BerkshireWeekend Cultural Preview, Aug 6-9, 2015

 

Anthony Russell

Anthony Russell

VOCALIST to EXPLORE COMMON GROUND BETWEEN YIDDISH SONG and BLACK SPIRITUALS

(HOUSATONIC, Mass.) – Vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell will perform “Convergence: Spirituals from the Shtetl, Davvening from the Delta,” a recital blending Yiddish art songs and African American spirituals, at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House on Saturday, August 8, at 8pm.

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Don Byron

Don Byron

JAZZ LEGEND DON BYRON and ALL-STAR BAND to PLAY JUNIOR WALKER TRIBUTE at HELSINKI HUDSON

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Jazz legend Don Byron will perform a tribute to R&B legend Junior Walker – best known for hits like “(I’m a) Roadrunner” and “Shotgun” – and more with an all-star band of rock and jazz talent at Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, August 6, at 8pm. Joining Byron will be musicians who have played with Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, the B52s, George Clinton, James Taylor, Chick Corea, Keith Richards, Dave Brubeck Gil Evans, the Brecker Brothers, Annie Lennox, Paul Simon, John Medeski and others.

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'His Girl Friday' playwright John Guare, director  Julie Boyd, and 'Friday' cast members

‘His Girl Friday’ playwright John Guare, director Julie Boyd, and ‘Friday’ cast members

JOHN GUARE COMEDY ‘HIS GIRL FRIDAY’ RUNS at BARRINGTON STAGE

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.)  – John Guare’s American screwball comedy “His Girl Friday,” an adaptation of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s original play “The Front Page” and the screen version “His Girl Friday,” is on the mainstage at Barrington Stage Company from Thursday, August 6, through Sunday, August 30.

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Debra Jo Rupp

Debra Jo Rupp

DEBRA JO RUPP STARS in FAMILY DRAMA at CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY

(CHESTER, Mass.) – Debra Jo Rupp stars in “Memory House,” a moving story about the complex issues raised by international child adoption, running at the Chester Theatre Company through Sunday, August 9. The play, written by Kathleen Tolan, was described as “A captivating emotional ballet that is also a moving demonstration of the strenuous work that goes into good mothering” by the New York Times.

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Adam Michael Rothberg (photo Kevin Sprague)

Adam Michael Rothberg (photo Kevin Sprague)

ADAM MICHAEL ROTHBERG CELEBRATES NEW CD at GUTHRIE CENTER

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire native Adam Michael Rothberg celebrates the release of his third studio album, “Soul of a Man,” at the Guthrie Center on Saturday, August 8, at 8pm. The new album features a mix of Rothberg’s signature folk-rock, which blends the eclectic pop melodicism of the Beatles, the intimate confessionalism of James Taylor, and the bluesy rootsiness of Blind Willie Johnson, who penned the title track.

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Brian Sanders Junk American Standard

Brian Sanders Junk American Standard

Brian Sanders JUNK to OPEN CHATHAM DANCE FESTIVAL at PS21

(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – The month-long Chatham Dance Festival at PS21 kicks off with Brian Sanders JUNK on Friday and Saturday, August 7 and 8, at 8pm. Known for their ingenious use of found objects and clever inventions, this Philadelphia-based company bridges the gap between dance and physical theater. “I love dance as much as everything else, but I don’t call the members of JUNK ‘dancers’ but rather, ‘performers,’” Sanders explained. “Dance is a common vocabulary within which we communicate as a troupe but I avoid defining us by it. I consider most of what other people consider acrobatics, dance, just in the air or not necessarily on the ground.”

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Boston Duo, Tatiana Dimitriades and  Jonathan Bass

Boston Duo, Tatiana Dimitriades and Jonathan Bass

BOSTON DUO KICKS OFF MUSIC & MORE with BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS, OTHERS

(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) — The Boston Duo – the husband-and wife team of Boston Symphony violinist Tatiana Dimitriades and pianist Jonathan Bass – will kick off the Music & More 2015 season at the historic Meeting House on the Village Green on Saturday, August 8, at 4:30pm, with a concert featuring music by Beethoven, Brahms, Martinu, and Faure. The stylistically varied program includes sonatas by Beethoven (Op. 30 No. 3 in G Major, No.8), Martinu (No. 3, H.303 [1944]), Brahms Sonatensatz, and Faure (Op. 13 in A Major). A reception for the artists will follow at the Meeting House Art Gallery.

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Carlos Chavez

Carlos Chavez

BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL to CELEBRATE MEXICAN COMPOSER CARLOS CHÁVEZ

(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The 26th annual Bard Music Festival – an exploration of “Carlos Chávez and His World” – kicks off this Friday, August 7, at 8pm, with “The Musical Voice of Mexico” in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater. The first of the weekend’s five themed concerts – “Chávez and Mexico’s Musical Heritage” – offers an introduction to Mexican music since the colonial period of New Spain, culminating with the work of Carlos Chávez (1899–1978) and his 20th-century contemporaries. The opening event features an outstanding lineup that includes pianists Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss, guitarist Jason Vieaux, soprano Ava Pine, the Daedalus Quartet, and members of the American Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of music director and festival co-artistic director Leon Botstein.

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Michael Chertock

Michael Chertock

HIGH PEAKS MUSIC FESTIVAL CELEBRATES MUSIC of RACHMANINOFF

(RENSSELAERVILLE, N.Y.) — Pianist Michael Chertock will be featured in “From Rags to Riches,” a program showcasing piano and cello works of Sergei Rachmaninoff, kicking off the High Peaks Music Festival on Sunday, August 9, at 7pm at the Carey Institute’s Guggenheim Pavilion. The theme of this summer’s 10-day festival is “The Gilded Age: Bohemia in the Catskills.” Rachmaninoff, whose visits to the Catskills date to the 1930s, when he was living as a White Russian exile in Hollywood, stands as one of the last links between 19th-century Romanticism and modernism.  The oceanic, enveloping sound Rachmaninoff’s music generates and his ability to stun audiences with performances of his fiendishly difficult pieces helped make him one of the highest paid performers of his time, one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century, and a veritable “rock star” of classical music. The program also includes ragtime selections by Zez Confrey and others.

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Rich Robinson

Rich Robinson

BLACK CROWES’ RICH ROBINSON to PLAY SOLO SHOW at HELSINKI HUDSON

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – You know him best as guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the Black Crowes. But for the past decade-plus, Rich Robinson  has been juggling his career as a bandleader and solo artist, with his commitment to roots-rock songwriting always his central focus. That’s the Rich Robinson who will be performing at Club Helsinki Hudson this Friday, August 7, at 9pm, in an intimate, solo acoustic concert, featuring Robinson, his unmistakable voice, and five beautiful guitars.

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