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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Joshua Blue is made for French Romantic opera. The tenor’s ringing bell of a voice softened the consonants and enveloped the vowels in ways no other language would allow, ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Bard Music Festival will return this August with the two-week program “Berlioz and His World,” a tribute to French composer Hector Berlioz, according to an announcement ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. Hector Berlioz, whose ...

Francesca Brittan, associate professor of music at the College of Arts and Sciences, was selected as a scholar-in-residence at The Bard Music Festival alongside colleague Sarah Hibberd of Bristol ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook This year’s Bard Music Festival explores the work and context of a composer who strove to make art “an expression of the whole life ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON - This August, the Bard Music Festival returns with an intensive two-week exploration of “Martinů and His World.” In 11 themed concerts featuring its boldest and most adventurous ...

He was in his 20s then, having just quit medical school when the autopsies proved traumatic and his drive toward music won out over his physician father’s insistences. Then, he wrote eight small ...

During his lifetime, composer Hector Berlioz (1803-69) was the great outsider of French music. Though as composer and conductor he achieved popularity in Germany, England and even Russia, his music ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents the 2025 season of Signs, Games & Messages, a three-day festival celebrating the music and legacy of renowned Hungarian composer ...

The Bard Music Festival presents an exploration of Hector Berlioz's life and impact through a series of eleven themed concerts. From August 9 to 18, attendees will experience concerts featuring ...