the richard b. fisher center

for the performing arts at bard college

JOHN CAGEON & OFF THE AIR!

November 17, 2012

About The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, an environment for world-class artistic presentation in the Hudson Valley, was designed by Frank Gehry and opened in2003. Risk-taking performances and provocative programs take place in the 800-seatSosnoff Theater, a proscenium-arch space, and in the 220-seat Theater Two, which features a flexible seating configuration. The Center is home to Bard College’s DanceProgram and Theater and Performance Program, and host to two annual summer festi-vals: SummerScape, which offers opera, dance, theater, operetta, film, and cabaret; andthe Bard Music Festival, which celebrated its 23rd year in August with “Saint-Saëns andHis World.” The 2013 festival will be devoted to Igor Stravinsky, with a special weekendfocusing on the works of Duke Ellington.

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The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Chair Jeanne Donovan FisherPresident Leon Botstein

and the John Cage Trust

present

John Cage:On & Off the Air!Radio Music (1956)

27’10.554” for a Percussionist (1956)

Water Walk (1959)

4’33” (1952)

Credo in US (1942)

Intermission

The City Wears a Slouch Hat (1942)

Sosnoff TheaterNovember 17 at 8 pm

Running time for this performance is one-and-a-half hours, with one intermission.

The use of recording equipment or the taking of photographs during the performance is strictly prohibited.

Program Notes

John Cage: On & Off the Air! celebrates John Cage’s centennial year under the auspices of the John Cage Trust at Bard College, bringing into the spotlight Cage’s prescient work with technology. Cage’s interest in radio as both a medium of transmission and as a musical instrument was lifelong, beginning in childhood with original broadcasts created on behalf of his Boy Scouts of America troop and culminating, the year before hisdeath, with his Europera 5 (1991), one of three mixed-media works created for the oper-atic stage. This evening’s program celebrates this engagement with a number of classicworks by Cage, culminating in a newly staged revival of his peripatetic The City Wears aSlouch Hat (CBS Radio, 1942), based on a play by Kenneth Patchen and featuring a newlycommissioned film of light and shadows by the New York composer Mikel Rouse.

Radio Music (1956)

Performers: Leila Bordreuil, Conrad Brittenham, John Garlid, Sonya Palkina, NathanSmallwood, Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez, Will Tesdell, Rebecca WagnerOne to eight performers, each at one radio

Radio Music was composed using chance operations. It may be performed by one to eightradio operators, the eight parts of the score calling for between 26 and 64 different fre-quencies between 55 and 156 kHz, notated in numbers. Each part is in four sections, withor without silences (indicated by lines, expressing maximum amplitude), which are pro-grammed by the players. It was first performed on May 30, 1956, Carl Fisher Hall, New York,with musicians Maro Ajemian, David Tudor, Grete Sultan, and the Juilliard String Quartet.

27’10.554” for a Percussionist (1956)

Performer: Amy GarapicSolo percussionist utilizing metal, wood, skin, and electronic instruments (radios)

This is the last work in Cage’s “10,000 Things” series, a virtuosic work for solo percus-sionist. The instruments are divided into four groups—metal (M), wood (W), skin (S), andall else (A), i.e., electronics, radios, whistles, etc.—and the choice of specific instrumentsto be used is determined by the performer. The notation includes notes in vertical posi-tions, which indicate volume, and a centerline representing a dynamic of mf. The nota-tion overall is spatial, wherein a single page equates to one minute. The work may beperformed as a recording or with the use of a recording. Cage’s compositional meansincluded chance operations as well as the use of imperfections in the paper upon whichthe work was written.

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Water Walk (1959)

Performer: Amy GarapicFor solo performer making use of 34 specified stage properties

John Cage composed Water Walk for the Italian TV quiz show Lascia O Raddoppia (Doubleor Nothing), using his Fontana Mix as composing means. In it, he included 34 distinctmaterials or stage properties, as well as a single-track tape, 7 IPS, 3 minutes in length. Thematerials required mostly relate in one way or another to water, and include a bathtub,toy fish, pressure cooker, ice cubes, blender, rubber duck, goose whistle, and, of course,five radios. The score consists of a list of properties, a floor plan showing their placement,three pages with a timeline (of one minute each) with descriptions and pictographicnotations of events, and a list of notes “regarding some of the actions to be made in theirorder of occurrence.” Timings are not accurate: “Start watch and then time actions asclosely as possible to their appearance in the score.”

4’33” (1952)

Performer: George QuashaSolo performer, at one radio

This is John Cage’s most notorious composition, his famous “silent piece,” which isn’tsilent at all. In this work, no intentional sounds are made, but rather the sounds of theenvironment take center stage. It was first performed by David Tudor on August 29, 1952,at Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock, New York. In this first version of the work, Cagedivided the work into three chance-determined movements, lasting 33”, 2’40”, and 1’20”.While the first version of the work was fully notated (with many, many rests), Cagewould later create two different published versions, one in proportionate notation,wherein space equals time, and one with the simplest of instructions for its three move-ments: I Tacet, II Tacet, and III Tacet.

