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Berkshire Symphony Celebrates Chapin Hall and John Cage Centenaries

(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,…

Pianist to Play Bach, Chopin, Schubert and ‘[Leonard] Cohen Variations’ at Williams College

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pianist Simone Dinnerstein will perform a solo concert featuring works by Chopin, Brahms, Bach, Schubert, and Daniel Felsenfeld’s Cohen Variations at Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus on Sunday, April 15, 2012, at 3. As part of the music department’s Boesendorfer series, Dinnerstein will play a 97-key, 9-foot, six-inch long, Imperial…

Joel Salatin to Speak on ‘The Sheer Ecstasy Of Being A Lunatic Farmer’

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Alternative farmer Joel Salatin will give a talk at Williams College about his book, The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer, on Thursday, February 23, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall in Bernhard Music Center. The event is free and open to the public. Salatin’s book examines different aspects…

Berkshire Symphony Offers ‘A Portrait of New England’

The Berkshire Symphony

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Berkshire Symphony offers an all-American program, rooted in the soil of New England, including the music of three living composers, on Friday, November 11, 2011, at 8 p.m. at the MainStage of the ’62 Center of Theatre and Dance on the Williams College campus. Composers represented inlucde Charles Ives, Leonard Bernstein,…

‘Secret’ A Cappella Voices Perform Anonymously at Williams College

Anonymous 4

(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…

Williams Names Interim Museum Director

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Katy Kline, former director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art (1998-2008), has been named interim director of the Williams College Museum of Art. She will serve from early August until the permanent director is in place. Current director Lisa Corrin steps down from her position on June 30. Deputy director John Stomberg…