BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS WAGNER AND HIS WORLD
August 14-16 and August 21-23, 2009

Friday, August 14, 2009

BMF Program One

Genius Unanticipated


Friday, August 14, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance:
Christine Goerke, soprano; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director 

Richard Wagner (1813–83)

  • Symphony in C Major (1832)
  • Overture to Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes (1840)
  • Faust Symphony, First Movement WWV 59 (Faust Overture, First Version) (1840)
  • Excerpts from Die Feen (1834); Das Liebesverbot (1836); Tristan und Isolde (1859); and Parsifal (1882)


Tickets: $25, 40, 55



Saturday, August 15, 2009

BMF Illustrated Talk

Reality and Image: Wagner in Film


Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 10:00 am
Olin Hall
John Deathridge

Free and open to the public


BMF Program Two

In the Shadow of Beethoven


Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Alexander Rehding
1:30 pm Performance:
Danny Driver, piano; Erin Morley, soprano; Marjorie Owens, soprano; Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Fantasy in F-sharp Minor, for piano (1831)
Der Tannenbaum (1838)
From Seven Compositions from Goethe’s Faust (1831)

Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
Nonet, Op. 31, for strings and winds (1813)

Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
Arias from Der Freischütz (1821) and Oberon (1826)

Carl Czerny (1791–1857)
Variations brillantes, Op. 14 (1821)

Arias and Songs by Carl Loewe (1796–1869); Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861); Robert Franz (1815–92); Friedrich von Flotow (1812–83); Ferdinand Hiller (1811–85); and Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

Tickets: $35



BMF Program Three

Wagner and the Choral Tradition


Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Olin Hall
  5 pm Performance: Bard Festival Chamber Players; Bard Festival Chorale, conducted by James Bagwell, choral director

 

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Festgesang “Der Tag erscheint” (1843)                  
Gesang am Grabe Julies von Holtei (1839)                                     

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525–94)
From Stabat mater (1590; ed. Wagner, 1848)                                      

Franz Liszt (1811–86) 
Ave verum corpus (1871)                                                                  
O salutaris hostia (c. 1870)

Anton Bruckner (1824–96)
Os justi meditabitur, WAB 30 (1879)
Locus iste a Deo factus est, WAB 23 (1869)                                     

Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
Four Songs for Women’s Chorus, Two Horns, and Harp, Op. 17 (1869) 
Vier Zigeunerlieder, Op. 112b (by 1891)
Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Op. 109 (?1888–89)
Der bucklichte Fiedler, Op. 93a, No. 1 (1883)
Verlorene Jugend, Op. 104, No. 4 (by 1888)
Von alten Liebesliedern, Op. 62, No. 2 (1873–74)
Schaffe in mir Gott, Op. 29, No. 2 (1856–60)                  

Tickets: $30

 



BMF Program Four

The Triumphant Revolutionary


Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

7 pm Preconcert Talk
8 pm Performance:

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Excerpts: The Flying Dutchman (1841); Lohengrin (1848); and Tannhäuser (1861)

Supplemental materials for La descente de la courtille (1841) by Th. Marion Dumersan and Ch.-Désiré Dupeuty, and Norma (1831) by Vincenzo Bellini

Tickets: $25, 40, 55

Richard Brunner, tenor; Christine Goerke, soprano; John Hancock, baritone; Daniel Mobbs, bass-baritone; Scott Williamson, tenor; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others


Sunday, August 16, 2009

BMF Panel One

Warring Aesthetics


Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Olin Hall
Thomas S. Grey, moderator; Kevin Karnes; Lawrence Kramer; Alexander Rehding

Free and open to the public

BMF Program Five

Wagner's Destructive Obsession: Mendelssohn and Friends


Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: R. Larry Todd
1:30 pm Performance: Borromeo String Quartet; Edward Arron, cello; Bernadene Blaha, piano; Jeremy Denk, piano; John Hancock, baritone; Stefan Jackiw, violin; Piers Lane, piano; Jeffrey Lang, horn

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Les deux grenadiers (1839–40)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47)
From Songs Without Words, Opp. 19b, 38, and 67 (1829–45)
Hebrides Overture, Op. 26, arr. piano duet (1830, arr. 1832)
Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 (1845)

Robert Schumann (1810–56)
Die beiden Grenadiere, Op. 49/1 (1840)
Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 (1842)
Andante and Variations, WoO 10 (1843)

Clara Schumann (1819–96)
Die stille Lotusblume, Op. 13/6 (1840–43)

Tickets: $35



BMF Program Six

Wagner in Paris


Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
5 pm Preconcert Talk: Jann Pasler
5:30 pm Performance:
Borromeo String Quartet; Randolph Bowman, flute; Jeremy Denk, piano; Danny Driver, piano; Laura Flax, clarient; Angela Meade, soprano; Erin Morley, soprano; Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Scott Williamson, tenor

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Adieux de Marie Stuart, for voice and piano (1840)
Attente, for voice and piano (1839)

Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842)
String Quartet No. 4 in E Major (1835)

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782–1871)
From Zanetta, arr. for flute and string trio (1840; arr. Wagner)

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
Hirtenlied, for voice, clarinet, and piano (1842)

Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833)
Overture to Zampa, arr. for piano four hands (1831)

Fromental Halévy (1799–1862)
From Le Guitarrero, arr. for flute and string trio (1841, arr. Wagner)

Hector Berlioz (1803–69)
“March to the Scaffold,” from Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (1830; arr. Liszt)

Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49)
Polonaise-Fantasy, Op. 61 (1846)

Franz Liszt (1811–86)
Réminiscences des Huguenots (1836–42)

Arias by Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851); Giaochino Rossini (1792–1868); and Vincenzo Bellini (1801–35)

Tickets: $20, 35, 45

Round-trip transportation by coach from Columbus Circle in NYC to the Fisher Center will be provided for the August 16 performance of Bard Music Festival Program 6.  Reservations are required. Call the Box Office for more information.



