Composing a dream Jun 4, 2008
"I wanted to show that the young generation of Kazakhstan has something to show the world, even an audience in New York," said Onken, who studied at the prestigious St. Petersburg Conservatory as well as at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. "It seems impossible," he added. (International Herald Tribune)
Daily Polaroids Detail Last 18 Years of NYC Man's Life Jun 1, 2008
In 1978 at Bard College he began to take photos with his Polaroid camera, according to MyFOX National. After a few weeks he realized he had taken almost an image a day. (Fox News)
Paul McCartney Among Yale's Honorary Degree Recipients May 27, 2008
Ashbery, an avant-garde poet and professor emeritus at Bard College, was also recognized. One of Ashbery's first books of poems, "Some Trees," was published in 1956 by the Yale Series of Younger Poets. (FOX61, CT)
Historic Hudson to restore 19th century Plumb-Bronson House May 25, 2008
The 19th century Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole wrote that there weren t enough ruins to paint along the Hudson, so he had some created, near the site of what is now Bard College. Now there are ruins in abundance, Rinaldi said. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Sports Shorts May 22, 2008
ANNONDALE-ON-HUDSON Bard College s women s basketball team completed its turnaround season earlier this month when the Lady Raptors received notification of being chosen for the NCAA Top 25 Division III Most Improved Teams, according to a release from the school. There are 433 teams in Division III. Bard won a record number of games this season (10) and also only lost five games by 10 points or less. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
A new life for a fabled ballet May 18, 2008
"Prokoviev was a Christian Scientist and didn't believe in death," explains Botstein, president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra ... "Romeo & Juliet": July 4-9 at Bard College's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (Sosnoff Theater), Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. 845-758-7900. (Boston Globe)
Hairy experience for Narnia actor May 18, 2008
Stage veteran Dinklage will spend part of the summer starring in a new production of "Uncle Vanya" at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. His wife, Erica Schmidt, will direct and give him back what he calls the "crackle, crackle" only a crisp stage play can provide. He also hopes to return to his indie roots before joining the cast of the next "Narnia" movie, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," near year's end. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
School board incumbents unopposed May 13, 2008
He has lived in Germantown for 28 years with his wife Barbara raising four children; two currently attend Bard College and two attend Germantown schools. Forman has been in the music business for over 35 years as a self-employed songwriter and performer. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
A singular vision at Pinakothek Web site May 11, 2008
WHO DOES IT: Luc Sante, a Bard College professor and Guggenheim-winning author of the books "Low Life," " Kill All Your Darlings" and "Evidence.". ESTABLISHED: December 2007. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Get something for nothing at Bard ... really May 8, 2008
At Bard College this weekend, there will be no catch or gimmick, as students have organized the first Really, Really Free Market, to be held at Bard this Sunday, May 11 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.. One of the organizers, KellyAnne Mifflin, says that the purpose of the market is to exchange and pass on items that may no longer be of use to the owner, but may be of value to someone else. (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
Brazilians possessed by spirits as Umbanda religion grows Apr 22, 2008
"It developed as Brazilian cultural nationalism was growing, and people were interested in what it meant to be Brazilian," said Diana Brown, an associate professor in anthropology at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., who's studied Umbanda. "There was an effort to make this a Brazilian religion.". (Anchorage Daily News)
College-bound face dilemma Apr 19, 2008
Molly would like to attend Bard College but got a better financial package from Trinity College ... For Molly Wexler-Romig, Bard College seemed the perfect match. (Boston Globe)
The Tyrant In The Pirate Hat Apr 11, 2008
The house was set on three acres of land, two and a half miles from Bard College, to which I planned to commute to by bicycle whenever one of our "shared" vehicles was unavailable. The house was filled with back issues of Art Forum magazine and draped in old Soviet flags. (Forbes)
* Will we see 'last of the Tibetans'? Apr 10, 2008
Ian Buruma is professor of human rights at Bard College. Copyright: Project Syndicate This story has been viewed 507 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Cops arrest man for bow & arrow threats Apr 9, 2008
Office at Bard College seeks a desig. All Times Union materials copyright 1996-2008, Capital Newspapers Division of The Hearst Corporation, Albany, N.Y.. (Albany Times Union)
Grief and hope for the vanished Apr 8, 2008
Office at Bard College seeks a desig. School Principal SAS/SDA certificati. (Albany Times Union)
Fairfax Symphony Plans Year-Long Search For Retiring Music Director’s Replacement Apr 8, 2008
