BMF Symposium

Architecture, Design, and Finnish Identity

Friday, August 19, 2011 at 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room

Multipurpose Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center
10 am—12 noon
1:30 pm—3:30 pm

Peter MacKeith, moderator

With Justin Cook; Juulia Kauste; Pekka Korvenmaa; Matti Rautiola; Susan Ward; and Ari Wiseman

Free and open to the public

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BMF Film Showing: (Un)Natural Forces

Short Films from Finland

Friday, August 19, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center
4:30 pm

Curated by Marikki Hakola
Distributed by AV-arkki, Finland

Free and open to the public

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BMF Program Seven

Nordic Purity, Aryan Fantasies, and Music

Friday, August 19, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Byron Adams
8 pm Performance: Faylotte Crayton, soprano; Daedalus Quartet; Alexandra Knoll, oboe; Anna Polonsky, piano; Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Orion Weiss, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players

Tickets: $25, 35, 45, 55

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
The Wood Nymph, Op. 15 (1895)
Song of the Athenians, Op. 31/3 (1899)
Works for Brass

Anton Bruckner (1824–96)/Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
From Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, arr. for piano duet (1872–73; arr. 1880)

Amy Beach (1867–1944)
Eskimos, Op. 64, for piano (1907)

Kurt Atterberg (1887–1974)
Piano Quintet, Op. 31bis (1928)

Howard Hanson (1896–1981)
Pastorale, Op. 38, for oboe and piano (1949)

Songs by Yrjö Kilpinen (1892–1959)

PLEASE NOTE: SPIEGELCLUB WILL START AT 11PM ON THIS NIGHT

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BMF Program Eight

From the Nordic Folk

Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 10:00 am
Olin Hall

10 am Performance 
With commentary by Daniel Grimley, with Piia Kleemola, violin; Sophie Shao, cello; Anna Polonsky, piano; Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Orion Weiss, piano

Tickets: $30

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Six Finnish Folksongs (1902–3)

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
From Slåtter (Nordic Dances), Op. 72 (1902–3)

Percy Grainger (1882–1961)
La Scandinavie (Scandinavian Suite) (1902)

Belá Bartók (1881–1945)
Improvisation on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20 (1920)

Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937)
From Mazurkas, Op. 50 (1924–25)

Toivo Kuula (1883–1918)
Folksong arrangments for violin and piano, Op. 3 (1906)

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
La vallee des cloches (1904–5)

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BMF Program Nine

Finnish Modern

Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Olin Hall

1 pm Preconcert Talk: Veijo Murtomäki
1:30 pm Performance: Miranda Cuckson, violin; Daedalus Quartet; Laura Flax, clarinet; Beth Guterman, viola; Marguerite Krull, soprano; Jeffrey Lang, horn; Anna Polonsky, piano; Sophie Shao, cello; Carmit Zori, violin; Bard Festival Chamber Players

Tickets: $35

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
String Quartet "Voces intimae," in D Minor, Op. 56 (1909)

Erkki Melartin (1875–1937)
String Trio, Op. 133 (1926–27)

Leevi Madetoja (1887–1947)
Syksy (Autumn), Op. 68, song cycle (1930)

Aarre Merikanto (1893–1958)
"Schott" Concerto, for violin, clarinet, horn, and strings sextet (1925)   

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BMF Program Ten

The Heritage of Symbolism

Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

7 pm Preconcert Talk: Anne-Marie Reynolds
8 pm Performance: Yulia Van Doren, soprano; Tyler Duncan, baritone; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
The Oceanides, Op. 73 (1914)
Lemminkäinen's Return and The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22 (1895, rev. 1897, 1900)
Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63 (1911)

Carl Nielsen (1865–1931)
Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 (Sinfonia espansiva) (1910–11)

Väinö Raitio (1891–1945)
Joutsenet (The Swans), Op. 15 (1919)

* Round-trip bus transportation from Manhattan to Bard is available for this performance. Fare is $25. Reservations are required. Click here for more information or to make a reservation.

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BMF Program Eleven

Nostalgia and the Challenge of Modernity

Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Olin Hall

1 pm Preconcert Talk: Richard Wilson
1:30 pm Performance: Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano; Mary Caponegro, narrator; Melvin Chen, piano; Eric Wyrick, violin; Bard Festival Chamber Players; Students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music

Tickets: $30

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Violin Sonatina in E Major, Op. 80 (1916)
Five Esquisses, Op. 114, for piano (1929)
The Lonely Ski Trail, melodrama (1925)

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Sonatina No. 1 "Aus der Werkstatt eines Invaliden" (1943)

Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
Il Tramonto (The Sunset), for voice and string quartet (1914)

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BMF Program Twelve

Silence and Influence

Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

3:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
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 Vaughn Williams (1872–1958)
Symphony No. 5 in D Major (1938–43, rev. 1951)

* Shuttles to and from Poughkeepsie and Rhinecliff train stations are available for this performance. Reservations are required. Click here for more information and to make a reservation.

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