BMF Symposium

Rethinking the Modern

Friday, August 20, 2010 at 10:00 am - 3:25 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room

10 am—12 noon
1:30 pm—3:30 pm

Garry Hagberg, moderator; Daniel Albright; Richard Eldridge; Abigail Gillman; Klara Moricz; Paul Reitter; and Michael P. Steinberg

Free and open to the public

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BMF Program Seven

"No Critics Allowed": The Society for Private Performances

Friday, August 20, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Tamara Levitz
8 pm Performance: Fredrika Brillembourg, mezzo-soprano; Randolph Bowman, flute; Miranda Cuckson, violin; John Hancock, baritone; Blair McMillen, piano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Orion Weiss, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players

Tickets: $20, 35, 45

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
La valse (1919–20, arr. 2 pianos)

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op. 6 (1908)

Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937)
Romance, for violin and piano, Op. 23 (1910)

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Piano-Rag Music (1919)
Berceuses du chat (1915)

Josef Matthias Hauer (1883–1959)
Nomos, Op. 2 (1913)

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Four Songs, Op. 2 (?1909–10)

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1891–94; arr. Sachs, 1921)

Max Reger (1873–1916)
Serenade, for flute, violin, and viola, in G Major, Op. 141a    (1915) 

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BMF Program Eight

You Can't Be Serious! Viennese Popular Music and Operetta

Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 10:00 am
Olin Hall

* Please note that this program will be also be performed at the Spiegeltent on Thursday, August 19 at 8:30 pm.
Live performances of music by Berg, Offenbach, Lehar, Strauss, and more -- with commentary by Derek B. Scott. Tickets: $10.

Saturday, August 21
Olin Hall
10 am Performance 
Commentary by Derek B. Scott; with James Bassi, piano; Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano; William Ferguson, tenor; Thomas Meglioranza, baritone; Camille Zamora, soprano

Tickets: $30

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Waltzes

Johann Strauss II (1825–99)
Excerpts from Der Zigeunerbaron (1885) and Die Fledermaus (1874)

Jacques Offenbach (1819–80)
Excerpts from Les Brigandes (1869), La Grand Duchesse de Gerolstein (1867), La belle Helene (1864), and La vie parisienne (1866)

Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) (Gilbert)
Excerpts from H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Yeoman of the Gurard (1888), The Gondoliers (1889), and Ruddigore (1887)

Franz von Suppé (1818–95)
From Boccaccio, or The Prince of Palermo (1878)

Franz Lehár (1870–1948)
From Der Graf von Luxembourg (1909)

Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953)
From Gräfin Mariza (1924)

Paul Abraham (1892–1960)
From Viktoria und ihr Husar (1930)

Ralph Benatzky (1884–1957) / Robert Stolz (1880–1975)
From White Horse Inn (1930)

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BMF Program Nine

Composers Select: New Music in the 1920s

Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Olin Hall

1 pm Preconcert Talk: Marilyn McCoy
1:30 pm Performance: Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord; Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano; Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano;  Miranda Cuckson, violin; Ilana Davidson, soprano; Laura Flax, clarinet; FLUX Quartet; Robert Martin, cello; Blair McMillen, piano; Orion Weiss, piano; James Taylor, tenor

Tickets: $35

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Adagio, from Kammerkonzert, arr. for piano trio (1923–25; arr. 1935)

Manuel De Falla (1876–1946)
Concerto, for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, and cello (1923–26)

Ernst Toch (1887–1964)
Quartet for Strings No. 11, Op. 34 (1924)

Alois Hába (1893–1973)
Quartet for Strings No. 2, in the quarter-tone system, Op. 7 (1920)   

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
Four Little Caricatures for Children, Op. 19 (1926)

Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)
Tagebuch des Hanns Eisler, Op. 9 (1926)

George Gershwin (1898–1937)
Three Preludes for Piano (1923–26)

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BMF Program Twelve

Silence and Influence

Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

3:30 pm Preconcert Talk
4:30 pm Performance: American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Tapiola, Op. 112 (1926)
Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105 (1924)

Samuel Barber (1910–81)
Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1936)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Symphony No. 5 in D Major (1938–43, rev. 1951)

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BMF Program Ten

Modernism and Its Discontent

Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

7 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher Hailey
8 pm Performance: Christiane Libor, soprano; Fredrika Brillembourg, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Cooley, tenor; James Taylor, tenor; Robert Pomakov, bass-baritone; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director, and others

Tickets: $25, 40, 55

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Der Wein (1929)

Franz Schmidt (1874–1939)
Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (1935–37)

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BMF Program Eleven

Between Accommodation and Inner Emigration: The Composer's Predicament

Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Olin Hall

1 pm Preconcert Talk: Richard Wilson
1:30 pm Performance: Ilana Davidson, soprano; John Hancock, baritone; Anna Polonsky, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players

Tickets: $35

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1925)

Othmar Schoeck (1886–1957)
Notturno, Op. 47 (1931–33)

Ernst Krenek (1900–91)
Durch die Nacht, song cycle, Op. 67a (1930–31)

Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–63)
Quartet for Strings No. 1, “Carillon” (1933)

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BMF Program Twelve

Crimes and Passions

Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

4:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Bryan Gilliam
5:30 pm Performance: Liam Bonner, baritone; Fredrika Brillembourg, mezzo-soprano; Kiera Duffy, soprano; Daniel Foran, tenor; Christine Goerke, soprano; Christiane Libor, soprano;  Elizabeth Reiter, soprano; Lisa Saffer, soprano; Susan Shafer, mezzo-soprano; Andrew Schroeder, baritone; Brian Stucki, tenor; Jeffrey Tucker, baritone; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Tickets: $25, 40, 55

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Three Fragments from Wozzeck (1924)
Lulu Suite (1934);

Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
Sancta Susanna, Op. 21 (1921)

Kurt Weill (1900–50)
Royal Palace, Op. 17 (1925–26)

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