Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Fisher Center at Bard
	South (front) elevation, 2009
Address	60 Manor Ave.; Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; United States
Coordinates	42°01′52.81″N 073°54′09.55″W / 42.0313361°N 73.9026528°W
Owner	Bard College
Type	Performing arts center
Capacity	Sosnoff Theater: 900; LUMA Theater: Adjustable
Construction
Opened	2003
Architect	Frank Gehry
Structural engineer	DeSimone Consulting Engineers; Cosentini Associates
Main contractors	Daniel O'Connell's Sons
Website
	fishercenter.bard.edu

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is a performance hall located in the Hudson Valley hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The center provides audiences with performances and programs in orchestral, chamber, and jazz music, and in theater, dance, and opera. 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 building's heat and air-conditing systems are entirely powered by geothermal sources, enabling the Fisher Center to be fossil fuel free during standard operations.^[1] The total cost of the project reached $62 million and took three years to complete, opening in April 2003. The New Yorker calls it "[possibly] the best small concert hall in the United States."^[2]

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 smaller of the two theaters is the flexible 200-seat LUMA Theater, which houses Bard's Theater and Dance Programs during the academic year.

The Fisher Center is also the home of the Bard Music Festival, hosting companies from around the world during Bard SummerScape, a festival of opera, theater, and dance. The Performing Arts Center is primarily devoted 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.

References

^ "About the Fisher Center Building". Fisher Center Bard. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
^ Goldberger, Paul (2 June 2003). "Artistic License Two great new cultural centers open out of town". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-07-09.

External links

[1] "About the Fisher Center Building". Fisher Center Bard. Retrieved August 1, 2014.

[2] Goldberger, Paul (2 June 2003). "Artistic License Two great new cultural centers open out of town". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-07-09.

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Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
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Culture	CCS Hessel Museum of Contemporary Art Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture Conjunctions Bard Music Festival Bard SummerScape Hannah Arendt Center John Cage Trust Montgomery Place Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Student Life	Bard College Campus Bard College Raptors WXBC-AM
Affiliated Institutions	al-Quds University American University of Central Asia Central European University Open Society Foundations
Defunct	Bard Free Press Smolny College

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Under construction or proposed	Estació de la Sagrera (2012) World Trade Center Performing Arts Center (2015) Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (2017) Grand Avenue Project (under construction) Philadelphia Museum of Art Expansion (on hold)
Furniture design	Easy Edges (1969–1973)
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Pop culture	"The Seven-Beer Snitch" Sketches of Frank Gehry
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