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at the intersection of Belle France? Era is at the ninth annual Summer Festival Bard, who has once coded a beautiful tapestry of music, opera, theater, dance, theater and cabaret, to the theme of the 23rd Annual meeting to discuss Bard Music Festival. Presented in the striking Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other venues at Bard College? S bucolic Hudson River campus, opens the festival seven weeks of the sixth July with the first of three performances of France? S F Company? Their gallant ending, and on 19 August, with a share of Bard? s beloved Spiegeltent, which refers to the seven full weeks. This year? S Bard Music Festival explores? Saint-Sa? Ns and the world? ? and part of the great French composer’s compatriots have the most innovative highlights Summerscape others, including Emmanuel Chabrier op-comique king against his will in a first staged revival of the original version of 1887? Moli re final comedy of manners, The Imaginary Invalid (1673), and a film festival, France and the colonial imagination?.? ? Overall, presenting a vivid portrait of Bard offering a creative and colorful era in European history, dazzling: a golden age of promise and opportunity that come to the tragedy of World War II was ending
** Called? Bootcamp for the brain is a part, a spa, part of the mind? The New York Times, the Bard Music Festival creative inspiration for Summer Landscape with Saint-Sa ns and his world? a great program and revealing of the orchestral, choral and chamber concerts, interviews and pre-conceived and roundtables to examine everything, dedicated to the life and times of Camille Saint-Sa? ns (1835? 1921). Long career, the French composer? S not only in music by Gounod French Ravel created, but thanks to its co-founder of the influential Soci t? Of Music, has helped, too. His own amazing starting composition reflects his virtuosity at the piano and organ, and in his advanced chromaticism, his advocacy of Wagner and Liszt. However, help clean the transparent, almost classical, and the flash of his brilliant orchestration to define a sound that is unmistakably French. The Bard Music Festival offers a French immersion at the end of Romanticism, with its opulence and rich emotional brand? Installations such as C? sar Franck and Claude Debussy on lesser-known figures such as C? Cécile Chaminade? while contextualizing his saints? ns in the rest of the music world, alongside composers both conservatives and modernists. A wide range of Saint-Sa? Ns? S music is played, from popular works such as the organ? Symphony, with its biblical poem rarely played?? The d? Luge (? The Flood?). Recognized his gift for thematic programming, Bard reached a depth and breadth of musical and cultural discovery, which is really unique. The two weekends of Bard Music Festival will open on August 10-12 and August 17-19 (see details below) instead.
the American Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor, Leon Botstein, while in residence at Bard Summer Landscape. The opera Bard? Annual S is staged the first revival of the original version in 1887 by King Bully (? Despite King? Him?), An opera by Saint-Sa? Ns compatriot? S and contemporary Emmanuel Chabrier. Directed by Botstein, whose 2005 concert performance of the OP? -Comique was? Dynamic and self-confident? (New York Times), will receive the production a contemporary treatment of Thaddeus Strassberger, director of? Summerscape earlier productions of the famous Huguenot and the distant sound. Bard in the theater will present the final game Moli re, Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid, 1673); The Tender Land, the magician, and Uncle Vanya: satire filling mixture into an indictment of the medical profession is, this classic comedy of manners from the Princess Grace Award winner Erica Schmidt, the creator of the three previous offers Summerscape be performed. A dance performance opened significantly Summer Cape every year since 2005. This year, the Company F? Their gallant start the festival with my joy Quebec House (? Stay Let my joy? 2002), which celebrates the sublime music of Baroque masters JS Bach with B? Béatrice Massin choreography? Contemporary p
from Europe for its seventh season of Summer Landscape, Bard imported? Spiegeltent sensational authentic and popular is a pavilion with a hand-mirror, a theater in the round, which doubles as a dance floor decorated centered. Food, beverages and entertainment on Thursday through Sunday throughout Summer Landscape, is a reflection of the party tent? S Center for fun and refreshment. While flicker of days of the weekend? Tent of dreams? Host family programs, and at night there? SA impressive array of cabaret and musical performances, dancing and drinking with post.
