Listening to a Piece Two Years Later

If you're in the Red Hook, NY area, come hear the Bard Orchestra perform tonight (8 PM) at the Sosnoff Theater in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Admission is free, so you know you want to go.

Here's a blurb about the concert:

Under the direction of conductor Nathan Madsen, the program features guest pianist Manon Hutton-DeWys performing Joan Tower’s Piano Concerto, (Homage to Beethoven), (1985). Other works to be performed include Jennifer Jolley’s “All Grief Empty, the Clear Night Passe Passes” (2008); Ernst Bloch’s Concerto Grosso for Piano and Strings (1925); Silvestre Revultas’s, Ocho por Radio (1933); and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Music for Small Orchestra (1926). The program is sponsored by the Bard Music Program. For more information, contact Greg Armbruster, garmbrus@bard.edu, 845-758-7091.

(Note to self: Nix the long titles, or else you run the risk of someone misspelling it. Also, I have no idea why my title is in quotes, but there it is.)


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