(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.)— Bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Armistead Maupin will discuss their heroes Charles Dickens and Christopher Isherwood, the craft of storytelling, and many other subjects in a public conversation in the Sosnoff Theater of the Fisher Center at Bard College on Saturday, November 7, 2015, at 7:30 pm. Maupin is the author of 11…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) — The Aaron Diehl Trio, featuring Grammy Award-nominated vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, will perform a centenary tribute to jazz legend Billie Holiday in the Fisher Center at Bard College on Friday, May 8, 2015, at 8pm, in the acoustically superb Sosnoff Theater. The event is a co-presentation of the Catskill Jazz Factory. Known…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – “First Songs: Dawn Upshaw and the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program” will feature the premiere of composer Kyle Gann’s new song cycle, “Your Staccato Ways,” set to poems of Karen Schoemer, in the Bito Auditorium at Bard College on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, at 8pm. Admission is free and open to the…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) — Author Neil Gaiman will engage legendary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson in a public conversation on the topics of “Story Structure” and “Fiction vs. Autobiography” in the Sosnoff Theater of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College on Friday, April 3, 2015, at 7:30 p.m., in the third edition of…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Bard Music Festival breaks new ground this summer, turning for the first time to Latin America with a two-week, in-depth exploration of “Carlos Chávez and His World,” from August 7 through August 16, 2015. In eleven themed concert programs, complemented by pre-concert lectures, panel discussions, special events, and expert commentary, Bard…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Moves & Countermoves, eleven exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in the graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art in the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard), will be on view from Sunday, March 29, 2015, to May 3, 2015, with an opening reception taking place on…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Festival Chorale, Bard Chamber Singers, Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and Longy Chorale will perform Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” in the Fisher Center at Bard College on Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7, at 8 p.m. There will be…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Performance artist Cynthia Hopkins brings her newest work, “A Living Documentary,” to the LUMA Theater in the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College on Friday, February 20, and Saturday, February 21, 2015, at 7:30 pm. “A Living Documentary” is a hilarious and searing reflection on the trials and tribulations…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) will perform works by Tchaikovsky, Korngold, and Carl Reinecke, in a concert conducted by Leon Botstein, music director, and featuring Concerto Competition winners, at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College on Friday, February 6, 2015, and Saturday, February 7, at 8pm. The program…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Norman Rush, a National Book Award-winner and author of “Whites,” “Mating,” “Mortals,” and “Subtle Bodies,” reads from his work in the Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College on Monday, January 26, 2015, at 6pm. Rush will be introduced by author Mona Simpson. The reading is free and open…
