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Transformative performances from the banks of the Hudson to around the world.

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Ulysses

ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE

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.

 

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
October 19–20

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CAP UCLA
April 4–5, 2025

Info & Tickets

Photo by Maria Baranova

Encounters: Four contemporary ballets

Featuring a new work by Pam Tanowitz

Royal Ballet, London
October 22 – November 16

 

In a new work expanding on her previous success with Dispatch Duet at The Royal Ballet, Pam Tanowitz (Fisher Center Choreographer in Residence) brings her trademark wit and light to turn the conventions of dance inside out.

Photo: Rehearsals for Encounters: Four contemporary ballets (2024) by Andrej Uspenski

SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar

URBAN BUSH WOMEN

Mark Taper Forum
Los Angeles, CA
November 22–24

 

Set in a fictional jazz club, SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar (a 2024 Bard SummerScape commission) is a dance-driven musical that tells a love story of two people making their way during the Great Migration through song, dance and storytelling.

Photo by Maria Baranova

No President

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

NYU Skirball
December 5–7

 

Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s No President is a furious and over-the-top, tightly choreographed political grotesque that draws from almost everything on offer—all to the music of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.

 

Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s No President received commissioning support from Fisher Center LAB, the Fisher Center at Bard’s residency and commissioning program.

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.

 

Siena, Wagner, and Parsifal
December 8

 

Schumann & Friedrich: Nature in Music and Art
April 13

 

Fauré, Sargent, & Paris
May 18

Photo by David DeNee

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

Coincident Dances

Pam Tanowitz and Jessie Montgomery

Miami City Ballet
February 14 – March 9, 2025

 

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

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.

 

Debussy and Romeo & Juliet
Peter Norton Symphony Space in NYC
October 27

 

The Nutcracker & The Planets
Talent Unlimited High School in NYC
December 15

 

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.