Credo in US (1942)

Performers: NEXUS, with Amy Garapic, percussion, and Frank Corliss, pianoFor one pianist, two percussionists, and one performer on radio

This work is scored for one pianist, two percussionists, and one performer on radio, andlasts 12 minutes. It was composed in accord with the phraseology of the dance by MerceCunningham and Jean Erdman, and is the first instance of Cage’s using radios or soundrecordings as musical instruments. It is also Cage’s first incorporation of the music ofother composers: if recordings are used, Cage suggests Dvorák, Beethoven, and Sibeliusand/or Shostakovich. Cage himself describes the work as a suite with a “satirical” char-acter. Erdman recalled that for the first performance, which took place on August 1, 1942,

at Bennington College, Vermont, a “tack piano” was used, i.e., a piano with thumbtacksinserted into the felt of the hammers. The pianist mutes the strings at times, and some-times also plays upon the body of the piano (as a percussionist).

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The City Wears a Slouch Hat (1942)

Performers: Percussion: NEXUSSpeakers: Veanne Cox, John Kelly, Laura Kuhn, Larry Larson, Katie O’Donnell, Foster ReedFilm: Mikel Rouse

Five speakers, four percussionists, Foley sound effects, and film

This is John Cage’s first-ever radio play, subtitled “Incidental Music for a Radio Play byKenneth Patchen,” which was composed on commission from CBS Radio. Cage initiallyresponded by writing a score that consisted entirely of sound effects that would be createdin the CBS Studios. Learning just a week before that what he’d envisioned wasn’t at all possible, he scrambled to rescore the piece for percussion ensemble (six players, whichcould be realized by four) and readers (four, covering a great many parts, including male andfemale passersby, a bum, a woman customer and a green grocer, a thug, three gangsters,two kidnappers, an usher, a hermit on a rock in the ocean, two barflies, etc.). Instrumentscalled for in the percussion score include tin cans, muted gongs, woodblocks, alarm bells,cowbells, maracas, claves, ratchet, pod rattles, foghorn, thunder sheet, and sound-effectsrecordings. The script sketches a surreal tale of a man (“The Voice”) who wanders about thebig city, encountering various characters in sometimes extremely mystifying circumstances.It was first broadcast via WBBM (Columbia Broadcasting System, Chicago), as part of theColumbia Workshop series, on May 31, 1942. Performers were Xenia Cage, Cilia Amidon,Stuart Lloyd, Ruth Hartman, and Claire Oppenheim, with John Cage conducting.

Tonight’s performance includes Mikel Rouse’s newly created Film for “The City Wears aSlouch Hat” for live performance, installation, and multiple screens, which incorporates theuse of shadows to simulate characters of a live performance. This “shadow film” was shot invarious locations around New York City, including Coney Island.

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Who’s Who

John Cage (1912–92) was a singularly inventive and much beloved American composer,writer, philosopher, and visual artist. Beginning around 1950, he departed from the prag-matism of precise musical notation and circumscribed ways of performance. His princi-pal contribution to the history of music is his systematic establishment of the principleof indeterminacy: by adapting Zen Buddhist practices to composition and performance,Cage succeeded in bringing both authentic spiritual ideas and a liberating attitude ofplace to the enterprise of Western art. His aesthetic of chance produced a unique bodyof what he called “once-only” works, any two performances of which can never be quitethe same. In an effort to reduce the subjective element in composition, he developedmethods of selecting the components of his pieces by chance—early on through thetossing of coins or dice, and later through the use of random number generators on the computer, and especially IC (1984), designed and written in the C language by Cage’sprogrammer-assistant, Andrew Culver, to simulate the coin oracle of the I Ching.

Cage’s use of the computer resulted in a system of what can easily be seen as totalserialism, in which all elements pertaining to pitch, noise, duration, amplitude, tempi,harmony, etc., could be determined by referring to previously drawn correlated charts.Thus, Cage’s mature works did not originate in psychology, motive, drama, or literature,but, rather, were just sounds, free of judgments about whether they are musical or not,free of fixed relations, and free of memory and taste.

His most enduring, indeed notorious, composition, influenced by Robert Rauschenberg’sall-black and all-white paintings, is the radically tacet 4’33” (1952). Encouraging the ulti-mate freedom in musical expression, the three movements of 4’33” are indicated by thepianist’s closing and reopening of the piano key cover, during which no sounds are inten-tionally produced.

The piece was first performed by Cage’s longtime associate, David Tudor, at the MaverickConcert Hall in Woodstock, New York, on August 29, 1952. A decade later, Cage would createa second “silent” piece, 0’00”, “to be played in any way by anyone,” which he dedicated to hisfriend Yoko Ono and presented for the first time in Tokyo on October 24, 1962.

Frank Corliss Before coming to The Bard College Conservatory of Music, Frank Corliss wasfor many years the director of music at the Walnut Hill School and a staff pianist for theBoston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. A frequent per-former on the Boston Symphony Prelude Concert series, he also performs throughout theUnited States as a chamber musician and collaborative pianist. In addition to his duties atthe BSO and Walnut Hill, Corliss has worked as a musical assistant for Yo-Yo Ma and hasassisted Ma in the preparation of many new works for performance and recording, includ-ing concertos by Elliott Carter, Richard Danielpour, Tan Dun, John Harbison, Leon Kirchner,Peter Lieberson, Christopher Rouse, and John Williams. Corliss may be heard on Yo-Yo Ma’sGrammy-winning Sony disc Soul of the Tango, as well as the Koch International disc ofmusic by Elliott Carter for chorus and piano with the John Oliver Chorale.

