(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – Music, dance and the spoken word are on tap on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at 4:30 p.m., when a Berkshire-based trio of instrumentalists joins forces with Berkshire Pulse dancers for Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (A Soldier’s Tale) at the Meeting House on the Village Green, Route 57, as part of…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Great Barrington resident Alfred Brewer, who is 18 years old, will perform the Concertino, Opus 4, for trombone, by Ferdinand David, with the Stockbridge Sinfonia on Sunday, August 19, 2012, at 6pm at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church on 74 First St. in Pittsfield. The free concert by the Sinfonia, conducted and…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The world-renowned Bard Music Festival returns for its 23rd annual season, filling the last two weekends of Bard SummerScape 2012 with a compelling and enlightening investigation of Saint-Saëns and His World. Twelve concert programs over the two mid-August weekends, complemented by pre-concert lectures, panel discussions, and expert commentary, make up Bard’s examination…
(LENOX, Mass.) – On Friday, August 10, 2012, at Tanglewood, Pinchas Zukerman — who first performed at Tanglewood in 1969 — acts as both conductor and solo violinist in an all-Bach program — a popular concert format throughout the history of the festival — that highlights some of the exceptional talent within the ranks of…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – On Tuesday, August 14, 2012, at 8 pm, the Carpe Diem String Quartet will perform Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Opus 80 as their traditional work in The Clark’s popular chamber music series. In celebration of The Clark’s Unearthed exhibition, Carpe Diem will be joined by award-winning pipa player Yihan Chen in a performance…
(LENOX, Mass.) – On Saturday, August 4, 2012, pianist Yefim Bronfman joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood under conductor Christoph von Dohnányi at 8:30 p.m. for a program including Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a prototypically Brahmsian work in its combination of formal mastery and expressive ingenuity, as well as typically monumental in scale…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Harlem Quartet, the resident string ensemble at the New England Conservatory of Music, performs a program of works by Beethoven, Turina, Ravel and Chick Corea on Saturday, August 4, 2012, at 8 p.m, in the Tannery Pond Concert Series at the Darrow School in New Lebanon. The members of the…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Ying Quartet kicks off The Clark’s popular chamber music series on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at at 8 pm. Four internationally acclaimed chamber groups will be performing in The Clark’s auditorium, on subsequent Tuesdays at 8, including the Hermitage Piano Trio, the Carpe Diem String Quartet, and the Shanghai Quartet. Concert…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Kurt Masur, who turns 85 on July 18, 2012, will share the Tanglewood podium with his son Ken-David Masur for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Sunday afternoon all-Mozart program on July 22, 2012. Maestro Masur, who canceled most of his appearances through September after taking a fall during a concert in Paris last…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – While new-music collective Bang on a Can has been busy all year celebrating its quarter-century anniversary since its founding in New York City in 1987, it also is marking a landmark year in the Berkshires, commencing the second decade of its summer residency at MASS MoCA, including a summer institute, a…
