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Good Penny

April 18–20

Theater & Performance Program

Bard Baroque Ensemble

April 19

Bard College

First-Year Seminar • Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

April 21

Bard College
Robert Hubert, The Dance (1777–79)

Heaven in a Wild Flower: The Earthly and the Divine

April 27

Bard Conservatory, The Orchestra Now
Chora

Chora

May 1–3

Dance Program
Senior Dance

Spring Senior Dance Concert

May 8–10

Dance Program
Tan Dun

Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Tan Dun

May 10

Bard Conservatory

Pastoral

June 27–29

Bard SummerScape
Third Reprise

Third Reprise

June 27

Spiegeltent
Nath Ann Carrera and Tommi Calamari

After Hours 2025

June 27 – August 16

Spiegeltent
Ringdown

Ringdown

June 28

Spiegeltent

Adrienne Truscott’s 24-Minute Misinterpretation of Song, Time, and Jeenyus

July 5

Spiegeltent

KinderDisco!

July 6

Spiegeltent

Jubilee

July 11–13

Bard SummerScape, Fisher Center LAB

Sunny Jain

July 11

Spiegeltent

Jubilation

July 12

Bard SummerScape, Fisher Center LAB

Martha Redbone

July 12

Spiegeltent
Elisapie

Elisapie

July 13

Center for Indigenous Studies, Spiegeltent

The Jason Carter Band

July 17

Spiegeltent

Tina Friml

July 18

Spiegeltent

OLATUJA

July 19

Spiegeltent
Stud Country

Stud Country

July 20

Spiegeltent

Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff

July 24

Spiegeltent

Dalibor

July 25 – August 3

Bard SummerScape

Susanne Bartsch presents New York, New York!

July 25–26

Spiegeltent

Alison Brown Quintet

July 31

Spiegeltent
Juno Birch

Juno Birch

August 1–2

Spiegeltent
Danny Lipsitz and the Brass Tacks

Summertime Swing!

August 3

Spiegeltent

Brittany & Natalie Haas

August 7

Spiegeltent

Bard Music Festival Opening Night Social

August 8

Bard Music Festival
Martinů in Darien, CT, 1943. Courtesy of Bohuslav Martinů Center in Polička, Czechia.

Program One • The Peripatetic Career

August 8

Bard Music Festival

Stella Cole

August 8

Spiegeltent
PANEL 2-c_o Library of Congress, Music Division Division, The Serge Koussevitzky Archive

Panel One • Why Martinů: Understanding Classical Music, Past and Future

August 9

Bard Music Festival

Program Two • The Emigree in Paris

August 9

Bard Music Festival

Program Three • Music and Freedom

August 9

Bard Music Festival

Meshell Ndegeocello

August 9–10

Spiegeltent
Vítězslava Kaprálová, 1935, Brno. Photo: Atelier Klaska, Brno-Královo Pole. © The Kapralova Society Archive.

Program Four • The Search for a Distinctive Voice

August 10

Bard Music Festival
Aaron Copland

Program Five • New Shores: Influences and Contexts

August 10

Bard Music Festival
Program Six

Program Six • The Spiritual Quest

August 14–15

Bard Music Festival

Chris Eldridge & Kristin Andreassen

August 14

Spiegeltent
Karel Plicka, film still from The Land of Song, 1933. Courtesy of Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czechia.

Program Seven • Myth, Faith, and Folklore

August 15

Bard Music Festival

Queen Bitch: John Cameron Mitchell Sings David Bowie

August 15–16

Spiegeltent
Bohuslav Martinů

Panel Two • Music and Politics: From the Habsburg Empire to Contemporary Populism and Autocracy

August 16

Bard Music Festival
Courtesy of Bohuslav Martinů Center in Polička, Czechia.

Program Eight • Martinů and the Craft of Composition

August 16

Bard Music Festival

Summer Soirée

August 16

Bard SummerScape

Program Nine • Renewing the Public Power of Tradition

August 16

Bard Music Festival
Program Ten

Program Ten • Martinů’s Legacy

August 17

Bard Music Festival
Jaroslav Rössler, Ms Gerta, 1924, photograph. Courtesy of Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czechia.

Program Eleven • The Opera of Dreams: Martinů’s “Julietta”

August 17

Bard Music Festival
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Visit the Fisher Center

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, situated on the east bank of the Hudson River in the beautiful Hudson Valley, about 90 miles north of New York City and 220 miles southwest of Boston.

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