Critical acclaim:
London? s Times Literary Supplement hailed as Cape Summer? the most intellectually ambitious of America? s summer festival.? The New Yorker called? One of the biggest festivals in upstate? American Record Guide and agreement? Bard? Cape summer’s must be one of the city of New York? s Great Escapes of the season.? Travel and Leisure reported? Gehry? S renowned concert hall provides a spectacular backdrop for innovative fare.? Newsday called the Cape Summer? Brave and intelligent? Musical America, he found? Awesomely intense? The New York Times said it? never a hotbed of intellectual and aesthetic adventure? and the New York Sun notes? Bard? offers one of the best ensembles of the summer for fans of any artistic discipline.?
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Bard Summer 2012? Highlights of type
Music
many offers from which 23 full annual Bard Music Festival? Saint-Sa? ns and the world? Place two weekends Summerscape’s finale? 10 August 12 and August 17, 19?. ? Through the prism of Saint-Sa ns life and career, this year’s celebration will explore the music of the Belle Epoque, the trail’s subsequent upheavals of modernity? It was finally in Paris and though Saint-Sa? ns? s long life, that Stravinsky? t was notorious Rite of Spring, the first place.
His saints? ns, from his childhood nickname as a child prodigy? French Mozart? was an excellent musician and exceptional versatility. His work includes 10 concerts, symphonies, chamber music five 39, 50 pieces for piano solo, 12 operas, many choral works, more than 90 songs, nearly 40 transcripts and music for six plays. A world-class virtuoso on the piano and organ, he was also a conductor, critic, essayist, editor, and early in his career a musical pioneer, instrumental in the introduction of innovations in Germany, not least, the symphonic poem, in France.
12 music programs and thematically built over two weekends spread out? Saint-Sa? ns and the culture of taste? Out of the Shadow of Samson and Delilah? Saint-Sa ns Other Grand Opera.? As the music of his contemporaries, a large number of Saint-Sa? Ns? S presented his own compositions, based on canonical works as macabre, such comparative rarities such as the late sonatas for oboe and bassoon dance. Two panel discussions will be information topics s preconceived discussions before each performance, the concert will be added to illuminate? And is free to ticket holders.
A weekend
, 10 August 12:? Paris and the cosmopolitan culture
The first weekend of the Bard Music Festival is also an overview of Saint-Sa? ns? s most famous play, The Carnival of the animals he so poor reflection of his work, he was behind bars was held until his death. In addition to favorites such as the symphony orchestra rising third, his? Official magnum opus? and his Fifth Piano Concerto, along with lesser-known works such as The Muse and the Po? She and a generous selection of his chamber repertoire sadly neglected.
Two weekend
, 17 August 19:? Given the modern
Two Weekend Bard Music Festival explores
music of many of Saint-Sa? ns contemporaries? Compatriots included organist C? sar Franck, Emmanuel Chabrier, Vincent d? Indy and his close friend and most famous student, Gabriel Faur?. The weekend begins with readings by writer Marcel Proust, whose famous? Vinteuil Sonata? Chambers, usually identified with Saint-Sa? ns? s exquisite Violin Sonata, and closes with a concert of his great opera Henry VIII The weekend also features a performance by the composer? O beautiful choral work, the oratorio The Biblical Flood. Programmed by her other parameters, including the Biblical Psalm 130 (The Bottom? From? Me) by Lili Boulanger, the first woman winner of the Prix de Rome. Are also being studied, but the dedication of Saint-Sa? Ns and peers with Baroque composers such as Rameau, and with the center of the film.
Since the founding of the Bard Music Festival, in every season Princeton University Press published a companion volume of new scholarship and interpretation, with essays, translations and correspondence in connection with the composer and his world star. Jann Pasler, author of the composition of the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France, the 2010 ASCAP Deems Taylor is the editor of the volume in 2012, Camille Saint-Sa ns ?.
