(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Bach will offer a triple-play of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos as well as works by Vivaldi and Handel in concerts in Northampton, Great Barrington and Troy, N.Y., on December 30 and 31, 2012, and January 1, 2013, respectively. On the program will be Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for two horns, two oboes…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire Lyric, one of the Berkshire’s longest running community arts organizations, kicks off its 50th anniversary season with a series of holiday concerts, including “Deck the Halls, The Christmas Concert,” on Sunday, December 9, 2012, at 3pm at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in downtown Pittsfield. On Saturday, December 8, at 11am, the…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – A string trio in residence at The Clark will perform chamber music works by Halvorsen, Dvorák, Mendelssohn, Schnittke, Schumann, Ravel, Arvo Pärt, and Piazzolla on Sunday, November 18, 2012, at 3 pm. While in town, the musicians – Edward Arron, cello; Jeewon Park, piano; and Kyung Sun Lee, violin – will offer…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The centenaries of Chapin Hall and composer John Cage will be recognized in a free concert by the Berkshire Symphony on Friday, November 2, 2012, at 8 p.m. in Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus. The concert will also pay tribute to the late Williams College music professor Ernest D. Brown,…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Russian piano virtuosos Natalia Lavrova and Vassily Primakov open the Close Encounters With Music season on Saturday, October 20, 2012, with “‘Dually Noted: Music for Four Hands,” a program of works for duo piano. The 6 p.m. concert, featuring works by Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, Darius Milhaud and John Corigliano, takes place…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han bring the curtain down on the 2012 Concerts at Tannery Pond season on Saturday, September 22, 2012, at 6pm, with a duo concert featuring works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and Shostakovich. Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han rank among the most esteemed and…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Williams Chamber Players will perform works by Shostakovich, Poulenc, Cage, Strauss, and Lehár in a concert themed “The insidious popular vein in the early 20th century” on Saturday, September 8, 2012, at 8 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus. This free event is open to the public.…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – The internationally acclaimed Daedalus Quartet performs music of Mendelssohn, Dvorak and George Perle on Saturday, September 8, 2012, at 4:30 p.m. at the Meeting House on the Village Green as part of the Music & More series. The renowned string ensemble, praised by the New Yorker as “a fresh and vital…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The critically acclaimed and much-beloved Close Encounters With Music (CEWM) chamber series — which brings Tanglewood-quality concerts to the Berkshires three out of four seasons of the year (or does Tanglewood bring Close Encounters With Music-quality programs in the summer?) – kicks off its 21st season on Saturday, October 20, 2012,…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Todd Palmer, clarinetist and three-time Grammy nominee, joins forces with Israeli pianist Ran Dank and soprano Elizabeth Futral to perform Ricky Ian Gordon’s Orpheus and Euridice, a song cycle in two acts which was originally commissioned by Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series in 2005, at Tannery Pond Concerts in the Tannery…
