• “Endings” – Piano Trios by Shostakovich and Schubert

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    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Bach and Handel with Simone Dinnerstein, Yehuda Hanani and Hannah Sohn

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    Called “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” (New York Times), pianist Simone Dinnerstein joins Yehuda Hanani in a program that addresses cultural twins of the Baroque, born […]

  • 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 […]

  • World Premiere—”Metamorphosis: Love”

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

    Jorge Martín, Tchaikovsky, Kenji Bunch, Grieg, Poulenc Loss, remembrance, joyous recollection, metamorphosis and love. These are universal themes and a progression of states of emotion that animate the music and […]