Described as
? single stimulus? of the Los Angeles Times, and? Always intelligent and edifying? The New York Times, the Bard Music Festival impressed critics worldwide. ? As the Wall Street Journal, Barrymore Laurence Scherer’s notes:
? The Bard Music Festival? no longer needs introduction. Under the direction of the chief provocative scholar Leon Botstein, it has long been one of the most inspiring of all U.S. summer festivals and is often one of the most musically satisfying. Each year, through discussions with Principal Investigators and concerts representation often programmed to the rafters, the public, Bard studied the work of a great composer in the context of society, politics, literature, art and music of his time.?
23rd annual Bard Music Festival is made possible by the generous support of the Council of the Bard Music Festival and the Friends of the Fisher Center, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council of Arts in part.
Opera
Where
His saints? ns was a professional, polished, his contemporary and fellow countryman Emmanuel Chabrier (1841? 94) was regarded by his peers as something of an amateur to be. His comic opera rarely performed King Bully (? Despite King? Him? 1887) is the story of Henri de Valois, a 16th Century noble king of Poland, despite the name is longing for his native France. Such revivals that have been made in general on the platform together, rather than at the opera, and later use the revised versions of the work. But the operatic farce and romance balance the economy with a stylish and has a value of rich and original way that Ravel after his first? Changed the course of French harmony.? Similarly, the critics later recognized that in the words of Pulitzer Prize-Harold C. Schonberg? Chabrier? The King’s Head, in spite? Him light work of extraordinary elegance. It should be reinstated. Be?
It was
Leon Botstein, who, along with the American Symphony Orchestra, the first back to the text of the first in 1887, to the delight of the lucky New York press. ? The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini wrote:
? Leon Botstein, a tireless champion of the unjustly neglected, came to the rescue of a still neglected Chabrier comedy, despite the king? He (? King against his will?). ? Mr. Botstein leads? A concert of this dynamic and safe working very charming from the year 1887? . The cast was beautiful? . But Mr. Botstein deserves recognition for bringing us this inexplicably neglected opera.?
As the New York Sun confirmed? If one of [these] spirited performance and the roar of the audience? s joy at the conclusion that time the king? s got.?
Summer Landscape is back in the fortunate position of Chabrier? Masterpiece in its original form the opera in a new, fully staged production, with Botstein? best musical direction and a modern treatment by Thaddeus Strassberger, previously Cape Summer Opera productions are among the stories Bard? s undisputed success. On his way to Meyerbeer in 2009, told the Financial Times: Huguenots in Bard staging is a thriller from beginning to end?. ? Five stars.? ? Even the 2010 production of S s Shreker the distant sound, the Wall Street Journal observed: Strassberger’s engrossing production reflects the experimental nature of the opera from the seamless integration of historical films and give the show a modernist, the distance is? while New York Magazine as one of the top ten? classical music events of 2010.? As noted in the American musical? Bard opera? Annual S is an indispensable part of the landscape of the Summer Opera, because it is always the selection of works inspired and unique creative productions.?
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new staging, a co-production with Ireland’s Wexford Opera Festival, which annually hosts one of the showcases of the world’s best operas, for a period of five performances (27 and 29 July and 1 August, 3, and 5), a Conversation with Opera de Leon Botstein, free and open to the public, before the show on Sunday, 29 July at 01.00 clock
Special support
King Bully (despite the king? Him) is of Emily H. Fisher and courtesy John Alexander.
Talk opera is presented in memory of Sylvia Redlick green.
Theater
Although they were less popular among his contemporaries, Saint-Sa? ns known to the lovers of the works of his compatriot Moli? re (1622? 73), he enjoys the power and the implementation of the reconstruction of lost music ancillary to The Imaginary Invalid. With comedies like manners The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, the miser, and The Imaginary Invalid itself, Moli? Re? the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin? Satire on the hypocrisy and arrogance of the old R? Regime, which raises the height of comedy to great art, and set standards by which it has been held since.
