• Saluting the Clarinet—Mozart, Beethoven, Bartók and Gershwin

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

    It can come on brash and it can come on sensuous. In the orchestra, it steps forward in “Peter and the Wolf” and “Rhapsody in Blue”; in opera it’s a-near protagonist in “The Magic Flute,” “La Traviata” and “The Barber of Seville” as composers delineate atmosphere and character motifs. It can sing and it can […]

  • Dvořák—In The New World and Old World

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

    From humble beginnings to stardom, Antonin Dvořák straddled two centuries, two continents, rural and urban sensibilities and folk styles inspired by Czech and Slavic traditional music as well as by an American sojourn. At home in different worlds, his sublime String Quartet No. 12  the "American” was composed in Spillville Iowa during a blissful vacation, […]