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The Bard Music Festival: Rediscoveries

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The 29th Bard Music Festival
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World
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The 30th Bard Music Festival
Korngold and His World
Weekend One: August 9–11, 2019
Weekend Two: August 16–18, 2019

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"Celebrating a Russian Master"

"Celebrating a Russian Master"

The Wall Street Journal

This year’s Bard Music Festival explores the disconnect between the impressive weight of Rimsky-Korsakov’s oeuvre and the comparative lack of representation it receives in the U.S.

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“Rimsky-Korsakov merged an appreciation for the western tradition with an impulse to create an autonomous, independent Russian musical voice, which led him to become one of the great composers and teachers in all of music history.” –Leon Botstein

[2018 Bard Music Festival Opening Night Dinner]

2018 Bard Music Festival Opening Night Dinner
August 10

[Program One: Fashioning the Russian Sound] "Easter Procession" by Illarion Pryanishnikov; Wikimedia Commons

Program One: Fashioning the Russian Sound
August 10

[Panel One: Russian Music before and after the Mighty Five] The Illustration of The Great European War No.16. - A humorous Atlas of the World. (Printing 13.09.1914); Wikimedia Commons

Panel One: Russian Music before and after the Mighty Five
August 11

[Program Two: Amateurs and Professionals] Portrait of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by Nikolai Kuznetsov; Wikimedia Commons

Program Two: Amateurs and Professionals
August 11

[Program Three: Music under Tsarist Autocracy] "Surikov Pokoreniye Sibiri Yermakom" by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (1894); Wikimedia Commons.

Program Three: Music under Tsarist Autocracy
August 11

[Program Four: The Legacy of Pushkin] "Pushkin's Farewell to the Sea" by Ivan Aivazovsky and Ilya Repin (1877); Wikimedia Commons.

Program Four: The Legacy of Pushkin
August 12

[Program Five: Moscow/St. Petersburg] "Red Square in Moscow" by Fedor Alekseev (1801); Wikimedia Commons.

Program Five: Moscow/St. Petersburg
August 12

[Program Six: The Piano in Russia] Modest Mussorgsky; Anton Rubinstein; Sergei Rachmaninoff; via Wikimedia Commons.

Program Six: The Piano in Russia
August 12

[Iva Bittová and Sergey Starostin: From Folk to Jazz ]

Iva Bittová and Sergey Starostin: From Folk to Jazz
August 16

[Film Showings ] Rimsky-Kosakov (1952); Lenfilm Studio

Film Showings
August 17

[Program Seven: Russian Folk Music in the Mirror of Art Music] At a Party by Abram Arkhipo, 1914. Wikimedia Commons

Program Seven: Russian Folk Music in the Mirror of Art Music
August 17

[Panel Two: From the Romanovs to the Revolution: Art and Politics in Russia] Demonstration on October 17, 1905 by Ilya Repin. Wikimedia Commons

Panel Two: From the Romanovs to the Revolution: Art and Politics in Russia
August 18

[Program Eight: Domestic Music Making in Russia] Nikolay A. Rimsky-Korsakov in his cabinet. Wikimedia Commons.

Program Eight: Domestic Music Making in Russia
August 18

[Program Nine: The Classical, the National, and the Exotic] Scheherazade (1913) by Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter

Program Nine: The Classical, the National, and the Exotic
August 18

[Program Ten: Russian Choral Traditions]

Program Ten: Russian Choral Traditions
August 19

[Program Eleven: The Spectacular Legacy of Rimsky-Korsakov] Claude Debussy by Donald Sheridan

Program Eleven: The Spectacular Legacy of Rimsky-Korsakov
August 19

[Program Twelve: The Tsar’s Bride] The Russian Bride (1884) by Konstantin Makovsky

Program Twelve: The Tsar’s Bride
August 19