Bard Music Festival, Fisher Center
BMF Program Three
Kalevala: Myth and the Birth of a Nation
August 13, 2011
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Glenda Dawn Goss
8 pm Performance: Christiane Libor, soprano; John Hancock, baritone; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island, Op. 22 (1895; rev. 1897, 1939)
Kullervo, choral symphony, Op. 7 (1891–92)
Robert Kajanus (1856–1933)
Aino, symphonic poem (1885)