The New York Times – Music:
Tennessee Williams’s darkly operatic one-act play becomes a proper opera in a new adaptation by the composer Courtney Bryan.
Category: Fisher, Richard B, Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
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Cannibals, Lobotomies, Lethal Birds: A Tennessee Williams Opera
The New York Times – Music:
“Suddenly Last Summer,” the composer Courtney Bryan’s first opera, adapts Williams’s play for Bard SummerScape.
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Frank Gehry’s Buildings Sound as Marvelous as They Look
The New York Times – Music:
Gehry, who died on Friday at 96, made an invaluable contribution to classical music by designing spaces with stunning acoustics.
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For Classical Music, Every Summer Is a Liberation
The New York Times – Music:
During a time of year in which anything can be a stage, the joy of music making has room to breathe outdoors.
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At Bard, a Festival Argues for the Music of Vaughan Williams
The New York Times – Music:
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 of the community.”
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‘Henri VIII’ Review: An Operatic Rarity
The New York Times – Music:
Saint-Saëns’s 1883 work is seldom performed today, but it is being well staged and excitingly sung at Bard College.