Annandale-On-Hudson, NY (PRWEB) February 2, 2012

Culture at a Crossroads Bell poque France will examine the ninth annual Cape Bard summer party, with a glorious tapestry of music, opera, theater, dance, film , cabaret and customized the theme of the 23th annual Bard Music Festival. Presented in the striking Richard B.. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other places on the Bard College campus charming Hudson River, the festival seven weeks of July 6th with the first of three performances of Francis tog Galantes Company F, and closes on August 19 with a party Bards beloved Spiegel, who for seven full weeks of return. This annual Bard Music Festival explores Saint-Sat ns and his world, and some of the great French composers innovative precedents for other summer highlights Cape, including Emmanuel Chabriers of Ra-Comique, the king, in spite of himself first? Does the revival of the original version 1887, MOLI final comedy of manners of the rest, the imaginary invalid (1673) and Film Festival, France and colonial imagination. Together Bards offers offers a vivid portrait of a brilliant creative and colorful era in European history: the golden era of promise and opportunity to end the tragedy of World War II.

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Dubbed Part Boot Camp for the brain, part spa for the spirit of the New York Times, Bard Music Festival offers creative inspiration for summer gown, the presentation of the SA St-NS and his world: far-reaching and informative program of orchestral, choral and chamber music, and preconcert talks and panel discussions devoted to exploring the life and times of Camille Saint-SA? ns (18.351.921). French composers long career not only spanned the French music of Gounod Ravel, but thanks to his co-founder of the influential Soci? T? National de musique, helped to form. His enormous output reflects his compositional virtuosity on the piano and organ, and the Advanced Chroma, his championship of Wagner and Liszt. However, pure, almost classical transparency and brilliant glow of his orchestration, helping define a sound that is unmistakably French. Bard Music Festival offers immersion in French late Romanticism with trademark luxury and emotional richness of personalities such as C Kong Frank and Claude Debussy lesser known figures such as C cile Chaminade, and also Saint-Sat? PS contextualization within the wider music world, with composers and conservative and modernist. A wide range of Saint-SA? NSC will perform music from popular works as a body rarely performed Symphony biblical poem, Le D? Luge (Flood). With its renowned gift for thematic programming, Bard reached the depth and breadth of musical and cultural discovery that is truly unique. On weekends the Bard Music Festival August 10 to 12 and 17 to 19 August (see details below)

American Symphony Orchestra under music director, Leon Botstein, the Bard’s house during the summer coat. Barden annual opera will be staged the first revival of the original 1887 version of the emperor, although he (Le Roi malgr? Louis), opera by Saint-SA to be? NSC compatriot and contemporary Emmanuel Chabrier. With Botstein, whose 2005 concert performance? Ra-Comique were alive and assured (New York Times), the production will receive modern treatment of Thaddeus Strassberger, former director of SummerScapes celebrated productions of Les Huguenots and distant sound. . In theater, Bard MOLI will rest the final game here, imaginary Invalid (Le malade imaginaire, 1673), mixing satire with farce in charge of the medical profession, this classic comedy of manners will be led by Princess Grace Award winner Eric Schmidt, creator of the previous Cape offers three summer: Tender Land, magician, and Uncle Vanya. A significant dance performance open summer Cape every year since 2005. This year, the company F tog Galantes? The launch of the festival Dr. Que joie Demeure (Let my joy remain, 2002), which celebrates the sublime music of Baroque master JS Bach with beatrice B Massins contemporary choreography?

imported from Europe for the seventh summer season nose, Bards authentic and sensational popular mirror is handmade pavilion decorated with mirrors, downtown-theater in the round that doubles as a podium. Offers food, drink and entertainment Thursday through Sunday in summer coat, which reflects the type of center parties, entertainment and refreshments. During weekends glittering tent of dreams is the host family programs, and in the evening is part of the top cabaret and musical performances, post-show dancing and drinks

reviews:

London Times literary supplement

summer gown praised as the most intellectually ambitious of South America’s summer music festivals. The New Yorker is one of the major upstate festivals, and the American Record Guide agreed, Bards summer gown, a major New York area seasonal escape. Travel and Leisure article, Gehrys acclaimed concert hall offers a wonderful place for innovative fare. Newsday called the Cape summer brave and wise, Market America has shown that this awesomely intense, the New York Times pronounced once a hotbed of intellectual and aesthetic adventure, and the New York Sun reported Bardoffers Joining one of the best summer for fans of any arts discipline

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Cape Bard summer 2012 highs by category

Music

numerous presentations on 23 years of comprehensive Bard Music Festival, Saint-SA ns and his world, takes place over the last two weekends SummerScapes: August 1012 and August 1719. ? Through the prism of Saint-sa NSC life and career, the festival this year, Bell poque music that paved the way for the next modernisms turbulence to explore, it was, after all, in Paris and in Saint-SA NSS? long lifetime, which is famous Rite of Spring premiere Stravinskys happen.

Sat? NS of his childhood as a prodigy named French Mozart was a complete and extremely versatile musician. His oeuvre includes 10 concerts, five symphonies, 39 chamber music works, solo piano pieces 50, 12 operas, choral works a lot, more than 90 songs, almost 40 minutes and six incidental music for plays. A world-class virtuoso piano and organ, he was also a conductor, critic, essayist, editor, and his early career music pioneer, instrumental in the launch of the German innovation, not least the symphonic poem, in France.

12 thematic musical programs built at a distance over two weekends, starting from Saint-SA NS and cultivation of taste in the shadow of Samson and Delilah? Saint-SA NSS Other Grand Opera. Like the music of his contemporaries, a broad sampling of Saint-SA NSS own compositions will be presented to the canonical works as Danse macabre in comparative rarities like the end of the solo sonatas for oboe and bassoon. Two panel discussions will be supplemented by informative preconcert talks before every performance that highlighted themes and free concert tickets to

weekend in August 1012: Paris and the culture of cosmopolitanism

first weekend of the Bard Music Festival includes consideration of Saint-SA? NSC most famous piece, Carnival of the animals, he has reflected on his work is so bad it kept under lock and key until after his death. Also featured are such favorites as the increase of the Third Symphony, his Magnum Opus official and his fifth piano concertos, with lesser known works such as La Muse et le PO? For a wide choice of rooms, unfortunately, neglected repertoire.