Marcelo Lehninger, 28, born in Brazil, received his bachelor s degree from the Brazilian Conservatory of Music and a master s degree from the Conductors Institute at Bard College. He serves as music advisor to the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and has guest-conducted leading orchestras in South America. (South County Chronicle, VA)
Compton Lecture series brings science out of laboratory Apr 4, 2008
Schaffer received her B.A. from Bard College in 1998 and her Ph. D. in physics from the University of Washington in 2005. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
BHSEC II To Open In Queens In September Mar 28, 2008
Operated in partnership between Bard College and the New York City Department of Education, BHSEC II offers highly motivated students from all five boroughs the opportunity to earn a Regents diploma from New York State, as well as 60 college credits and an Associate in Arts degree from Bard College in a selective, tuition-free, public school. BHSEC II is now accepting applications for this coming September from students currently in 10th grade (class of 2010). (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Watershed School director to move on Mar 26, 2008
The 18 graduates have gone on to the schools of their choice, including Simons Rock at Bard College, Eugene Lang College the New School of Liberal Arts, , College of the Atlantic, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Central Maine Comm, Audubon Expeditionary Institute of Lesley College, McGill University, and North Carolina School of the Arts. The engages students in learning that comes through individual growth within a closely-knit learning community, the school noted. (Courier Publications, ME)
Why Modern Rock Needs Apes Mar 26, 2008
In their one-hour set at Bard College, Brunson sang and danced in the crowd, Kleinman told stories about exams and Texas oilmen, and the entire band managed to catch a PA on fire. The intensity of Apes performance left heads spinning, and they weren t even the headlining band. (Suite101.com)
Europe Struggles to Reconcile Voltaire's Philosophy, Muslim Sensibilities Mar 26, 2008
Europeans have to get used to living with people in their midst who have sensibilities that weren't there before,'' says , author of ``Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance'' and a professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. If you're going to live in mixed societies, certain rules of civility have to be taken seriously. (Bloomberg)
Faith examined Mar 23, 2008
Bard College religious historian Randall Balmer traces the culture's journey from the days of Kennedy and his famous speech promising to keep religion out of politics to George W. Bush trolling explicitly for believers' votes and embracing policies of the religious right. Balmer recycles too much presidential biography unrelated to religion. (Boston Globe)
New school set to open in Flushing next year Mar 15, 2008
Bard High School Early College will allow advanced students to get a jump start on college-level classes through a collaboration with Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson upstate. That school shares the site with the Civic Leadership Academy and the transfer high school Voyages Preparatory, both in partnership with New Visions for Public Schools, and the Pan American International High School in collaboration with Internationals Network for Public Schools. (Bayside Times, NY)
Chinese piano virtuoso to perform at Beattie-Powers Mar 8, 2008
Performing the piano recital will be Bard College Conservatory of Music student Wei Zhou, who has been studying the instrument since she was five. To get the rest of the story every day, subscribe to The Daily Mail. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Independent Reader: A chimp named Nim Mar 8, 2008
" Finally--his namesake vindicated--Nim had to learn to be an animal. Nim Chimpsky died of a heart attack in 2000. He was 26. His biography is a fascinating glimpse into the world of linguistics and what it means to be human. Nim was indeed a star. Bruce Chilton, a professor at Bard College and the author of several books (Rabbi Jesus, Rabbi Paul, Mary Magdalene) is the author of a new and very challenging book, Abraham's Curse--The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Any way you fry it Mar 5, 2008
Maryann Tebben, a French literature professor at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, has done scholarly work on fries. "In Belgium they're eaten on the go as street food," she says, "and in Parisian bistros and brasseries as a side dish with mussels, steak, or roast chicken." She says that the French like their potatoes "not matchstick thin, but certainly lithe. Americans cut their fries either too thick or too thin. Bistro style is just right.". (Boston Globe)
Crystal Castles Cancel/Postpone Tour After Car Accident Mar 5, 2008
3/14-15 Austin, TX - SXSW 3/16 Denton, TX - Hailey's * 3/17 Springfield, MO - Randy Bacon Studio ry * 3/19 DeKalb, IL - The House Cafe * 3/20 Oberlin, OH - Dionysus Disco * 3/21 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop * 3/22 Philadelphia, PA - Transit * 3/23 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar * 3/24 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - Bard College * 3/25 Brooklyn, NY - Studio B * 3/26 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge * 3/27 Montreal, Quebec - Muse Juste Pour Rire * 3/28 Toronto, Ontario - Circa * 5/13 Brussels, Belgium -... (Exclaim!)
