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About the Bard Music Festival Title
In the ten seasons since its inception, the Bard Music Festival has built a solid base of support among concertgoers who come to the series because of the high level of musicianship and the interesting programs, which are thematically related and carefully curated. The assessment of the Financial Times (1996) that "the planning of the festival is consistently thoughtful and imaginative" is reinforced by the Wall Street Journalšs (1996) observation that "the concerts arenšt mere showcases for star performers but serve as musical illustrations of the various aspects of the subject that are discussed during festival gatherings." The programmatic appeal of the festival is perhaps best illustrated in one of the reviews of the Haydn festival: "But leave it to the Bard Festival to come up with the Haydn Baryton Trio to give this music an airing. And the crowd loved it" (The Wall Street Journal, 1997).

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A volume of essays by noted scholars is published each year by Princeton University Press and is available at the start of the festival. This seasonšs book, Beethoven and His World, is edited by Michael P. Steinberg and Scott Burnham.


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