For Longy’s 2022–2023 event season, we invite you to leave all preconceptions at home.
Musical experiences can have any starting point. Whether born of complex ideas, emotional impulses, or spontaneous inspiration, every music maker begins wherever they are—which is exactly where they need to be.
Just as there’s no right way, no single starting line for becoming a musician, composer, or performer, there’s no one correct entry point for us as the audience. There’s no required reading for experiencing a piece of music, no prerequisite understanding or context to bring with you to a musical experience. You come to it from wherever you are.
In relinquishing our ideas of what a musical experience should be, we open ourselves to receiving and internalizing music in a way that is unique and true to each of us.
Every artist, composer, and musician represented in this season’s program took a different path to arrive at Longy, detours and scenic routes included. We hope the stories on our stages this year inspire you to begin your own new journey, no matter where you start. Allow yourself to begin wherever you are.
When there’s no set path to follow, you become free to begin anywhere.
“This recital is a reflection of growth and finding yourself again in the process of becoming. After a year of unexpected challenges with my voice and a lot of growth...
“Sweet land, we sing to thee….” Mirrored reflections on the mystic chords of memory As we look back on the 250 years since the founding of our nation, we hold...
Longy Laboratory Ad-Hoc Experimental Improvisation Ensemble: All are welcome, no experience necessary—always experimental, always inclusive, always anarchic. Come for the jams Come to participate Come to let the sounds wash...
An Outburst of Improvisors: 17th Century Music for Violin and Harpsichord In 1600s Italy, the performer and the composer were the same person, and nobody was playing it safe. Opera...
Walk into a gallery, see a piece of art, then look down for the title and the artist. Walk into a concert hall, read the title and the composer, then...
Alash | Master Throat Singers from Tuva, the homeland of Khöömei Three master throat singers (xöömeizhi) from Tuva, a tiny republic in the heart of Inner Asia, ALASH stays grounded...
Unplayed/Unheard is a Jazz and Contemporary Music (JCM) student composition series every fall that features premieres of works by Longy students that have improvisation as an elemental component of the...
Rufus Müller, tenor, and Kayo Iwama, piano, celebrate twenty years of musical partnership with Schubert’s Swan Song. Written at a single sitting a couple of months before his death in...
Longy’s premier new music group, Ensemble Uncaged is dedicated to performing music by established composers as well as emerging and underrepresented voices, expressing multiple perspectives. We honor the familiar, invite...
Join us this evening for a concert featuring brand-new works by Longy composers. All works on the program are world premieres, never-before-performed music composed and completed this year, written by...
Thanks to our partnership with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and their “Card to Culture” program, Longy School of Music of Bard College can offer free tickets to many of our diverse and innovative performance offerings. See the full list of participating “Card to Culture” organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.