(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center becomes the site of a Latin explosion on Saturday, November 5, 2011, as La Excelencia brings its young outlook to the energizing sound of Salsa Dura. This self-proclaimed “New Generation of Salsa Dura” rehashes classic salsa from the 1970s, maintaining the genre’s traditions while expanding upon its…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The a cappella ensemble Anonymous 4 performs “Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas” on Friday, October 21, 2011, at 8 p.m., in Thompson Memorial Chapel on the Williams College Campus. Renowned for their unearthly vocal blend and virtuosic ensemble singing, the four singers of Anonymous 4 combine musical, literary, and historical…
BOB DYLAN CELEBRATION with AUTHOR/SINGER SETH ROGOVOY and PHOTOGRAPHER KEN REGAN (NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday will be celebrated in words, music, and pictures with a talk and performance by Dylan author Seth Rogovoy and an exhibition of rarely seen photographs by Ken Regan, one of very few photographers given behind-the-scenes access…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Harlem Quartet will be joined by pianist Misha Dichter and cellist Dane Johansen on Saturday, September 16, at 6pm, for the 7th and final concert of the 2011 season of Concerts at Tannery Pond, located in the barn at Darrow School. The season finale will feature works by Mozart, Schubert,…
(ALBANY, N.Y.) – Violinist Alicia Svigals, the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Klezmatics, will present a program of ecstatic Jewish melodies at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7:30pm. Svigals will be accompanied by Patrick Farrell on accordion and Brian Glassman on…
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER They Might Be Giants Friday, Sept 9, 2011 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – They Might Be Giants are just too fun for words, and if the creative core of the group, the duo of John Linnell and John Flansburgh, aren’t still having fun after working together…
This week’s cultural highlights in the Berkshires include a concert by long-running indie-rockers They Might Be Giants; a jazz-fueled chamber concert featuring the music of Kurt Weill; a reception for an exhibition of gorgeous and technically virtuosic photography of birds in flight by Cassandra Sohn; a free lecture by Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for the…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Boston-based string band Joy Kills Sorrow returns to Helsinki Hudson on Friday, September 9, 2011, at 9 p.m., with its bold new brand of acoustic music that combines tradition and innovation. Joy Kills Sorrow brings a decidedly modern sensibility to an old-world sound, channeling the prodigious talents of its individual members into…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will open its doors to the community for a free screening of the New York Philharmonic performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. The “Concert for New York,” taped the previous night…
by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., May 9, 2002) — Simon and Garfunkel. Loggins and Messina. Eurythmics. Hall and Oates. The pop-rock landscape is littered with the scattered remains of duos that rarely lasted a decade, much less the 20 years together that John Flansburgh and John Linnell are celebrating this year. [Editor’s note: This…