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Veanne Cox is an American stage and screen actress and formerballet dancer. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, she studied ballet at theWashington School of Ballet, acting at the Studio Theatre’sConservatory (Washington, D.C.), and voice at Catholic University.Her Broadway debut was in the Marvin Hamlisch musical Smile.She appeared in the Roundabout Theatre revival of StephenSondheim’s Company as Amy, for which she received a Tony Awardnomination, and in both The Public Theater and Broadway produc-

tions of Caroline, or Change, as Rose. Cox also played one of the stepsisters in the made-for-television movie Cinderella, and has appeared in episodes of many television series,including Boston Legal, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Seinfeld, and Judging Amy.

Amy Garapic currently serves as percussionist with the emergingnew music chamber orchestra Contemporaneous, and is a found-ing member of the percussion trio TIGUE. She has worked closely with composers Robert Honstein, Jason Treuting, and JohnLuther Adams, and has performed alongside So Percussion, Signal, The Eastman Broadband, and the Wordless Music Orchestra.Having an eye for the grandiose and a commitment to community,she has helped produce and participated in some of New York

City’s most memorable outdoor percussion events through Make Music New York, includ-ing Persephassa on the Lake, Inuksuit in Morningside Park, and Make Music Winter’s Villagein Volume. Most recently she brought together more than 100 percussionists from ninecountries in a joint 18-hour, live-streamed marathon relay of Erik Satie’s epic Vexations.Garapic has performed at TriBeCa New Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall; CervantinoFestival in Guanajuato, Mexico; and at the Al-Hussein Cultural Center in Amman, Jordan,where she helped organize the center’s first Western percussion ensemble concert. Sincegraduating from Eastman School of Music, where she earned a master’s degree and a per-former’s certificate, she is now Percussion Teaching Fellow at The Bard College Conservatoryof Music. She also works as production manager for both the So Percussion SummerInstitute and the Chosen Vale International Percussion Seminar, alongside Doug Perkins.

John Kelly is a performance and visual artist. With the help oftwo NEA American Masterpieces: Dance Awards, he recentlyrestaged two works: Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte (based on theViennese expressionist artist Egon Schiele) at La MaMa, andFind My Way Home (the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in theGreat Depression) at New York Live Arts. Visual art exhibitionsinclude MoMA, Alexander Gray Associates, the M.I.T. List VisualArt Center, and Philadelphia’s Institute for Contemporary Art.

As a musician, Kelly collaborated and recorded with composer David Del Tredici (as singerand lyricist), and recorded with Laurie Anderson as well as The Jazz Passengers. His act-ing credits include the Broadway production of James Joyce’s The Dead (Bartell Darcy);

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Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage at A.R.T. (Cupid); Rinde Eckert’s OrpheusX, also at A.R.T. (Jon/Persephone); and The Clerk’s Tale (Spencer Reese), a film directed byJames Franco. His honors include two Bessie Awards, two Obie Awards, an Alpert Award,an Ethyl Eichelberger Award, a Visual Aids Vanguard Award, and an Elliot Norton Awardfor best actor. Fellowships include the Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute forAdvanced Study, and the Rome Prize in Visual Art at the American Academy in Rome. Hewas recently an Armory Artist in Residence at the Park Avenue Armory, and has justbegun work on a memoir.

Laura Kuhn enjoys a lively career as writer, performer, scholar, andarts administrator. She worked during her graduate school yearsin the early 1980s with Nicolas Slonimsky, the Russian-bornenfant terrible of musicology, becoming successor editor of hisacclaimed reference works Baker’s Biographical Dictionary ofMusicians and Music Since 1900. From 1986 she worked with JohnCage in New York on a variety of large-scale projects, including hisEuroperas 1 & 2 for the Frankfurt Opera, for which she designed

costumes and created stage actions. This work became the subject of her 1992 doctoraldissertation from the University of California at Los Angeles (John Cage’s Europeras 1 & 2:The Musical Means of Revolution). Upon Cage’s death in 1992, along with Cage’s longtimefriends and associates Merce Cunningham, Anne d’Harnoncourt, and David Vaughan, shefounded the John Cage Trust, now in residence at Bard College, which she continues todirect, also serving as Bard’s first John Cage Professor of Performance Art. She is currentlycollaborating with Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Kenneth Silverman on John Cage:Collected Correspondence, scheduled for publication by Wesleyan University Press in 2013.

Larry Larson, a composer and web application developer, has beenpart of the new music community for more than 25 years. Hisrésumé includes Laurie Anderson, Carnegie Hall, MinnesotaPublic Radio, Nonesuch Records, the San Francisco Symphony, andmany others. He has had a long relationship with the MerceCunningham Dance Company and the John Cage Trust, andtreasures his (all too brief) contact with John Cage while a musicstudent at the University of Illinois. He was a longtime board

member of the Kronos Quartet and has also served on the boards of the American MusicCenter and the art and technology journal Leonardo. He created, with the John Cage Trust,the official John Cage database, which was released on www.johncage.org in 2012, Cage’scentennial year. He also created, with Melissa Harris of Aperture and the MerceCunningham Trust, a lavish and interactive online version of Merce Cunningham: FiftyYears, authored by David Vaughan (1997). His appearance as Jonathan Albert in JohnCage’s Alphabet in 2011 at Bard College marked his first return to the stage in nearly 40

years, since his performance in a college production of Dido and Aeneas.

