the richard b. fisher center

for the performing arts at bard college

AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAOctober 12–13, 2012

About The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, an environment for world-class artistic presentation in the Hudson Valley, was designed by Frank Gehry and opened in2003. Risk-taking performances and provocative programs take place in the 800-seatSosnoff Theater, a proscenium-arch space, and in the 220-seat Theater Two, which features a flexible seating configuration. The Center is home to Bard College’s DanceProgram and Theater and Performance Program, and host to two annual summer festi-vals: SummerScape, which offers opera, dance, theater, operetta, film, and cabaret; andthe Bard Music Festival, which celebrated its 23rd year in August with “Saint-Saëns andHis World.” The 2013 festival will be devoted to Igor Stravinsky, with a special weekendfocusing on the works of Duke Ellington.

The Center bears the name of the late Richard B. Fisher, the former chair of Bard College’sBoard of Trustees. This magnificent building is a tribute to his vision and leadership.

The outstanding arts events that take place here would not be possible without the contributions made by the Friends of the Fisher Center. We are grateful for their supportand welcome all donations.

The 2012 fall season at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts is madepossible in part through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and theNew York State Council on the Arts, as well as through the generous support of theBoard of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, theBoard of the Bard Music Festival, and the Friends of the Fisher Center.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Chair Jeanne Donovan FisherPresident Leon Botstein

presents

American Symphony Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director

Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)Bassoon Concerto, Op. 75 (1811; rev. 1822)

Allegro ma non troppo Adagio Rondo–Allegro

David Nagy, bassoon

Serge Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)

Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (1912; rev. 1915)Péter Blága, tuba

Carl Maria von WeberAndante and Rondo Ungarese, Op. 35 (1809; rev. 1813)David Nagy, bassoon

Menachem Zur (1942– )Tuba Concerto (1992; rev. 2008)Péter Blága, tuba

Intermission

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64 (1911–15)

Sosnoff TheaterFriday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at 8 pmPreconcert talk at 7 pm by Peter Laki

Running time for this evening’s concert is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes,with one 20 minute intermission.

The use of recording equipment or the taking of photographs during the performance is strictly prohibited.

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Notes on the Program

Carl Maria von WeberBorn in Eutin, near Lübeck, Germany, on November 18, 1786

Died in London on June 5, 1826

Bassoon Concerto in F Major, Op. 75, composed 1811 (rev. 1822)

Andante and Rondo Ungarese, Op. 35, composed 1809 (rev. 1813) 

Carl Maria von Weber is best known in the orchestral repertory today for the overturesto his operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, and Oberon. In these and less familiar composi-tions, his masterful use of orchestral colors helped to usher in a new Romantic sensibil-ity. The three most famous operas date from the 1820s, shortly before Weber’s death atage 39, when he was at the height of his powers and fame. The previous decade had seenthe gradual ascent of his reputation after a low point in February 1810, when Weber wasarrested for embezzlement. (The charges were later dropped.) The 23-year-old composersought to turn his life around and began to keep a diary to document his activities. Hewas prodigiously talented as a composer, pianist, conductor, and critic, bringing to mindMozart, to whom he was related by marriage. He achieved considerable success in 1811

with a Clarinet Concertino he wrote for the celebrated virtuoso Heinrich Bärmann, whichled to requests for other concertos. As Weber explained in a letter:

The whole orchestra has been the very devil about demanding concertosfrom me. … I have orders for two Clarinet Concertos (of which one in F minoris almost ready), two large arias, a Cello Concerto for Legrand, a BassoonConcerto. You see I’m not doing at all badly, and very probably I will spend thesummer here [in Munich], where I am earning so much that I’ve somethingleft over after all expenses.

He wrote the Bassoon Concerto later that year for Georg Friedrich Brandt, soloist in theMunich Court orchestra. The first movement, in sonata form, features a brilliant openingtheme that yields to a more lyrical second one. The brief slow movement features thebassoon in an operatic guise, complete with a vocal cadenza, before the piece concludeswith a lively rondo finale. The work was published in a slightly revised version in 1822 asWeber’s First Bassoon Concerto, although in fact no second one was to follow. The clos-est thing—indeed, what might be thought of as a concerto missing its first movement—is the Andante and Rondo Ungarese. Weber originally composed that piece for viola andorchestra in 1809 and revised it four years later. The viola original was written for hisbrother and the bassoon version for Brandt, who premiered the piece in February 1813.Weber noted in his diary: “He blew the new Hungarian piece very well and to greatapplause; it all went well and made a great effect.”

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Serge RachmaninoffBorn in Semyonovo, Russia, on April 1, 1873

Died in Beverly Hills, California, on March 28, 1943

Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, composed 1912 (rev. 1915)

Composers often rue the day they wrote what was originally considered a trifling piece,but became something so popular that it drew public attention away from more sub-stantial works. Beethoven resented how the success of his early Septet overshadowedmuch greater compositions; Saint-Saëns encountered a similar problem with “The Swan”from The Carnival of the Animals, Sibelius with his Valse triste, and Prokofiev with hismarch from The Love for Three Oranges.

Serge Rachmaninoff was twice so confounded: audiences constantly demanded that heplay his Prelude in C-sharp Minor (1892), which he had written as a teenager, and later oneof his songs became equally popular. In 1912 he composed a set of 14 songs, Op. 34. The lastof them, revised during the summer of 1915, is a wordless vocalise. The singer that he hadin mind, soprano Antonina Nezhdanova (1873–1950), lamented not having a text, to whichthe composer responded: “What need is there of words when you will be able to conveyeverything better and more expressively than anyone could with words by your voice andinterpretation?” Rachmaninoff orchestrated the piece, originally written for voice andpiano, the following year in versions with and without voice. Others would later arrangethe famous work for nearly every imaginable instrument.

Menachem ZurBorn in Israel in 1942

Tuba Concerto, composed 1992 (rev. 2008)

Israeli-born composer Menachem Zur has composed more than 100 works, includingchamber, vocal, symphonic, and electronic music, and an opera. He is a graduate of theJerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and studied in the United States at MannesCollege of Music, Sarah Lawrence College, and Columbia University, where he earned aD.M.A. in 1976. He was awarded the ACUM (Israeli ASCAP) prize in 2001 for life achieve-ment, twice received the Prime Minister’s prize for composition, and won a GuggenheimFellowship in 1981. His orchestral works have received numerous performances by theIsrael Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and most of hispieces have been published in the United States and Israel. He is a professor emeritus atthe Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and has also taught at Queens College,CUNY, and New York University. From 1992 to 1994 and 2000 to 2003 he served as thechairperson of the Israel League of Composers.

