This year’s celebrated composer at Bard Music Festival is Carlos Chávez.  Nathan will be joining the Bard Festival Chorale for Program Eight in Forest of the Amazons by Villa-Lobos, conducted by Leon Botstein.

READ THE NEW YORKER ARTICLE:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/master-of-music

PROGRAM EIGHT: Reimagined Landscapes and Pasts

Carlos Chávez (1899–1978), Symphonía india (1935)

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959), Amazonas (1917); Forest of the Amazons (1958)

Silvestre Revueltas (1899–1940), Cuauhnáhuac (1930)

José Pablo Moncayo (1912–58), Three Pieces for Orchestra (1947)