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NEXUS The first entirely improvisedNEXUS concert, in 1971, marked the for-mation of a group that would touch andentertain people of all levels of musicallearning, in all genres of percussionmusic. Bob Becker, Bill Cahn, RussellHartenberger, and Garry Kvistad are allvirtuosos, and bring elements of their

knowledge and character to a distinct and powerful whole. They stand out in the con-temporary music scene for the innovation and diversity of their programs, their impres-sive history of collaborations and commissions, their revival of 1920s novelty ragtimexylophone music, and their influential improvisatory ideas. After more than threedecades of continuous collaboration, the four master percussionists of NEXUS are inter-nationally revered, and lauded for their ability to create extraordinary music out of justabout anything: Swiss cowbells, Chinese drums, Tibetan prayer bowls, Middle Easternhand drums, and Southeast Asian water buffalo bells, to name just a few. They create astaggering array of sounds and tones out of the broadest array of percussion instru-ments imaginable. With a repertoire ranging from military music to the hauntingrhythms of Africa to the groundbreaking compositions of Japanese master ToruTakemitsu, John Cage, and Steve Reich, NEXUS delivers a stunningly virtuosic spectacle ofsound, rhythm, and movement.

George Quasha, an artist, poet, and sound artist, explores a prin-ciple (axiality/liminality/configuration) in language, sculpture,drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. Mostrecent of his 17 books are Axial Stones: An Art of PrecariousBalance (2006); An Art of Limina: Gary Hill's Works and Writings(2009); and two collections of "preverbs": Verbal Paradise (2011)and Scorned Beauty Comes Up From Behind (2012). A 2006

Guggenheim Fellow in video art, his art is: Speaking Portraits,recording more than 1,000 artists/poets/composers in 11 countries, appears online atwww.quasha.com.

Foster Reed was born in 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was part of aband that released an album in 1968 with Vanguard Records inNew York City. He received a B.A. from Goddard College in 1974,and crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1978 in a 44’ sailboat. Hefounded New Albion Records in 1984 in San Francisco, and movedto the Hudson Valley in 2004. He is married and has five children.

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Mikel Rouse is a New York–based composer, director, performer,and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be thebest of his generation” by the New York Times. His works include 25

records, seven films, and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas,Dennis Cleveland, and The End of Cinematics. In 1995, Rouse pre-miered and directed Failing Kansas, inspired by Truman Capote’s InCold Blood. This led to an emerging art form he calls “counterpo-etry,” which involves the use of multiple unpitched voices in coun-

terpoint. In 1996 Rouse premiered and directed his modern talk show opera, DennisCleveland, hailed by the Village Voice as “the most exciting and innovative new opera sinceEinstein on the Beach.” The third opera in his trilogy, The End of Cinematics, premiered atKrannert Center for the Performing Arts in fall 2005. Rouse also tours on a more intimatescale as a solo live performer, traversing the globe like a 21st-century Mark Twain with a sur-really beautiful song-and-video storytelling piece titled Music for Minorities. His piece forthe Merce Cunningham Dance Company, International Cloud Atlas, was scored for multipleiPods set to “shuffle” so that each audience member heard a different realization of thescore (with 3,628,800 possible permutations). Rouse has received commissions from theBrooklyn Academy of Music, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and Meet the Composer/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program.

The John Cage TrustLaura Kuhn, Executive DirectorEmily Martin, Office Manager

When John Cage died, in August 1992, his significant holdings passed to the dancer andchoreographer Merce Cunningham, his longtime friend and collaborator. The John CageTrust was legally formed shortly thereafter, with a board of directors consisting ofCunningham; Anne d’Harnoncourt, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; DavidVaughan, archivist at the Cunningham Dance Foundation; and Laura Kuhn, who had beenCage’s assistant since 1986, and who continues to serve as the Trust’s founding executivedirector. The primary functions of the Trust are to control, monitor, and administer rightsand licenses to Cage’s published and unpublished work, and to create and encourage edu-cational experiences, enhance public access, and enliven global awareness of Cage’s workthrough new recordings, performances, workshops, festivals, and more.

The John Cage Trust is now a resident organization at Bard College, where all of itsmaterials are housed and maintained. The Trust provides access to these holdingsthrough courses, workshops, and concerts, and develops new programs around thisextraordinary resource. Kuhn, in addition to maintaining and operating the John CageTrust at Bard College, holds the position of John Cage Professor of Performance Art atBard College and teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Paula and Eliot HawkinsChristina A. Mohr and

Matthew GuerreiroBetween the Concerts Supper

National Endowment for the Arts(NEA)

New York State Council on the Arts(NYSCA)

Friends of the Bard Music FestivalLeadership SupportBettina Baruch FoundationMimi LevittThe Mortimer Levitt FoundationMr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.Denise S. Simon and

Paulo Vieiradacunha

Golden CircleMichelle R. ClaymanJeanne Donovan FisherJane W. Nuhn Charitable TrustFelicitas S. ThorneMillie and Robert Wise

BenefactorHelen and Roger AlcalyThe Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationArtekBanco Santander S.A.Barclays Bank

Leonie F. BatkinJoan K. DavidsonMr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las HerasElizabeth W. Ely ’65 and

Jonathan K. Greenburg FMH Foundation Eliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsLinda Hirshman and

David Forkosh**Anne E. Impellizzeri The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.Susan and Roger KennedyBarbara KennerEdna and Gary LachmundAmy and Thomas O. MaggsMarstrand FoundationMinistry for Foreign Affairs

of FinlandThe Mrs. Mortimer Levitt

Endowment Fund for thePerforming Arts

National Endowment for the Arts(NEA)

New York State Council on the Arts(NYSCA)