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Zur composed the Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra in 1992; it was premiered in Romaniaunder the baton of Dorel Pascu-Radulescu, with soloist Shmuel Adi Heshko, the tuba playerof the Israeli Philharmonic, for whom the piece was written and dedicated. The composerhas provided the following program note:

The Concerto consists of three contrasting parts (fast-slow-fast) that are playedconsecutively. Out of over one hundred of my works, this concerto comes clos-est in style to neoclassical musical language. The novelty in this compositioncan be recognized in the harmonic vocabulary, which toys with the tonality of A minor in an ironic manner, presenting the asymmetric nature of the tonal-ity alongside its symmetrical counterpart. In other words, the piece is not “in” A minor, but “on and about” A minor. In addition to this harmonic novelty, thereis a contrast that relates to the domain of color. Through the tradition of classi-cal music we have become accustomed to the convention that the main tune orleading part is played in a high register, while the underlying accompanimentexists in a low register. The Tuba Concerto challenges this convention.Interchanging the roles of “high,” “middle,” and “low” creates a certain tension.This tension between the different registers contains an additional facet, aseven within the instruments of the lower registers themselves the tuba soundsdeeper, and further distanced from the listener’s ear. This characteristic of thetuba can be attributed to its smooth and velvety timbre, which does not containany roughness of white noise, in contrast to the sound of the double bass orbassoon, unless the player deliberately plays it in a loud manner, employingsounds that shake the brass, effectively causing the tuba to vibrate, therebyresulting in a “hoarse” tone. The sensation of distance and velvety smoothnessis part of our natural acoustic world when we hear the tuba. Our perception ofthe instrument as remote, although unequivocally positioned at the front of thestage, is an additional source of tension and contrast.

Each of my works relies on extensive, creative laboratory research (both acousticand psycho-acoustic), which examines the relationship between differentaspects of the piece (melody-harmony-color-register-orchestration-texture),and their trajectory on the domain of time-tempo. In its original version (1992)I wished for the listeners to grow familiar with the effect of the phenomena ofdistance as they gradually outgrow this effect. For the Israeli premiere of theConcerto in 2008 with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra conducted by LeonBotstein, I made some changes in the orchestration. The hope is that by dou-bling some solo sections with various instruments and timbres, the listener’sear will refrain from adjusting to the distant sound of the large instrument,thereby accentuating the sense of contrast and drama inherent in this “dimen-sion of proximity versus the dimension of distance,” which becomes apparentwhen the soloist plays solo.

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Richard StraussBorn in Munich on June 11, 1864

Died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on September 8, 1949

Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64, composed 1911–15

They were friends and rivals, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler, each promoting andperforming the work of the other, meeting with some frequency, and maintaining alively correspondence. But tensions always lurked as fundamental aesthetic differencesexisted between them. One of Mahler’s most famous quotes—“My time will come”—iseven more revealing in context; the rest of the statement is “when his [Strauss’s] is past.”

Strauss, who was four years Mahler’s junior, was deeply shaken when his friend died in1911 at the age of 50—“Mahler’s death has affected me greatly,” he wrote. It was shortlyafterward that Strauss took up a composition begun much earlier and that might ulti-mately be viewed as a tribute to Mahler’s spirit. Eine Alpensinfonie would turn out to bethe last of Strauss’s tone poems. He had written his first, Macbeth, in 1888 and followedit with Don Juan (1888–89); Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration, 1888–89); TillEulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, 1894–95); Also sprachZarathustra (1896); Don Quixote (1897); Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life, 1897–98); and alarge one he labeled a symphony: Symphonia domestica (Domestic Symphony, 1902–03).For the next decade Strauss concentrated on opera, composing Salome (1905), Elektra(1909), and Der Rosenkavalier (1911). Eine Alpensinfonie marked his return to instrumentalmusic after a nearly decade, as he wrote one last tone poem that brought together phi-losophy and nature, as Mahler had done in so many of his symphonies.

Strauss had toyed for decades with the idea of a nature symphony based on a boyhoodexperience of a mountain hike that he had made with some friends. The group got lostand was caught in a terrible storm. In a letter to his parents he mentioned a piece that“would begin with a sunrise in Switzerland.” Some sketches from around the turn of thecentury point toward a work in two movements with the title Tragedy of an Artist. Hereturned to the project 10 years later, this time for a four-movement work called The Alps.The idea, as musicologist Charles Youmans has observed, was to follow “an artist’s evolv-ing perception of nature to the stage at which it could be used as a liberation from meta-physics.” Then Strauss heard of Mahler’s death. He noted in his diary:

The death of this aspiring, idealistic, energetic artist is a grave loss. . . . As aJew, Mahler was still able to find exaltation in Christianity. As an old man thehero Wagner returned to it under the influence of Schopenhauer. It isabsolutely clear to me that the only way the German nation can regain itsvitality is by liberating itself from Christianity. . . . I shall call my alpine sym-phony “The Antichrist” for it has: moral regeneration through one’s ownefforts, liberation through work, adoration of eternal, magnificent Nature.

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Most of the composition of Eine Alpensinfonie took place in 1914 at Strauss’s home inGarmisch and the work was completed in February 1915. By this time he had dropped the“Antichrist” title drawn from Nietzsche (who had earlier inspired Also sprachZarathustra), although he retained the idea of surmounting religion and all metaphysicsthrough the adoration of nature. Strauss conducted the premiere, to mixed reviews, onOctober 28, 1915, in Berlin with the Dresden Hofkapelle Orchestra.

The vast one-movement composition, which contains some of Strauss’s most vivid tone-painting, calls for an enormous orchestra and lasts longer than any of his other orches-tral works. Strauss cast the piece in 22 continuous sections to which he gave titles.“Night” opens with a unison B-flat chord and a descending scale against which isintoned an ominous brass chorale theme; this leads to “Sunrise.” The main body of thework now begins with the vigorous theme of “The Ascent,” which features hunting hornssounded in the distance. “Entry into the Forest” offers some repose and magical orches-tration reminiscent of Wagner’s “Forest Murmurs,” coupled with Mahlerian bird calls.Water sounds make an appearance in “Wandering beside the Brook” and then become atorrent with “At the Waterfall.” “Apparition” refers to a legendary Alp sprite and continueswith “On the Flowering Meadows.”

