20th Anniversary Concert and Celebration
Featuring The Orchestra Now and Ms. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton
October 21, 2023
Celebrate the culmination of our 20th Anniversary with a quintessential Fisher Center concert featuring repertoire and artists from classical to contemporary.
The celebratory evening begins with The Orchestra Now, led by Leon Botstein, in a rare performance of Béla Bartók’s The Wooden Prince. Consummate vocalist and Spiegeltent favorite Ms. Lisa Fischer—known as the soulful center of the Oscar-winning documentary Twenty Feet from Stardom, and for her work with renowned artists like Sting, Tina Turner, and the Rolling Stones—then makes her Sosnoff stage debut. Ms Lisa Fischer is accompanied by Grand Baton and The Orchestra Now conducted by James Bagwell, promising an unforgettable and dynamic mix of blues, jazz, classical, and progressive rock.
Concert Tickets
Tickets start at $25
$5 tickets are available for Bard students through the Passloff Pass
Premium Tickets
Premium celebration tickets are available for $500 and include prime orchestra seat tickets for the 5 pm concert, plus an intimate cocktail reception with Maya Lin at 3:30 pm.
Proceeds from this event will support the future of the Fisher Center and its expansion to include a new studio building designed by Maya Lin.
Program
The Orchestra Now
Leon Botstein conductor
Béla Bartók
The Wooden Prince
Intermission
Ms. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton
The Orchestra Now
James Bagwell conductor
Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant (for Led Zeppelin) / Sting
Immigrant Song / Fragile
Jagger–Richards (for The Rolling Stones)
Wild Horses
Gimme Shelter
Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer / Henry Purcell
Blues in the Night / Dido’s Lament
Trent Reznor (for Nine Inch Nails)
Hurt
Victory Boyd (for Victory)
Broken Instrument
Robert Palmer
Addicted to Love (à la Tina Turner)
Video
Playlists
Ms. Lisa Fischer
“A PHENOMENAL POWERHOUSE”—NEW YORK TIMES
After four decades of featured background singing with icons like Luther Vandross, The Rolling Stones, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, and Nine Inch Nails, Ms. Lisa Fischer set out to take center stage with her own humble, heartfelt song. The 2013 Best Documentary Oscar-winning film Twenty Feet from Stardom altered the course of Lisa’s musical journey, telling her story, with clips of her legendary duets with Sting or with Mick Jagger on “Gimme Shelter,” left audiences eager to see and hear more, so Lisa took the chance to set out on her own reinventing classic songs with her co-conspirators JC Maillard and Grand Baton. Their organic fusion of Caribbean psychedelic soul and jazzy progressive rock ignited Lisa’s flexibility and freedom of expression, awakening her lifelong desire to make music that heals but still rocks the house.
While Lisa’s range is legendary, her greatest gift is the ability to connect, to reach the hearts of her listeners. Raised in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, she emerged from New York’s fervent studio scene in the early 1980s, sang for two decades with legendary vocalist Luther Vandross, and released “So Intense,” earning her first Best R&B Performance Grammy with “How Can I Ease The Pain.” She joined The Rolling Stones for their 1989 Steel Wheels tour and continued to grace their stage for the next 26 years. Lisa’s passion for constant growth and experimentation with different styles invited recent collaborations with jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Michael McDonald, Eric Krasno, Talib Kweli, Billy Childs, YoYo Ma, the BBC Proms / Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Anna Deavere Smith’s “Notes from the Field” for HBO, and especially her full evening program The Classic Lisa Fischer with Grand Baton and Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and the National Philharmonic.
Plan Your Visit
Eat & Stay
Nearby villages and towns in the Hudson Valley boast a large selection of restaurants, as well as a variety of hotels, motels, inns, and bed & breakfasts.
Eat & StayDirections
Bard College’s main campus is located in Annandale-on-Hudson (a hamlet of Red Hook), New York, on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 90 miles north of New York City and 220 miles southwest of Boston. The Taconic State Parkway and the New York State Thruway provide the most direct routes to our campus. Click the Google map below, or get directions by entering the following address into your GPS: 60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, NY 12571.
From the East
If you are traveling from east of the Hudson River in New York State, take the Taconic State Parkway to the Red Hook / Route 199 exit, drive west on Route 199 through the village of Red Hook to Route 9G, turn right onto Route 9G, drive north 1.9 miles, turn left onto Annandale Road, then turn right onto Manor Ave.
From the West
If you are traveling from west of the Hudson River, take the New York State Thruway (I-87) to exit 19 (Kingston), take Route 209 (changes to Route 199 at the Hudson River) over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge to Route 9G, turn left onto Route 9G, drive north 3.5 miles, turn left onto Annandale Road, then turn right onto Manor Ave.
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