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Close Encounters With Music
End-of-Summer Celebration and Auction
By: - Aug 12th, 2021Please join Close Encounters With Music for an End-of-Summer Celebration and Auction. You will enjoy beautiful vistas, a scrumptious lunch, an appearance by the PRISM quartet (saxophones). and an auction of exciting items to bid on,
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From A Boat On a Belgian Canal
Florinda Suárez Heredia at Blue Heron Gallery
By: - Aug 12th, 2021Born in Bolivia, but now living on a 38-meter boat on a Belgian Canal, Florinda Suárez Heredia paints what she feels. Knowing from an early age that she would be a painter, she began her artistic career in her native country, later moving to Belgium. Her work has been presented in galleries all over Europe, as well as the United States.
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Susan Lyman and Leslie Wilcox
To Exhibit Weathered Wood at Boston Sculptors
By: - Aug 12th, 2021For many years and especially in this long period of Covid-19 isolation, Susan and Leslie have spent many days independently walking the beaches and woods of Cape Cod, Susan in Provincetown (and other far flung places), and Leslie in Brewster. Confirmed tree huggers, they have been scavenging for weathered or fallen wood.
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Peabody Essex Museum and Fondation Cartier
Premiere The Great Animal Orchestra
By: - Aug 12th, 2021This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are proud to present the North American premiere of The Great Animal Orchestra, a collaborative work between pioneer bioacoustician Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists. Over the course of nearly 50 years, Bernie Krause collected more than 5,000 hours of recordings of natural environments.
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Parsifal at Bayreuth
Celebrating 139 Years of Wagner
By: - Aug 12th, 2021One hundred and thirty-nine years after Richard Wagner’s final opera Parsifal premiered at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, it was performed in concert in this house that Wagner built for its performance. Apparently, Richard Wagner himself took the podium to conduct Act III of Parsifal at the Festival performance in 1883. He died later that year in Venice. There is no recording of the performance, but witnesses commented on the extremely slow tempos and the majesty of the reading.
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Svetlana and the Delancey 5
Hot Swing in Lenox August 15
By: - Aug 11th, 2021The forecast for Lenox on August 15 is for hot, swing Jazz, provided by the inimitable Svetlana and the Delancey 5. Their outdoors performance will take place at the historic Gateways Inn in picturesque downtown Lenox, and starts at 4pm.
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CT's Music Mountain
All-female Cassatt String Quartet and Pianist Ursula Oppens
By: - Aug 11th, 2021The final concert of the season on Sunday, September 5, features the all-female Cassatt String Quartet and celebrated pianist Ursula Oppens. Opening the program, Oppens will play selections from Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s intimate cycle of piano pieces, Das Jahr (“The Year”).
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I Do! I Do!
Produced by Woodminster Summer Musicals
By: - Aug 11th, 2021The musical “I Do! I Do!” covers familiar ground that is nearly universal in most places and times. The vignettes from 60 years of marriage include that unforgettable first night; gender roles; pregnancy and the challenges in rearing children; how people change over time, and often in opposite directions; the special highs of being a couple; infidelity, disinterest, and reconciliation; and ultimately, shared dotage. Whew!
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The Scream, Sunflowers, and Mona Lisa
Gone Baby Gone
By: - Aug 09th, 2021It happened during the last week in June. Two prominent paintings by 20th-century masters were recovered nearly a decade after they had been stolen from a gallery in Athens. A contractor was arrested for committing what had become a notoriously audacious theft of works by Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.
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New Public Art
Past, Present, and Future Ghosts of the Imagination
By: - Aug 09th, 2021For many, public art conjures up images of bronze statues of a soldier on horseback, images of historically significant and/or forgotten politicians or leaders, or symbolic (often mythological) figures of metaphoric significance. But these days public art takes a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and forms. It can be temporary or permanent.
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Covid and Interconectedness of Life
Reconsidering the Social Contract
By: - Aug 08th, 2021Everyone has an absolute right to place their own lives in danger. The Darwin Award was created to recognize such people posthumously. But no one has the right to place anyone else’s life in danger. To do so is selfish and ignorant. Even freedom has its limits – – fire in a crowded theater, for instance.