“The Alpine Pasture” opens with cowbells, such as Mahler had used in his Sixth andSeventh symphonies, as well as with yodeling effects. The climbers now get lost in“Through Thicket and Brush on Wrong Paths” before emerging at the magnificent “Onthe Glacier.” The following “Dangerous Moments” depicts the perils as they get higherand reach “On the Summit.” The destination has been achieved and there is now “TheVision,” “The Mists Rise,” “The Sun Gradually Darkens,” “Elegy,” and “Calm Before theStorm.” “Thunderstorm,” prominently featuring wind and thunder machines, breaks themood to provide a violent climax. The climbers begin their “Descent” and themes heardon the way up pass in rather quick review on the way down. The final three sections aremore nostalgic: “Sunset,” “Conclusion,” and “Night,” bringing us back to the music withwhich the entire symphonic poem began.

—Christopher H. Gibbs, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music, Bard College

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Who’s Who

Leon Botstein ConductorThis season, Leon Botstein celebrates his 20th anniversaryas Music Director and Principal Conductor of the AmericanSymphony Orchestra. He is co-artistic director of theacclaimed SummerScape and Bard Music Festivals, whichtake place at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the PerformingArts, designed by Frank Gehry for Bard College. He is alsoConductor Laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra,where he served as Music Director from 2003–2011. He hasbeen president of Bard College in New York since 1975.

Upcoming guest engagements include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hawaii Symphony,and Taipei Symphony. Botstein may also be heard on numerous recordings, includingoperas by Strauss, Dukas, and Chausson, as well as works of Shostakovich, Dohnányi,Liszt, Bruckner, Bartók, Hartmann, Reger, Glière, Szymanowski, Brahms, Copland, Sessions,Perle, and Rands. Many of his live performances with the American Symphony Orchestraare now available for download on the Internet.

Botstein is highly regarded as a music historian. He is the editor of The Musical Quarterlyand the author of numerous articles and books. Last year he gave the prestigious TannerLectures in Berkeley, California. For his contributions to music he has received the awardof the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Harvard University’s prestigiousCentennial Award, as well as the Cross of Honor, First Class, from the government ofAustria. In 2009 he received Carnegie Foundation’s Academic Leadership Award, and in2011 was inducted into the American Philosophical Society. He is also the 2012 recipientof the Leonard Bernstein Award for the Elevation of Music in Society.

Péter Blága Tuba Péter Blága was born in Debrecen, Hungary, and began his musical studies on eupho-nium and then on tuba in elementary school. He attended the Zoltán Kodály music highschool in Debrecen, studying with Márta Töroné Tóth, and completed his undergraduatework at the Ferenc Lizst Music Academy in Budapest, where he studied with LászlóSzabó. Blága is currently a graduate performance certificate student at The Bard CollegeConservatory of Music, where he has studied with Alan Baer, principal tubist of the NewYork Philharmonic, and Derek Fenstermacher, principal tubist of New Jersey Symphony.Blága won the first and special prizes in a Hungarian national tuba competition for highschool students in 2006; in 2010, as a freshman at the Liszt Academy, he won secondprize in the International Brass and Percussion Competition in Debrecen, and the follow-ing year took first prize in the same competition. He won the Conservatory ConcertoCompetition at Bard College in 2012. He has received generous support for his studies atBard College from Olivia and László Bitó.

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David A. Nagy BassoonDavid A. Nagy was born and raised in Hungary and moved to the United States at age 18

to pursue double degrees at The Bard College Conservatory of Music, where he is a BitóScholar. He is currently studying with Patricia Rogers, Mark Goldberg, and Luis Garcia-Renart. Nagy has appeared in concerts on four continents, including solo recitals inHungary, Venezuela, and the United States. He recently gave a marathon performance ofFelix Mendelssohn’s two piano trios with his trio TNT. Other recent concert appearancesinclude the world premiere of Dylan Mattingly’s single-movement concerto for bassoonand chamber ensemble, A Way a Lone a Last a Loved a Long the Riverrun, withContemporaneous, and performances of J. S. Bach’s Flute Partita in A Minor as the prel-ude to Robert Kelly’s play Orpheus. Upcoming performances include a senior recital,Madness at the End, featuring his own arrangements of Debussy’s Sonata for Cello, andan evening of world premieres for solo bassoon written by young composers. He wasnamed a distinguished visitor of Táchira County, Venezuela, while he was a teachingartist at the San Juan de Colòn Music Festival. Nagy was awarded the Kodály Prize in2007 for his excellence in music and academics, and was the recipient of the 2003

“Student of the Year” cup. He is a passionate after-hours translator of literature, and awriter, photographer, and graphic designer. He plays on a 1976 Püchner Model 24, a giftfrom his mother upon his acceptance to the Bard Conservatory.

The American Symphony OrchestraFounded 50 years ago by Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) con-tinues its mission to demystify orchestral music and make it accessible and affordable foreveryone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has kept Stokowski’s mission intact,and has also become a pioneer in what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept inorchestras,” presenting concerts curated around various themes drawn from the visual arts,literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely-performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. These concerts are performed in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall.

The orchestra also performs in the celebrated concert series Classics Declassified at PeterNorton Symphony Space, and is the resident orchestra of the Richard B. Fisher Center forthe Performing Arts at Bard College, where it appears in a winter subscription series aswell as Bard’s annual SummerScape and the Bard Music Festival. In 2010, the AmericanSymphony became the resident orchestra of The Collegiate Chorale, performing regu-larly in the Chorale’s New York concert series. The orchestra has made several tours ofAsia and Europe, and has performed in countless benefits for organizations, includingthe Jerusalem Foundation and PBS. ASO’s award-winning music education program,Music Notes, integrates symphonic music into core humanities classes in high schoolsacross the tristate area.

