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Close Encounters with Music Presents the Daedalus Quartet: Beethoven, Shubert & Berg

(Great Barrington, MA) The Daedalus Quartet brings an intriguing all-Viennese program to the Mahaiwe stage Saturday, May 19 at 6 pm. Selections include Schubert’s Quartettsatz, brimming with ardor and ecstasy; the majestic Razumovsky, Beethoven’s…

Close Encounters With Music Presents “The Roaring Twenties: Berlin, Paris, New York”

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The cabaret beckons at Ozawa Hall Saturday, June 2, 6 pm as Close Encounters With Music ushers in the summer season in the Berkshires. In a performance that evokes the twenties of the last century—a time exemplified by Art Deco, Prohibition,…

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Close Encounters with Music Presents A Free Afternoon with Young Composers

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(Pittsfield, MA) Emerging musicians Simon Brown, Brian Simalchik and 12 year old wunderkind Graham Cohen present their compositions Sunday, May 13 in an intimate setting at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Conversations and music begin…

Close Encounters with Music Presents “Trade Winds: From China with Love”

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(Great Barrington, MA) China’s “Empress of Pipa,” soloist Liu Fang, enchants with counterparts to the lute and zither during “Trade Winds: From China With Love,” a celebration of traditional Chinese classical music. The concert is…

Close Encounters With Music Presents Grand Piano Quartets: Schumann and Brahms

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(Great Barrington, MA) Explore the complex relationships between Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and the immortal Clara Schumann when Close Encounters With Music delivers a concert with an enthralling range of emotions Saturday, March 24th…

Close Encounters with Music Celebrates 20th Anniversary Season with Imaginative Mix of Programs for 2011-2012- Plus New Extra-Musical Events

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AUGUST 18, 2011 -- Going into its 20th year of presenting outstanding chamber music with lively commentary, Close Encounters With Music continues to expand its original programming of classical, contemporary and cutting-edge music. For the 2011-2012 season, CEWM offers world-renowned musicians, brings back the outrageously virtuosic Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, introduces one of the foremost pipa players in the world, marks an important birthday for Franz Liszt and revisits one of the most evocative periods in cultural history—the Roaring Twenties.

Close Encounters with Music Presents Fiesta! A Latin Splash of Music and Dance

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APRIL 1, 2011 -- To kick off the celebration of this landmark year, CEWM announces a gala concert at Tanglewood’s famed Ozawa Hall on Saturday, June 4. Fiesta! A Latin Splash of Music and Dance embraces the sizzling rhythms of Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Spain. The program includes Chick Corea’s jazzy, flamenco-inspired La Fiesta!, performed by accordionist Bill Schimmel, one of the principal architects of the tango revival in America; Astor Piazzolla’s Grand Tango, choreographed by David Parsons as a 2001 CEWM commission; Ropa Vieja, a hypnotic work by composer-in-residence Jorge Martin and also a CEWM commission; plus works by Granados, Ginastera, and Villa-Lobos. Close Encounters promises an unusual evening of fusion fun.

Cultural Voyage to the East: “Thus Spake German Romanticism”

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Songs about lotus flowers and pagodas, chamber music by German Romanticist par excellence Richard Strauss, and the Berkshire debut of opera star Jennifer Rivera highlight the Close Encounters With Music March 12 concert “Thus Spake German…