50 years later, famed book still required reading Mar 3, 2008
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON - At age 77, author Chinua Achebe is living in grace and in exile, housed in a cottage built just for him on the campus of Bard College, lonely for his native Nigeria and the people for whom his stories have been written. To get the rest of the story every day, subscribe to the Register Star. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Starr benefit a success: Library looks to purchase 1,000 new children's books Feb 28, 2008
More than 225 people turned out for the evening that featured wine, champagne and Hors d'oeuvres, a silent auction with more than 80 items up for grabs, and soothing music all night courtesy of the Bard College Conservatory Ensemble. The annual event, now in its third year, serves a dual role for the library - raising awareness of its wide range of services and programs, and raising funds to support its mission as a community library. (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
Bill Buckley Made It Okay To Be a Conservative Feb 28, 2008
The next time I saw him it was as part of his team on a Firing Line segment that we taped at Bard College in upstate New York ... Defending the ACLU were Ira Glasser, Nadine Strossen, Barry Lynn and Bard College President Leon Botstein, who responded to two leftwing demonstrators by withdrawing from the rest of the debate to show how a liberal gentleman responds to disruptors (he lets them win) ... Even at liberal Bard College, Bill Buckley probably made some converts. (Townhall.com)
Stephen Peabody; combined modern medicine, old-time care Feb 25, 2008
Dr. Peabody graduated from Governor Dummer Academy, Bard College, and Tufts Medical School. He married Miriam Chandler shortly before joining the Army in 1942 as a captain, postponing his internship, and was sent with the 34th Division to France. (Boston Globe)
Italian restaurant, Irish music to combine for fun-filled event Feb 21, 2008
According to Loretta Campagna, publicity chairperson for the Friends of the Red Hook Public Library, the performance will be hosted by Cappucino by Coppola's, located at 4604 Route 9G, across from Bard College. "We usually have over 300 people turn out and it is always a really enjoyable day," explained Campagna. (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
'Things Fall Apart' still teaching lessons Feb 20, 2008
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York (AP) -- At age 77, author Chinua Achebe is living in grace and in exile, housed in a cottage built just for him on the campus of Bard College, lonely for his native Nigeria and the people for whom his stories have been written. Chinua Achebe longs for home in Nigeria, the inspiration for his novel "Things Fall Apart.". (CNN -- Showbiz)
Musical Mosaic at Bard College Feb 18, 2008
The Register Star Online. Serving Columbia and Dutchess counties since 1785. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
A War On Tolerance Feb 11, 2008
Amsterdam: When "tolerance" becomes a term of abuse in a place like the Netherlands, you know that something has gone seriously wrong. The Dutch always took pride in being the most tolerant people on earth. (India Times, India)
Clinton, Obama work to win N.Y. delegates, one by one Feb 3, 2008
"There are some people who think this is Hillary's state," Pat Kelly, a bearded, 19-year-old student at Bard College, told the group. "We need people to know this is a nationwide movement.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The staggering cost of rising world meat production Jan 28, 2008
To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and Pamela Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent, it would be as if they all switched from a standard sedan - a Camry, say - to the ultra-efficient Prius. Similarly, a study last year by the National... (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
International Prize for Ian Buruma Jan 23, 2008
After studying Chinese in Leiden and Japanese film in Tokyo, he became cultural editor of The Far Eastern Economic Review and foreign editor of The Spectator; since 2003 he is Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York. He was chairman of the Humanities Centre of the Central European University in Budapest, fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington. (Canada Newswire)
Opinion: Is Brookline ready to rethink Israel-Palestine? Jan 17, 2008
A Bard College professor of social studies, he was the New York Green Party s senatorial candidate in 1998, and lost his bid to be the Greens 2000 presidential candidate to Ralph Nader. He writes frequently in journals that Brookline s liberal and left-of-liberal residents are likely to read. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Burmese musician living incognito Jan 17, 2008