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

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Violin IErica Kiesewetter,

ConcertmasterYukie HandaEllen PayneDiane BruceRagga PetursdottirPatricia DavisJohn ConnellyAshley HorneElizabeth NielsenYana GoichmanMara MilkisNazig TchakarianSebu SirinianLisa TiptonAlicia EdelbergDavid Steinberg

Violin IISuzanne Gilman, PrincipalWende NamkungSophia KessingerLucy MorgansternKatherine Livolsi-LandauElizabeth KleinmanDorothy StrahlAlexander VselenskyAnn GilletteSarah ZunLisa SteinbergLaura BaldKathryn AldousShinwon Kim

ViolaWilliam Frampton,

PrincipalSally ShumwayRachel Riggs

Crystal GarnerShelley Holland-MoritzAdria BenjaminLouis DayEmily BasnerAh Ling NeuAriel Rudiakov

CelloEugene Moye, PrincipalSarah CarterAnnabelle HoffmanMaureen HynesTatyana MargulisElina LangLanny PaykinAnik Oulianine

BassTony Flynt, PrincipalJack WengerLouis BrunoPeter DonovanLouise KobyRichard OstrovskyWilliam SloatRichard Messbauer

FluteLaura Conwesser,

PrincipalKarla MoeDiva Goodfriend-Koven,

PiccoloSheryl Henze

OboeAlexandra Knoll, PrincipalErin GustafsonMatthew Dine,

English horn

HeckelphoneHarry Searing

ClarinetLaura Flax, PrincipalMarina SturmShari HoffmanLino Gomez, Bass clarinet

BassoonCharles McCracken,

PrincipalMarc GoldbergGilbert Dejean,

ContrabassoonMaureen Strenge

HornZohar Schondorf,

PrincipalDavid SmithChad YarbroughKyle HoytSara Cyrus, AssistantAdam KrauthamerShelagh AbateAaron KornIan Donald

TrumpetCarl Albach, PrincipalJohn DentJason CoveyNathan Botts

TromboneRichard Clark, PrincipalKenneth FinnJeffrey CaswellMark Johansen

The American Symphony OrchestraLeon Botstein, Music Director

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TubaKyle Turner, PrincipalDaniel Peck

TimpaniJonathan Haas, Principal

PercussionKory Grossman, PrincipalJavier DiazCharles DescarfinoMatthew Beaumont

HarpVictoria Drake, PrincipalLynette Wardle

KeyboardElizabeth Wright, Principal

OrganPaolo Bordignon

Offstage HornsDanielle Kuhlmann Leise Anschuetz-Ballou Theresa MacDonnellAlana Vegter

Offstage TrombonesMarc DonatelleDavid Read

Personnel ManagerAnn Yarbrough Guttman

Assistant ConductorZachary Schwartzman

Orchestra LibrarianMarc Cerri

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Stokowski Society Fund for the City of New YorkThe Frank and Lydia Bergen

FoundationThe Booth Ferris FoundationLeon BotsteinJeanne Donovan FisherMichael DorfThe Ann and Gordon Getty

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Rosemary CarrollThe Faith Golding FoundationChristian A. Johnson Endeavor

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American Symphony Orchestra PatronsThe American Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors, staff, and artists gratefully acknowledge the following individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies for their generosity and vital support.

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William A. GlaserMims and Burton GoldNan and David GreenwoodAlexander Grey and David CabreraDr. Eva B. GrieppRosemary and Graham HansonDavid S. HartJanet and William HartRupert and Yanina HopeLars Hedstrom and Barry JuddHedstrom and Judd, Inc.Mel and Phyllis HeikoDarren HenaultDr. Joan Hoffman and

Syd SilvermanMartin HolubDr. Barbara KennerBelinda and Stephen KayeHarold KleinKevin KloseSeymour and Harriet KoenigRose and Josh KoplovitzDanielle Korwin and

Anthony DiGuiseppeJames KraftElissa Kramer and Jay H. NewmanRamone LascanoMr. and Mrs. David LondonerMarilyn J. MarinaccioBarbara and Arthur MichaelsAndrea and Kenneth C. MironMargrit and Albrecht PichlerMelanie and Phillipe RadleyRhinebeck Department StoreJohn and Claire ReidTed Ruthizer and Jane DenkensohnBarbara and Dick SchreiberWilliam SiegfriedTed SnowdenEileen SottileH. Peter Stern and

Helen Drutt EnglishAllan and Ronnie StreichlerPeter SullivanElisabeth F. Turnauer-DerowJames H. and Maris Van AlenCornelius R. VerhoestSeymour WeingartenIrene Zedlacher

FriendJamie AlbrightDr. and Mrs. Morton AltermanAnonymousJoshua J. AronsonKathleen AugustineJohn J. Austrian ’91 and

Laura M. Austrian

Sybil BaldwinJack L. BarnettTheodore BartwinkAlvin and Arlene BeckerJessica BeckerHoward and Mary BellRichard L. BensonDrs. Daniel Berkenblit and

Phillipine Meister-BerkenblitFrederick BerlinerKurshed BhumgaraMarge and Ed BlaineSandra and Dr. A. John Blair IIIJeffrey and Ellyn BursteinJeanne and Homer ByingtonProf. Mary Ellen Caponegro ’78

MaryAnn and Thomas CaseDaniel Chu and Lenore SchiffMr. and Mrs. John CioffiColgate-Palmolive CompanyRichard CollensJean T. CookDr. Bruce Cuttler and

Joanne E. Cuttler ’99

C. Douglas and Leslie DienelJohn DobkinJoan and Walcott DunhamAbby H. and John B. DuxDavid Ebony and Bruce MundtElizabeth ElliottPatricia FalkMilly and Arnold FeinsilberArthur FenaroliDr. Marta P. FlaumRaimond FlynnEdward ForlieAllan FreedmanMary and Harvey FreemanEdward FriedmanFrances and Rao GaddipatiMarvin and Maxine GilbertNigel GillahLaurie GilmoreMr. and Mrs. Floyd GlinertDebby and Fred GlynnJudy R. and Arthur** GoldI. Bruce GordonStanley L. GordonFayal Greene and David J. SharpeAlice and Bob GreenwoodSheryl GriffithGilbert and Mary HalesDavid A. HarrisElise and Carl HartmanSue HartshornJames HaydenDorothy and Leo HellermanDelmar D. HendricksJan Hopkins and

Richard TrachtmanSky Pape and Alan HoughtonNeil IsabelleMark R. JoelsonJohn E. Johnson

Eleanor C. KaneLinda L. KaumeyerMr. and Mrs. John W. KellyMartha Klein and David HurvitzRobert J. KurillaJames LackRobert la PorteHelena LeeEric and Amala LevineGerald F. LewisSara F. Luther and John J. NeumaierJohn P. MackenzieCharles S. MaierHerbert MayoDr. Naomi MendelsohnEdie Michelson and

Sumner MilenderJanet C. MillsDavid T. MintzRoy MosesDoris MossJoanne and Richard MrstikMartha NickelsJill ObrigDouglas Okerson and

