Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"

This performance, featuring the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, is presented as part of the second-semester program for the First-Year Seminar.

This semester, the course invites students to engage with the complexities of democratic life— its challenges, responsibilities, and possibilities. Through foundational texts in literature, philosophy, history, and political theory, students explore enduring questions of citizenship, belonging, and the meaning of community. Culture (including music) plays a vital role in shaping how we imagine and inhabit our shared world. This performance expands on that conversation, offering a powerful artistic lens through which to reflect on the human dimensions of civic life.