Crapser has also been in talks with Vassar College and Bard College in an attempt to encourage both universities to utilize Naing's particular skill set as a musician, scholar, and instructor. Currently, neither organization has returned phone calls, but Crapser remains optimistic that once the winter break ends, she will be able to successfully contact the appropriate individuals in each respective music department. (Hyde Park Townsman, NY)
Made in Annandale: Joan Tower's political statement goes to the Grammys Jan 5, 2008
"I wanted it to be a political piece," says Tower, 69, who has taught at Bard College for the past several decades. "I couldn't say that then [when the piece was commissioned], but I can say it now." A piece that declared itself overtly political might have been a hard sell, given the circumstances. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Critics pick the best of 2007 Dec 29, 2007
" Essays: Orhan Pamuk. Other Colors, Essays and a Story. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely (Knopf, $27.95) Pamuk, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature is a visiting writer-in-residence at Bard College. He is a "writer's writer," a real storyteller. He writes eloquently about his small daughter, about his country, best of all about the books he reads: "To read well is not to pass one's eyes and one's mind slowly and carefully over a text. It is to immerse oneself utterly... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
400-year party's a little short on money, a lot short on time Dec 24, 2007
Tara Sullivan is the wife of Ned Sullivan, executive director of Scenic Hudson in Poughkeepsie, and a former spokesperson for Bard College. "It's not so much that Heather Baker-Sullivan was let go, as a new team came in," offered Bob Bullock. (Albany Times Union)
Bard students take icy dip to combat global warming Dec 20, 2007
On the afternoon of Dec. 8, about 15 students from Bard College took the cold plunge into the water of the Sawkill Creek, located on the Bard campus ... "The plunge was pretty successful at Bard," said the organizer of the event and member of the Environmental Collective at Bard College, Emily Dingman ... Bard College senior Katy Jane Tull says the idea behind the event was to raise awareness of the gravity of global warming. (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
Independent Reader: Of Founders and feathers Dec 15, 2007
For more than a quarter of a century, Conjunctions-the literary magazine published by Bard College-has been bringing together the world's leading contemporary writers, poets, artists and critics to showcase new work on a particular theme. The new book, Conjunctions 49: A Writers' Aviary, edited by Bradford Morrow (Bard College, $15) features writings about birds. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
LAKER CAGERS SEEK TOURNEY TITLE THIS WEEKEND Dec 13, 2007
D Youville (1-7) is coming off an 84-79 loss to Regis College in the consolation game of the Bard College Raptor Classic. The Spartans feature some talented junior college transfers and are led by 6-3 junior forward Charles Walker (21. (Oswego Palladium-Times, NY)
Letters to the Editor Dec 13, 2007
Marist College, Vassar College and the Culinary Institute of America are all located there, as well as Bard College, which Gannon apparently visited. In addition to this, Hyde Park, located not far from Red Hook (a town which is apparently "dying at no one's hands"), boasts an impressive level of tourism. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Red Hook native heads Bard EMS Dec 6, 2007
Planning on majoring in biology and global public health, Cole first became involved with Bard College through Bard's Bridge Program, which enabled her to take the Bard course "History of Science Before Newton" while still a senior at Red Hook High School ... According to Bard college officials, the Bard EMS currently has 14 members, with 12 new students in training. (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
New Orleans evokes vast void in 'Godot' Dec 6, 2007
He went to school at the Art Institute of Chicago and Bard College, starting in photojournalism and branching out into drawing, graphics and video. A glance at his art tells you he's a cultural polymath. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* ART JOURNAL: Better late than never Nov 29, 2007
Vasif Kortun is the Director of Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul and received the award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in New York last year. He also served as director of the Istanbul Biennial in 1992 and 2005. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Hudson Valley Nov 29, 2007
