Bard Music Festival
Program Two • Fathers and Sons
August 8
Bard Music Festival
August 8
Program Two, “Fathers and Sons,” helps contextualize Mozart among his older contemporaries. His first significant violin sonata (K296), the first of his Viennese Quartets, and several of his earliest arias and songs will be heard alongside violin duets by his father and primary teacher, Leopold Mozart, a composer-violinist who authored a seminal treatise on his instrument; the “Sonata d’intavolatura” for keyboard by prominent Italian composer Giovanni Battista Martini, who mentored Mozart as a child; the Sextet in C by Johann Christian Bach, a student of Martini’s known as the “London” Bach, who greatly influenced Mozart; and the sixth “Prussian Sonata” by J. C. Bach’s half-brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, a leading proponent of Empfindsamkeit (“sensitive style”), whom Mozart held in especially high regard, saying: “He is the father, we are the children.”
1 pm • Preconcert talk
1:30 pm • Performance: Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord; Luosha Fang, violin/viola; Alexandra Knoll, oboe; Karl Kramer, horn; Grace Park, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Michael Stephen Brown, Kayo Iwama, and Anna Polonsky, piano; and others
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–91)
String Quartet in F, K168 (1773)
Sonata in C, for piano and violin, K296 (1778)
Songs and arias
Giovanni Battista Martini (1706–84)
Sonata No. 2 in D, “Sonata d’intavolatura” (pub. 1742)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–88)
Piano Sonata in A, “Prussian Sonata No. 6,” Wq 48/6 (1740–42)
Leopold Mozart (1719–87)
From Twelve Duets, for two violins (1770)
Johann Christian Bach (1735–82)
Sextet in C, Op. 3, W.B78 (pub. 1785)
Artwork: Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (Salzburg, 1756-Vienna, 1791) playing in Paris with his father, Léopold, and his sister Maria-Anna; Alamy
Grab a bite and a drink while you’re at the Fisher Center! We offer theater concessions at Sosnoff Theater, LUMA Theater, and Olin Hall. Across the way is the al fresco Spiegeltent Garden—or grab a nosh while seeing a Spiegeltent performance. There is ample space for outdoor picnics across the Bard College campus. Nearby villages and towns in the Hudson Valley boast a large selection of restaurants, as well as a variety of hotels, motels, inns, and bed & breakfasts.
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: 35 Henderson Circle Drive, 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 1.7 miles, turn left onto Entrance Road, then turn left onto Campus Road.
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 3.3 miles, turn left onto Entrance Road, then turn left onto Campus Road.
Olin Hall
Accessible Seating
Wheelchair-accessible seating is available in all seating areas for patrons in wheelchairs and their companions.
Wheelchair-Accessible Restrooms
Restrooms at all locations are wheelchair accessible. Single-use restrooms are available at most locations.
All-Gender Restrooms
Bard College and the Fisher Center support guests of any gender identity/expression in using the restroom of their choice. Additionally, all-gender restrooms are available at all venues.
Find answers to some of the most common questions patrons have regarding our venues and performances. If you have a question not answered in our FAQs, please call 845-758-7900 or email [email protected] during regular Box Office hours.
Our “Know Before You Go” guide answers all of your pre-show accessibility and navigation questions for your next performance at the Fisher Center!
