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Close Encounters With Music Presents 6 Unaccompanied Bach Suites for Cello

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…

Close Encounters With Music Presents The Vivace Chamber Orchestra with Works by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Boccherini and Barber

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A 14-person Pop-up Collective of New York’s Finest String Players Offers Power, Precision, Finesse and Soaring Artistry in a Festive Holiday Concert on Sunday, December 15, 4pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Great Barrington, MA:…

PRESS RELEASE: Close Encounters With Music Announces Its 33rd Season

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Close Encounters With Music's 2024-2025 Season sparkles and vibrates with brilliant performers and thought-provoking themes October through June in Great Barrington, Massachusetts Chamber Music in Great Barrington! Early Melodrama and the…

Berkshire High Peaks Festival Open to Public

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Performances, Talks, Master Classes and Gifted Musicians on the Cusp of Careers: Events Are FREE and Open to the Public, July 20 - 31 Berkshire High Peaks Festival offers its 15th annual season in a new Berkshire location: the bucolic…

Great Piano Quintets—Dvořák and Brahms, Sunday, June 9, 4pm

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Close Encounters With Music Presents Its Gala Concert “Great Piano Quintets” Sunday, June 9, 4 PM at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington Two Masterpieces of the Chamber Music Repertoire End the CEWM Season on Mount…

“Café Vienna—Nervous Splendor,” Sunday, May 19, 4 PM

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Cabaret, Operetta, and Quintessential Viennese Charm—Composers from Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven to Lehar, Johan Strauss Jr., Fritz Kreisler, Korngold, Mahler and Schonberg Capture the Many Faces of the Imperial City. Close Encounters…

Something Borrowed, Something Blue — Cross-Cultural Synergy on April 14

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Close Encounters with Music presents "Something Borrowed, Something Blue — Cross-Cultural Synergy" on Sunday, April 14 at 4pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Chertock and Zorman join internationally…

Makaris Celtic Band 12 musicians holding lyres, flutes, cellos standing against a stone wall

Celtic Baroque Band Makaris on St. Patrick’s Day

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Close Encounters With Music presents the Celtic Baroque Band Makaris in "A Bach Family Concert with an Irish Twist" on Saint Patrick's Day, Sunday, March 17, 4pm at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Tickets…