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  • Vivace Chamber Orchestra: Mozart, Mendelssohn, Britten, Bruch

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    The Vivace players return! This chamber music collective of New York-based musicians share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. The program is curated to showcase their extraordinary unanimity of rare musicianship.  Looking backwards, Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor employs Bach’s contrapuntal style but […]

  • “Endings” – Piano Trios by Shostakovich and Schubert

    Saint James Place 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    How to end and exit a musical composition—with a bang or a whimper? Will there be the thunderous affirmation of a Beethoven symphony or a whispered adieu à la Mahler’s Song of the Earth, sailing into eternity? A cliffhanger ending leaves the audience on the edge of their seats while a full-circle ending bringing us […]

  • Mostly Amadeus—Meet the Mozarts!

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    That the supernatural perfection of Mozart’s music was created by an imperfect child-like person has led many to believe he was a “quill in divine hands.” And the two of his sublime works scheduled (Piano Trio in B-flat KV 502 and Quartet in G minor KV 478) may bring you to the same conclusion. To […]

  • “On the Wings of Song”—Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Mendelssohn Piano Trio

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    Robert Schumann’s setting of Heinrich Heine’s song cycle, Dichterlibe—A Poet’s Love—is, in a word, spellbinding.  The rendering of the age-old theme of love and betrayal is personal and intimate, with barriers between singer and listener removed.  It is Romanticism at its most exquisite.  Mendelssohn, too, was captivated by Heine’s lyrical genius and wrote music to […]

  • Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit

    Lenox, MA

    Celebrate the Salon in the Gilded Age elegance at a private Berkshires club. The scintillating atmosphere of the 19th century institution that helped promote artists, painters and musicians as the intelligentsia gathered to exchange ideas, enhanced by gaiety and ambience. Savor a superb lunch and support Close Encounters With Music. La vie est belle!!! Reserve […]

  • Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons—Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons (for which he also wrote accompanying sonnets) and Piazzolla’s sultry Four Seasons of Buenos Aires share a program where time, place, and style intertwine. From the bright renewal of Vivaldi’s Spring to the tempestuous heat of his Summer, through Autumn and his musical depiction of slipping on the ice in Winter, nature is rendered in Baroque brilliance. One […]

  • Romance of the Romani!—Ravel, Bartok, Liszt, Haydn and Brahms Piano Quartet

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    The season closes with the irresistible fire and passion of music shaped by Roma traditions, which left an indelible mark on European composers. The romance, longing, and sense of freedom in these melodies found their way into some of the most beloved works of the repertoire. Haydn’s Piano Trio No. 39, with its famous “Gypsy” […]