Nocturne — Night and Dreams

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

Nuances of the night are explored in this multi-faceted program. Release from the brightness of daylight, from consciousness into sleep and dreaminess, the night’s seductive, mysterious potion-like allure has fascinated […]

The Art of the String Quartet — The Avalon

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

The notable Avalon String Quartet returns with another Berkshire premiere, “For Such a Time as This,” a retelling of the biblical Esther story for string quartet and vocalist, from a […]

A Bach Family Concert — Celtic Baroque Band Makaris

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

In his dance suites, J. S. Bach ventures into Spanish sarabandes, French bourrées and British gigues. He and family members delighted in arranging Celtic and Scottish folk music. They will […]

Something Borrowed, Something Blue — Cross-Cultural Synergy

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

The Romans appropriated the entirety of classical Greek culture, and the Renaissance rediscovered and revitalized it.  Then came Rodin and Greek Revival in American architectural style. An Egyptomania craze gripped […]

Piano Duo, Four Hands Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit

Experience the elegance of the Gilded Age Salon at a private Berkshires club! Our Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit, "Piano Duo, Four Hands," features pianists Anthony Zerpa-Falcon and Jong-Gyung Park performing […]

Café Vienna — Nervous Splendor

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

The imperial “City of Song” has played an essential role as a leading European cultural center, hosting major personalities in the development of music, as well as literature, painting, psychiatry […]

Great Quintets — Dvořák and Brahms

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

Dvořák’s sublime Piano Quintet in A Major occupies a lofty place in the chamber music canon, at the same elevation as Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34.  Simply […]