Bard Music Festival, Bard SummerScape
Weekend 3: 18th Annual Bard Music Festival
October 26–27, 2007
Nostalgia, Patriotism, and Aesthetic Ideals
In a review of this year’s Bard Music Festival Weekend Two, the New York Times wrote, “All of these events were well attended and enthusiastically discussed afterward, standard operating procedure for a festival that is part boot camp for the brain, part spa for the spirit.”
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, AND
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27
PROGRAM ONE
Absolute and Program Music:
English Music at the Turn of the Century
SOSNOFF THEATER
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Byron Adams
8 pm Performance: Shawn Moore, violin; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Of their performance this summer, as the resident orchestra of the Bard Music Festival, the New York Times wrote, “. . . the [American Symphony] orchestra, superbly responsive to Mr. Botstein’s driven interpretation, sounded exceptional.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Pomp and Circumstance March, Op. 39, No. 1, in D Major
The Sanguine Fan, Op. 81
Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major, Op. 55
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 74
Tickets: $25, 40, 55
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27
PANEL
Anglophilia and Imperialism
OLIN HALL
10 am–noon
Ian Buruma, and others
Free and open to the public
PROGRAM TWO
Elgar and the Next Generation
OLIN HALL
2:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Peter Laki
3 pm Performance: Faculty and students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music
Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84
John Ireland (1879–1962)
Piano works
Frank Bridge (1879–1941)
String Quartet No. 1 in E minor (“Bologna”)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
On Wenlock Edge, for tenor, string quartet, and piano
Tickets: $25