Sight and Sound

from Abstraction to surrealism

A multimedia event paying homage to Les Six — the movement that characterized music in the 1920s in Paris — featured the following compositions:

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) – Le travail du peintre, song cycle for voice and piano, Op. 161 (1956)
André Souris (1899–1970)- Choral, marche, et galop (1927)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) – Ragtime (1918)
Georges Auric (1899–1983)
Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
Francis Poulenc
Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) – Les mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921)
Erik Satie (1866–1925) – Parade (1916–17; arr. piano four-hand)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) – Mavra (1921-22, rev.1947)

Bard Summer Music Festival
Sosnoff Theater at Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

August 11th, 2013

American Symphony Orchestra

Music Director/Conductor: Leon Botstein

Direction and Design: Anne Patterson

Choreography: Janice Lancaster

Projection Design: Adam Larsen

Lighting Design: Seth Reiser

Costume Assistant: Valérie Bart

Associate Designer: Kina Park