The Bard Music Festival promotes new ways of understanding and presenting the history of music to a contemporary audience. Each year, a single composer is chosen as the main subject. The biography of the composer, the influences and consequences of that composer’s achievement, and all aspects of the musical culture surrounding the time and place of the composer’s life are explored. Perhaps the most important dimensions of the festival are the ways in which it links music to the worlds of literature, painting, theater, philosophy, and politics and brings two kinds of audience together: those with a long history of interest in concert life and first-time listeners, who find the festival an ideal place to learn about and enjoy the riches of our musical past.
Program One: Vaughan Williams: Becoming an English Composer
August 04, 2023
Description
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
“Down Ampney (Come Down, O Love Divine)” from The English Hymnal (1906) Quintet for piano and strings in C minor (1903) Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (1910) Concerto in D minor for violin and strings (1925) Serenade to Music (1938) O taste and see (1953) Songs
Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Selections from Five English Folk Songs (1913) “Old Hundredth Psalm Tune” (1953)
Contributors
Eniko Samu
Violin tutti
Aug 04, 2023
Dates
4
Aug, 23
Program Three • The Symphony and Composing for the Stage