(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…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Eliot Fisk demonstrates the versatility and appeal of the classical guitar in a Close Encounters With Music concert on Saturday, March 23, 2013, at 6 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. The diverse program, titled “Old, New, Borrowed and Blues,” features J.S. Bach, tango, Schubert lieder, American folk music, improvisations…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — The drama and emotion of the Italian cantata takes center stage when the early-music ensemble Tragicomedia performs a holiday concert featuring works by Handel and Italian Baroque composers on December 9, 2012, at 6pm, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, as part of the Close Encounters With Music series. “Tragicomedia: A…
(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…
(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,…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Roaring Twenties, a time exemplified by Art Deco, Prohibition, the loosening of social restraints, Jazz, the Charleston and flappers, will be revisited in a musical cabaret entitled The Roaring Twenties: Berlin, Paris, New York at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall on Saturday, June 2, 2012, at 6p.m. as part of the Close Encounters…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – As part of the Close Encounters With Music series, the Daedalus Quartet will perform an all-Viennese program at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, May 19, 2012, at 6 pm. Selections include Schubert’s Quartettsatz, Beethoven’s majestic Razumovsky, Opus 59, No.1; and Alban Berg’s Quartet Opus 3, completing a musical journey…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The complex relationships among Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann will be explored on Saturday, March 24, 2012, at 6 p.m., at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, in Grand Piano Quartets: Schumann and Brahms, a Close Encounters With Music (CEWM) concert featuring pianist Lydia Artymiw in a program including Piano…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Close Encounters With Music celebrates the 200th anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth with Lisztomania! at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Sunday, December 4, 2011, at 2 p.m. The performance showcases Liszt’s compositional style as well as works by his friends (Saint Saëns) and polar opposites (Mendelssohn). Fan mania and the cult…
