(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Close Encounters With Music (CEWM) opens its 20th anniversary season with the renowned Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in a program of music by Dvorak, Elgar, Shostakovich, and Bach, on Sunday, October 30, 2011, at 2 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. The critically acclaimed chamber music series featuring astute commentary by artistic…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – The Apollo Trio will perform works by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Dvorák on Saturday, September 17 at 4:30 p.m. in the Music & More series at the Meeting House in New Marlborough. Comprised of violinist Curtis Macomber, cellist Michael Kannen, and pianist Marija Stroke, the trio has been performing a wide range…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Harlem Quartet will be joined by pianist Misha Dichter and cellist Dane Johansen on Saturday, September 16, at 6pm, for the 7th and final concert of the 2011 season of Concerts at Tannery Pond, located in the barn at Darrow School. The season finale will feature works by Mozart, Schubert,…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will open its doors to the community for a free screening of the New York Philharmonic performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. The “Concert for New York,” taped the previous night…
(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 piano…
(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 last…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Boston Symphony Orchestra begins its final weekend of the 2011 Tanglewood season Friday, August 26, with its first-ever performance of George Gershwin’s great American masterpiece, the blues-and-jazz-inflected Porgy and Bess, which examines African-American life in the South during the 1920s. The great Itzhak Perlman joins the orchestra on Saturday, August 27,…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – The award-winning Daedalus Quartet will perform music by Haydn, Schumann and Dvorak on Saturday, August 27, 2011, at the historic Meeting House in New Marlborough. The concert begins at 4:30 p.m. and is presented by the Music and More series, which this summer celebrates its 20th year hosting cultural events in…
(CAMBRIDGE, N.Y.) — In its fourth summer season, Hubbard Hall Opera Theater (HHOT) presents Gaetano Donizetti’s classic comic opera, Don Pasquale, in a new production by Heidi Lauren Duke, reconceived and relocated to the glamorous early Hollywood, Art Deco world of Buster Keaton and Mae West. Performances, running August 12, 13, and 18 at 8…
(LENOX, Mass.) – A full weekend’s program at Tanglewood includes an evening of Spanish music with Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leading the BSO on Friday in a program dedicated to Spanish and Spanish-inspired music, featuring world-renowned guitar virtuoso and fellow Spaniard Pepe Romero making his Tanglewood debut. Saturday night’s program features cellist Yo-Yo Ma…
