The musical lineup includes, in addition to works by Elgar himself, repertoire by Wagner, Brahms, Faur_, and Strauss, as well as music by Elgar's English contemporaries such as William Sterndale Bennett, Charles Villiers Stanford, Hubert Parry, Arthur Sullivan, Percy Grainger, Ethel Smyth, William Walton, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Arthur Bliss. Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra will be in residence, closing the festival with Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius.

Most SummerScape events will take place in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by architect Frank Gehry and acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, which opened in 2003. And the Spiegeltent will serve as a restaurant/cabaret before and after performances Thursday through Sunday.

Information on and tickets for Bard SummerScape are available at http://summerscape.bard.edu.