William WilliamsElizabeth J. and Sevgin OktayRobert M. OsborneGary S. PatrikDebra Pemstein and Dean VallasDavid Pozorski and Anna RomanskiSusan PriceKenneth S. RecuGeorge and Gail Hunt ReekeSusan RegisDr. Siri von ReisDrs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanPeter and Linda RubensteinHeinz and Klara SauerMr. and Mrs. Edward T. ScottJames E. ScottDr. Alan M. SilbertElizabeth A. SimonPeter SipperleyDr. Sanford B. SternliebDr. Michael A. StillmanFrancis E. Storer Jr.Mark SuttonTaconic Foundation, Inc.Janeth L. ThoronTiffany & Co.Mr. Randy J. TryonJoan E. WebermanRobert WeissWendy and Michael WestermanWilliams Lumber and

Home CentersAlbert L. YarashusMike and Kathy ZdebRena Zurofsky

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Donors to the Bard Music FestivalEvents in this year’s Bard MusicFestival were underwritten in partby special gifts fromHelen and Roger AlcalyBettina Baruch Foundation Michelle R. ClaymanJeanne Donovan FisherMimi LevittThe Mrs. Mortimer Levitt

Endowment Fund for thePerforming Arts

James H. Ottaway Jr.Denise S. Simon and

Paulo VieiradacunhaFelicitas S. ThorneFestival Underwriters

James H. Ottaway Jr.Opening Concert

Mimi LevittPreconcert TalksGuest ArtistsFilms

Furthermore: A Program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.

Festival Book

Helen and Roger AlcalyFestival BookFestival Program

Margo and Anthony ViscusiGuest Artists

Joanna M. MigdalPanel Discussions

Paula and Eliot HawkinsChristina A. Mohr and

Matthew GuerreiroBetween the Concerts Supper

National Endowment for the Arts(NEA)

New York State Council on the Arts(NYSCA)

Friends of the Bard Music FestivalLeadership SupportMimi LevittThe Mortimer Levitt FoundationMr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.Bettina Baruch FoundationDenise S. Simon and

Paulo Vieiradacunha

Golden CircleJeanne Donovan FisherThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationJane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust

Felicitas S. ThorneMillie and Robert Wise

BenefactorHelen and Roger AlcalyAmerican-Scandinavian

FoundationThe Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationArtekBanco Santander S.A.Barclays Bank Leonie F. BatkinMichelle R. ClaymanConsulate General of Finland

in New YorkJoan K. DavidsonMr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las HerasElizabeth W. Ely ’65 and

Jonathan K. Greenburg FMH Foundation Eliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsLinda Hirshman and

David Forkosh**Anne E. Impellizzeri The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.Susan and Roger KennedyBarbara KennerEdna and Gary LachmundAmy and Thomas O. MaggsMarstrand FoundationMinistry for Foreign Affairs

of FinlandThe Mrs. Mortimer Levitt

Endowment Fund for thePerforming Arts

National Endowment for the Arts(NEA)

New York State Council on the Arts(NYSCA)

Jim and Talila O’HigginsDimitri B. and Rania PapadimitriouPeter Kenner Family Fund of the

Jewish Communal Fund Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc.Dr. Gabrielle Reem** and

Dr. Herbert J. KaydenDrs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanDavid E. Schwab II ’52 and

Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

H. Peter Stern and Helen Drutt English

Dr. Sanford SternliebAllan and Ronnie StreichlerMerida Welles and

William “Chip” Holman The Wise Family Charitable

Foundation Elaine and James Wolfensohn

PatronABC Foundation Constance Abrams and Ann VerberEdwin L. Artzt and

Marieluise Hessel

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald AtkinsKathleen and Roland Augustine Elizabeth Phillips Bellin ’00 and

Marco M. S. Bellin Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56

Helen ’48 and Robert Bernstein Helen and Robert Bernstein

Philanthropic Fund of theJewish Communal Fund

Anne Donovan Bodnar and James L. Bodnar

Sarah Botstein and Bryan DoerriesLydia Chapin Constance and David C. Clapp J. T. ComptonJane Cottrell and Richard KortrightArnold J. ’44 and Seena** DavisBarbara and Richard DebsMichael Del Giudice and

Jaynne KeyesRt. Rev. Herbert A. and

Mary Donovan Amy Knoblauch Dubin and

David DubinRobert C. Edmonds ’68

Ines Elskop and Christopher Scholz John GellerHelena and Christopher Gibbs Kim Z. GoldenAlison GrannucciAlan Hilliker and Vivien W. LiuJane and Robert HottensenFrederic K. and Elena Howard Joan and Julius JacobsonJasper JohnsDrs. Harriette and Gabor** KaleyRachel and Dr. Shalom KalnickiHelene and Mark N. Kaplan Belinda and Stephen KayeMr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Keesee IIIMr. and Mrs. George A. Kellner Klavierhaus, Inc.Seymour and Harriet KoenigAlison and John LankenauGlenda Fowler Law and Alfred LawEric and Amala LevineBarbara** and S Jay LevyCynthia Hirsch Levy ’65

Patti and Murray LiebowitzMartin and Toni Sosnoff

FoundationStephen Mazoh and Martin KlineW. Patrick McMullan and

Rachel McPhersonDr. and Mrs. Arthur MenkenMetropolitan Life Foundation

Matching Gift ProgramAndrea and Kenneth L. MironChristina A. Mohr and

Matthew GuerreiroKen MortensonMartin L. Murray and

Lucy Miller Murray Alexandra Ottaway

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Eve Propp Barbara B. ReisBlanche and Bruce RubinAndrew Solomon and

John Habich SolomonSarah and Howard Solomon Martin T. and Toni Sosnoff Edwin A. SteinbergStewart’s ShopsAllan and Ronnie StreichlerElizabeth Farran Tozer and

W. James Tozer Jr.Tozer Family Fund of the New York

Community TrustIlliana van MeeterenOlivia van Melle CampRosemary and Noel WerrettAida and Albert WilderIrene ZedlacherWilliam C. Zifchak and

Margaret Evans

SponsorAnonymousRoland AugustineAna AzevedoMargaret and Alec BancroftEva Thal Belefont ’49

Everett and Karen CookPhillip S. Cooke Blythe Danner ’65

Dasein FoundationDavid G. Whitcomb FoundationWillem F. De Vogel and

Marion Davidson Roberto De AzevedoJohn A. DierdorffCornelia Z. and Timothy Eland Timothy and Cornelia Eland Fund

of the Fidelity Charitable GiftFund

Shepard and Jane Ellenberg Ellenberg Asset Management

Corp. Phyllis FederField-Bay FoundationFrancis Finlay and Olivia J. FussellLaura FlaxMartha Jane FleischmanDeborah and Thomas Flexner Donald C. FresneLaura GeneroCarlos Gonzalez and