I was taking the $40 cab from Bard College to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., because I had misread the shuttle schedule, and now the taxi was the only way for me to get home. I had forgotten my wallet in my dorm room before I left. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Many Faces Of Dylan Nov 18, 2007
A graduate of Brown University with an advanced degree in semiotics from Bard College, Haynes has been pushing against the form of narrative storytelling for his whole career. An early work, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" (1987), was a biopic of tragic pop star Karen Carpenter, told with Barbie dolls as the actors. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'cholera' In Need Of Doctoring Nov 16, 2007
Moreover, though Florentino writes poetry that is either romantic or laughable depending on how closely your sensibility resembles that of a Bard College sophomore, he may not be your idea of a steadfast inamorato: To console himself while waiting for her husband to die, he takes 632 lovers over five decades. There's consolation, there's indulgence, and then there's Wilt Chamberlain. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Participating colleges Nov 5, 2007
Bard College at Simon's Rock. Barton College. (USA Today)
Hudson supervisor races Nov 3, 2007
Musall, the supervisor of lighting and sound in the Bard College theater department, has lived in Hudson for 10 years. He has been endorsed by the Democrats and the Conservatives, but is not registered with any party. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Consonant Choral Collaboration Nov 2, 2007
by Crescendo Choir and Bard College at Simon's Rock ... Using those photographs, John Myers, a faculty member of Bard College at Simon's Rock, and artist Alice Myers painstakingly recreated the 1460 Lubeck mural, assisted by Danish scholar Martin Hagstrom. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
MUSIC CALENDAR 10/26 Oct 28, 2007
EXPLORING ELGAR AND HIS World, Bard College, Annandale ... Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, Sosnoff Theater of the Fisher Center, Bard College, River Road, Annandale ... Bard Hall, Bard College, River Road, Annandale. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
VISUAL ARTS CALENDAR 10/26 Oct 28, 2007
center for curatorial studies, Bard College, Route 9G, Annandale. Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Works From the Marieluise Hessell Collection, to February 3. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
College students busted for drugs: Drug processing equipment found at Bard, police say Oct 26, 2007
State Police say they were contacted on Oct. 7 by Bard College Security after members of the security staff discovered two suitcases loaded with drugs and drug paraphernalia ... A search warrant was also executed at 375 Robbins Dorm at Bard College, where additional solvents, precursors as well as marijuana and hash were recovered ... Director of communications for Bard College Mark Primoff said that in the early morning hours of Oct. 7, Bard Security saw the three individuals behaving... (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
Raising men of the highest caliber Oct 25, 2007
A Bard College graduate he now sells high-end real estate in Manhattan. Comments. (Winchester Star, MA, MA)
Danner: Bush-Aznar on Iraq Oct 21, 2007
" See Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times, September 2, 2007, and Robert Draper, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush (Free Press, 2007), p. 211. Mark Danner, who has written about foreign affairs and politics for two decades, is the author of , Torture and Truth, and The Massacre at El Mozote, among other books. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics, and the Humanities at Bard... (Zmag.org)
Castle: Overcoming Zionism & Free Speech Oct 13, 2007
In particular, SWU have targeted a new book by Bard College Professor Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (OZ), which it claims is a polemic against Israel and laced with contempt for Judaism. . (Zmag.org)
County asks: What, exactly, do you do? Oct 13, 2007
But on Monday, Mr. Vosburgh told a subcommittee of the County Government Committee that most of the tasks originally assigned to the EMC are now handled by other public agencies like the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) or by non-governmental organizations like Hudsonia, a privately funded group of environmental scientists based at Bard College. Mr. Vosburgh also warned against the environmental council taking on an agenda of its own. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
* Revolts of the righteous -- the role of faith Oct 6, 2007
Ian Buruma is professor of human rights at Bard College. This story has been viewed 200 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
