(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The 26th annual Bard Music Festival – an exploration of “Carlos Chávez and His World” – kicks off this Friday, August 7, at 8pm, with “The Musical Voice of Mexico” in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater. The first of the weekend’s five themed concerts – “Chávez and Mexico’s Musical Heritage” – offers…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Dan Tepfer, a New York-based pianist and composer, one of the most formidable jazz musicians on the international stage, will perform his solo project, “Goldberg Variations/Variations,” at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 7pm, as part of the inaugural season of Classics on Hudson, designed to showcase internationally…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Works by Vivaldi, Handel, Pergolesi, Monteverdi, Telemann and J. S. Bach will be performed by members of Baroque ensembles including the Diderot Quartet, Apollo’s Fire, the Handel and Haydn Society, Les Arts Florrisants, and New Utrecht Baroque in “A Holiday Celebration — Best of the Baroque,” the second in Close…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Contemporary string quartet Ethel will perform “Grace,” an innovative, adventurous program featuring works by Ennio Morricone, Jeff Buckley, Vijay Iyer, Son Lux, Marcelo Zarvos, Nico Muhly and others, at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, November 22, 2014, at 7pm, as part of the Classics on Hudson’s inaugural season. Ethel performed the same program…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Acoustic trio Quiet In The Head, the ongoing musical project of guitarist Seamus Maynard, violinist Jonathan Talbott and cellist Jonah Thomas, performs at Spotty Dog Books & Ale (440 Warren St.) on Saturday, November 8, 2014, at 8pm. The trio’s original acoustic music has evolved over many years of playing together and…
Violinist Paul Huang and pianist Louis Schwizgebel will play works by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Kreisler and Corigliano in the final concert of the season at Tannery Pond Concerts in the Tannery on the grounds of the Darrow School on Saturday, September 6, 2014, at 6pm.
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Pianist Ji will play works by Bach-Busoni, Schumann, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky at Tannery Pond Concerts in the Tannery on the grounds of the Darrow School on Saturday, September 6, 2014, at 8pm. Ji is this year’s winner of the Tannery Pond Concerts Award, an honor going to select winners of the…
(LENOX, Mass.) – While there’s still more to come at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra takes its final bow of the 2014 season at Tanglewood on Sunday, August 24, at 2:30 p.m., in the Shed, with its traditional performance of Beethoven’s transcendent Symphony No. 9. Later that evening, the Maria Schneider Orchestra – a big-band…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Trio Virado will perform a program in the Tannery Pond Concert Series at the Darrow School on Saturday, August 23, 2014, at 8pm. Flutist Amy Porter, violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez, and guitarist João Luiz have been together for a little over a year performing a new and unique blend of jazzy…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – The Boston Duo, a husband-and wife team of Boston Symphony violinist Tatiana Dimitriades and pianist Jonathan Bass, will inaugurate the 2014 season of the Music & More chamber series at historic Meeting House on the Village Green on Saturday, August 9, 2014, at 4:30 pm. Making its festival debut, the…
