Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
- Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Infobox Modern building
caption = Building in winter 2005
name = Richard B. Fisher Center
for the Performing Arts
location_town = Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
location_country = USA
coordinates =
architect = Frank Gehry
client = Bard College
engineer =
construction_start_date=
completion_date = 2003
date_demolished =
cost = $62 million
structural_system =
style = Deconstructivist|
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is a performance hall located in New York's Hudson Valley. The center provides audiences with performances and programs in orchestral, chamber, and jazz music and theater, dance, and opera by American and international artists. Designed by architect Frank Gehry, the 110,000-square foot (10,000 m²) center houses two theaters, four rehearsal studios for dance, theater, and music, and professional support facilities. The total cost of the project reached $62 million. "The New Yorker" calls it " [possibly] the best small concert hall in the United States." [http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/030602crsk_skyline] The Sosnoff Theater, an intimate, 900-seat theater with an orchestra, parterre, and two balcony sections, features an orchestra pit for opera and acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, including an acoustic shell that turns the theater into a concert hall for performances of chamber and symphonic music.
The flexible 200-seat Theater Two houses Bard’s Theater and Dance Programs during the academic year. The Fisher Center is also the home of the Bard Music Festival, entering its 18th season in August 2007, hosting companies from the United States and abroad during Bard SummerScape, a festival of opera, theater, and dance.
The PAC is devoted primarily to teaching and college events during the academic year and used as a public performing arts facility and venue for the college’s graduate programs in the arts during the summer months.
External links
* [http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/030602crsk_skyline Review of the Fisher Center in "the New Yorker"]
* [http://livedesignonline.com/mag/show_business_frank_gehry_goes/ Review of Fisher Center in "Live Design"]
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