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The Search for Power
Tania El Khoury and Ziad Abu-Rish
UNDER THE RADAR
Presented by The Invisible Dog Art Center
A Co-Production with the Fisher Center at Bard
January 9–19
The Search for Power is a lecture and installation performance featuring the artist, the historian, and the audience, investigating the history of power outages in Lebanon.
Memory of Birds
Tania El Khoury
Serendipity Arts Festival
Goa, India
December 15–22
Memory of Birds (commissioned for the 2023 Fisher Center LAB Biennial) is an interactive sound installation in trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
American Symphony Orchestra
2024–25 SEASON
The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO)’s 63rd season features full-orchestra programs at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall (ASO debut), and Carnegie Hall, all conducted by Leon Botstein, President of Bard College.
Bach at St. Bart’s
St. Bartholomew’s Church
January 24
Tapping into the Twenties
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
March 23
Strauss’s Guntram
Carnegie Hall
June 6
Photo by Matt Dine
SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar
URBAN BUSH WOMEN
Perelman Performing Arts Center, NYC
February 5–8
First commissioned for 2024 Bard SummerScape, Urban Bush Women’s SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar makes its NYC premiere this February.
Photo by Maria Baranova
Coincident Dances
Pam Tanowitz and Jessie Montgomery
Miami City Ballet
February 14 – March 9
Having first collaborated on I was waiting for the echo of a better day (2021 Bard SummerScape), Pam Tanowitz (Fisher Center Choreographer in Residence) and Jessie Montgomery (Composer in Residence, Bard College Conservatory of Music) reunite for the world premiere of Coincident Dances with Miami City Ballet.
Photo by Jeremy Jacob
Ulysses
ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE
CAP UCLA
April 4–5
James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and/or defeated readers for over a century. Elevator Repair Service presents a “riveting” (New York Times) new stage adaptation of Joyce’s life-affirming masterpiece—first commissioned for 2024 Bard SummerScape.
Photo by Maria Baranova
Sight and Sound: Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now
METLIVEARTS
In Sight and Sound, The Orchestra Now explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. Each performance includes a Met curator introduction, a discussion with conductor and music historian Leon Botstein featuring on-screen exhibition images and live musical excerpts, a full performance of the works, and an audience Q&A.
Schumann & Friedrich: Nature in Music and Art
April 13
Fauré, Sargent, & Paris
May 18
Photo by David DeNee
The Orchestra Now
2024–25 Free Concerts Series
The Orchestra Now continues its series of free concerts, offering music lovers of all ages an exciting opportunity to hear a wide range of orchestral music.
Joan Tower & Tchaikovsky’s 5th
Peter Norton Symphony Space
March 23
Photo by David DeNee
Maestro
The Orchestra Now is featured in the Netflix film Maestro, starring Bradley Cooper as the renowned composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
TŌN was selected to perform Beethoven’s 8th Symphony at Tanglewood in the film, with Cooper-as-Bernstein conducting, which is also included on the Deutsche Grammophon release of the film’s original soundtrack, conducted by Metropolitan Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Maestro is available to stream on Netflix, and the original soundtrack album is available on CD, vinyl, and digital platforms.
