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Cranwell Resort Earns Condé Nast Traveler 2011 Readers’ Choice Award

(LENOX, Mass.) – Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club was recently selected as one of only 10 northeastern resorts in Condé Nast Travelers 2011 Reader’s Choice Awards in the category of “Top 150 Resorts” in the U.S. This award comes on the heels of the resort earning the 2011 Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence and…

Poets Charles Coe, Michelle Gillett and Leslie Harrison to Read at The Mount

Poet Charles Coe

(LENOX, Mass.) – Charles Coe and Berkshire poets Michelle Gillett and Leslie Harrison will read their poetry at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Estate and Gardens, on Saturday, November 12, 2011, at 4 p.m., in “Picnic with Poets,” a co-presentation by Close Encounters With Music and The Mount. Recognized by Boston Magazine as “one of the…

Enjoying the Berkshire Grown Harvest

(LENOX, Mass.) – Close to 400 guests attended the 13th annual Berkshire Grown Harvest Supper at Eastover Resort in Lenox last Monday, Sept 19, 2011. Funds raised support Berkshire Grown’s ongoing work to support local food and farms, including Farm to Table Directory and networking, Map-o-licious on the website, Guide to Farms, e-newsletter, Preserving the…

‘War of the Worlds’ Radio Hoax Restaged at Shakespeare & Company

Elizabeth Aspenlieder stars in Shakespeare & Company's restaging of Orson Welles's radio drama 'War of the Worlds'

(LENOX, Mass.) – Orson Welles’s legendary radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds that caused panic among listeners who mistook the fictionalized program about an alien invasion for an authentic news bulletin when first broadcast on Halloween in 1938 has now been wrought for the stage and is being presented by Shakespeare &…

Marathon of New Plays at Shakespeare & Company on Monday, 9/5

(LENOX, Mass.) — Shakespeare & Company will present its 17th annual Studio Festival of Plays — a mini-marathon of plays never before performed at the Company — running one-day only on Monday, September 5, 2011, in the Founders’ Theatre. Staged readings begin at 11 am and continue through to 11 pm. Company actors and special…

Two Decades of Tanglewood Broadcasts by the Three Musketeers

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 last…

(Concert Review) Brad Mehldau at Tanglewood

Brad Mehldau

TANGLEWOOD Ozawa Hall Brad Mehldau Thursday, August 25, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass.) – Roll over, Cole Porter, tell Richard Rodgers the news. The last page has finally been turned on the so-called Great American Songbook. And good riddance to it once and for all. I base this observation on Brad Mehldau’s solo…

BSO Says Goodbye to Tanglewood with ‘Porgy and Bess’ and Lots of Beethoven

Laquita Mitchell

(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,…