Bard Music Festival

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The Bard Music Festival is an annual classical music festival held during the month of August on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

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History

Founded in 1990, the festival was created with the intention of finding ways to present the history of music in innovative ways to contemporary audiences. To this end, each year the festival selects a single composer to be its main focus and presents performances in tandem with presentations on biographical details on the subject and links to the worlds of literature, painting, theater, philosophy, and politics that would have influenced the life and works of the featured composer. The effort to bridge the worlds of performance and scholarship often results in a variety of concert formats and styles that often depart from the typical recital and concert structure.

Concerts are frequently presented with informative preconcert talks, panel discussions by renowned musicians and scholars, and other special events.

In addition, each season a book of essays, translations, and correspondence relating to the festival’s central figure is published by Princeton University Press. The festival is currently led by Artistic Directors Leon Botstein, and Irene Zedlacher.

References

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  6. ↑ "Schumann and His World". Fisher Center at Bard. 2021-11-04. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
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  8. ↑ "This Years Bard Music Festival". NPR. 1996-08-24. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
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  10. ↑ "The Bard Music Festival". NPR. 1998-09-13. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  11. ↑ College, Bard. "Bard Press Releases". www.bard.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  12. ↑ Staff, Chronogram. "2013 Bard SummerScape and Bard Music Festival". Chronogram Magazine. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  13. ↑ "2014 Bard Music Festival Gala Dinner". Fisher Center at Bard. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  14. ↑ College, Bard. "Bard Press Releases". www.bard.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  15. ↑ "Bard Music Festival | SummerScape 2016Preview at Thorndale". Fisher Center at Bard. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  16. ↑ Cooper, Michael (2017-02-28). "Chopin Is the Focus of Bard's Summer Music Festival". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  17. ↑ "2019 Bard Music Festival Preview at Wethersfield". Fisher Center at Bard. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  18. ↑ "Out of the Silence: A Celebration of Music". WMHT. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  19. ↑ "Bard SummerScape 2021 Returns to the Hudson Valley". NYS Music. 2021-05-04. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  20. ↑ "Classical music news - Bard Music Festival. Bard Music Festival, beginning 5 August 2022, explores the life and times of one of the last great romantics in 'Rachmaninoff and His World'". www.classicalmusicdaily.com. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  21. ↑ "Program One • Vaughan Williams: Becoming an English Composer". Fisher Center at Bard. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
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