by Seth Rogovoy (ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON) – From the very first time I heard it, one of my favorite Amanda Palmer songs has been “The Bed Song.” It’s an intimate, first-person account of a long-term relationship, which uses the couple’s evolving sleeping arrangements as a weighty symbol of their emotional entanglement or lack of such. It’s a…
NAT BALDWIN and BEN SERETAN BRING UNIQUE SOLO APPROACHES to SPOTTY DOG (HUDSON, N.Y) – Bass-playing singer-songwriter Nat Baldwin and guitarist-composer Ben Seretan perform a double-bill at Spotty Dog Books & Ale on Thursday, October 30, at 8pm. The two artists are united in how they tread the fine line between conventional song forms and…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Bard College Conservatory Orchestra will perform works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Harold Farberman and Max Reger at the Sosnoff Theater in the Fisher Center at Bard College on Sunday, November 2, 2014, at 3pm. The concert is part of the Conservatory Sundays series, and all proceeds will benefit the Scholarship Fund of…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y. ) – Works by Schubert and Chopin are on tap for the opening concert for the 2014–15 season of the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in the Fisher Center at Bard College on Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, 2014, at 8 p.m. The program includes Fryderyk Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) — The German genocide of Europe’s Gypsy population during World War II will be the focus of a multidisciplinary event, including a concert and panel discussion, at Bard College on Friday, October 17, 2014. A panel discussion titled “Remembering the Genocide of European Roma During World War II” at 4pm will be followed…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – In the second in a regular series of conversations hosted by Bard professor Neil Gaiman, author and artist Audrey Niffenegger (“The Time Traveler’s Wife”) discusses time travel, Doctor Who, graveyards, taxidermy, graphic novels, pictures, books, and long-distance romance. The program takes place on Friday, October 3, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in the…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) — The world-renowned Bard Music Festival, now celebrating its Silver Jubilee with an exploration of “Schubert and His World,” opens Friday, August 8, 2014, with Weekend One: The Making of a Romantic Legend, featuring five themed concerts including orchestral and chamber concerts, recitals, operetta, plus talks, panel discussions, and commentary, at the Fisher Center…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – This October, Bard College is launching a new path to admission: an online essay examination. The Bard Entrance Examination, open to high school juniors and seniors, will be accessible online through Bard’s admission website and is composed solely of essay questions, offering a new way to apply to Bard that bypasses existing…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Works by contemporary composers including Osvaldo Golijov, Louis Andriessen, and Joan Tower, among others, will be performed by students from the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Music Program on Sunday, September 29, 2013, at 3 p.m., in the Sosnoff Theater at Bard College. The program, “Conservatory Sundays: Music Alive,” is…
(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The production of Oresteia, composed by Igor Stravinsky’s compatriot Sergey Taneyev, at the Bard SummerScape festival, from July 26, 2013, through August 4, marks the first time this towering work will have been staged in its entirety outside Russia. Boasting a predominantly Russian cast, Bard’s new and original production comes courtesy of…