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Hit and Run Sequel to Fauda on Netflix
Binged but Fauda-geddahboutit
By: - Aug 08th, 2021The two season Israeli series "Fauda" was a boffo smash on Netflix. Accordingly I binged on its more or less sequel "Hit and Run." The creative team jumped the pond to create an Israeli/ American production in English and Hebrew. In seeking a wider and American audience the team lost its Sabra base and churned out yet another mediocre action thriller. If you are a 'Fauda" fan this will be a major disappointment.
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Sondheim's Into the Woods
At Conn'sPlayhouse on Park
By: - Aug 08th, 2021The production is enjoyable due to the hard work and talent of the cast. Because of various complications caused by Covid, the cast does not include any members of Actor’s Equity.
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Irish Repertory Theatre Streams The Cordelia Dream
Marina Carr Play in Dublin
By: - Aug 06th, 2021The Irish Repertory Theatre has expanded our notion of performance in their streamed productions. A company with a small theatre (146 seats in the main house), now offers its consistently superior productions to the wide audience they deserve.
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Rob Roy at HallSpace Gallery
Dispatches from America.
By: - Aug 06th, 2021HallSpace is pleased to present monotypes and shaped, multi-panel paintings by Rob Roy in "Dispatches from America." The Dorchester based gallery exhibition continues to September 4
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The Mount
Schedule of Events
By: - Aug 06th, 2021The Mount is open for guided tours through October 31. Tours can be booked online at EdithWharton.org. The grounds are open, dawn to dusk, unless otherwise posted.
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KIngston Gallery Juried Show
Whisting in the Dark
By: - Aug 05th, 2021Kingston Gallery members Jeesoo Lee and Jamal Thorne, with guest juror Lavaughan Jenkins, read James Baldwin’s interview with Studs Terkel. Then, with the interview fresh in their minds, the jurors focused on what it means to be disruptive and all the stories that people have to tell.
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ArtWeek Berkshires
September 16-26, 2021
By: - Aug 04th, 2021ArtWeek Berkshires is a collaboration among Berkshire County’s five cultural districts (Great Barrington, Lenox, Pittsfield, North Adams, Williamstown), supported by 1Berkshire and the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, with media support from Berkshire Magazine and Lamar.
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Tanglewood in August
Programming Highlights
By: - Aug 03rd, 2021It's the final lap for the summer season at Tanglewood with more great concerts to come.
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Eliogabalo Composed by Francesco Cavalli
Produced by West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 03rd, 2021Perhaps unique among performed operas, Francesco Cavalli’s 1667 “Eliogabalo”’s world premiere was delayed – by over three centuries – until 1999 to be precise. Why, one might ask?
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Boston Artist Kahlil G. Gibran
Early Work at Ogunquit Museum of American Art
By: - Aug 02nd, 2021The Boston artist, Kahlil Gibran, is best remembered for his welded steel and bronze sculptures. Recently the Ogunquit Museum of American Art presented an exhibition of small early paintings that make us reconsider the relationship to his teacher Karl Zerbe and the Boston Expressionists.
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The Many Loves of Eleanor Roosevelt
Harriet Harris in Eleanor
By: - Aug 02nd, 2021Harriet Harris has caught Eleanor’s mannerisms well, her physical motions exactly - living in the age of newsreels, her figure, her speech, her presence are indelible in public memory.
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Berkshires Jazz, Svetlana and the Delancey Five
Sunday August 15
By: - Aug 01st, 2021Our first outdoors headliner concert takes place on Sunday, Aug. 15, at newly-refurbished Gateways Inn in picturesque downtown Lenox.
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The Peabody Essex Museum Launches Award
PEM Prize for Cuban Artist Carlos Garaicoa
By: - Jul 29th, 2021The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces its first annual PEM Prize to celebrate creative expression and civic engagement. The inaugural recipient of the PEM Prize and its $25,000 award is multidisciplinary Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa. Over the next year, Garaicoa will lead a series of events and civic engagement initiatives with the museum to coincide with the reopening of Partitura (August 1, 2021–February 6, 2022).
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Singer-songwriter Paul Beaubrun
Shaker Village In Concert July 31
By: - Jul 29th, 2021Singer-songwriter Paul Beaubrun was born into Haitian musical royalty (his parents are lead singers in the Grammy nominated band Boukman Eksperyans, and his grandfather is Haiti's beloved actor/comedian Languichatte Debordus). He will perform at Hancock Shaker Village on July 31.
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