Bard College Community Orchestra

November 23

Add to Calendar2026-11-23 7:30 pm2026-11-23 9:00 pmESTBard College Community OrchestraFisher Center, Sosnoff Theater,

Please join the Bard College Community Orchestra for its Fall Concert featuring selections from Beethoven’s Creatures of Prometheus and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major with conservatory faculty Ryan McCullough. Admission is free, and all are welcome to attend!

The Bard College Community Orchestra is a diverse group of players, including students from the Bard College Music Department and from the Bard College Conservatory of Music, faculty and staff from Bard, local high school players, and community members of the wider Hudson Valley Community. The orchestra is a full symphony orchestra and plays a variety of repertoire.

Program

Zachary Schwartzman Music Director
Erica Kiesewetter Associate Conductor
Keilor Tung ’27 Assistant Conductor


Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (Creatures of Prometheus), op.43 (1800–1801)
Overture
Introduction
No. 1: Poco adagio
No. 9:  Adagio
No. 3: Allegro vivace
No. 5: Adagio
No. 16: Finale: Allegretto

Erica Kiesewetter Associate Conductor
Kielor Tung ’27 Assistant Conductor

Johannes Brahms (1833–97)

Piano Concerto No. 2, B-flat major (1878-81)
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Allegro appassionato
III. Andante
IV. Allegretto grazioso

Ryan McCullough Piano Soloist
Zachary Schwartzman Music Director

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