10-Year Celebration

Tenth Anniversary Celebration

2013 begins the second decade of the Fisher Center, and the festivities open in April with a monthlong celebration of the performing arts. Join us often to see and hear new, rediscovered, and reimagined works from special guest artists and Bard students and faculty. 
 

Music

Symphony No. 2 by Gustav Mahler

Members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, and Longy Conservatory Orchestra

Conducted by Leon Botstein

Mahler’s Second Symphony projects a powerful narrative of life over death. The monumental work builds in the final movement to a magnificent chorus that exalts the Resurrection.

Sosnoff Theater
April 26–27 at 8 pm
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40
 

Music

American Symphony Orchestra 

This all–Richard Wagner program includes Lohengrin: Preludes to Acts I and III; Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod; and Die Walküre: Act I.

Sosnoff Theater
April 19–20 at 8 pm
Preconcert Talk at 7 pm 
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40

Music

Sō Percussion and Students Concert 

Sō Percussion and the Bard College Conservatory of Music Percussion Program present their second annual spring concert at the Fisher Center. Each year, Conservatory students and faculty perform a selection of recent masterworks, new music for percussion groups, and works by composers from the Bard community. 

Sosnoff Theater
April 12 at 8 pm
Tickets: $15 General Admission; free to Bard students

Bard Theater & Performance Program 

The Bakkhai (The Bacchae) by Euripides

Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
Translated by Ned Moore ’13

The god Dionysus returns to Thebes to prove his divinity and punish the city's unbelievers. This student production is presented in partnership with Bard's Classical Studies Program.

Theater Two
April 11–13 at 7 pm
April 14 at 2 and 7 pm
Tickets: $15 General Admission; free to Bard students

 

Dance Program

The 2013 Faculty Dance Concert

A dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students in the program.

Theater Two
April 26–27 at 7:30 pm
April 28 at 2 and 7:30 pm
Tickets: $15 General Admission; free to Bard students

Live Arts Bard

Jack Ferver and QWAN Company
NOTES!!! and SWAN!!!

A double bill of sexy, scary, spectacular, salacious, stunning, and startling works that took the downtown New York theater scene by storm. LAB visiting artist Jack Ferver presents his QWAN (Quality Without a Name) Company in the incredibly dramatic parodied readings of two well-loved screenplays, Notes from a Scandal and Black Swan. Suitable for mature and immature audiences, 15 years and older. Presented in partnership with the Center for Curatorial Studies.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Sosnoff Theater Stage Right
Tickets: $20; $5 for the Bard community
Ticket presales have SOLD OUT. Wait list tickets may be available the day of the performance—call the Box Office at 845-758-7900 for more information.

Live Arts Bard

An Evening With Neil Gaiman And Amanda Palmer 

An intimate night of spoken word, songs, stories, chats with the audience, and more than a few surprises with author Neil Gaiman (Coraline; The Graveyard Book) and musician/cult figure Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls; Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra). 

Sosnoff Theater
April 6 at 8 pm
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40
Ticket presales have SOLD OUT. The wait list will begin for this performance at 6:30 pm in the Sosnoff Theater lobby.