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Composer-In-Residence Jorge Martin Speaks on his opera Before Night Falls

“Conversations With…,” Close Encounters With Music’s intimate and stimulating series of talks with musicians, artists and scholars, presents this year’s composer in residence In a talk illustrated musically and visually on Sunday,…

Close Encounters with Music New and Expanded 2010-2011 Season Chamber Orchestras, String Quartets, Stars of Opera, Dance, Theatre, and the Chamber Music World Perform at the Mahaiwe PAC in Great Barrington, Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, The Clark Art Institute, the Hudson Opera House and Lenox Athenaeum Fall, Winter, Spring

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Inaugural season of CEWM at the Frick Collection in New York City (Great Barrington, MA) As the Berkshires blaze with Autumn splendor, Close Encounters With Music offers a bountiful harvest of classical, contemporary, and cutting edge music.…

Music of Dvorak, Smetana & Janacek

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Close Encounters With Music ushers in the summer season in the Berkshires Saturday, June 5, 6PM with Prague Spring—Czech Idyll, a program at the historic Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts celebrating the land…

Chopin and His Circle Chopin’s Piano Revolution with Adam Neiman

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Close Encounters With Music continues its 18th season Saturday, April 24, 6PM with Chopin and His Circle, the second of two programs celebrating the bicentennial of Chopin’s birth. From John Field, father of the Nocturne, who paved the way…

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The Romantic Back

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Close Encounters With Music continues its 18th season Saturday, March 20, 6PM offering The Romantic Bach, a selection of Bach’s works reimagined by masters of the Romantic Era who wrestled with his revolutionary legacy. Brahms, Liszt, and…

Igor Stravinsky’s Iconic Masterpiece: L’Histore Du Soldat

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Saturday, December 5 at 6 PM Close Encounters With Music will bring all the magic and inspiration of A Soldier’s Tale! to life in its annual holiday concert with renowned English baritone Benjamin Luxon narrating the classic tale. This theatrical…

“Music Rooms of the Gilded Age”

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Close Encounters’ Conversations With… series opens Sunday, October 11, 2 PM, at Ventfort Hall, Lenox, with Music Rooms of the Gilded Age. Harvey Rosenberg, professor of the History of Interior Design and Architecture at FIT/SUNY for 25…

Celebration and Discovery: New Season Highlights Chopin Bicentennial with Works by Contemporaries

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A smart blend of classical, contemporary, and cutting edge from October through May Saturday, October 17 marks the beginning of the highly anticipated 2009-2010 Close Encounters With Music season in the Berkshires. In its 18th year, Close…