October 11 | Sunday, 2 PM
Ventfort Hall | 104 Walker Street | Lenox
HARVEY ROSENBERG
Music Rooms of the Gilded Age
Immerse yourself in design and décor. Harvey Rosenberg, professor of the History of Interior Design and Architecture at FIT/SUNY for 25 years and frequent lecturer at Parsons, Pratt, and the New School of Interior Design, offers a slide presentation and discussion in this perfect setting…the Elizabethan Revival mansion built in 1893 for the sister of J.P. Morgan. With slides and anecdotes from his innumerable architecture and design tours to France and Italy, Professor Rosenberg demonstrates how European design principles were incorporated into the Berkshire “cottages” of the Gilded Age.
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 April 25 | Sunday, 2 PM
Hudson Opera House
327 Warren Street | Hudson, NY
ADAM NEIMAN Chopin Hour
Hailed as one of the premiere pianists of his generation, with a burgeoning international career, Adam Neiman will demonstrate the special place Chopin holds in his instrument’s repertoire and how the composer revolutionized the world of piano, presenting particular challenges to the performer as he pushed piano technique to a level unsurpassed at the time. Built in 1855—only six years after Chopin’s death in Paris—the Hudson Opera House is one of the oldest surviving theaters in America. (Another Frederic, Hudson River painter Frederic Church, showed his works here; Bret Harte read his poems and Susan B. Anthony rallied support for women’s suffrage.) |
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