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 BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL 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 Piers Lane, 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 BARD COLLEGE Leon Botstein+ 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. 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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 New York City, Baltimore, Cleveland, Newark, New Jersey, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C.; AA and BA at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and through the Bard Prison Initiative 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 Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. 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 Bard College Berlin: 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 Montgomery Place estate brings the size of the campus to nearly 1,000 acres. The Fisher Center develops, produces, and presents performing