2012 Bard Music Festival Opening Night Dinner

Friday, August 10, 2012 at 5 pm
Fisher Center, Spiegeltent

Join us for the 2012 Bard Music Festival Opening Night Dinner. Opening Night Dinner tickets include a 5 pm pre-performance dinner in the Spiegeltent and a premium seat for the evening’s concert. For further information or to purchase tickets to the Opening Night Dinner, please contact the Box Office at 845-758-7900 or fishercenter@bard.edu.

Please note: The Spiegeltent will be closed for dining that evening to accommodate the dinner.

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BMF Program One

Saint-Saëns and the Cultivation of Taste

Friday, August 10, 2012 at 8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance: John Hancock, baritone; Horszowski Trio; Miranda Cuckson, viola; Anna Polonsky, piano; Gilles Vonsattel, piano; Orion Weiss, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players

Tickets: $25, 35, 45, 55

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Trio No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 (1864)          
From Mélodies persanes, Op. 26 (1870)
Danse macabre, for baritone and piano (1872)
Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, Op. 35 (1874)    
Wedding Cake Waltz, Op. 76 (1885)
Quartet, for piano and strings, Op. 41 (1875)
Africa, Op. 89 (1891; arr.)

Join us for the 2012 Bard Music Festival Opening Night Dinner.
Opening Night Dinner tickets include a 5 pm pre-performance dinner in the Spiegeltent and a premium seat for the evening’s concert.

For further information or to purchase tickets to the Opening Night Dinner, please contact the Box Office at 845-758-7900 or fishercenter@bard.edu.

Please note: The Spiegeltent will be closed for dining that evening to accommodate the dinner.

Running time for the concert is approximately two and a half hours, with one intermission.

All programs subject to change.

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BMF Panel One

Prodigy, Polymath, Globetrotter, and Reactionary

Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 10 am – noon
Olin Hall

Christopher H. Gibbs, moderator; Leon Botstein; Yves Gérard; Jann Pasler

Free and open to the public


All programs subject to change.

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BMF Program Two

Performing, Composing, and Arranging for Concert Life

Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Olin Hall

1 pm Preconcert Talk: Geoffrey Burleson
1:30 pm Performance: Rieko Aizawa, piano; Edward Arron, cello; Geoffrey Burleson, piano; Lori Guilbeau, soprano; Jesse Mills, violin; Giora Schmidt, violin; Gilles Vonsattel, piano; Jamie Van Eyck, mezzo-soprano; Pei-Yao Wang, piano

Tickets: $35

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano in C Minor, Op. 32 (1872)
Arrangements and transcriptions of works by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–87); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91); Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49); and Georges Bizet (1838–75)

Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908)
Concert Fantasies on Carmen, for violin and piano, Op. 25 (1883)

Franz Liszt (1811–86)
From Two Legends, for piano, S175 (1862–63)

Louis-Moreau Gottschalk (1829–69)
Bamboula, Op. 2 (1844–45)

Songs and arias by Charles Gounod (1818–93); Anton Rubinstein (1829–94); Leo Delibes (1836–91); and Jules Massenet (1842–1912)


Running time for the concert is approximately two and a half hours, with one intermission.

All programs subject to change.

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BMF Program Three

Saint-Saëns, a French Beethoven?

Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

7 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
8 pm Performance: Miranda Cuckson, violin; Danny Driver, piano; Sophie Shao, cello; Kent Tritle, organ; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Symphony in A Major (ca. 1850)
Le rouet d’Omphale, symphonic poem, Op. 31 (1872)
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, “Organ,” Op. 78 (1886)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, “Egyptian,” Op. 103 (1896)
La muse et le poète, for violin, cello, and orchestra, Op. 132 (1910)


Running time for the concert is approximately two and a half hours, with one intermission.

All programs subject to change.

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BMF Program Four

The Organ, King of Instruments

Sunday, August 12, 2012 at 10 am
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

10 am Performance with Commentary; with Kent Tritle, organ; Yulia Van Doren, soprano; Jonathan Spitz, cello

Tickets: $35

Works for organ by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Adolphe Adam (1803–56); Louis Lefébure-Wély (1817–69); Charles Gounod (1818–93); César Franck (1822–90); Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937); Leon Boëllmann (1862–97)

All programs subject to change.

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BMF Program Five

Ars Gallica and French National Sentiment

Sunday, August 12, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Olin Hall

1 pm Preconcert Talk: Karen Henson
1:30 pm Performance: Paul Appleby, tenor; Zuill Bailey, cello; Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano; Lucille Chung, piano; Nicholas Cords, viola; Min-Young Kim, violin; Blair McMillen, piano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Giora Schmidt, violin; Bard Festival Chamber Players

Tickets: $35

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Piano Quintet, Op. 14 (1855)

Edouard Lalo (1823–92)
Two Aubades (1872)           

Marie Jaëll (1846–1925)
Valses mélancoliques and Valses mignonnes (1888)

Ernest Chausson (1855–99)
Chanson perpétuelle, Op. 37, for soprano and piano quintet (1898)

Albéric Magnard (1865–1914)
Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 20 (1908–10)

Songs by Augusta Holmès (1847–1903) and Henri Duparc (1848–1933)



Running time for the concert is approximately two and a half hours, with one intermission.

All programs subject to change.

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BMF Program Six

Zoological Fantasies: Carnival of the Animals Revisited

Sunday, August 12, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

5 pm Preconcert Talk: Mitchell Morris
5:30 pm Performance: Randolph Bowman, flute; Lucille Chung, piano; Diana Cohen, violin; Miranda Cuckson, violin; Laura Flax, clarinet; Jordan Frazier, double bass; Lori Guilbeau, soprano; John Hancock, baritone; Anna Polonsky, piano; Sophie Shao, cello; Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Jamie Van Eyck, mezzo-soprano; Orion Weiss, piano; and others

Tickets $25, 35, 45, 55

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Le carnaval des animaux (1886)

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Dolly Suite, Op. 56 (1894–96)           

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Histoires naturelles, for baritone and piano (1907)

Songs by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94);
Erik Satie (1866–1925); Jacques Ibert (1890–1962);
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)

Works by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764); Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91); Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47); Jacques Offenbach (1819–80); and others


Running time for the concert is approximately two hours, with one intermission.

All programs subject to change.

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