Category Archives: Music

Conservatory Sundays continues on Sunday, December 7 at 3 p.m. with “Winter Songfest,” a festive holiday celebration with soprano Dawn Upshaw. Acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw and members of the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Postgraduate Collaborative Piano Fellows, Hudson Valley Brass, and … Continue reading →

A 10-​​​​story inferno erupts the desert sky, ignited by an orgiastic display of fireworks, washing a massive spasm of human flesh in a blaze of raw heat. Beaming smiles, teary faces, guttural roars and primal hoots accent the excitement of the moment … Continue reading →

If you were on one of the less-​​​​traveled highways of the U.S. this summer, you might have come upon a van parked on the shoulder and a group of people lying in the middle of the road.  As you get closer, however, … Continue reading →

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and The John Cage Trust at Bard College present two special concerts featuring works by acclaimed American composer John Cage. On Saturday, September 20, there will be a rare performance of Cage’s … Continue reading →

If you find yourself on the Lower East Side late on a Monday night, you might run across a street scene more reminiscent of New Orleans than Manhattan. A gang of musicians… Continue reading →

Aaron Comess has been one of New York City’s most in-​​​​demand drummers for more than 20 years. A founding member of the Spin Doctors, he has also recorded with and played in the bands of Joan Osborne, James Maddock and Marc … Continue reading →

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as “the addition of strangeness to beauty,” and the Romantic artist’s obsession with passion, poetic reverie, melancholia, and the mystical journey was never so achingly expressed as in the lieder of Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828). Schubert wrote … Continue reading →

Back in 1973, the New Kentucky Colonels toured throughout Holland and Sweden.The band was a reunion of three veterans of the Kentucky Colonels: brothers Roland, Clarence, and Eric White, along with banjo player Alan Munde, a substite for Herb Pedersen. The tracks … Continue reading →