Bard Music Festival
Program Three • The Symphony and Composing for the Stage
August 5, 2023
Program Three comprises three of Vaughan Williams’s mature orchestral works. These were all first completed in the early 1930s, although the dramatically percussive C-major Piano Concerto will be heard in his later arrangement for two pianos. Originally intended for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Job, A Masque for Dancing encapsulates the development of Vaughan Williams’s sound from pastoral to modernist, anticipating his Fourth Symphony. As bold as it is thrilling, this seldom programmed work consolidates the composer’s standing as one of the most important symphonists since Gustav Mahler.
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Philip Rupprecht
8 pm Orchestral Performance: Danny Driver and Piers Lane, piano; The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; Joshua Thorson, video design (plus livestream)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Job, A Masque for Dancing (1930)
Concerto in C, for two pianos and orchestra (1931, rev. 1947)
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor (1934)
Preview
Oboist Shawn Hutchison TŌN ’24 performs an excerpt from Job, A Masque for Dancing.
Violinist Enikő Samu TŌN ’25 performs an excerpt from Job, A Masque for Dancing.
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