A conductorless chamber collective ignites Mozart, Britten, Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, and Mendelssohn’s miraculous Octet Close Encounters With Music welcomes back The Vivace Chamber Orchestra, a New York–based collective renowned for precision,…
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Season Opens with Silent Film Classic Der Golem and Live Original Score Close Encounters With Music (CEWM) proudly unveils its 34th season, a dynamic series of chamber music concerts running from November through June. Renowned for pairing…
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Berkshire High Peaks Festival 2025—On the Campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, MA, Situated in the Beautiful and Culturally Dynamic Berkshire Hills “One World—A Harmonic Convergence”: Performances, Master…
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Concert Featuring Brahms, Broadway, Schubert, Massenet, Mozart, Ellington, and New Grosshandler Trio, “All Speak of Love” GREAT BARRINGTON — It’s all about love: A new work for clarinet trio by composer Seth Grosshandler that celebrates…
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Sewing machine heiress takes Paris by storm, befriends cultural luminaries, and inspires (and supports!) new works by Ravel, Debussy, De Falla, Milhaud, Boulanger, Chabrier, Reynaldo Hahn, and Stravinsky The daughter of sewing machine industrialist…
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Alongside Beethoven’s Quartet No. 1 Op. 18 and Mendelssohn’s Op. 80 Quartet, this program is infused with striking Latin repertoire: Sonia Morales-Matos’ Divertimento Caribeño No. 3 (dance suites of Caribbean merengue sandwiched around a Cuban bolero) and Astor Piazzolla’s Tango Ballet, a work that paints pictures through rhythms and melodies. The Dalí Quartet is Chamber Music America's 2024 Ensemble of theYear and the 2019 recipient of the Atlanta Symphony's esteemed Aspire Award for accomplished African American and Latino Musicians, among other awards. Beethoven’s first of his 16 string quartets contains thematic scaffolding and inspiration from Mozart and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 6 in F minor was written in homage to his sister Fanny, shortly after her death and just before his. With these selections, the program perfectly exemplifies the balance the Dali achieves in its classical roots and Latin soul identity. Concert April 27, 2025 at 4pm at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
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ALSO MASTERPIECES OF CHAMBER MUSIC AND VOCAL FOLKLORE FROM TCHAIKOVSKY AND MOUSSORGSKY Two monumental works, two Russian ex-pats of the same aristocratic background—and two divergent extremes. One, a master of nostalgia and a formidable…
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C Two leading Bach interpreters, Colin Carr and Yehuda Hanani will embark an unaccompanied voyage on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at Saint James Place, 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA For CEWM artistic director Yehuda Hanani, the suites…
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