2013 Fall Events Brochure

THE RICHARD B. FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT BARD COLLEGE Fall Events 2013 No Child . . .

Elephant Room American Symphony Orchestra Conservatory Sundays Bard Student Dance Concerts and Theater & Performance Project

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Live Arts Bard Bard College’s residency and commissioning program for the performing arts Live Arts Bard (LAB) is a laboratory where professional artists in theater, dance, and performance test ideas and develop new projects. Each year, LAB will invite a number of leading artists and companies from the United States and abroad to Bard’s campus to develop and present new and recent works.

This fall’s resident artists include writer-performers Nilaja Sun and Geoff Sobelle, presenting acclaimed theater works while in residence.

Nilaja Sun. Photo by Carol Rosegg Cover: Elephant Room. Photo by Scott Suchman

THEATER

No Child . . .

Written and performed by Nilaja Sun; directed by Hal Brooks Actress and writer Nilaja Sun is a teaching artist at a high school in the Bronx, where every day the students face huge challenges in simply coming to school. She directed them in a play, and their trials and triumphs form the basis of No Child. . . . In this remarkable solo performance, Sun herself takes all the parts, transforming into the students, teachers, parents, administrators, janitors, and security guards who inhabit our public schools and shape the future of America.

An award-winning hit that played Off Broadway for more than a year, No Child . . . is a virtuosic performance, joyous and heart-wrenching. In Sun’s words, “I created this piece to be a snapshot from the trenches, something entertaining and provocative that’ll get people talking about the state of our public schools.”

“Thoughtful, highly entertaining, cracks with comic timing. Sun is exuberant.”—Washington Post sosnoff theater Friday, October 4 and Saturday, October 5 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 6 at 2 pm Tickets: $25, $5 all students

Elephant Room Starring Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic, and Daryl Hannah Written by Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, and Geoff Sobelle in collaboration with the magicians; directed by Paul Lazar Three magicians. One show. Zero boring stuff. Sub-zero intelligence. It’s time to make it all add up . . . in the Elephant Room.

Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic, and Daryl Hannah invite you to a place of secrets, of mystery. The place between the back of your mind and the tip of your tongue. Let’s pretend it’s a room—a real room. And you’re really here, in the Elephant Room. Oh, and by the way—your mind was just totally blown clean through the back of your head.

Filled with off-the-wall magic and sublime comedy, Elephant Room examines the childlike wonder of three deluded illusionists who choose to live their off-center lives by sleight of hand.

“Delightfully daft . . . their lovable-loser shtick as well as their nifty skills help turn Elephant Room into one of the coolest places in town.”—New York Times theater two Friday, December 13 and Saturday, December 14 at 7:30 pm Sunday, December 15 at 2 pm Tickets: $25 (no children under the age of 6) Elephant Room is funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project is also funded in part by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by The Heinz Endowments; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

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“Mr. Botstein drew playing of alluring effervescence from the orchestra.”

—New York Times

American Symphony Orchestra. Photo by Cory Weaver

American Symphony Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone.

Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. At Bard College, the ASO appears in an annual winter subscription series at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and also takes part in the Bard Music Festival and SummerScape.

In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.

Featured soloists for the ASO’s fall-spring season include Bard College Conservatory of Music students and Concerto Competition winners Fanya Wyrick-Flax, Dongfang Ouyang, and Zhi Ma.

concert one

concert three

Igor Stravinsky

Johann Strauss

Petrushka

Emperor Waltz

Avner Dorman Piccolo Concerto Fanya Wyrick-Flax ’13, piccolo Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26, 2013

Accelerations The Blue Danube Julius Conus Violin Concerto Zhi Ma ’15, violin Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12, 2014

concert two Joan Tower Stroke

sosnoff theater

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Preconcert talk at 7 pm

Violin Concerto No. 2

Performance at 8 pm

Dongfang Ouyang ’14, violin

Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40

Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2 Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22, 2014 fishercenter.bard.edu

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Conservatory students Sabrina Tabby ’14 and Matthew Woodard ’17. Photo by Cory Weaver

Conservatory Sundays Join us on Sunday afternoons for a series of concerts performed by students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music, with faculty and special guests. All ticket sales benefit the Conservatory’s Scholarship Fund.

Recognized as one of the finest conservatories in the United States, The Bard College Conservatory of Music is guided by the principle that musicians should be broadly educated in the liberal arts and sciences to achieve their greatest potential. All undergraduates complete two degrees over a five-year period, a bachelor of music and a bachelor of arts in a field other than music. Bard Conservatory graduates are studying for advanced degrees in music at distinguished graduate schools throughout the world.

