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Close Encounters With Music Presents SKYLARK A Cappella Vocalists Making A Berkshire Debut: Hidden Symbols, Secret Codes Performed Live at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA, Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 6 PM

What might happen if Robert Langdon, acclaimed professor of Symbology at Harvard University (and fictional hero of Dan Brown’s best-selling novels, including The Da Vinci Code), were enlisted to explore hidden symbols, secret codes, and long-forgotten…

A Night of Chopin and Brahms

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Presenting Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Pianist Yekwon Sunwoo in His Berkshire Debut: “A Night of Chopin and Brahms” Four Scherzi and the Piano Quartet in G minor – Music of Demonic Power and Energy, Performed Live at the Mahaiwe Performing…

The Cabaret Beckons! Close Encounters With Music presents a musical profile of an era that lives on in our cultural psyche:

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The Roaring Twenties—Berlin, Paris, New York from the stage of the historic Mahaiwe theater in downtown Great Barrington, MADecember 12, 2021 at 4 PM The cabaret beckons at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Sunday, December 12 as Close…

The PRISM Quartet at TurnPark, West Stockbridge, MA

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Saturday, September 18, 2021, 5 PM http://www.cewm.org/ Close Encounters With Music presents, in collaboration with TurnPark Art Space: The PRISM Quartet’s popular program, Hit Parade, features a cross-section of traditional and contemporary…

End-of-Summer Celebration and Auction

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Saturday, September 18, 2021, 12-4 PM http://www.cewm.org/ Please join Close Encounters With Music for an End-of-Summer Celebration and Auction. You will enjoy beautiful vistas, a scrumptious lunch, an appearance by the PRISM quartet…

Music Undefeated! Close Encounters With Music and the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Present The Sebastians Baroque Ensemble—from the Historic Mahaiwe Stage to Your Screen. Plus Sneak Preview into the Future…. Saturday, April 3, 2021, 7:30 PM EST

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021 Fresh, unpredictable and uninhibited—these are some hallmarks of the Baroque. For its next virtual presentation, Close Encounters With Music presents the acclaimed ensemble The Sebastians, lauded for their ability to connect…

“Forever Bach: The Celestial Suites for Cello”—from the Historic Mahaiwe Stage to Your Screen

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021 -- Did J. S. Bach foresee a pandemic, that would keep musicians apart from one another, when he conceived of and wrote the Unaccompanied Suites for Cello? According to Close Encounters With Music artistic director Yehuda Hanani, the six suites are the most divine music that you can play alone. “Bach has been my constant companions over the past ten months."

Music Undefeated! Close Encounters with Music and the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Present a Virtual Winter/Spring Series – Three Concerts, from the Historic Mahaiwe Stage to Your Screen

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JANUARY 12, 2021 -- Close Encounters With Music, now in its 29th year, announces a completely new winter/spring season of concerts that will be recorded on the Mahaiwe stage and made available for viewing online. With these concerts, Close Encounters continues its tradition of chamber music with lively commentary, even in the age of COVID-19.