STAGE TUBE: Bard Music Festival Presents FILMING STRAVINSKY: PRESERVING POSTERITY'S IMAGE, Tonight!

Leon Botstein Talks about Igor Stravinsky and the 24th Bard Music Festival from The Fisher Center on Vimeo.

Bard Music Festival presents a Special Event, FILMING STRAVINSKY: PRESERVING POSTERITY'S IMAGE, Friday, August 16, 2013 at 5 pm: Commentary by Charles M. Joseph.

Atistic Codirector Leon Botstein gives an overview of the 24th annual Bard Music Festival: Stravinsky and His World. Check out the video!

Free and open to the public.

During the 1950s and '60s, Stravinsky became the most filmed composer of the 20th century. The subject of numerous European and North American documentaries, the composer's notoriety was exploited widely by a television industry that embraced the arts as part of its cultural mission. This session will present clips from some of the more important film documentaries of the time.

For more information, visit: http://fishercenter.bard.edu/

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