The Imaginary Invalid (? The Imaginary Invalid?) was premiered in 1673 as a three-act-com? Die-cast ballet with music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier addressed. Targeting both hypochondriacs and greedy exploiters nurses, is the protagonist of the rich Argan, the imaginary complaints to his obsession with doses expensive treatments and tonics. This bond, so it makes us blind to the realities of family life that learns only by faking his death as Argan the truth. The playwright himself took over the title role in the original production, with a macabre irony, bleeding, during which he performed the fourth, and? Despite that, he? died later that evening.
Opening 13th
July will be the new production by Erica Schmidt, for a total of 10 performances (July 13? 22) directed. Schmidt, whose numerous awards, including the Princess Grace, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, Drama Desk and Obie Awards, is the creator of the three previous offers Summer Landscape: The Tender Land (2006), The Sorcerer (2007), and Uncle Vanya ( 2008), among varieties were observed:
? A Chekhov production requires a balancing act? or part of the game? Wealth is lost. In his production of Uncle Vanya at Bard College? S Cape Summer Festival, director Erica Schmidt, supported by a team of creative sterling, the right balance.?
Performance The Imaginary Invalid was drawn by Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation.
Dance
In the past seven seasons, was the dance an integral part of the Summer Landscape, with the famous dance open every summer since 2005. This year is the opening of Summer Landscape sixth July, France? S F Company? Her gallant, in 1993 by choreographer and B revered baroque specialists founded? Atrice Massin. It is through his work with the pioneering dance historian Francine Lancelot to society and Danceries Ris Massin, that first point? Great love story with a Baroque dance? (Le Soir). But despite his command of the genre, Massin? S works are not strictly pageants. Rather, they take the dance vocabulary of the 17th and 18 Century and offer a modern tendency and very original. Massin? S many commissions include the official opening of Paris? S Centre National de la Danse (2004), and musical partners include performance period specialist Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyric, and William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, with the F? Their gallant worked in Merchant-Ivory film Jefferson in Paris (1995).
This summer
B? Massin Atrice brings one of his most successful Summer Dance Landscape, my joy in Quebec House (? Let my joy remain? 2002), with the F? Their gallant toured France, Belgium, Italy, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. As reported in Le Monde, Qc is still my joy? A blow whither it goes? because of what the choreography calls Bangkok Post? Massin? s simple, but brilliant complex.? It is not surprising that R? Union? S Clicanoo calls? To keep my joy? Pure luck?
set of music by JS Bach played by two large groups on period instruments (extracts from Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2, 3 and 6 with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Cantata BWV 78 steers with Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale) What Mansion is my pleasure to present three performances (July 6? 
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Film
France and the colonial imagination
? Saint-Sa ns
was the first major composer to write the music for an original movie? S 1908 The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (The Assassination of the Duke of Guise). Well, the Cape Film Festival Summer 2012? France and the colonial imagination? Politicians need a similar theme, exploring the legacy of French in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and the countries that were once French West Africa to colonialism. A wide range of styles, concerns and perspectives of these films, the salaries in the romantic Europeans, African Muslims, as are represented in P? P? le Moko (1937) and Casablanca (1942), works by European film-makers, develop, and how the Battle of Algiers (1966) to challenge colonialism, and works from the African perspective, including two films from Senegal, Ousmane Semb does s (1923 2007?) as the father? African cinema.?
Again
Bard Summer is proud to all the tracks on 35mm film (if possible) to present. Jim Ottaway Jr., the films are in the film center of Milton Avery and Sally Arts Center.
Mirror Tent
return for a seventh was nice, was authentic, one-of-a-kind Belgian Spiegeltent sensationally popular since its introduction to the Bard in 2006, the first time one of these fantastic structures appeared in America. The perfect place to enjoy an incredible variety of entertainment throughout the festival, Bard? S Spiegel Tent provides a meeting place for drinking, food and festivities before and after the performances this weekend. Food is light fare for the summer? Map of the burgers on the grill, fresh salads, gourmet ice cream, beer microbrewed, local wine and more, sourced locally whenever possible. In the days of the weekend there are family programs, and at night there? The portfolio of the leading cabaret and musical performances? sold almost all of them last summer? Post to dance and drink. Reflecting Summer Landscape? S current Gallic theme, this season? S Spiegeltent programming takes a distinctly French flavor!
