The heat of summer seems to bring out obscure oddities plucked from the overstocked greenhouse of Western classical music. For some time, no festival has been more avid in pursuit of the unfamiliar than Bard SummerScape, whose guiding spirit is Bard College president Leon Botstein, a conductor and scholar who loves footnotes as much as Read More
The heat of summer seems to bring out obscure oddities plucked from the overstocked greenhouse of Western classical music. For some time, no festival has been more avid in pursuit of the unfamiliar than Bard SummerScape, whose guiding spirit is Bard College president Leon Botstein, a conductor and scholar who loves footnotes as much as Read More
“Drop Tuition, Not FOIL” read a message scrawled on a white sheet that greeted guests at the recent opening-night gala for the new Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. The sheet was held by a small group of students, who had arranged themselves on a lawn with a splendid view Read More
