Fisher Center at Bard

MONDAY at 7:30 PM Eastern: Leon Botstein, Emmanuel Dongala, Frank Corliss, and Christopher H. Gibbs discuss the music and legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven in a live Zoom chat. RSVP to join the talk at https://bard.zoom.us/web/register/WN_ZdZ-SJ2NR0GINsPX1wZwUg.

Happening NOW! The Orchestra Now presents Belated Beethoven Birthday Celebration https://bit.ly/3gQMhL3

TONIGHT at 8 PM Eastern: Leon Botstein conducts Beethoven's 5th & 7th Symphonies, and the Triple Concerto with violinist Adele Anthony, cellist Peter Wiley, and pianist Shai Wosner. RSVP and watch live at theorchestranow.org/belated-beethoven.

DA-DA-DA-DAAAAAA! Don't miss our Beethoven Celebration, featuring the 5th Symphonyone of the most famous pieces of music of all time, streaming live on Saturday night! RSVP at theorchestranow.org/belated-beethoven to get the direct link to the livestream.

Join us for a chat with acclaimed composer Tania J. Leon this Thursday, April 8 at 7:30 PM. RSVP to receive the Zoom link at bit.ly/TT040821. Tania will be talk...ing with composer and musicologist Sebastian Danila and musicians from TN about her career and her Pulitzer Prize-nominated work "Ácana," which the orchestra will perform on April 10. See more

JUST ANNOUNCED: Congolese chemist and novelist Emmanuel Dongala will introduce our Beethoven Celebration concert on Saturday night! RSVP now at theorchestranow....org/belated-beethoven. In 1997, Dongala and his family were forced to flee the Congo during the brutalities of the civil war, and Leon Botstein secured a teaching position in chemistry for him at Bard College at Simon's Rock. His writings are in French, and have been translated into 13 languages. His 2017 historical novel, "The Bridgetower Sonata," focuses on George Bridgetower, a virtuoso violinist with a Jamaican father and German mother who had been a child prodigy in London. As a young man, George met Beethoven, who heard him play and was so excited by the degree of virtuosity George displayed that he decided to compose for him the Sonata No. 9, Op. 47. See more

Dani Wilder's "Heart", created for THE FUTURE IS PRESENT. Part of a series of short films for the project's youth cohort by the Bard College cohort. View "Heart" and the project's other releases now https://bit.ly/3rLVfMb

Tune in! bit.ly/recoverybard The second and final performance of Recovery, featuring seniors in the Bard College Dance Program, begins NOW. : Arlo Tomecek '21; photo by Chris Kayden

This impressive ensemble of graduate students at Bard College presents a characteristically adventurous program, conducted by Leon Botstein. The New York Times The Orchestra Now’s April 10 concert is one of the New York Times’ 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April!

Fisher Center Choreographer-in-Residence Pam Tanowitz is the cover star of Dance Magazine’s April 2021 issue.

2021 Bard SummerScape and Music Festival to Celebrate Nadia Boulanger https://bit.ly/3u7jOEf

This week's Audio Flashback is "After Choice" by Brooklyn-born composer Alvin Singleton. In his concert notes, Bard music professor Kyle Gann says, "'After Choi...ce' is Singleton’s tribute to a fellow important African American composer, Leroy Jenkins. Jenkins was a consummate improvising violinist in the free jazz world. Singleton has appropriated 'licks' from Jenkins’ nimble playing style and juxtaposed them among the strings with pizzicato against bowed lines, in quite tricky rhythmic assemblages of unison septuplets and quintuplets. No more than two lines are heard at once, often doubled in octaves, and the recurring pitch sets aptly convey the contours of Jenkins’ frenetic fiddling. When a second violin solo cadenza appears just before the end (against the first violins), it’s as though Jenkins’s spirit makes a momentary appearance." TN performed this work with conductor James Bagwell on September 12, 2020 as part of the "Out of the Silence" festival, presented with the Bard Music Festival and the Fisher Center at Bard. You can read Kyle Gann's full concert notes at theorchestranow.org/alvin-singletons-after-choice.