Jim and Talila O’HigginsDimitri B. and Rania PapadimitriouPeter Kenner Family Fund of the

Jewish Communal Fund Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc.Dr. Gabrielle Reem** and

Dr. Herbert J. KaydenDrs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanDavid E. Schwab II ’52 and

Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

H. Peter Stern and Helen Drutt English

Dr. Sanford SternliebAllan and Ronnie StreichlerMerida Welles and

William “Chip” Holman The Wise Family Charitable

Foundation Elaine and James Wolfensohn

PatronABC Foundation Constance Abrams and Ann VerberEdwin L. Artzt and

Marieluise HesselMr. and Mrs. Ronald AtkinsKathleen and Roland Augustine Elizabeth Phillips Bellin ’00 and

Marco M. S. Bellin Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56

Helen ’48 and Robert Bernstein Helen and Robert Bernstein

Philanthropic Fund of theJewish Communal Fund

Anne Donovan Bodnar and James L. Bodnar

Sarah Botstein and Bryan DoerriesLydia Chapin Constance and David C. Clapp

J. T. ComptonJane Cottrell and Richard KortrightArnold J. ’44 and Seena** DavisBarbara and Richard DebsMichael Del Giudice and

Jaynne KeyesRt. Rev. Herbert A. and

Mary Donovan Amy Knoblauch Dubin and

David DubinRobert C. Edmonds ’68

Ines Elskop and Christopher Scholz John GellerHelena and Christopher Gibbs Kim Z. GoldenAlison GrannucciAlan Hilliker and Vivien W. LiuJane and Robert HottensenFrederic K. and Elena Howard Joan and Julius JacobsonJasper JohnsDrs. Harriette and Gabor** KaleyRachel and Dr. Shalom KalnickiHelene and Mark N. Kaplan Belinda and Stephen KayeMr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Keesee IIIMr. and Mrs. George A. Kellner Klavierhaus, Inc.Seymour and Harriet KoenigAlison and John LankenauGlenda Fowler Law and Alfred LawEric and Amala LevineBarbara** and S Jay LevyCynthia Hirsch Levy ’65

Patti and Murray LiebowitzMartin and Toni Sosnoff

FoundationStephen Mazoh and Martin KlineW. Patrick McMullan and

Rachel McPhersonDr. and Mrs. Arthur MenkenMetropolitan Life Foundation

Matching Gift ProgramAndrea and Kenneth L. MironChristina A. Mohr and

Matthew GuerreiroKen MortensonMartin L. Murray and

Lucy Miller Murray Alexandra OttawayEve Propp Barbara B. ReisBlanche and Bruce RubinAndrew Solomon and

John Habich SolomonSarah and Howard Solomon Martin T. and Toni Sosnoff Edwin A. SteinbergStewart’s ShopsAllan and Ronnie StreichlerElizabeth Farran Tozer and

W. James Tozer Jr.Tozer Family Fund of the New York

Community Trust

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Illiana van MeeterenOlivia van Melle CampRosemary and Noel WerrettAida and Albert WilderIrene ZedlacherWilliam C. Zifchak and

Margaret Evans

SponsorAnonymousRoland AugustineAna AzevedoMargaret and Alec BancroftEva Thal Belefont ’49

Everett and Karen CookPhillip S. Cooke Blythe Danner ’65

Dasein FoundationDavid G. Whitcomb FoundationWillem F. De Vogel and

Marion Davidson Roberto De AzevedoJohn A. DierdorffCornelia Z. and Timothy Eland Timothy and Cornelia Eland Fund

of the Fidelity Charitable GiftFund

Shepard and Jane Ellenberg Ellenberg Asset Management

Corp. Phyllis FederField-Bay FoundationFrancis Finlay and Olivia J. FussellLaura FlaxMartha Jane FleischmanDeborah and Thomas Flexner Donald C. FresneLaura GeneroCarlos Gonzalez and

Katherine Stewart Samuel L. Gordon Jr. and

Marylou TapallaMr. and Mrs. Jay M. GwynneMarjorie HartNancy and David HathawayMartin Holub and Karen Kidder**Lucas Hoogduin and

Adriana OnstwedderElizabeth D. and Robert HottensenPamela HowardJohn R. and Joyce Hupper I.B.M. Matching Grants Program Susan JonasEdith Hamilton KeanFernanda Kellogg and

Kirk HenckelsClara F. and David J. LondonerMarstrand FoundationElizabeth I. McCannJames and Purcell Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. PaytonEllen and Eric PetersenJohn and Claire ReidDr. Siri von ReisAlfred J. and Deirdre Ross

Dr. Paul H. Schwartz and Lisa Barnes-Schwartz

James and Sara SheldonDavid and Sarah StackEdwin SteinbergArt and Jeannette TaylorBarbara and Donald ToberRichard C. Strain and Eva Van RijnArete and William** Warren Jack and Jill WertheimRobert and Melanie WhaleyMaureen A. Whiteman and

Lawrence J. ZlatkinSerena H. WhitridgeJulia and Nigel WiddowsonPeter and Maria WirthMarina van Zuylen

SupporterMunir and Susan Abu-HaidarBarbara J. AgrenJames Akerberg and

Larry SimmonsSaga M. AmbegaokarLeora and Peter ArmstrongIrene and Jack BanningDidi and David Barrett Karen H. Bechtel Dr. Susan Krysiewicz and

