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

Tenor

William Ferguson

Baritone

Theo Hoffman

Singer

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

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Ensemble