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BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS

A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Bard PRESENTS

A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

UPSTREAMING THE VIRTUAL STAGE OF THE FISHER CENTER Performed by Danny Driver and , piano Recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England, fall 2020

César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1 in E Major, arranged for two pianos by Henri Duparc (1890) Danny Driver and Piers Lane, piano

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp Minor, Op. 73 (1895) Thème L’istesso tempo Più mosso Un poco più mosso L’istesso tempo Un poco più mosso Molto adagio Allegro moderato Andante molto moderato Quasi adagio Allegro vivo Andante molto, moderato espressivo Danny Driver, piano

2 LILI BOULANGER (1893–1918) Theme and Variations in C Minor (1914) Thème Lent (avec grandeur mais sombre, douloureux) Sur la tête du thème (très tenaillé, douloureux) Thème à la partie supérieure (assez lent, plus simple, plus de grandeur) La basse et surtout le chant bien en dehors Très calme Thème modifié Thème totalement modifié, pas très lent, très large Lent (avec grandeur mais sombre, douloureux) Piers Lane, piano

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874) Thème: Moderato assai Tempo di minuetto Allegro Poco più mosso Tempo del tema Molto allegro Moderato assai Presto leggerissimo Alla marcia funebre (allegro moderato) Allegro Presto Danny Driver and Piers Lane, piano

This performance was made possible in part through the generous support of the Boards of the Bard Music Festival, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, as well as Friends of the Fisher Center.

3 FISHER CENTER BOARDS Advisory Board Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Chair Carolyn Marks Blackwood +

Stefano Ferrari Board of Trustees Alan H. Fishman James C. Chambers ’81, Chair Neil Gaiman Emily H. Fisher, Vice Chair S. Asher Gelman ’06 George F. Hamel Jr., Vice Chair Rebecca Gold Milikowsky Elizabeth Ely ’65, Secretary; Life Trustee Anthony Napoli Stanley A. Reichel ’65, Treasurer; Life Trustee Denise S. Simon Fiona Angelini Martin T. Sosnoff Roland J. Augustine Toni Sosnoff Leonard Benardo Felicitas S. Thorne* Leon Botstein+, President of the College Taun Toay ’05 + Mark E. Brossman Andrew E. Zobler Jinqing Cai

Marcelle Clements ’69, Life Trustee

The Rt. Rev. Andrew M. L. Dietsche, Honorary BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL Trustee Asher B. Edelman ’61, Life Trustee Board of Directors Robert S. Epstein ’63 Denise S. Simon, Chair Barbara S. Grossman ’73, Alumni/ae Trustee Roger Alcaly Andrew S. Gundlach Kathleen Augustine Matina S. Horner+ Leon Botstein+, Artistic Director Charles S. Johnson III ’70 Michelle R. Clayman Mark N. Kaplan, Life Trustee David Dubin George A. Kellner Robert C. Edmonds ’68 Mark Malloch-Brown Jeanne Donovan Fisher Fredric S. Maxik ’86 Christopher H. Gibbs+, Artistic Director James H. Ottaway Jr., Life Trustee Paula K. Hawkins* Hilary Pennington Thomas Hesse Martin Peretz, Life Trustee Susan Petersen Kennedy Stewart Resnick, Life Trustee Dr. Barbara Kenner David E. Schwab II ’52 Gary Lachmund Roger N. Scotland ’93, Alumni/ae Trustee Thomas O. Maggs Annabelle Selldorf Kenneth L. Miron Mostafiz ShahMohammed ’97 Christina Mohr Jonathan Slone ’84 James H. Ottaway Jr. Alexander Soros Felicitas S. Thorne Jeannette H. Taylor+ Siri von Reis James A. von Klemperer Brandon Weber ’97, Alumni/ae Trustee Susan Weber Patricia Ross Weis ’52 + ex officio * emeritus

4 ADMINISTRATION Development Debra Pemstein, Vice President for Development

and Alumni/ae Affairs

Alessandra Larson, Director of Development BARD COLLEGE Kieley Michasiow-Levy, Individual Giving Manager Senior Administration Michael Hofmann VAP '15, Development Leon Botstein, President Operations Manager Coleen Murphy Alexander ’00, Vice President for Elise Alexander '19, Development Assistant Administration Myra Young Armstead, Vice President for Theater & Performance and Dance Programs Academic Inclusive Excellence Jennifer Lown, Program Administrator Jonathan Becker, Executive Vice President; Vice President for Academic Affairs; Director, Production Center for Civic Engagement Jason Wells, Director of Production Erin Cannan, Vice President for Civic Sarah Jick, Associate Production Manager Engagement Stephen Dean, Associate Production Manager Deirdre d’Albertis, Dean of the College Andrea Sofia Sala,Production Administrator Malia K. Du Mont ’95, Vice President for Strategy Rick Reiser, Technical Director and Policy; Chief of Staff Josh Foreman, Lighting Supervisor Peter Gadsby, Vice President for Enrollment Moe Schell, Costume Supervisor Management; Registrar Danny Carr, Video Supervisor Mark D. Halsey, Vice President for Institutional Lex Morton, Audio Supervisor Research and Assessment Max Kenner ’01, Vice President for Institutional Communications Initiatives; Executive Director, Bard Prison Mark Primoff,Associate Vice President of Initiative Communications Debra Pemstein, Vice President for Development Darren O’Sullivan, Senior Public Relations Associate and Alumni/ae Affairs Amy Murray, Videographer Taun Toay ’05, Senior Vice President; Chief Financial Officer Marketing and Audience Services Stephen Tremaine ’07, Vice President for Early David Steffen, Director of Marketing and Colleges Audience Services Dumaine Williams ’03, Vice President for Student Nicholas Reilingh, Database and Systems Manager Affairs; Dean of Early Colleges Maia Kaufman, Audience and Member Services Manager Brittany Brouker, Marketing Manager FISHER CENTER Garrett Sager, Digital Marketing Assistant

