The career of Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) spanned the course of French music from Gounod to Ravel, and his prodigious and stylistically varied output helps to define our understanding of the classical, the romantic, and the modern in music. The 23rd Bard Music Festival will focus on the life and times of the French composer, whose remarkable career shaped not only the history of music, but also the ways in which that history was transmitted and communicated to the public. More >

February 17–18

Mendelssohn's Elijah

Performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah, featuring members of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, with singers from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Chamber Singers, and Cappella Festiva. James Bagwell, chorusmaster; Leon Botstein, music director and conductor. More >