This event is in the past.It took place on May 9, 2026 at Fisher Center at Bard.

Strauss’s “Alpine Symphony” 1
Classical Music
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Strauss’s “Alpine Symphony”

May 9 at 7pm

At Fisher Center at Bard

Annandale-On-Hudson, Bard College

🏔️"gloriously opulent masterpiece"
🎼Same program plays Carnegie Hall days later
🎭Box seats have quirky tiered seating

A hundred musicians conjure an entire Alpine mountain, complete with thunderstorms, meadows, and wind machines. Strauss's epic tone poem gets the full treatment with rare instruments like the heckelphone and thunder sheets before this same program heads to Carnegie Hall.

massive orchestra
rare instruments
nature tone poem
Frank Gehry venue