Bard College Community Orchestra presents
Bard College Community Orchestra
April 20
Bard College Community Orchestra presents
April 20
Please join the Bard College Community Orchestra for their Spring Concert featuring Sibelius’ First Symphony, Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla, and the winners of our concerto competition. Admission is free, and all are welcome to attend!
The Bard College Community Orchestra is a diverse group of players, including Bard College students, faculty and staff, local high school players, and community members of level 5 NYSSMA standard and higher. The orchestra is a full symphony orchestra and plays a variety of repertoire.
Mikhail Glinka (1804–57)
Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture (1837-42)
Junting Yi, assistant conductor
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93)
Sérénade mélancolique, op.26 (1875)
Sasha Vesensky, violin soloist
Reid Shiver, assistant conductor
Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Cello Concerto, op.85, E minor (1919)
IV. Allegro; Moderato; Allegro, ma non troppo
Eugenia Krim, cello soloist
Erica Kiesewetter, associate conductor
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Symphony No.1, op.39, E minor (1899; rev 1900)
Zachary Schwartzman, music director
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Eat & StayBard 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.
Sosnoff Theater
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