Friday, August 21, 2009

Symposium

Wagner and the Transformation of European Culture


Friday, August 21, 2009 at 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
10 am–noon
1:30 pm–3:30 pm

Marina van Zuylen, moderator; Larry Bensky; André Dombrowski; Lydia Goehr; Juliet Koss; David J. Levin; Kelly Maynard

Free and open to the public



BMF Program Seven

Wagner Pro and Contra


Friday, August 21, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Walter Frisch
8 pm Performance: Bernadene Blaha, piano; Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano; Catherine Foster, soprano; Devon Guthrie, soprano; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano; Soovin Kim, violin; Piers Lane, piano; Blair McMillen, piano; Spencer Myer, piano; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Wesendonck Lieder (1857–58)
Eine Sonate für das Album von Frau M. W. (1853)

Franz Liszt (1811–86)
Die Lorelei (1841)
Orpheus, arr. for piano trio (1853–54; arr. Saint-Saëns)

Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
Vocal Duets, Opp. 20 (1858–60) and 61 (1852–74)
Sonata for Two Pianos in F Minor, Op. 34b (1864)

Joseph Joachim (1831–1907)
Overture to Hamlet, Op. 4 (c1855, arr. Brahms)

Tickets: $20, 35, 45



Saturday, August 22, 2009

BMF Program Eight

Bearable Lightness: The Comic Alternative


Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 10:00 am
Olin Hall

Performance
With Commentary by Richard Wilson
With Jon-Michael Ball, tenor; Amy Cofield-Williamson, soprano; Jonathan Hays, baritone; Jennifer Rivera, mezzo-soprano; James Bassi, piano; Melvin Chen, piano; Blair McMillen, piano

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) / André Messager (1853–1924)
Souvenirs de Bayreuth (?1888)

Jacques Offenbach (1819–80)
From Le roi Carotte (1872) and Die Rheinnixen (1864)

Franz von Suppé (1819–95)
From Lohengelb, oder Die Jungfrau von Dragant (1870)

Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911)
From Iolanthe (1882)

Johann Strauss Jr. (1825–99)
From Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883)

Oscar Straus (1870–1954)
From Die lustigen Nibelungen (1904)
Piano works and songs by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94)

Tickets: $30

 



BMF Program Nine

Competing Romanticisms


Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Michael Musgrave
1:30 pm Performance: Bard Festival String Quartet; Laura Flax, clarinet; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano; Soovin Kim, violin; Spencer Myer, piano; Noreen Polera, piano; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

Karl Goldmark (1830–1915)
Romance, for violin and piano (1913)

Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
Six Choral Preludes, Op. 122 (1896; arr. Busoni)

Hermann Goetz (1840–76)
Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op. 16 (1874)

Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843–1900)
Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 24 (1877)

Max Bruch (1838–1920)
From Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 83 (1910)

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
From Cypresses (1865)

Tickets: $35



BMF Program Ten

The Selling of the Ring


Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: John Deathridge
8 pm Performance:
Catherine Foster, soprano; James Johnson, bass-baritone; Gary Lehman, tenor; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Excerpts from Das Rheingold (1854), Die Walküre (1856), Siegfried (1871), and Götterdämmerung (1874)

Tickets: $25, 40, 55



Sunday, August 23, 2009

BMF Panel Two

Wagner and the Jewish Question


Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Olin Hall
Carol Kahn Strauss, moderator; Leon Botstein; James Loeffler; Paul Lawrence Rose

Free and open to the public

BMF Program Eleven

Wagnerians


Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Byron Adams
1:30 pm Performance: Bard Festival String Quartet; Melvin Chen, piano; Devon Guthrie, soprano; Piers Lane, piano; Scott Williamson, tenor; students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Siegfried Idyll (1870)

Henri Duparc (1848–1933)
L’invitation au voyage (1870)

Enrique Granados (1867–1916)
From Goyescas, Op. 11 (1909–12)

Ernest Chausson (1855–99)
Concert, Op. 21 (1889–91)

Charles T. Griffes (1884–1920)
From Roman Sketches (1915–16)

Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
Italian Serenade (1887)

Songs by Richard Strauss (1864–1949)Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921); Alexander Ritter (1833–96); Claude Debussy (1862-1918); Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94); and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

Tickets: $35



BMF Program Twelve

Music and German National Identity


Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
4:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
5:30 pm Performance:
Corey Bix, tenor; Devon Guthrie, soprano; John Hancock, baritone; James Johnson, bass-baritone; Julien Robbins, baritone; Scott Williamson, tenor; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Kaisermarsch (1871)
Excerpts fom Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1867)

Anton Bruckner (1824–96)
Germanenzug (1863)

Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
Triumphlied, Op. 55 (1870–71)

Tickets: $25, 40, 55