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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Berkshire Cultural Highlights August 31-Sept 5

August 31, 2011
Vocalist Robin McKelle

The highlights of the weekend’s entertainment include the ever-popular Parsons Dance, returning to PS21 in Chatham, N.Y., the extended run of The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show about Emily Dickinson, at Triple Shadow in East Otis, Mass.; the annual Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival at Tanglewood featuring an abundance of female talent this...
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Parsons Dance Returns to The Tent at PS21

August 31, 2011
Parsons Dance

(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – New York City-based Parsons Dance – noted for its uplifting, athletic, engaging contemporary style that often commissions new scores by contemporary composers, including Dave Matthews, Steely Dan, Juan Garcia Esquival, Michael Gordon of Bang on a Can, John Corigliano, and Phil Woods, as well as such standbys as Bach, Schubert, and...
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Watercolorist Captures New England’s Unique Architecture

August 31, 2011
'Looking South Then East' by Peter Hussey

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.)  – After seventeen years as a corporate fundraiser, Peter Hussey traded his gray flannel suit for an easel and became a full time watercolor artist. He succeeded in his new craft by painting the things he knew and liked best – the architectural details of old New England buildings. As a frustrated...
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One-Woman Show Portraying Emily Dickinson Extended Due to Popular Demand

August 30, 2011
Mari Andrejco portrays Emily Dickinson in Triple Shadow's 'Belle of Amherst'

(EAST OTIS, Mass.) – Triple Shadow’s site-specific, indoor/outdoor adaptation of William Luce’s one-woman play, The Belle Of Amherst, performed by Mari Andrejco as Emily Dickinson and directed by Beth Skinner, is extending its run through Sunday, September 4, due to popular and critical acclaim. The unique location of the production, at Triple Shadow’s Performance...
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Arabella Ensemble to Perform at Tannery Pond

August 30, 2011
The Arabella Ensemble with Christian Steiner

(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Los Angeles-based Arabella Ensemble performs music of Debussy, Clarke, Piazzolla and Beethoven on Saturday, September 3, 2011, at 8pm in the Concerts at Tannery Pond series on the grounds of Darrow School. For this concert, the gruop will be joined by series artistic director Christian Steiner, who will play...
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Williamstown Playwright Has World Premiere Staging at Berkshire Theatre Festival

August 30, 2011
Keira Naughton

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The Berkshire Theatre Festival will literally be just that, when the comic drama Birthday Boy by Chris Newbound, of Williamstown, Mass., has its world premiere in the Unicorn Theatre at Berkshire Theatre Festival beginning Tuesday, August 30. 2011, running through Saturday, September 3. The play will then reopen on Thursday, September 29...
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For the Love of Books in Spencertown, N.Y.

August 30, 2011
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(SPENCERTOWN, N.Y.) – With more than 20 authors, 2,000 book lovers expected to attend, and 10,000 books for sale, Spencertown Academy Arts Center’s Festival of Books truly earns its name as a festival. This is no mere book sale, but a celebration of all things literary. The sixth annual event takes place this coming...
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Female Vocalists, Cuban Jazz Headline Tanglewood Festival

August 30, 2011
Angelique Kidjo

(LENOX, Mass.) – This year’s Tanglewood Jazz Festival is highlighted by Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalists Dianne Reeves and Angélique Kidjo, genre-defying vocalist Lizz Wright, NEA Jazz Masters Jimmy Cobb and Gunther Schuller, Judy Carmichael of NPR’s Jazz Inspired, Hollywood actress and vocalist Blythe Danner, the legacy-bearing Mingus Orchestra, Afro-Latin percussionist John Santos with the...
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Two Decades of Tanglewood Broadcasts by the Three Musketeers

August 30, 2011
Broadcaster Ron Della Chiesa, producer Brian Bell, and sound engineer Jim Donahue (photo by Fred Collins)

(LENOX, Mass.) – While everyone was understandably thinking about Irene and the first-ever cancellation of a Tanglewood concert in its history, another landmark event passed by quietly this past Sunday, August 28, 2011, the date that marked the twentieth anniversary of the team that brings radio listeners live broadcasts from the shed. For the...
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Berkshire Museum Names New Director

August 30, 2011
Van W. Shields

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — While hailing the seven-month tenure of Maria Mingalone as interim executive director of the Berkshire Museum as a time in which the museum has been “dynamic” and “thriving,” the museum’s trustees named Van W. Shields, most recently director of the Culture and Heritage Museums in Rock Hill, S.C., as executive director,...
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