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Close Encounters With Music
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Cello Master Class with Yehuda Hanani
Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United States
Moonlight Sonatas
Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United States
Cello Master Class with Diego Fainguersch
Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United States
Moonlight Sonatas
Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United States
Moonlight Sonatas
Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United States
Grand Opening: Otherworldly Schubert and “One Earth”
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesTamar Muskal’s twice-postponed work will receive its long-awaited world premiere, kicking off the new season with a musical adventure. In the words of the composer, “We live in a very challenging time—a time of war, sickness, climate disasters, and economic difficulties. One Earth, for a rapper/beatbox artist, table player, string quintet and a treble chorus, […]
Grand Piano Trios—Beethoven’s “Ghost” and “Archduke”
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesA virtual symphony for three musicians, expansive and noble—like the Austrian Archduke who was the dedicatee—the great “Archduke” is more than a trio. It offered Beethoven the perfect vehicle for the development of his compositional techniques and the exploration of instrumental brilliance and virtuosity with three independent, powerful voices. In the “Ghost” Trio, conjuring up […]
Town & Country—Mendelssohn and Dvorak
Saint James Place 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesGlittering cosmopolitan Berlin and the village of Nelahozeves, Bohemia (now Czech Republic, population 2,200) are the respective places of origin of Felix Mendelssohn and Antonin Dvorak. Mendelssohn’s Trio in C minor offers some of his most exquisitely crafted music, with a magical scherzo right out of Midsummer Night’s Dream. The spirit of Slavic folk music […]
“Pictures at an Exhibition”— A Gallery Stroll
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesA work in ten movements by Modest Mussorgsky that was inspired by a visit to an art exhibition, "Pictures at an Exhibition" is a showpiece where only the most virtuosic pianists dare to tread! It is also a perfect point from which to explore the common language of music and art, which share not only […]
From Bach Brandenburg to Appalachian Spring with Manhattan Chamber Players
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesBringing a “mellifluous blend of vigorous intensity and dramatic import, performed with enthusiasm, technical facility and impressive balance,” the 13-strong Manhattan Chamber Players make their Close Encounters With Music debut this season. In a program both orchestral (Brandenburg No. 3 and Copland’s iconic Appalachian Spring and reduced to octet for Mendelssohn’s early work (“Its youthful […]
Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit
Celebrate the Salon in the Gilded Age elegance of a private Berkshires club. The scintillating atmosphere of the 19th century institution that helped promote artists, painters and musicians as the intelligentsia gathered to exchange ideas, enhanced by gaiety and ambience. All That Jazz features Jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal at The Lenox Club. RSVP by April […]
$175
The Escher String Quartet – Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Ruth Crawford Seeger
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesThe Souvenir de Florence String Sextet takes us on a musical excursion to Italy, where Tchaikovsky spent some of his happiest times— reflected in the unforgettable tunes and warm cantabile style. Assessments of the work’s national style—Italianate or inescapably Russian—differ, but the sextet is quintessential Tchaikovsky, suffused with his characteristic longing and incomparable melodies. Ravel’s […]
Gala Concert: Schubert “Trout” and Schumann Piano Quintet
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States** Concert Tickets Still Available! Gala Dinner is Sold Out. ** Two great melodists, two young geniuses in one brilliant evening: Bubbly, like fine Champagne, Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet is one of the most joyous pieces ever written. A landmark of classical music, it weaves a net of enchantment with its catchy melodies and fresh exuberance. […]
Piano Master Class with Gila Goldstein
Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United StatesThis Berkshire High Peaks Festival Piano Master Class on Friday, July 21 at 2:00pm is presented by Gila Goldstein of Longy School of Music at Brown University. Read her full biography here. Berkshire High Peaks Festival master classes, talks, and Moonlight Sonatas concerts are free and open to the public and take place at Berkshire […]
Panel Discussion: “Pathways to a Future in Music”
Berkshire School 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA, United StatesThis Berkshire High Peaks Festival Panel Discussion on Friday, July 21 at 4:00pm features Juilliard Chief Operating Officer Lesley Rosenthal and High Peaks Faculty. Berkshire High Peaks Festival master classes, talks, and Moonlight Sonatas concerts are free and open to the public and take place at Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts (unless otherwise noted). At […]