Thomas Bell Carole and Gary Beller Mr. and Mrs. Andy BellinBeth and Jerry BierbaumMr. and Mrs. David Bova Mr. and Mrs. William B. BrannanKay Brover and Arthur Bennett Madge BriggsDan F. and Nancy BrownKate Buckley and Tony Pell Phyllis Busell and James KostellPeter Caldwell and Jane Waters Miriam and Philip CarrollHugo M. J. Cassier and

Sarah ButtrickDavid ClainFrederick and Jan CohenMr. and Mrs. Kevin ConcaghSeth Dubin and Barbara FieldEma DunchJoan and Wolcott DunhamRuth EngGail and John EylerHarold FarbermanIngrid and Gerald FieldsEmily Rutgers Fuller Michael H. GarretyJoseph W. and Joyce GeebJohn GellerDonald Gellert and Elaine Koss Mims and Burton Gold Victoria and Max GoodwinJanine M. GordonRichard GottliebMary and Kingdon Gould Jr. Nan and David Greenwood

Mortimer and Penelope C. HallSally S. HamiltonJuliet HeyerSusan Hoehn and Allan BahrsWilliam HolmanDalya InhaberJay JollyKaren Bechtel Foundation of the

Advisor Charitable Gift FundRobert E. KausErica KiesewetterCharles and Katharine KingKaren KloppDr. and Mrs. Vincent KohRobert J. KurillaLowell H. and Sandra A. LambDebra I. and Jonathan LanmanWayne LawsonE. Deane and Judith S. LeonardBrent Lewis ’09

Walter LippincottLynn Favrot Nolan Family FundJeanette MacDonald and

Charles MorganJohn P. MackenziePhilip and Tracey MactaggartCharles S. MaierClaire and Chris MannMarilyn MarinaccioElizabeth B. MavroleonMia McCully ’07

Charles MelcherArthur and Barbara L. MichaelsSamuel C. MillerJohn E. Morrison IVMr. and Mrs. Alfred MudgeBernadette Murray and

Randy FertelKamilla and Donald NajdekAnna Neverova ’07

Jay H. Newman and Elissa KramerMr. and Mrs. William T. NolanMarta E. NottebohmElizabeth J. and Sergin OktayDr. Bernhard Fabricius and

Sylvia OwenLouis ParkerDavid B. and Jane L. ParshallSusan Heath and Rodney PatersonRuth PlagerJohn and Claire ReidBarbara ReisEmma Richter ’09

Susan F. RogersRosalie Rossi, Ph.D.John RoyallAndrew and Ellen SantandraDr. Gloria SchaferDagni and Martin SenzelDenise and Lawrence ShapiroDr. Scott and Alexis SmallNadine Bertin StearnsMim and Leonard SteinMary and Stephen Stinson

Mila TewellCarole TindallJohn Tuke and Leslie FarhangiDr. Elisabeth F. Turnauer-DerowAlan and Christine Vickery ’75

Monica WamboldTaki and Donald WiseJohn and Mary Young

FriendRev. Albert R. AhlstromLorraine D. AlexanderArthur A. AndersonAnonymousZelda Aronstein and

Norman EisnerArtscope, Inc.John K. AylingPhebe and George BantaJames M. BartonMr. and Mrs. Francis D. BartonSaida BaxtRegina and David BeckmanDr. Howard BellinRichard L. BensonDr. Marge and Edward BlaineClara BotsteinEric and Irene BrocksDavid and Jeannette T. BrownMr. and Mrs. John C. D. BrunoAlfred M. Buff and Lenore NemethMichael CaolaPamela Chow and Ted SmithRobert and Isobel ClarkDonald CooneyJoan CostaMillicent O. McKinley CoxLinda and Richard DainesMary E. DavisDana and Brian DunnAbby and John DuxPeter EdelmanPeter Elebash and Jane RobinsonJim and Laurie Niles ErwinPatricia FalkArthur L. FenaroliDavid and Tracy FinnLuisa E. FlynnPatricia and John ForelleMary Ann FreeSamantha FreeStephen and Jane GarmeyAnne C. GillisAlysha Glenn ’09

Dr. Joel and Ellen GoldinStanley L. GordonSandra Graznow and Jim KearnsThurston GreeneAndrea E. GrossBen-Ali and Mimi HagginDavid A. HarrisSy HeldermanSharon and David HendlerCarol HenkenNancy H. Henze

Gary HermanMartin HolubDavid Hurvitz and Martha KleinRocco G. IlardiDr. and Mrs. Gerald ImberRod and Caroline KeatingPatricia H. KeeseeMr. and Mrs. John W. KellyJoan Kend Diana Niles KingIrving and Rhonda E. KleimanThea KlirosSharon Daniel KroegerJeffrey LangProf. Edward C. LauferWayne LawsonBeth LedyLeon and Fern LernerLaurence and Michael LevinGerald F. LewisRuthie and Lincoln LymanM Group, LLCJohn P. MacKenzieHermes Mallea and Carey MaloneyAnnette S. and Paul N. MarcusHarvey MarekThe McGraw-Hill Companies

Matching Gift ProgramMarcus Mello ’04

Dr. Naomi MendelsohnPhilip MessingMillbrook Real Estate, LLCDeborah D. MontgomeryKelly Morgan Doris MossDebbie Ann and

Christopher MorleySusan and Robert MurphyNancy R. NewhouseHugh and Marilyn NissensonHarold J. and Helen C. NoahDouglas Okerson and

William WilliamsJames OlanderMarilyn and Peter OswaldGary S. PatrikSarah Payden ’09

Peter and Sally V. PettusLucas Pipes ’08

Dr. Alice R. PisciottoEleanor PollakDavid Pozorski and Anna RomanskiD. Miles PriceStanley A. Reichel ’65 and

Elaine ReichelDr. Naomi F. Rothfield ’50 and

Lawrence RothfieldHarriet and Bernard SadowAntonia SalvatoSheila SandersDr. Thomas B. SandersHeinz and Klara SauerMolly SchaeferFrederick W. Schwerin Jr.