Jesika Berry, Senior House Manager Administration Samuel Furr ’20, Assistant House Manager Liza Parker, Executive Director Collin Lewis APS ’21, Audience & Member Services Catherine Teixeira, General Manager Coordinator Brynn Gilchrist '17, Executive Assistant Erik Long, Box Office Supervisor

Paulina Swierczek VAP ’19, Box Office Supervisor Artistic Direction David Bánóczi-Ruof ’22, Assistant House Manager Leon Botstein, President, Bard College Hazaiah Tompkins ’19, Community Space Manager Gideon Lester, Artistic Director

Caleb Hammons, Director of Artistic Planning Facilities and Producing Mark Crittenden, Facilities Manager Catherine Teixeira, General Manager Ray Stegner, Building Operations Manager Nunally Kersh, SummerScape Opera Producer Doug Pitcher, Building Operations Coordinator Hannah Gosling-Goldsmith, Artist Services and Chris Lyons, Building Operations Assistant Programs Manager Robyn Charter, Fire Panel Monitor Thai Harris Singer ’20, Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, Bill Cavanaugh, Environmental Specialist Producing Assistant Drita Gjokaj, Environmental Specialist Oksana Ryabinkina, Environmental Specialist

5 BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL

Artistic Directors Leon Botstein Christopher H. Gibbs

Executive Director Irene Zedlacher

Associate Director Raissa St. Pierre ’87

Program Committee Byron Adams Leon Botstein Christopher H. Gibbs Richard Wilson Irene Zedlacher

Director of Choruses James Bagwell

Vocal Casting Joshua Winograde

Producer, Staged Concerts Nunally Kersh

Development Debra Pemstein, Vice President of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Alessandra Larson, Director of Development, Fisher Center Kieley Michasiow-Levy, Individual Giving Manager

6 Founded in 1860, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, is an independent, residential, coeducational college offering a four-year BA program in the liberal arts and sciences and a five-year BA/BS degree in economics and finance. The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dual degree—a BMus and a BA in a field other than music. Bard offers MMus degrees in conjunction with the Conservatory and The Orchestra Now, and MMus as well as MMus in music education at Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant the following degrees: AA at Bard Early Colleges, public schools with campuses in , , , Newark, New Jersey, , and Washington, D.C.; AA and BA at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and through the at six correctional institutions in New York State; MA in curatorial studies, MS and MA in economic theory and policy, MEd in environmental education, and MS in environmental policy and in climate science and policy at the Annandale campus; MFA and MAT at multiple campuses; MBA in sustainability in New York City; and MA, MPhil, and PhD in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture at the in . Internationally, Bard confers BA and MAT degrees at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem and American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; BA degrees at : A Liberal Arts University; and BA and MA degrees at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (Smolny), which are part of the Open Society University Network. Bard offers nearly 50 academic programs in four divisions and interdivisional disciplines. Total enrollment for Bard College and its affiliates is approximately 6,000 students. The undergraduate College has an enrollment of about 1,800 and a student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1. Bard’s acquisition of the estate brings the size of the campus to nearly 1,000 acres.

The Fisher Center develops, produces, and presents performing arts across disciplines through new productions and context-rich programs that challenge and inspire. As a premier professional performing arts center and a hub for research and education, the Fisher Center supports artists, students, and audiences in the development and examination of artistic ideas, offering perspectives from the past and present as well as visions of the future. The Fisher Center demonstrates Bard’s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. Home is the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by and located

7 on the campus of Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley. The Fisher Center offers outstanding programs to many communities, including the students and faculty of Bard College, and audiences in the Hudson Valley, New York City, across the country, and around the world. Building on a 161-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders.

Founded in 1990, the Bard Music Festival has established its unique identity in the classical concert field by presenting programs that, through performance and discussion, place selected works in the cultural and social context of the composer’s world. Programs of the Bard Music Festival offer a point of view.

The intimate communication of recital and chamber music and the excitement of full orchestral and choral works are complemented by informative preconcert talks, panel discussions by renowned musicians and scholars, and special events. In addition, the University of Press publishes a book of essays, translations, and correspondence relating to the festival’s central figure.

By providing an illuminating context, the festival encourages listeners and musicians alike to rediscover the powerful, expressive nature of familiar compositions and to become acquainted with less well-known works. Since its inaugural season, the Bard Music Festival has entered the worlds of Brahms, Mendelssohn, , Dvořák, Schumann, Bartók, Ives, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg, Beethoven, Debussy, Mahler, Janáček, Shostakovich, Copland, Liszt, Elgar, Prokofiev, Wagner, Berg, Sibelius, Saint-Saëns, Stravinsky, Schubert, Carlos Chávez, Puccini, Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Korngold. The 31st festival, in 2021, will be devoted to the life and work of Nadia Boulanger.