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Wilson, Shostakovich, Brahms 04/17/2009 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The season concludes with Richard Wilson’s The Cello Has Many Secrets, Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and Brahms Symphony No. 3. Concert Notes

Revueltas: La noche de los mayas 02/08/2009 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space Silvestre Revueltas lived his short life as his music—impulsive, eccentric and distinctly Mexican. His film score, La noche de los mayas (“The Night of the Mayas”), is described as “a workout for the orchestra”. How much did Latin American folk…

Tsontakis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Revueltas-02/07/09 02/07/2009 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Mendelssohn’s overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Revueltas’s La Noche de los Mayas, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter,” and Claire de Lune work by Bard’s Distinguished Composer-in-Residence George Tsontakis. Concert Notes

Tsontakis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Revueltas 02/06/2009 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Mendelssohn’s overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Revueltas’s La Noche de los Mayas, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter,” and Claire de Lune work by Bard’s Distinguished Composer in Residence George Tsontakis. Concert Notes

BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL-Prokofiev & His World-10/25/08 10/25/2008 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, 2008 Program One Sosnoff Theater 7 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs 8 pm Performance: Mira Wang, violin; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director Sergey Prokofiev…

BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL – Prokofiev & His World 10/24/2008 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, 2008 Program One Sosnoff Theater 7 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs 8 pm Performance: Mira Wang, violin; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director…

R. Strauss: Four Last Songs 09/21/2008 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space Featured soloist Twyla Robinson, soprano One of the great showpieces for the soprano voice, Richard Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), included personal references to his own life. What was Strauss trying to express in this his final work? What…

Tower, Beethoven, Strauss-09/20/08 09/20/2008 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The American Symphony Orchestra celebrates the three-time Grammy Award winning composer and Bard Professor of Music Joan Tower in a program of her work, Strike Zones, alongside Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, and Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Four Last…

Tower, Beethoven, Strauss 09/19/2008 at 08:00 PM – Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts The American Symphony Orchestra celebrates the three-time Grammy Award winning composer and Bard Professor of Music Joan Tower in a program of her work, Strike Zones, alongside Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, and Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Four Last…

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor 04/27/2008 at 04:00 PM – Peter Norton Symphony Space Erica Kiesewetter, Violin It begins as if emerging from a misty fjord. What makes Jean Sibelius’s music so unmistakably Scandinavian? Why did he completely rewrite this Concerto? Why has it held its place on the concert stage for more than…