Mary ScottDanny P. Shanahan and

Janet E. Stetson ’81

Muriel SimmonsBetsy Covington SmithJ. Kevin SmithPolly and LeRoy SwindellJessica and Peter TcherepnineGladys R. ThomasJaneth L. ThoronCynthia M. Tripp ’01

Leigh Beery and Jonathan Tunick ’58

Laurie TuzoUBS Matching Gift ProgramRonald VanVoorhiesAndrea A. WaltonJohn WaldesJacqueline E. WarrenPeter WarwickRenee K. Weiss ’51

Barbara Jean WeyantAnne WhiteheadVictoria and Conrad WicherMr. and Mrs. John WinklerAmy WoodsRobert and Lynda YoumansMarvin Zelman

Major support for the Fisher Center’s programshas been provided by:Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams

FoundationHelen and Roger Alcaly The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationFiona Angelini and Jamie WelchThe Ann & Gordon Getty

FoundationAnonymousArtekBettina Baruch FoundationBioseutica USA, Inc.Carolyn Marks Blackwood and

Gregory QuinnChartwells School and University

Dining ServicesMichelle R. ClaymanThe Cultural Services of the French

Embassy of the United StatesJoan K. DavidsonMr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las HerasJohn A. DierdorffElizabeth W. Ely ’65 and

Jonathan K. GreenburgEstate of Richard B. FisherBarbara Ettinger and Sven HusebyThe Ettinger Foundation, Inc.Stefano Ferrari and Lilo ZinglersenAlexander D. Fisher MFA ’96

Catherine C. Fisher and Gregory A. Murphy

Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander

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Jeanne Donovan FisherR. Britton and Melina FisherFMH FoundationEliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsLinda Hirshman and

David Forkosh**HSBC Philanthropic ProgramsAnne E. ImpellizzeriJane and Aatos Erkko FoundationJane’s Ice CreamJane W. Nuhn Charitable TrustThe J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.Belinda and Stephen KayeSusan and Roger KennedyBarbara KennerMimi Levitt Chris Lipscomb and

Monique SegarraAmy and Thomas O. MaggsMansakenning LLCThe Marks Family FoundationMarstrand FoundationMartin and Toni Sosnoff FoundationThe Maurer Family Foundation, Inc.Joanna M. MigdalThe Millbrook Tribute GardenMillbrook Vineyards & WineryThe Mortimer Levitt Foundation Inc.Mrs. Mortimer Levitt Endowment

Fund for the Performing ArtsNational Endowment for the Arts

American Masterpieces: DanceNational Endowment for the Arts

(NEA)New England Foundation for the

Arts (NEFA)New York State Council on the Arts

(NYSCA)Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.Dimitri B. and Rania PapadimitriouPeter Kenner Family Fund of the

Jewish Communal FundDr. Gabrielle H. Reem** and

Dr. Herbert J. KaydenDr. Siri von ReisRichard B. Fisher Endowment FundDrs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanIngrid RockefellerDavid E. Schwab II ’52 and

Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

The Schwab Charitable FundDenise S. Simon and

Paulo VieiradacunhaMartin T. and Toni SosnoffH. Peter Stern and

Helen Drutt EnglishDr. Sanford SternliebAllan and Ronnie StreichlerThendara FoundationFelicitas S. ThorneTrue Love ProductionsMargo and Anthony Viscusi

Bethany B. WinhamMillie and Robert WiseThe Wise Family Charitable

Foundation**deceasedAll lists current as of October 18, 2012

Boards and Administration

Bard CollegeBoard of TrusteesDavid E. Schwab II ’52, Chair

EmeritusCharles P. Stevenson Jr., ChairEmily H. Fisher, Vice ChairElizabeth Ely ’65, Secretary; Life

TrusteeStanley A. Reichel ’65, Treasurer

Fiona AngeliniRoland J. AugustineLeon Botstein+ , President of the

CollegeJames Cox Chambers ’81

David C. ClappMarcelle Clements ’69*Melinda N. Donovan+Asher B. Edelman ’61

Paul S. Efron Robert S. Epstein ’63

Barbara S. Grossman ’73*Sally HambrechtGeorge F. Hamel Jr.Marieluise HesselMaja HoffmannMatina S. Horner+Charles S. Johnson III ’70

Mark N. KaplanGeorge A. KellnerMurray Liebowitz, Life TrusteeMarc S. LipschultzPeter H. Maguire ’88

James H. Ottaway Jr., Life TrusteeMartin PeretzStewart Resnick, Life TrusteeRoger N. Scotland ’93*The Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk, Honorary

TrusteeMartin T. Sosnoff Susan WeberPatricia Ross Weis ’52

Senior AdministrationLeon Botstein, PresidentDimitri B. Papadimitriou, Executive

Vice President

Michèle D. Dominy, Vice Presidentand Dean of the College

Mary Backlund, Vice President forStudent Affairs and Director ofAdmission

Norton Batkin, Vice President andDean of Graduate Studies

Jonathan Becker, Vice President andDean for International Affairsand Civic Engagement

