The Richard B. Fisher Center Fall 2016 Brochure

THE RICHARD B. FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT BARD COLLEGE FALL 2016 2

Fisher Center Fall Events 2015

THE ORCHESTRA NOW Leon Botstein, Music Director

The Orchestra Now (TO ¯N), a unique training orchestra and master’s degree program founded by Bard in 2015, is preparing a new generation of musicians to break down barriers between modern audiences and great orchestral ¯N concert, musicians music of the past and present. At a TO and audience inspire one another, each following their curiosity with a shared sense of adventure.

Sosnoff Theater Tickets: $25–35 Get great seats with a five-concert subscription for $120.

Bring the whole family! Buy a balcony box starting at $140.

Please note: Programs marked with asterisks are available ¯N series subscriptions. as add-ons to TO

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Copland & Bruckner Conducted by Leon Botstein Aaron Copland Clarinet Concerto Viktor Tóth ’16, clarinet Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5

Federico Cortese Conducts Debussy Conducted by Federico Cortese Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings Claude Debussy La mer César Franck Symphony in D Minor

Saturday, September 24 at 8 pm Sunday, September 25 at 2 pm

Saturday, February 4 at 8 pm Sunday, February 5 at 2 pm

Elgar’s Enigma Variations Conducted by Leon Botstein Benjamin Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Gustav Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10 Harold Farberman, conductor William Walton Cello Concerto John Belk ’17, cello Edward Elgar Enigma Variations

Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin Conducted by Leon Botstein Béla Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin Suite György Ligeti Violin Concerto Matthew Woodard ’17, violin Ernö Dohnányi Symphony No. 2

Saturday, October 29 at 8 pm Sunday, October 30 at 2 pm

Candide* Semistaged production conducted by James Bagwell Leonard Bernstein’s famous operetta, performed with soloists from Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program

Cai Conducts Rachmaninoff Conducted by Jindong Cai Guohui Ye Drinking Wine by the Stream’s Choice Xiaogang Ye Scent of the Green Mango Serge Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Saturday, November 19 at 8 pm Sunday, November 20 at 2 pm

Saturday, April 22 at 8 pm Sunday, April 23 at 2 pm

Saturday, February 25 at 8 pm Sunday, February 26 at 2 pm Luisi Conducts Beethoven & Brahms* Conducted by Fabio Luisi, Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major David Chan, violin Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 Sunday, May 28 at 1 pm

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dance program

TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY The Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to the Fisher Center for a work-in-progress performance in culmination of its fall residency.

This event marks the second year of the company’s partnership with the Bard College Dance Program. This season’s program includes the most recent reconstruction of Brown’s brazenly beautiful Geometry of Quiet (2002), an elegant and austere quartet featuring music by Salvatore Sciarrino, as well as other selections from Brown’s 40-year repertoire.

LUMA Theater Thursday, September 8 at 7:30 pm Tickets: Free; reservations required 4

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conservatory of music

new albion presents

Music from Bach to Schubert and the Beatles to Ligeti

and the International Contemporary Ensemble

JEREMY DENK

Celebrate the Bard College Conservatory of Music’s 10th anniversary with one of America’s foremost pianists.

“The idea of this program is a musical analogy to time-lapse photography: a journey in two hours through seven centuries of Western music, from the 1300s until the present day. In a series of 25 short pieces, it will trace the evolution of the musical language, the soundscape—an epic story of human thought and ideals, of what we have found important to express in tones.” —Jeremy Denk Sosnoff Theater Sunday, September 11 at 3 pm Tickets: $30–50 Photo: Jeremy Denk by Michael Wilson

PAULINE OLIVEROS Members of the acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble will perform music by Pauline Oliveros, a living legend in American experimental music. Oliveros is the founder of Deep Listening, a practice of “listening in every possible way to everything possible, to hear no matter what you are doing,” and will perform solo works for accordion.

LUMA Theater Saturday, September 17 at 7:30 pm Tickets: $25–45, $5 for students with ID A conversation with the artists follows this performance.

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STORYHORSE DOCUMENTARY THEATER Good Dirt

performance and community picnic Written by Jeremy Davidson Directed by Mary Stuart Masterson Presented in collaboration with the National Young Farmers Coalition

“ Each seed has a story. Cultural stories. Drama.

Romance. Tragedy. History . . . and every time you plant a seed, you’re going to become part of that story . . . . So it’s important to know where our seeds come from. Who’s growing them. And which stories we’re growing in our own backyards.”

—Ken Greene, the Hudson Valley Seed Library

Mary Stuart Masterson and Jeremy Davidson document the lives of Hudson Valley farmers in this latest play from Tivoli-based Storyhorse Documentary Theater. Good Dirt is a multimedia performance based on interviews with six farm families, illustrating the fragility of our agricultural heritage and the need for engagement and investment in its present and future. The performance will be followed by a discussion with the farmers portrayed on stage, and a community picnic with offerings from many local businesses whose products celebrate the bounty of Hudson Valley farms.