See below for a chronological list of the Cape Summer 2012, emphasizes the dates of the performance by gender, program details Bard Music Festival. and ticket information
Summer Landscape 2012: chronological list of the highlights
6 July? 8 Summer Landscape opens with F Company? Their gallant
13th July? 22 Ten representations of Moli? re? the drama of The Imaginary Invalid
12th July? 12th August??? Film festival? France and the colonial imagination? (11 Movies)
14th July gala benefit in the Mirror Tent
27th July? 5th August five performances by Emmanuel Chabrier? Opera The King reluctantly
10th August Annual Bard Music Festival opening-night dinner at the Mirror Tent
10th August? 12?? Bard Music Festival, Weekend One:
Saint-Sa ns and his world? Paris and the culture of cosmopolitanism?
17th August? 19?? Bard Music Festival Weekend Two:
Saint-Sa ns and his world? Given the modern
Summer Landscape 2012: key dates for the performance by gender
MUSIC
Bard Music Festival, Weekend One:? Saint-Sa ns and his world: Paris and the culture of cosmopolitanism? (10th August? 12)
Bard Music Festival Weekend Two:? Saint-Sa ns and His World: confrontation of modernity? (17th August? 19)
Full details of the program
follow.
Bus transportation round-trip from Manhattan to
Bard on 10 August, 12, 17 and 19 individuals for theatrical Sosnoff. The shuttle service to and from the Metro North station in Poughkeepsie, and Bard is also available for some performances. A fee billed and reservations are required for the coach and the transport of the shuttle. See website for dates and details.
OPERA
Emmanuel Chabrier: The Reluctant King
Sosnoff Theater
July and August
27 * 3-19 hours
July and 29 August and 1 * 5 * to 15 hours
Tickets: $ 30
, 60, 70, 90
THEATER
Moli
Re: The Imaginary Invalid
Two theaters
* 13 July, 14 +, 19, 20 and 21? to 20 hours
14th July 15 *, 18, 21 and 22 to 15 hours *
Tickets: $ 45
DANCE
Company F? Their gallant
* 6 and 7 July? to 20 hours
8th July at 03:00 *
Sosnoff Theater
Tickets: $ 25
, $ 40, $ 45, $ 55
round-trip transportation from Manhattan to Bard is available for this performance. The trip costs $ 30 and reservations are required.
? Round-trip shuttle service between the Metro North station in Poughkeepsie and Bard for this performance. The trip costs $ 20 and reservations are required. The shuttle service is available for all performances of the opera.
Fundraising Gala Dinner +
Summerscape and post-performance party.
FILM FESTIVAL
? France and the colonial imagination?
Thursday and Sunday, July 12th? August 12 to 14 hours or 19 hours
Ottaway Film Center
Tickets: $ 8
Mirror Tent
Cabaret
, family restaurant, and club levels
Cabaret
$ 25 $ 15 family rate ($ 5 for children under 18); mirror Club $ 5
Room:
Summerscape opera, theater and dance programs and most of the Bard Music Festival will take place in the Sosnoff Theater and Theater Two Bard? s Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry and celebrated since its opening as an important architectural landmark in the region. Some programs, room and other events in the BMF Olin Hall. The mirror tent has its own calendar of events, in addition to serving as a restaurant, coffee?, And the bar before and after performances. Festival screenings of the film are Jim Ottaway Jr. in the film center of Milton Avery and Sally Arts Center.
New York City Transportation Round-trip coach:
To make a reservation on the bus for the return ticket holders only for certain performances by * in the following calendar of events specified make available, call the fund at 845-758-7900. The trip costs $ 30 and reservations are required. The bus departs from Columbus Circle four hours before the scheduled curtain time allow food in the Spiegeltent.
