Over the coming days, I’ll be posting some photos from the Bard Music Festival, including a few with some surprise guests and of course plenty of RVW swag.

Here I am with Ralph Vaughan Williams, outside the 400-seat Olin Hall, where daytime panels and chamber music concerts are held. Evening concerts are held across campus in the 800-seat Sosnoff Theater at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Last night’s blockbuster program of “Job, A Masque for Dancing,” the Concerto for Two Pianos, and the Symphony No. 4 was a notable highlight, as was a gorgeous performance on Friday of the “Serenade to Music.”

“Vaughan Williams and His World” will continue at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, through August 13. Select concerts are being livestreamed. Next weekend’s evening programs are especially strong. For streaming information, check here:

https://fishercenter.bard.edu/whats-on/programs/upstreaming/?fbclid=IwAR1S5x_nXSMKozIRBMgY0NYP_dfMudQ9Ks2dA3G56MB-MQRhajoxrFpBxe8

The complete schedule:

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

Don’t begrudge me Bard, as it’s really my only vacation, albeit a working one. But you know what they say: do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.

Fisher Center at Bard