Katherine Stewart Samuel L. Gordon Jr. and

Marylou TapallaMr. and Mrs. Jay M. GwynneMarjorie HartNancy and David HathawayMartin Holub and Karen Kidder**Lucas Hoogduin and

Adriana OnstwedderElizabeth D. and Robert HottensenPamela HowardJohn R. and Joyce Hupper

I.B.M. Matching Grants Program Susan JonasEdith Hamilton KeanFernanda Kellogg and

Kirk HenckelsClara F. and David J. LondonerMarstrand FoundationElizabeth I. McCannJames and Purcell Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. PaytonEllen and Eric PetersenJohn and Claire ReidDr. Siri von ReisAlfred J. and Deirdre RossDr. Paul H. Schwartz and

Lisa Barnes-SchwartzJames and Sara SheldonDavid and Sarah StackEdwin SteinbergArt and Jeannette TaylorBarbara and Donald ToberRichard C. Strain and Eva Van RijnArete and William** Warren Jack and Jill WertheimRobert and Melanie WhaleyMaureen A. Whiteman and

Lawrence J. ZlatkinSerena H. WhitridgeJulia and Nigel WiddowsonPeter and Maria WirthMarina van Zuylen

SupporterMunir and Susan Abu-HaidarBarbara J. AgrenJames Akerberg and

Larry SimmonsSaga M. AmbegaokarLeora and Peter ArmstrongIrene and Jack BanningDidi and David Barrett Karen H. Bechtel Dr. Susan Krysiewicz and

Thomas Bell Carole and Gary Beller Mr. and Mrs. Andy BellinBeth and Jerry BierbaumMr. and Mrs. David Bova Mr. and Mrs. William B. BrannanKay Brover and Arthur Bennett Madge BriggsDan F. and Nancy BrownKate Buckley and Tony Pell Phyllis Busell and James KostellPeter Caldwell and Jane Waters Miriam and Philip CarrollHugo M. J. Cassier and

Sarah ButtrickDavid ClainFrederick and Jan CohenMr. and Mrs. Kevin ConcaghSeth Dubin and Barbara FieldEma DunchJoan and Wolcott DunhamRuth Eng

Gail and John EylerHarold FarbermanIngrid and Gerald FieldsEmily Rutgers Fuller Michael H. GarretyJoseph W. and Joyce GeebJohn GellerDonald Gellert and Elaine Koss Mims and Burton Gold Victoria and Max GoodwinJanine M. GordonRichard GottliebMary and Kingdon Gould Jr. Nan and David GreenwoodMortimer and Penelope C. HallSally S. HamiltonJuliet HeyerSusan Hoehn and Allan BahrsWilliam HolmanDalya InhaberJay JollyKaren Bechtel Foundation of the

Advisor Charitable Gift FundRobert E. KausErica KiesewetterCharles and Katharine KingKaren KloppDr. and Mrs. Vincent KohRobert J. KurillaLowell H. and Sandra A. LambDebra I. and Jonathan LanmanWayne LawsonE. Deane and Judith S. LeonardBrent Lewis ’09

Walter LippincottLynn Favrot Nolan Family FundJeanette MacDonald and

Charles MorganJohn P. MackenziePhilip and Tracey MactaggartCharles S. MaierClaire and Chris MannMarilyn MarinaccioElizabeth B. MavroleonMia McCully ’07

Charles MelcherArthur and Barbara L. MichaelsSamuel C. MillerJohn E. Morrison IVMr. and Mrs. Alfred MudgeBernadette Murray and

Randy FertelKamilla and Donald NajdekAnna Neverova ’07

Jay H. Newman and Elissa KramerMr. and Mrs. William T. NolanMarta E. NottebohmElizabeth J. and Sergin OktayDr. Bernhard Fabricius and

Sylvia OwenLouis ParkerDavid B. and Jane L. ParshallSusan Heath and Rodney PatersonRuth Plager

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John and Claire ReidBarbara ReisEmma Richter ’09

Susan F. RogersRosalie Rossi, Ph.D.John RoyallAndrew and Ellen SantandraDr. Gloria SchaferDagni and Martin SenzelDenise and Lawrence ShapiroDr. Scott and Alexis SmallNadine Bertin StearnsMim and Leonard SteinMary and Stephen StinsonMila TewellCarole TindallJohn Tuke and Leslie FarhangiDr. Elisabeth F. Turnauer-DerowAlan and Christine Vickery ’75

Monica WamboldTaki and Donald WiseJohn and Mary Young

FriendRev. Albert R. AhlstromLorraine D. AlexanderArthur A. AndersonAnonymousZelda Aronstein and

Norman EisnerArtscope, Inc.John K. AylingPhebe and George BantaJames M. BartonMr. and Mrs. Francis D. BartonSaida BaxtRegina and David BeckmanDr. Howard BellinRichard L. BensonDr. Marge and Edward BlaineClara BotsteinEric and Irene BrocksDavid and Jeannette T. BrownMr. and Mrs. John C. D. BrunoAlfred M. Buff and Lenore NemethMichael CaolaPamela Chow and Ted SmithRobert and Isobel ClarkDonald CooneyJoan CostaMillicent O. McKinley CoxLinda and Richard DainesMary E. DavisDana and Brian DunnAbby and John DuxPeter EdelmanPeter Elebash and Jane RobinsonJim and Laurie Niles ErwinPatricia FalkArthur L. FenaroliDavid and Tracy FinnLuisa E. FlynnPatricia and John ForelleMary Ann FreeSamantha Free

Stephen and Jane GarmeyAnne C. GillisAlysha Glenn ’09

Dr. Joel and Ellen GoldinStanley L. GordonSandra Graznow and Jim KearnsThurston GreeneAndrea Gross GuidoBen-Ali and Mimi HagginDavid A. HarrisSy HeldermanSharon and David HendlerCarol HenkenNancy H. HenzeGary HermanMartin HolubDavid Hurvitz and Martha KleinRocco G. IlardiDr. and Mrs. Gerald ImberRod and Caroline KeatingPatricia H. KeeseeMr. and Mrs. John W. KellyJoan Kend Diana Niles KingIrving and Rhonda E. KleimanThea KlirosSharon Daniel KroegerJeffrey LangProf. Edward C. LauferWayne LawsonBeth LedyLeon and Fern LernerLaurence and Michael LevinGerald F. LewisRuthie and Lincoln LymanM Group, LLCJohn P. MacKenzieHermes Mallea and Carey MaloneyAnnette S. and Paul N. MarcusHarvey MarekThe McGraw-Hill Companies

