Name: Program One • Vaughan Williams: Becoming an English Composer
Start: 2023-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Fisher Center

Organization

Conductor

Leon Botstein

Singer

Tenor

William Ferguson

Baritone

Theo Hoffman

Renée Anne Louprette

Soloist

Grace Park

Mezzo-soprano

Sun-Ly Pierce

Soprano

Brandie Sutton

Chorus master

James Bagwell

Fisher Center at Bard

Others

Bard Festival Chorale

Orchestra

The Orchestra Now

Program One • Vaughan Williams: Becoming an English Composer

Annandale

United States

Fisher Center

Sosnoff Theater

Program One • Vaughan Williams: Becoming an English Composer: Concert Various

Public

Concert

Approved

Launching the 33rd Bard Music Festival, Program One harnesses Bard’s unusual ability to integrate orchestral, choral, vocal, and chamber works within a single event. This concert offers an overview of Vaughan Williams’s long and prolific career, from his early songs and Piano Quintet to his neo-classical D-minor Violin Concerto and famed Tallis Fantasia, which marries folk modality with Elizabethan themes in a stirring evocation of Englishness.

As a reminder of the way his contemporaries most often encountered his music, the program will open and close with two of Vaughan Williams’s best-loved hymn settings: “Down Ampney,” named for the village of his birth, and the “Old Hundredth” psalm. A set of variations embodying a potted history of English music, this was written for the coronation of Elizabeth II and sung again five years later at the composer’s own funeral.

English

Etenduse krediiti (Näitlejad ja meeskond )

Osades

Meeskond

Ansambel