Transportation Metro North station in Poughkeepsie
return shuttle:
round-trip shuttle service between the Metro North station in Poughkeepsie, and Bard is marked only for ticket holders for certain services with a?. The shuttle service is available for all performances of the opera. The trip costs $ 20 and reservations are required. For reservations at the box office at 845-758-7900.
complete schedule:
A complete list of events and Summer Cape Bard Music Festival (subject to change) follows. Updates will be posted on the website of the festival fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2012.
Tickets for all events
Summerscape sale to the public 20th February 2012, but those who register early? e-member? will be the early bird? s selection of the best places and regular news and updates.
Program Details
Bard Music Festival? Saint-Sa? ns and his world?
A WEEKEND
: Paris and the culture of openness to the world
Friday, August 10th
PROGRAM
Saint-Sa? ns and the culture of taste *?
Sosnoff Theater
19.30 clock
preconceived discussion
08.00 clock performance
works by Camille Saint-Sa? ns (1835? 1921)
Tickets: $ 25
, 35, 45, 55
Saturday, August 11th
PANEL
Prodigy
, Polymath, Globetrotter and reactionary
Olin Auditorium
10:00? 12.00
free and open to the public
Two programs
the scene, the composition and the Organization for Life concert
Olin Auditorium
13.00 clock
preconceived discussion
13.30 clock performance
work by Camille Saint-Sa ns (1835 1921?)? Christoph Willibald Gluck (87 in 1714?)
Franz Liszt (86 in 1811?), Charles Gounod (93 in 1818?), Anton Rubinstein (94 in 1829?)
Leo Delibes (91 in 1836?), Jules Massenet (1842 1912?) Pablo de Sarasate (1844 1908?)
Georges Bizet (75 in 1838?), and others
Tickets: $ 35
Three programs
His saints? ns, a French Beethoven? *?
Sosnoff Theater
07.00 clock
preconceived discussion
08.00 clock
Power: American Symphony Orchestra, the by Leon Botstein, music director performed
works by Camille Saint-Sa? ns (1835? 1921)
Tickets: $ 30
, 50, 60, 75
Sunday, August 12th
Four programs
organ, the queen of instruments
Sosnoff Theater
Performance at 10 h
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work by Camille Saint-Sa ns (1835 1921?)? Adolphe Adam (56 in 1803?)? Louis Lef bure-W Ly (69 in 1817?), Charles Gounod (93 in 1818?)? C sar Franck (90 in 1822?), Charles-Marie Widor (1844 1937?)? Bo Ullmann Leon (1862 97?), Louis Vierne (1870 1937?)
Tickets: $ 35
Program of five
Ars Gallica and the French national feeling
Olin Auditorium
13.00 clock
preconceived discussion
13.30 clock performance
works by Camille Saint-Sa ns (1835 1921?)? Edouard Lalo (92 in 1823?)? Yes Mary II (1846 1925?)? Augusta Holm (1847 1903?) Henri Duparc (1848? 1933), Ernest Chausson (99 1855)? ric Magnard AB (1865 1914)
Tickets: $ 35
Six program areas
zoological fantasy: The Carnival of the Animals * Revisited????
Sosnoff Theater
05.00 clock
preconceived discussion
05.30 clock performance
work by Camille Saint-Sa ns (1835 1921?)? Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 94?), Gabriel Fauré? (1845 1924?) Erik Satie (1866 1925?) Maurice Ravel (1875 1937?), Jacques Ibert (1890 1962?) Francis Poulenc (1899 1963?), And others
Tickets: $ 25
, 35, 45, 55
Two weekends
: Modern face
Friday, August 17th
seven studies program
Proust and music *??????
Sosnoff Theater
preconceived Group 19.00 clock
20.30 clock performance
work by Camille Saint-Sa ns (1835 1921?)? C sar Franck (90 in 1822?), Gabriel Fauré? (1845 1924?), Claude Debussy (1862 1918?), Reynaldo Hahn (? 1874 1947)
Tickets: $ 25
, 35, 45, 55
Saturday, August 18th
Two plates
Export Western Music Past and Present
Olin Auditorium
10:00? 12.00
free and open to the public
PROGRAM EIGHT
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