James Brudvig, Vice President forAdministration

John Franzino, Vice President forFinance

Susan H. Gillespie, Vice President forSpecial Global Initiatives

Max Kenner ’01, Vice President forInstitutional Initiatives

Robert Martin, Vice President forAcademic Affairs and Director ofThe Bard College Conservatory ofMusic

Debra Pemstein, Vice President forDevelopment and Alumni/aeAffairs

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing ArtsAdvisory BoardJeanne Donovan Fisher, ChairCarolyn Marks BlackwoodLeon Botstein+Stefano FerrariHarvey LichtensteinRobert Martin+Dimitri B. Papadimitriou+Martin T. SosnoffToni SosnoffFelicitas S. Thorne

AdministrationDebra Pemstein, Vice President for

Development and Alumni/aeAffairs

Bob Bursey, Senior ProducerGideon Lester, Director, Theater and

Dance ProgrammingMark Primoff, Director of

CommunicationsSusana Meyer, Producer,

SummerScape OperaMary Smith, Director of PublicationsGinger Shore, Consultant to

PublicationsEleanor Davis, Media and Marketing

ManagerJoanna Szu, Marketing AssociateBonnie Kate Anthony, Assistant

Production ManagerPaul LaBarbera, Sound and Video

EngineerStephen Dean, Stage Operations

Manager

About Bard College

Founded in 1860, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, is an independent, nonsectar-ian, residential, coeducational college offering a four-year B.A. program in the liberal arts and sciences and a five-year B.A./B.S. degree in economics and finance. The Bard College Conservatoryof Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dual degree—a B.Music and a B.A.in a field other than music—and offers an M.Music in vocal arts and in conducting. Bard alsobestows an M.Music degree at Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant the following degrees: A.A. at BardHigh School Early College, a public school with campuses in New York City (Manhattan andQueens) and Newark, New Jersey; A.A. and B.A. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College,in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and through the Bard Prison Initiative at five correctionalinstitutions in New York State; M.A. in curatorial studies, M.S. in economic theory and policy, andM.S. in environmental policy and in climate science and policy at the Annandale campus; M.F.A.and M.A.T. at multiple campuses; M.B.A. in sustainability in New York City; and M.A., M.Phil., andPh.D. in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center inManhattan. Internationally, Bard confers dual B.A. degrees at the Faculty of Liberal Arts andSciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (Smolny College), and American University ofCentral Asia in Kyrgyzstan; and dual B.A. and M.A.T. degrees at Al-Quds University in the West Bank.

Bard offers nearly 50 academic programs in four divisions. Total enrollment for Bard College and itsaffiliates is approximately 5,000 students. The undergraduate college has an enrollment of morethan 1,900 and a student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1. For more information about Bard College, visitwww.bard.edu.

©2012 Bard College. All rights reserved. Cover Ben Guthrie. Courtesy of the John Cage Trust. Inside back cover ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto

Vincent Roca, Technical DirectorMark Crittenden, Facilities ManagerJeannie Schneider, Business

ManagerAndrea Gross, Community Relations

ManagerPatrick King ’12, House ManagerCarley Gooley ’12, Assistant House

ManagerRoisin Taylor ’13, Assistant House

ManagerNicholas Reilingh, Box Office

ManagerCaitlyn DeRosa, Assistant Box Office

ManagerRay Stegner, Building Operations

ManagerDoug Pitcher, Building Operations

CoordinatorDaniel DeFrancis, Staff AssistantRobyn Charter, Staff Assistant

The Bard Music FestivalBoard of DirectorsDenise S. Simon, ChairRoger AlcalyLeon Botstein+Michelle R. ClaymanRobert C. Edmonds ’68

Jeanne Donovan FisherChristopher H. Gibbs+Paula K. HawkinsSusan Petersen KennedyBarbara KennerGary LachmundMimi LevittThomas O. MaggsRobert Martin+Kenneth L. MironChristina A. MohrJames H. Ottaway Jr.Siri von ReisFelicitas S. ThorneE. Lisk Wyckoff Jr.

Artistic DirectorsLeon Botstein

Christopher H. GibbsRobert Martin

Executive DirectorIrene Zedlacher

Associate DirectorRaissa St. Pierre ’87

Scholar in Residence 2013

Tamara Levitz

Program Committee 2013

Byron AdamsLeon BotsteinChristopher H. GibbsTamara LevitzRobert MartinRichard WilsonIrene Zedlacher

Director of ChorusesJames Bagwell

Vocal Casting ConsultantSusana Meyer

+ ex officio* alumni/ae trustee

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The Bard College Conservatory of MusicSUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 AT 3 PM

Conservatory SundaysConcert performed by the talented students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music, with guest conductor Marcelo Lehninger (MFA ’07)

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16 AT 3 PM

Dawn Upshaw and FriendsA program of festive songs and ensembles to benefit The Bard College Conservatory of Music

FRIDAY, MARCH 1 AND SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013 AT 8 PM

J. S. Bach's St. John PassionFeaturing the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Chamber Singers, members of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and faculty

American Symphony OrchestraConducted by Leon Botstein, music director

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22 AND SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Works by Harold Farberman and Anton Bruckner

FRIDAY, APRIL 19 AND SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013

Works by Richard Wagner

All concerts are at 8 pm and feature a preconcert talk at 7 pm.