Matching Gift ProgramMarcus Mello ’04

Dr. Naomi MendelsohnPhilip MessingMillbrook Real Estate, LLCDeborah D. MontgomeryKelly Morgan Doris MossDebbie Ann and

Christopher MorleySusan and Robert MurphyNancy R. NewhouseHugh and Marilyn NissensonHarold J. and Helen C. NoahDouglas Okerson and

William WilliamsJames OlanderMarilyn and Peter OswaldGary S. PatrikSarah Payden ’09

Peter and Sally V. PettusLucas Pipes ’08

Dr. Alice R. Pisciotto

Eleanor PollakDavid Pozorski and Anna RomanskiD. Miles PriceStanley A. Reichel ’65 and

Elaine ReichelDr. Naomi F. Rothfield ’50 and

Lawrence RothfieldHarriet and Bernard SadowAntonia SalvatoSheila SandersDr. Thomas B. SandersHeinz and Klara SauerMolly SchaeferFrederick W. Schwerin Jr.Mary ScottDanny P. Shanahan and

Janet E. Stetson ’81

Muriel SimmonsBetsy Covington SmithJ. Kevin SmithPolly and LeRoy SwindellJessica and Peter TcherepnineGladys R. ThomasJaneth L. ThoronCynthia M. Tripp ’01

Leigh Beery and Jonathan Tunick ’58

Laurie TuzoRonald VanVoorhiesAndrea A. WaltonJohn WaldesJacqueline E. WarrenPeter WarwickRenee K. Weiss ’51

Barbara Jean WeyantAnne WhiteheadVictoria and Conrad WicherMr. and Mrs. John WinklerAmy WoodsRobert and Lynda YoumansMarvin Zelman

Major support for the Fisher Center’s programshas been provided by:Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams

FoundationHelen and Roger Alcaly The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationFiona Angelini and Jamie WelchThe Ann & Gordon Getty

FoundationAnonymousArtekBettina Baruch FoundationBioseutica USA, Inc.Carolyn Marks Blackwood and

Gregory QuinnChartwells School and University

Dining ServicesMichelle R. ClaymanThe Cultural Services of the French

Embassy of the United States

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Joan K. DavidsonMr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las HerasJohn A. DierdorffElizabeth W. Ely ’65 and

Jonathan K. GreenburgEstate of Richard B. FisherBarbara Ettinger and Sven HusebyThe Ettinger Foundation, Inc.Stefano Ferrari and Lilo ZinglersenAlexander D. Fisher MFA ’96

Catherine C. Fisher and Gregory A. Murphy

Emily H. Fisher and John AlexanderJeanne Donovan FisherR. Britton and Melina FisherFMH FoundationEliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsLinda Hirshman and

David Forkosh**HSBC Philanthropic ProgramsAnne E. ImpellizzeriJane and Aatos Erkko FoundationJane’s Ice CreamJane W. Nuhn Charitable TrustThe J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.Belinda and Stephen KayeSusan and Roger KennedyBarbara KennerMimi Levitt Chris Lipscomb and

Monique SegarraAmy and Thomas O. MaggsMansakenning LLCThe Marks Family FoundationMarstrand FoundationMartin and Toni Sosnoff FoundationThe Maurer Family Foundation, Inc.Joanna M. MigdalThe Millbrook Tribute GardenMillbrook Vineyards & WineryThe Mortimer Levitt Foundation Inc.Mrs. Mortimer Levitt Endowment

Fund for the Performing ArtsNational Endowment for the Arts

American Masterpieces: DanceNational Endowment for the Arts

(NEA)New England Foundation for the

Arts (NEFA)New York State Council on the Arts

(NYSCA)Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.Dimitri B. and Rania PapadimitriouPeter Kenner Family Fund of the

Jewish Communal FundDr. Gabrielle H. Reem** and

Dr. Herbert J. KaydenDr. Siri von ReisRichard B. Fisher Endowment FundDrs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanIngrid Rockefeller

David E. Schwab II ’52 and Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

The Schwab Charitable FundDenise S. Simon and

Paulo VieiradacunhaMartin T. and Toni SosnoffH. Peter Stern and

Helen Drutt EnglishDr. Sanford SternliebAllan and Ronnie StreichlerThendara FoundationFelicitas S. ThorneTrue Love ProductionsMargo and Anthony ViscusiBethany B. WinhamMillie and Robert WiseThe Wise Family Charitable

Foundation**deceasedAll lists current as of September 13, 2012

Boards and Administration

Bard CollegeBoard of TrusteesDavid E. Schwab II ’52, Chair

EmeritusCharles P. Stevenson Jr., ChairEmily H. Fisher, Vice ChairElizabeth Ely ’65, SecretaryStanley A. Reichel ’65, Treasurer

Fiona AngeliniRoland J. AugustineLeon Botstein+ , President of the

CollegeDavid C. ClappMarcelle Clements ’69*Melinda N. Donovan+Asher B. Edelman ’61

Robert S. Epstein ’63

Barbara S. Grossman ’73*Sally HambrechtGeorge F. Hamel Jr.Marieluise HesselMatina S. Horner+Charles S. Johnson III ’70

Mark N. KaplanGeorge A. KellnerMurray LiebowitzMarc S. LipschultzPeter H. Maguire ’88

James H. Ottaway Jr., Life TrusteeMartin PeretzStewart Resnick, Life TrusteeRoger N. Scotland ’93*The Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk, Honorary

TrusteeMartin T. Sosnoff Susan WeberPatricia Ross Weis ’52

+ ex officio* alumni/ae trustee

Senior AdministrationLeon Botstein, PresidentDimitri B. Papadimitriou, Executive

Vice PresidentMichèle D. Dominy, Vice President

and Dean of the CollegeMary Backlund, Vice President for

Student Affairs and Director ofAdmission

Norton Batkin, Vice President andDean of Graduate Studies

Jonathan Becker, Vice President andDean for International Affairsand Civic Engagement

James Brudvig, Vice President forAdministration

John Franzino, Vice President forFinance

Susan H. Gillespie, Vice President forSpecial Global Initiatives

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Max Kenner ’01, Vice President forInstitutional Initiatives

Robert Martin, Vice President forAcademic Affairs and Director ofThe Bard College Conservatory ofMusic