Conservatory students, faculty, and guest artists offer more than 80 public concerts of chamber music, master classes, and student recitals annually. After two successful concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, and a three-week concert tour of Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong, the Conservatory Orchestra looks ahead to a busy performance season on the Bard campus and at international venues.

Dawn Upshaw and Friends

Conservatory Orchestra

Dawn Upshaw, soprano Gilbert Kalish, piano Nicole Divall, viola

Leon Botstein, music director

Program includes works by Ives, Ravel,

Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141

Hindemith, and Brahms

November 10

Program includes Rossini, Overture to William Tell; Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel; and Shostakovich,

September 15

Conservatory Orchestra

Music Alive!

Joan Tower and Blair McMillen, artistic directors

Jeffrey Kahane, guest conductor and pianist Program includes Chausson, Poème, for violin

More than 40 musicians present a colorful

and orchestra, Op. 25, with Sabrina Tabby ’14;

selection of music from the 20th and 21st

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58; and

centuries, with works by Louis Andriessen,

Brahms, Symphony No. 1

Osvaldo Golijov, Joan Tower, Daniel Wohl ’03,

December 8

and a premiere by Conservatory student Tamzin Elliott ’17 September 29

sosnoff theater All performances at 3 pm Suggested donation $20 (orchestra seating) $15 (parterre / first balcony) Free to the Bard community with ID.

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From The Bakkhai, a Bard Theater & Performance Program production. Photo by Jacques Luiggi

Bard Student Performances The Fisher Center is proud to host events in Bard’s Dance and Theater & Performance Programs.

Please join us at the following public events and experience the imagination and creativity of a new generation of artists.

DANCE

THEATER & PERFORMANCE

Moderation Dance Concert

Moby Dick—Rehearsed

Choreographed and performed by Bard students,

By Orson Welles

assisted by professional lighting and costume

Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg

designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic

theater two

experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and

November 8, 9, and 10 at 7:30 pm

a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

November 10 at 2 pm

theater two

Free admission—reservations via the Box Office

October 24, 25, 26, and 27 at 7 pm October 27 at 2 pm

Senior Dance Concert An evening of Senior Projects in dance, this

Tickets: $15 Free to the Bard community.

Reservations required.

concert represents a culmination of four years of work by the graduating seniors in the Bard Dance Program. theater two December 5, 6, and 7 at 7:30 pm December 7 at 2 pm Free admission—reservations via the Box Office

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Ticket Information Ordering Tickets by Telephone Call the Box Office from 10 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday, at 845-758-7900 to speak with a ticket services representative. All orders received at least 14 days prior to the date of your first event will be mailed; all others will be held at the Box Office.

Buying Tickets in Person The main Box Office, located in the lobby of the Sosnoff Theater in the Fisher Center, is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 5 pm and one hour prior to Sosnoff Theater performances.

Online Visit our website at fishercenter.bard.edu to order online and select your own seats.

Subscribe and Save 25% Order tickets to two or more events in this brochure and save 25% off the full price. Visit our website to learn more about our subscription program.

Other Discounts Only one discount is applicable per order. Groups of 10 or more are eligible for special discounts. Call the Box Office for more information. Patrons aged 62 and over are eligible for a discount of 20% off single tickets (discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer).

Student Discounts Students with a valid full-time student ID, or under the age of 25, may purchase up to two $5 rush tickets starting one hour before the performance, subject to availability. Seat locations will be assigned by the Box Office. Students with a valid ID, or under the age of 25, may purchase up to two advance sale tickets at a 20% discount.

Access and Facilities for the Disabled Seating in the Sosnoff Theater is available in all price categories for patrons in wheelchairs and their companions. For patrons with special requirements not covered here, please call 845-758-7928 for assistance.

Tickets are nonrefundable. Late seating is not guaranteed. Please allow sufficient time for travel and parking.

For seating charts, house policies, directions to Bard, maps of the campus and the area, and other information, visit fishercenter.bard.edu.

To Order Tickets

Box Office 845-758-7900 | Fax 845-758-7910 | fishercenter.bard.edu

Major support for the Center’s programs has been provided by the Board of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College and the Friends of the Fisher Center, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Major support for residency and commissioning is provided by the Live Arts Bard Creative Council.

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Above and back cover: The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto

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