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Close Encounters with Music Presents “Rachmaninoff and Russian Orientalia”

Music Mystical, Meditative and Sensual à la Russe to Be Performed by Renowned Interpreters Pianist Vassily Primakov and Cellist Yehuda HananiFor many in classical music, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was one of the last links between 19th…

Close Encounters with Music and Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema Present Special Screening of “Touching the Sound”

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[PITTSFIELD, MA] – Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema is the site of the presentation of Touching the Sound, a documentary film by Peter Rosen, on Sunday, November 2, at 2 p.m. The filmmaker will be in attendance and will introduce the film.…

Close Encounters with Music Opens 23rd Season with “Mozart: Rejoice/ Exult!”

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Roman Rabinovich, piano and celesta; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Daniel Phillips, violin; Xiao-Dong Wang, viola; Yehuda Hanani, celloThe 2014-15 Close Encounters With Music season opens at the Mahaiwe Performing…

Close Encounters with Music at the Clark in Williamstown “Masters of the Baroque” Celebrates Grand Reopening Music Mercurial, Ornate and Bold-Back, Boccherini, Scarlatti, Vivaldi and New Neo-Baroque Commision

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – In a program designed to celebrate the rich diversity of Baroque music—the complexity of the intellectual Northern Baroque and its counterpoint, the more outgoing Mediterranean sensibility—celebrated cellist Yehuda…

High Peaks Music Festival August 10-20 Brings “The Grand Italian Tour” to the Great Northern Catskills with Internationally Acclaimed Musicians and Young Artists

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HUNTER, New York — “The Grand Italian Tour” is the theme of the fifth edition of the Catskill High Peaks Festival: Music with Altitude!, hosted by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, August 10–20 and presented by Close Encounters With…

All-Beethoven Program “Beethoven and the Dawn of Romanticism” The Artist as Prophet and Hero Tracks His Steps From Classicist to Exemplar of the Romantic Tradition

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“In the art and music of Romanticism—whether Turner’s misty sea and landscapes, Delacroix’s violent scenes, or Beethoven’s stormy musical mood swings—all of nature is a mirror of the turmoil, longing, passion and sorrows that take…

Close Encounters’ “The Many Faces of Antonin Dvorak,” Program Spotlights Instrumental and Vocal Music of Dvorak: Dumky Trio, Grand Piano Quintet, Gypsy Songs, Biblical Songs, and Selections from Opera “Rusalka” Major Prize Winners, a Diva, and One of Classical Music’s Most beloved Figures in Gala Matinee

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LENOX, Mass. – With representative works from many of the genres in which he wrote—piano quintet, piano trio, song cycles, and opera, and always with his trademark captivating melodiousness and soulfulness—audiences at the Close Encounters…

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Verdi-Film Preview and Talk with Verdi Scholar, Author and Look-alike August Ventura Legendery Composer’s Operas and Politics Given Close Look at Close Encounters “Conversations with…”

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Close Encounters With Music presents “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Verdi” the second installment in this season’s “Conversations With…” series Sunday, April 6, 3 PM at the historic Lenox Club. Lifelong opera-lover, author, architect…