Bard SummerScape 2026 • Now through August 16

Calendar

August 12

Special Community Event • Mozart and Religion

On August 12 at 7:30 pm

Bard Music Festival

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August 13

Program Six • I live with God ever before me: Mozart’s Religion

On August 13 at 7:00 pm

Bard Music Festival

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August 13

Big Richard

On August 13 at 7:00 pm

Spiegeltent

Spiegeltent

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Big Richard

August 14

Program Seven • Beauty, Charity, and Reason

On August 14 at 7:00 pm

Bard Music Festival

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August 14–15

BenDeLaCreme

On August 14 at 8:00 pm

Spiegeltent

Spiegeltent

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BenDeLaCreme

June 26 – August 15

After Hours 2026

On August 14 at 10:00 pm

Spiegeltent

After Hours, Spiegeltent

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Nath Ann Carrera and Tommi Calamari

August 15

Panel Two • The Age of What?: Absolutism and Enlightenment or Revolution and Romanticism

On August 15 at 10:00 am

Bard Music Festival

Panel

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August 15

Program Eight • The Pinnacle of Achievement

On August 15 at 1:30 pm

Bard Music Festival

Classical

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August 15

Summer Picnic

On August 15 at 3:30 pm

Bard SummerScape

Special Event

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August 15

Program Nine • Family, Friends, and Students

On August 15 at 7:00 pm

Bard Music Festival

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August 16

Program Ten • A Lasting Influence: Mozart’s Legacy

On August 16 at 11:30 am

Bard Music Festival

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August 16

Program Eleven • “Too beautiful”: Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio

On August 16 at 3:00 pm

Bard Music Festival

Classical

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September 18–19

Epic Narratives: Gernsheim and Brahms

On September 18 at 7:00 pm

The Orchestra Now

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September 19

The Life and Legacy of Friedrich Gernsheim

On September 19 at 11:00 am

The Orchestra Now

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September 19

Gernsheim at the Piano

On September 19 at 1:00 pm

The Orchestra Now

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September 20

The Romantic Arc

On September 20 at 11:00 am

The Orchestra Now

Classical

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Visit the Fisher Center

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, situated on the east bank of the Hudson River in the beautiful Hudson Valley, about 90 miles north of New York City and 220 miles southwest of Boston.