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The Search for Power
Tania El Khoury and Ziad Abu-Rish
UNDER THE RADAR
Presented by The Invisible Dog Art Center
A Co-Production with the Fisher Center at Bard
January 9–19, 2025
The Search for Power is a lecture and installation performance featuring the artist, the historian, and the audience, investigating the history of power outages in Lebanon.
SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar
URBAN BUSH WOMEN
Mark Taper Forum
Los Angeles, CA
November 22–24
Set in a fictional jazz club, SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar (a 2024 Bard SummerScape commission) is a dance-driven musical that tells a love story of two people making their way during the Great Migration through song, dance and storytelling.
Photo by Maria Baranova
No President
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
NYU Skirball
December 5–7
Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s No President is a furious and over-the-top, tightly choreographed political grotesque that draws from almost everything on offer—all to the music of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.
Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s No President received commissioning support from Fisher Center LAB, the Fisher Center at Bard’s residency and commissioning program.
Sight and Sound: Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now
METLIVEARTS
In Sight and Sound, The Orchestra Now explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. Each performance includes a Met curator introduction, a discussion with conductor and music historian Leon Botstein featuring on-screen exhibition images and live musical excerpts, a full performance of the works, and an audience Q&A.
Siena, Wagner, and Parsifal
December 8
Schumann & Friedrich: Nature in Music and Art
April 13
Fauré, Sargent, & Paris
May 18
Photo by David DeNee
American Symphony Orchestra
2024–25 SEASON
The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO)’s 63rd season features full-orchestra programs at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall (ASO debut), and Carnegie Hall, all conducted by Leon Botstein, President of Bard College.
Bach at St. Bart’s
St. Bartholomew’s Church
January 24
Tapping into the Twenties
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
March 23
Strauss’s Guntram
Carnegie Hall
June 6
Photo by Matt Dine
Coincident Dances
Pam Tanowitz and Jessie Montgomery
Miami City Ballet
February 14 – March 9, 2025
Having first collaborated on I was waiting for the echo of a better day (2021 Bard SummerScape), Pam Tanowitz (Fisher Center Choreographer in Residence) and Jessie Montgomery (Composer in Residence, Bard College Conservatory of Music) reunite for the world premiere of Coincident Dances with Miami City Ballet.
Photo by Jeremy Jacob
Ulysses
ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE
CAP UCLA
April 4–5, 2025
James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and/or defeated readers for over a century. Elevator Repair Service presents a “riveting” (New York Times) new stage adaptation of Joyce’s life-affirming masterpiece—first commissioned for 2024 Bard SummerScape.
Photo by Maria Baranova
The Orchestra Now
2024–25 Free Concerts Series
The Orchestra Now continues its series of free concerts, offering music lovers of all ages an exciting opportunity to hear a wide range of orchestral music.
Debussy and Romeo & Juliet
Peter Norton Symphony Space in NYC
October 27
The Nutcracker & The Planets
Talent Unlimited High School in NYC
December 15
Joan Tower & Tchaikovsky’s 5th
Peter Norton Symphony Space
March 23
Photo by David DeNee
Maestro
The Orchestra Now is featured in the Netflix film Maestro, starring Bradley Cooper as the renowned composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
TŌN was selected to perform Beethoven’s 8th Symphony at Tanglewood in the film, with Cooper-as-Bernstein conducting, which is also included on the Deutsche Grammophon release of the film’s original soundtrack, conducted by Metropolitan Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Maestro is available to stream on Netflix, and the original soundtrack album is available on CD, vinyl, and digital platforms.
