Drama and Melodrama—The Schumanns

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

The ever-fascinating and intimate triangle – Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms – will be brought to new light with seldom-heard works that highlight the musical cross-references and spiritual […]

Vivace Chamber Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Boccherini, Barber

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

Composed by Tchaikovsky to counter a bout of insomnia and melancholy, Serenade for Strings immediately cheered him up, and he reported “feeling well, invigorated and content” - as gratified listeners […]

6 Unaccompanied Bach Suites for Cello with Colin Carr & Yehuda Hanani

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

Two leading Bach interpreters embark on a journey while traversing his Six Suites, the apogee of the cello repertoire. Filled with mystery and beauty, blasted through with rapture, every note […]

“Rite of Spring”—Rachmaninoff/Stravinsky

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

Two monumental works, two Russian ex-pats of the same aristocratic background - and two divergent extremes. One a master of nostalgia and a formidable pianist, follows in the footsteps of […]

Classical Roots, Latin Soul—The Dalí String Quartet

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

Alongside Beethoven’s Quartet No. 1 Op. 18 and Mendelssohn’s Op. 80 Quartet, this program is infused with striking Latin repertoire: Sonia Morales-Matos’ Divertimento Caribeño No. 3 (dance suites of Caribbean […]

Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit

Celebrate the Salon in the Gilded Age elegance at a private Berkshires club. The scintillating atmosphere of the 19th century institution helped promote artists, painters and musicians as the intelligentsia […]

A Tale of Two Salons—Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust

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

The daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer, Princess de Polignac, was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leion Bakst to Jean Cocteau and Jean Giraudoux […]

L’Amour Toujours and A World Premiere

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

It’s all about love: A new work for clarinet trio by composer Seth Grosshandler that celebrates young love, courtship and serendipity of meeting one’s intended receives its inaugural performance. Signature […]