JACOB’S PILLOW Jonah Bokaer Doris Duke Theatre August 3, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – Jonah Bokaer possesses a syrupy yet precise movement quality and the sort of unaffected stage presence one might not have expected from such an arguably precocious individual — at 18, he was the youngest person ever to join…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — Trio con Brio Copenhagen, one of today’s most exciting young chamber ensembles, performs an eclectic program featuring works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Frank Martin at The Clark on Tuesday, August 9 at 8 pm. Korean sisters Soo-Jin and Soo-Kyung Hong and Danish pianist Jens Elvekjaer created the trio in Vienna in 1999…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The ethereal pop songstress Lia Ices brings her seductive melancholy to Club Helsinki on Friday, August 5, at 9. The Connecticut native, who heads to Chicago immediately after her Helsinki gig to perform at the Lollapalooza Festival and then back to New York City to play the Mercury Lounge, before opening a…
On Monday, August 1, 2011, BerkshireDaily introduces a new look, a new brand, and some new features. Mostly, however, the changes are on the surface, and BerkshireDaily remains the same – your free one-stop for the day’s news, features, reviews and information you need, gathered from around the corner and around the globe via the…
Louise Lecavalier and Patrick Lamothe in ‘Children’ (photo by Andre Cornellier) JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL Louise Lecavalier Doris Duke Theatre July 15, 2011 by Seth Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – Children, which may have been choreographed by Nigel Charnock and featured two dancers (the other being Patrick Lamothe) and which received its U.S.…
While the BerkshireDaily e-newsletter, which is delivered free to your inbox Monday through Friday by 7 a.m., is curated with the ideal, culturally astute Berkshire reader in mind, it is not by any means only about the Berkshires, because as much as that ideal reader wants to know about what’s happening in his town and…
Text and photos by Seth Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass., June 19, 2011) – The Jacob’s Pillow season opening gala is always a high point of the season, both for the programming, which serves as a kind of sampler for the work that goes on at the Pillow, including the educational component as well as a sprinkling…
Take a look at the accompanying photo portraying lush greens, avocadoes, a generously overflowing quart of strawberries and bright red baby beets with their greens still attached. All of these are organic fruits and veggies, almost all were in the ground in the greater Berkshire/Pioneer Valley region just a day or two ago, and the…
Just this past week, I’ve had several conversations with friends in which we remarked how we detect a palpable level of tension bordering on anger and hostility rarely felt in the placid, laid-back environs of the Berkshires. (In New York City, of course, these feelings are to be expected, and they serve as much as…
So much has already been written about the significance of Bob Dylan turning 70 years old. As the author of a fairly recent book on Bob Dylan, I’ve been asked to comment about Dylan’s milestone birthday in several places. I’m even interviewed in a program airing on the BBC tomorrow — Tuesday, May 24 —…