The farms in this piece include the Hudson Valley Seed Library (Accord), Denison Farm (Schaghticoke), Green Goats (Red Hook), Soul Fire Farm (Grafton), Tello’s Green Farm (Coxsackie), and Northwind Farms (Tivoli).

Sosnoff Theater Sunday, October 2 at 3 pm Tickets: $15–20, $5 for students with ID Community picnic to follow on the Sosnoff lawn.

Bring your own picnic and blanket, or sample the offerings available on-site for purchase.

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BETH GILL

Catacomb “ These dancers are like electrical currents, and Ms. Gill, with her usual deft sensitivity, tunes us in to their vibrations.”

—New York Times Bessie Award–winning choreographer Beth Gill makes her Fisher Center debut with a LAB-commissioned, site-specific performance inspired by the imagination and subconscious. The dancers—a symbiotic pair with a mysterious and ever-present bond, a lone heroic female, an observer, and an otherworldly presence—inhabit a dreamlike, sensory-rich world that draws the audience into an immersive act of witnessing. Gill creates an intimate, surrealist work that builds on her acclaimed formalist choreography, while forging a new theatrical approach.

LUMA Theater Thursday, October 13; Friday, October 14; and Saturday, October 15 at 7:30 pm Tickets: $25; $10 for students with ID This presentation is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Photo: Brian Rogers

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catskill jazz factory

TWO AMERICAS: SONGS OF PROTEST AND RECONCILIATION An evening of songs of power and resistance, protest and reconciliation. Musicians of all genres have shaped a vital tradition of fearlessly speaking truth to power— think of Bob Dylan’s wistful version of “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Billie Holiday’s haunting rendition of “Strange Fruit,” or Stevie Wonder’s soulful remonstration, “You Haven’t Done Nothin’.”

Acclaimed pianists Jeremy Siskind—winner of the 2012 Nottingham International Jazz Piano Competition— and Justin Kauflin—who has turned the heads of jazz legends from Clark Terry to Quincy Jones—will present a brand-new program of songs of protest and reconciliation, drawing upon this rich songbook of timely messages.

Sosnoff Theater Saturday, October 8 at 8 pm Tickets: $25–50

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AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS

Presented in association with Shawn Nightingale Productions One of America’s most popular humor writers, David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as the essay collections Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and most recently, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls—each of which was an immediate bestseller. A frequent guest on NPR’s This American Life, Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.

A Q&A and book signing will follow this talk.

Sosnoff Theater Friday, October 7 at 8 pm Tickets: $45–70 Photo: Hugh Hamrick

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BARD COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Bard College Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director

The Conservatory Orchestra performs Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 2, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

Tickets for all events: Suggested donation of $20 (orchestra seating), $15 (parterre and first balcony); free for the Bard community with ID After Winter Songfest join us for a reception with the artists; $100 donation All proceeds benefit the Conservatory’s Scholarship Fund

Sosnoff Theater Saturday, November 5 at 7 pm

Bard College Conservatory Orchestra Gerard Schwarz, Guest Conductor

Maestro Schwarz, music director of the All-Star Orchestra and conductor laureate of the Seattle Symphony, will lead the Conservatory Orchestra in a performance of compelling, thoughtprovoking works.

Sosnoff Theater Sunday, December 4 at 3 pm

Winter Songfest Copresented by the Bard Conservatory and Bard Music Program featuring the Bard Symphonic Chorus with musicians from the Conservatory Orchestra and Graduate Vocal Arts Program. Program includes early and modern carols, “Winter” from Haydn’s The Seasons, and additional seasonal selections.

Sosnoff Theater Sunday, December 11 at 3 pm

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AN AFTERNOON WITH ALAN CUMMING in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue

Sosnoff Theater Sunday, October 16 at 3 pm Tickets: $37 Each ticket includes a copy of You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams. Published by Rizzoli New York.

Photo: © Francis Hills

Presented in association with Oblong Books & Music Legendary performer Alan Cumming speaks with WAMC’s Joe Donahue about his new collection of autobiographical essays, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures, in which the actor, singer, writer, and man-about-town shares wildly entertaining, real-life stories of louche latenight parties, backstage anecdotes, life in Los Angeles and New York, and cross-country road trips with his beloved dog, Honey.

Illustrated by Cumming’s own photographs, the charming, thoughtful, and wickedly hilarious stories in this collection will leave the reader feeling like a lucky member of Alan Cumming’s inner circle.

A Q&A and book signing will follow this talk.

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BARD STUDENT PERFORMANCES dance program

Fall Dance Concert theater and performance program

These Young Men and Women

Written, choreographed, and directed by Jack Ferver These Young Men and Women is an interdisciplinary and multimedia work created

by Jack Ferver and performed by Bard students.

Three tragedies by Euripides are used for the source material: Medea, Elektra, and The Trojan Women. The timeless human themes from these plays are inhabited through Ferver’s often humorous and vicious original text and choreography. The work acts out modern-day tragedies of American youth as it juxtaposes forms from the classical to the contemporary, the epic to the quotidian, and the mythic to the personal. For mature audiences only.

