From military marches to therapeutic music, humans have always relied on melody to steady them where words might fail. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the U.S.’s rich...
Gnarly blues and blistering cross-rhythms launch the 2023-24 season at full-speed with Filter for solo violin by the genre-bending Haitian-American composer Daniel Bernard Roumain. The luxuriant Shining Gate of Morpheus for horn and strings...
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Unplayed/Unheard features a performance of new music by New England Jazz Collaborative, with students from Longy’s...
Featuring the Borromeo String Quartet, soprano Morgan Beckford, pianist Sarah Bob, and saxophonist Dr. Matthew Evan Taylor who will improvise his response to the performance of Daniel Bernard Roumain’s work...
Three witches, three muses, three little pigs: The “rule of 3” suggests that humans find groupings of three more satisfying and meaningful than other number combinations. A Far Cry puts...
Geographic points characterize the second program—each Locus with its particular flavor and patois. Composer Shawn Okpebholo combines extended techniques with the breathy cadence of the bamboo shakuhachi in the virtuosic solo flute work, On a Poem...
All that you take with you is what you leave behind. AFC presents Mozart and Schubert’s final chamber works, coincidentally both quintets, that hundreds of years later still poignantly echo...
A Far Cry beckons you on a sonic journey to Stonehenge. The early light of the emerging dawn pulses and shimmers on granite, awakening the bucolic English countryside. This concert...
This performance has been canceled. Please join us on campus for another upcoming event. Unplayed/Unheard features a performance of new music composed and performed by students from Longy’s Jazz and...
LLEF, a flute and cello duo by the Welsh-born composer Hilary Tann, is a drone-anchored meditation with breathy pentatonic lines that mingle in the shadows of Welsh hymns. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor...
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.