(LENOX, Mass.) – Fjords, forests and fairy tales will be conjured up in Nordic Lights: Grieg Revival, an evening of music and readings at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall — including works by Edvard Grieg and Henrik Ibsen, featuring special guest narrator Tina Packer, founder and former artistic director of Shakespeare & Company — on Saturday, June…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Piano trios by Mozart, Beethoven, and Ravel will be performed at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, May 18 at 6 p.m. as part of the Close Encounters With Music chamber series. Musicians for the concert – the second in a series showcasing piano trios that reflect significant junctures in…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Eleven concert programs over the two mid-August weekends, complemented by pre-concert lectures, panel discussions, and expert commentary, make up the world-renowned Bard Music Festival’s examination of Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), arguably the most important composer of the 20th century. The eleven concerts filling the last two weekends of Bard SummerScape 2013 with a…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Tannery Pond’s 23rd concert season, taking place in the Tannery on the grounds of the Darrow School, opens Saturday, May 25, 2013, with a concert featuring pianist Christopher O’Riley (of “From the Top” fame) and cellist Matt Haimovitz, in an all-Russian program. Season highlights include performances by the Miró Quartet (July…
(POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.) – The Hudson Valley Philharmonic concludes its 53rd season on Saturday, May 4, 2013, at 8pm at the Bardavon with a concert featuring the continental United States premiere of Avner Dorman’s Cello Concerto, with Israeli-American cellist Inbal Segev, who commissioned the work, joining the orchestra. Also on the program, led by HVP music…
(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – From a vision of the Holy Grail to the longing for and redemption of love, Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra will perform pieces of Richard Wagner’s most famous operatic works at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, the final concert of the 2012–13 season,…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The 19th century will rub shoulders with the late 20th on Saturday, April 20, 2013, at 6pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center when the Close Encounters With Music chamber series features back-to-back piano trios by Franz Schubert and Paul Schoenfield, performed by pianist Jeffrey Swann, violinist Erin Keefe, and series…
By Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., May 2006) – With the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth upon us, this year we’re going to be inundated with the master’s music. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, after all, was no slouch, and immersion in the works of one of the greatest composers of…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Williams Chamber Players will perform works by Bach, Bartok, Brahms, Mendelssohn and David Kechley on Friday, February 15, 2013, at 8 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus. The concert is free and open to the public. The Williams Chamber Players is a group made up of musicians…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – It was common in the eighteenth century to accompany an evening of fine dining with chamber music. On Sunday, January 20, 2013, Fiori Restaurant revives that tradition with the first in a projected series of Candlelight Concerts, featuring Schubert’s C major Quintet for two cellos played by Boston Symphony alumnus and…