LUMA Theater Thursday, November 17; Friday, November 18; and Saturday, November 19 at 7:30 pm Saturday, November 19 at 2 pm Sunday, November 20 at 4 pm Tickets: $15; free for the Bard community

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Choreographed and performed by Bard students and assisted by professional lighting and costume 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. This performance includes a special presentation by Arthur Aviles ’87.

LUMA Theater Friday, October 28 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 29 at 2 pm and 7:30 pm October 30 at 4 pm Tickets: Free; reservations required

Senior Dance Concert Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard Dance Program, this concert of Senior Projects in dance represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry.

The student choreographers are supported by a professional staff of designers.

LUMA Theater Friday, December 9 and Saturday, December 10 at 7:30 pm Saturday, December 10 at 2 pm Sunday, December 11 at 4 pm Tickets: Free; reservations required

Photo: Douglas Baz

special holiday presentation

THE HOT SARDINES

Holiday Stomp Stepping up from their sizzling, sold-out performances in the 2013 and 2014 Spiegeltent seasons, these hot-jazz darlings get into the big, brass-filled spirit of the holiday season for their debut on the Sosnoff stage. For the Holiday Stomp, the Hot Sardines infuse yuletide classics with their unique twist on New York, Paris, and New Orleans jazz from the era of Prohibition and beyond, from beloved chestnuts like “White Christmas” and “Please Come Home for Christmas” to lesser-known gems such as Edith Piaf’s “Le Noël de la Rue,” Ella Fitzgerald’s “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney,” and even “The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”— with plenty of surprises along the way.

Sosnoff Theater Friday, December 23 at 8 pm Tickets: $25–65

Photo: TK Joseph Cultice

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TICKETS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscribe and Save

Guarantee your seats in advance with a convenient and affordable series option.

• C reate Your Own Series Enjoy maximum flexibility—choose three or more fall events and save 25%.

• T he Orchestra Now Series Five Concert Series – See the entire season and save up to 35%.

Create Your Own Series – Select three or four concerts and save 25% off the full price.

Alan Cumming tickets are not included in the Create Your Own Series.

How to Order

Online: fishercenter.bard.edu By phone: 845-758-7900 In person: Box Office, Sosnoff Theater Lobby (Monday–Friday, 10 am – 5 pm, and one hour prior to Sosnoff Theater performances).

Group Orders

Special discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. Call 845-758-7928 for details.

Getting Here

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is located at 60 Manor Avenue, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504. Our venue is accessible by car and train. Directions and parking information will be mailed with your tickets and are available at fishercenter.bard.edu/visit/directions.

For best parking, please try to arrive at least 30 minutes before show time. This will allow you ample time to park and make your way to the theater.

Accessibility

All our venues and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. The Fisher Center utilizes golf carts to assist patrons with disabilities between the parking lot and the Center. If you need any additional assistance, please call 845-758-7900.

Infrared assistive listening devices are available in the Fisher Center. Receivers may be borrowed on request at the Box Office.

Ticket Policies

Programs, dates, times, and venues are subject to change without notice. All sales are final and normal processing fees apply. If you are unable to use your tickets, we will make every effort to offer a comparable exchange, subject to availability, or issue a house credit. You may also choose to donate your tickets in support of the Fisher Center.

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PLEASE JOIN US TODAY! Become a Friend or Patron of the Fisher Center

Your support is essential to sustaining the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts as an extraordinary part of cultural life in the Hudson Valley. Generous gifts from arts supporters like you help make Fisher Center programs possible. Members support world-class performing arts and enjoy a variety of discounts and benefits through our Friends and Patrons programs, including: • Advance ticket access • Discounts on dining and merchandise • Personalized ticketing and access to the best seats in the house • Preferred parking • Invitations to exclusive events and backstage tours • Opportunities to meet the artists Membership benefits start at just $75. Patron benefits start at $1,500.

Corporate Sponsorships The Fisher Center offers fully customizable and flexible sponsorship packages that provide businesses with a platform to meet their strategic marketing, promotional, and community goals. Corporate partners help build and sustain year-round cultural programs and in turn benefit from a relationship with an engaged audience committed to the Hudson Valley.

Visit fishercenter.bard.edu/support to become a member today.

For more information about membership, sponsorship opportunities, and benefits, please contact Kieley Michasiow-Levy at kmichasi@bard.edu or 845-758-7987.

The 2016 Fall season is made possible in part through the generous support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher, the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation, 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 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

The 2016-17 season of Live Arts Bard is made possible by the generous support of the Live Arts Bard Creative Council: Alicia Davis, Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Dr. Terry Gotthelf, Jane and Richard Katzman, Doris Lockhart, Stephen Simcock, and Sarah Stack. Beth Gill is a Live Arts Bard Choreographic Fellow, supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The presentation of Beth Gill’s Catacomb is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Photo: Peter Aaron ’68/Esto Cover: Beth Gill’s Catacomb by Brian Rogers

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