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Bang on a Can Festival Brings New Music to MASS MoCA

Concerts feature music by Julia Wolfe, Aphex Twin, David Lang, Michael Gordon(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The 12th Annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a utopian residency program dedicated entirely to the creation, study, and performance of the most adventurous music of our time, takes place now through Saturday, August 3,…

Gabriel Kahane’s Chamber-Pop Showcased at MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Chamber-pop singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane, whose songs betray his parallel life as a classical music composer, will be joined by Rob Moose of Bon Iver for a duo concert at MASS MoCA‘s multi-colored Pavilion, an outdoor sculpture of overlapping canopies located at the center of the museum’s renovated 19th-century factory campus, on…

BerkshireWeekend Cultural Preview, July 10-14, 2013

  BRIAN BROOKS MOVING COMPANY at JACOB’S PILLOW  (BECKET, Mass.) – The dynamic contemporary dance ensemble Brian Brooks Moving Company presents a daring program featuring larger-than-life stage design, bold costuming, and full-out movement in the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance from Wednesday, July 10 to Sunday, July 14, 2013. Led by choreographer and…

Contemporary Opera Version of ‘Gatsby’ at Tanglewood

(LENOX, Mass.) –  John Harbison’s opera The Great Gatsby will be performed by the orchestra and chorus of Boston-based Emmanuel Music on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 7:30 p.m.,  in Ozawa Hall, as part of Tanglewood’s 75th birthday tribute to the composer. The concert performance will be led by Emmanuel Music artistic director Ryan Turner…

All-Hungarian Program on Tap at Tannery Pond Chamber Music Series

  (NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Violinist Soovin Kim leads an all-Hungarian program featuring works by Béla Bartok, Zoltán Kodály and Ernst von Dohnányi on Satrurday, June 22, 2013, at 8pm, as part of the Concerts at Tannery Pond chamber music series. Joining Kim will be violinist Jessica Lee, cellist Ed Arron, violist Maurycy Banaszek, and…

Bach, Beethoven and Brahms Duets for Piano and Cello at Tannery Pond

(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Cellist Sebastian Bäverstam and pianist Yannick Rafalimanana will perform works by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms in the Tannery at Darrow School on Saturday, June 8, 2013, at 8pm, as part of the Concerts at Tannery Pond chamber music series. Both young musicians have already garnered critical acclaims and awards. They first…