| "...The Bard Music Festival began on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., in 1990, with each season centering on a different composer.... |
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| "Six of the Bard festivals ... have been devoted to composers from the central Germanic tradition: Brahms, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Schumann, Haydn and, last year, Schoenberg. The others focused on Dvorak, Bartok, Ives and Tchaikovsky. The concept here is different: to dig deep into the repertories of familiar masters, locating unusual and neglected works that help put the masterpieces in context. To broaden that context, works of other, often unfamiliar composers are brought to bear as well." |
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| "...The festival gives every appearance of thriving. And audiences, Mr. Botstein said, continue to grow steadily despite the varying popularity of the composers represented. 'I think we struck a nerve generally in the classical music world with the Bard festival and with the American Symphony concerts,' he said, 'by curating concerts, by treating the public seriously in a way that is not forbidding and by making music not a dead object behind glass, but a subject of living controversy and reinterpretation on the part of the audience as well as the performers. People walk out of the concert hall arguing. We actually have influenced the way programming is thought about, and the relationship between our role as museum keepers and the current culture.'" |
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