Always an unexpected pleasure of attending the Bard Music Festival: chance encounters with old, likeminded friends.

Here I am, between concerts on Saturday, with two of my former WWFM colleagues: Marjorie Herman, creator of “Sounds Choral” and music director of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, and Israel “Buzz” Herman, creator of “On the Wind” and music director of the Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra. Note that they are wearing the official t-shirt of last year’s festival, “Rachmaninoff and His World.” By Sunday, they had switched to the official Vaughan Williams T, with its lark ascending.

“Vaughan Williams and His World” will resume this weekend at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, with a couple of special supplementary events taking place at Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon. Some of the concerts will be livestreamed. See the complete schedule here:

https://fishercenter.bard.edu/whats-on/programs/bard-music-festival/

Fisher Center at Bard