


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

A Night of Quartets
Press Releases Close Encounters With Music continues its 18th season with The Avalon String Quartet (“Engrossed, impassioned and imaginative…” –The New York Times) on Saturday, February 20, 6PM offering A Night of Quartets, a striking program of works…

Celebration and Discovery: New Season Highlights Mendelssohn Bicentennial with Works by Contemporaries
Press Releases A smart blend of classical, contemporary, and cutting edge awaits from October through May In its 17th season in the Berkshires, Close Encounters With Music offers up six innovative and captivating programs of chamber music, forty-five performers,…

Celebrating Mendelssohn…and Discovering Eduard Franck! Close Encounters With Music Schedules American Premieres: Works of Forgotten 19th Century Composer Eduard Franck, Mendelssohn Student and Colleague. 200th Anniversary of Felix’s Birth Prompts Revival and Re-evaluation
Press Releases (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) –To coincide with the Mendelssohn anniversary year of 2009 (born February 3, 1809 in Hamburg) Berkshire-based chamber music organization Close Encounters With Music is planning festivities in several cities, beginning…

Trio Program Explores Mysticism and Timelessness in Music
Press ReleasesAPRIL 12, 2008 -- Transcendental Night features acclaimed pianist Walter Ponce, violinist Yehonatan Berick and cellist Yehuda Hanani performing a program that explores mysticism and timelessness in music. The recital includes Beethoven’s Ghost Trio, Rachmaninoff’s Trio Elegiaque, piano works by Franz Liszt and Alexander Scriabin and the world premiere of Jorge Martin’s Recuerda (To Remember) for solo cello. A reception with the artists will follow the performance.

Mass Cultural Council Fellow, Poet Charles Coe, Reads from his Collection “Picnic on the Moon”
Press ReleasesFEBRUARY 22, 2021 - Close Encounters With Music and The Mount present Charles Coe and Berkshire poets Michelle Gillett and Leslie Harrison at Edith Wharton’s Estate and Gardens Saturday, November 12 at 4 PM. Recognized by Boston Magazine as “one of the finest poets in a place that has more than its share,” Charles Coe is known for his powerful readings and unusually warm and compassionate voice, and for poems that speak to the heart and mind as well as the ear.
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