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Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale

A music, theater, and dance performance

May 18, 2012

Add to Calendar2012-05-18 7:00 pm2012-05-18 7:00 pmESTIgor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale

Free and open to the public.

Students and faculty of the Bard Conservatory of Music and Bard’s Dance and Theater Programs are showcased in a performance of The Soldier’s Tale, by Igor Stravinsky, set to text by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. Stravinsky’s celebrated masterwork fuses jazz, ragtime and tango to animate this classic Russian folktale about a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil in exchange for untold riches.