• “The Golem” – A Vision in Sound and Cinema with the Avalon Quartet

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

    Monsters and magic spells! A masterwork of German expressionist cinema meets a live klezmer-infused score in a vibrant feast for the eyes and ears. Paul Wegener’s 1920 pioneering silent horror film, Der Golem, was so popular on its release that it sold out movie houses in both Germany and America for months, inspired Golem-themed operettas, and […]

  • 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 […]