The concerts feature student works performed by the New Jersey Symphony, conducted by Lawrence Leighton Smith, and professional pieces conducted by student conductors.
The program will include a few other Carter pieces, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky, and feature singers like the talented contemporary specialist Susan Narucki.
What was left after all this ineffectual dramatic fussing were songs and instrumental pieces, conducted by Sheradin Tchkuaseli, and dances choreographed by Revaz Chokhonelidze.
Other responsibilities include commissioning articles (e.g. reviews and perspective pieces), conducting lab visits, and attending conferences.
Based on the novel by Hemingway, whose estate gave Mr. Young permission to adapt it, the piece, conducted by Richard Aulden Clark, features Lawrence Harris, tenor, as Jake, the American reporter in Paris, and Luciana LaMonico, soprano, as Lady Brett Ashley.
Fittingly, one of its best parts is a kind of fiber performance-art piece conducted high overhead: the movements of the elaborately rigged and intersecting ropes and chains of the swings and curtain, which crisscross the upper third of the space.
The surgical period also involves pathology examination of the surgical piece, conducted extemporaneously or following surgery, and this enables confirmation of malignancy.
Mr. Hurlin, who often uses puppets in his award-winning performance pieces, will conduct a one-week puppetry workshop at Sarah Lawrence from next Sunday through June 29.
The Austrian Embassy said that at the April 16 concert, an initiative of the former Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassnik, Mr. Barenboim would play piano pieces and conduct the Cairo Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
Interviewed before the concert, Gardiner said performing the work was like scaling Everest, and even though he and the choir had performed it 30 times in their 50-year history he still found it one of the most challenging pieces to conduct.