Debra Pemstein, Vice President forDevelopment and Alumni/aeAffairs

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing ArtsAdvisory BoardJeanne Donovan Fisher, ChairCarolyn Marks BlackwoodLeon Botstein+Stefano FerrariHarvey LichtensteinRobert Martin+Dimitri B. Papadimitriou+Martin T. SosnoffToni SosnoffFelicitas S. Thorne

AdministrationDebra Pemstein, Vice President for

Development and Alumni/aeAffairs

Bob Bursey, Senior ProducerGideon Lester, Director, Theater and

Dance ProgrammingMark Primoff, Director of

CommunicationsSusana Meyer, Producer,

SummerScape OperaMary Smith, Director of PublicationsGinger Shore, Consultant to

PublicationsEleanor Davis, Media and Marketing

ManagerJoanna Szu, Marketing AssociateBonnie Kate Anthony, Assistant

Production ManagerPaul LaBarbera, Sound and Video

EngineerStephen Dean, Stage Operations

ManagerVincent Roca, Technical DirectorMark Crittenden, Facilities ManagerJeannie Schneider, Business

ManagerAndrea Gross, Community Relations

ManagerPatrick King ’12, House ManagerCarley Gooley ’12, Assistant House

ManagerRoisin Taylor ’13, Assistant House

ManagerNicholas Reilingh, Box Office

ManagerCaitlyn DeRosa, Assistant Box Office

ManagerRay Stegner, Building Operations

Manager

Doug Pitcher, Building OperationsCoordinator

Daniel DeFrancis, Staff AssistantRobyn Charter, Staff Assistant

The Bard Music FestivalBoard of DirectorsDenise S. Simon, ChairRoger AlcalyLeon Botstein+Michelle R. ClaymanRobert C. Edmonds ’68

Jeanne Donovan FisherChristopher H. Gibbs+Paula K. HawkinsSusan Petersen KennedyBarbara KennerGary LachmundMimi LevittThomas O. MaggsRobert Martin+Kenneth L. MironChristina A. MohrJames H. Ottaway Jr.Siri von ReisFelicitas S. ThorneE. Lisk Wyckoff Jr.

Artistic DirectorsLeon BotsteinChristopher H. GibbsRobert Martin

Executive DirectorIrene Zedlacher

Associate DirectorRaissa St. Pierre ’87

Scholar in Residence 2013

Tamara Levitz

Program Committee 2012

Byron AdamsLeon BotsteinChristopher H. GibbsRobert MartinJann PaslerRichard WilsonIrene Zedlacher

Director of ChorusesJames Bagwell

Vocal Casting ConsultantSusana Meyer

The American SymphonyOrchestraBoard of DirectorsDanny Goldberg, ChairThurmond Smithgall, Vice-ChairDimitri B. Papadimitriou, Treasurer

Miriam BergerJoel I. Berson, Esq.**Michael DorfRachel Kalnicki

Jack KligerJan KrukowskiShirley A. Mueller, Esq.Eileen RhulenL. Stan Stokowski**Felicitas S. Thorne

AdministrationLynne Meloccaro, Executive DirectorOliver Inteeworn, General ManagerBrian J. Heck, Director of MarketingSebastian Danila, Library ManagerMarielle Métivier, Operations

ManagerKatrina Herfort, Ticketing Services

CoordinatorJennifer Luzzo, Development

ManagerMarc Cerri, Orchestra LibrarianAnn Yarbrough Guttman, Orchestra

Personnel ManagerBen Oatmen, Production AssistantJames Bagwell, Principal Guest

ConductorGeoffrey McDonald, Assistant

ConductorZachary Schwartzman, Assistant

ConductorRichard Wilson, Composer-In-

ResidenceLeszek M. Wojcik, Concert Archival

Recording

** honorary

New Albion Records andThe Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

present

Vocal Quartet I: Friday, November 9 at 8 pmVocal Quartet II: Saturday, November 10 at 8 pmTwo different programs from Musical America’s 2012 Composer of the Year

Sosnoff Theater$15, 25, 35, 45

MEREDITH MONK

&VOCAL ENSEMBLE

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About Bard College

Founded in 1860, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, is an independent, nonsectarian, residential, coeducational college offering a four-year B.A. program in the liberal arts and sciences and a five-year B.A./ B.S. degree in economics and finance. The BardCollege Conservatory of Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dualdegree—a B.Music and a B.A. in a field other than music—and offers an M.Music in vocalarts and in conducting. Bard also bestows an M.Music degree at Longy School of Music ofBard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant thefollowing degrees: A.A. at Bard High School Early College, a public school with campuses inNew York City (Manhattan and Queens) and Newark, New Jersey; A.A. and B.A. at BardCollege at Simon’s Rock: The Early College, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and throughthe Bard Prison Initiative at five correctional institutions in New York State; M.A. in curator-ial studies, M.S. in economic theory and policy, and M.S. in environmental policy and in climate science and policy at the Annandale campus; M.F.A. and M.A.T. at multiple cam-puses; M.B.A. in sustainability in New York City; and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the decorativearts, design history, and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan.Internationally, Bard confers dual B.A. degrees at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St.Petersburg State University, Russia (Smolny College), and American University of CentralAsia in Kyrgyzstan; and dual B.A. and M.A.T. degrees at Al-Quds University in the West Bank.

Bard offers nearly 50 academic programs in four divisions. Total enrollment for Bard Collegeand its affiliates is approximately 5,000 students. The undergraduate college has an enroll-ment of more than 1,900 and a student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1. For more information aboutBard College, visit www.bard.edu.

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Conservatory SundaysConcerts performed by the talented students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music, with faculty and special guests

OCTOBER 14: Faculty/student chamber music

OCTOBER 21: Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein

OCTOBER 28: Music Alive! (new music presented by artisticdirectors Joan Tower and Blair McMillen)

DECEMBER 9: Conservatory Orchestra, with guest conductor Marcelo Lehninger (MFA ’07)

All concerts are at 3 pm.

Meredith Monk & Vocal EnsembleProduced by New Albion RecordsFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9: Vocal Quartet ISATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10: Vocal Quartet IITwo different programs from Musical America’s 2012

Composer of the YearAll concerts are at 8 pm.

John Cage: On & Off the Air!Commissioned by the Fisher Center and produced by the John Cage TrustSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 AT 8 PM

American Symphony OrchestraConducted by Leon Botstein, music directorWorks by Harold Farberman and Anton BrucknerFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22 AND SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23

All concerts are at 8 pm and feature a preconcert talk at 7 pm.