Music
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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World Premiere by Composer Eve Beglarian
Twenty-four Double Basses in a Grove of Trees
By: - Aug 16th, 2021When was the last time you listened to music that was composed by a piece of birch wood? Eve Beglarian, in collaboration with superstar bassist Robert Black, one of the founding members of the renowned Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars, has composed a fascinating new work entitled "A Murmur in the Trees."
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The Lord of Cries by John Corigliano
Commissioned by Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 19th, 2021“The Lord of Cries” is an unusual melange of two literary works written two millennia apart. The more recent is Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” which has been used as the basis for operas before, but none have entered the repertoire. Adamo concludes that Stoker must have known the other contributing piece, Euripides’s “The Bacchae.”
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Ojai Festival 2021
John Adams Music Director
By: - Aug 20th, 20212021 Music Director John Adams announces initial programming for its 75th Festival 2021 Festival composers include Samuel Carl Adams, Timo Andres, Dylan Mattingly, Gabriela Ortiz, Rhiannon Giddens, Carlos Simon, and Gabriella Smith
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Richard Strauss' Home Town 2021
The Richard Strauss Insitute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
By: - Aug 19th, 2021Garmisch Partinkirchen is less than two hours by train from Munich, where Richard Strauss was born. After the smashing success of his opera Salome, Strauss hired the Art Nouveau architect Emanuel von Seidl to build a villa on the property located at Zoeppritzstraße 42 in Garmisch.
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Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 20th, 2021Shakespeare’s frequent conceits include mistaken identities, confused love matches, supernatural interventions, play-within-a-play, and multiple plot lines, but “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” embraces them all, and more. Several threads are interspersed and overlapping throughout the play and opera’s narrative that may cause confusion to the uninitiated.
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Andrea Brachfeld and Insight
Jazz in the Berkshires
By: - Aug 22nd, 2021A remarkable program features Insight with Andrea Brachfeld. The quartet represents a who’s-who of today’s jazz scene. Headed by the acclaimed award-winning flutist Andrea Brachfeld, Insight includes Bill O’Connell, piano; Harvie S, bass; and Jason Tiemann, drums. The repertoire will feature “If Not Now, When,” Andrea’s original composition, made possible by a New Works grant from Chamber Music America.
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Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 22nd, 2021“Eugene Onegin” not only represents the greatness of Russian opera but is one of the fine representatives of the whole operatic idiom. Director Alessandro Talevi marshals the creative team to give a look that blends traditional and modern elements.
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Knights Orchestra Returns to the Clark
Celebrates Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway Exhibition
By: - Aug 24th, 2021On Saturday, September 4, at 4 pm, the renowned Knights Orchestra returns to the Clark as part of its programming to highlight Norwegian culture in celebration of its Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway exhibition.
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Elektra in Salzburg
Supreme Strauss
By: - Aug 25th, 2021Elektra, the stage drama that underlies the opera Elektra, was written by Hugo von Hoffmansthal for a theatre venue run by Max Reinhardt in Berlin. Reinhardt would go on to found the Salzburg Festival in 1920. After a hundred years, this Festival is inarguably one of the world’s most satisfying. Their new production of Elektra is classic and thrilling.
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Faust by Berlioz in Salzburg
A Masterpiece Revealed
By: - Aug 27th, 2021La Damnation of Faust is a glorious dramatic legend. It bombed in Paris, much to composer Hector Berlioz’ dismay and confusion. Yet even members of the orchestra he conducted at the premiere asked the composer about notes he wrote. “That note does not exist,” complained a horn player. “It sounds like a sneeze.” “That’s just what I wanted,” replied Berlioz. No one contests the musicality of the "Romane" aria, "D'amour l'ardente flame," so beautiful that it was selected to conclude the memorial service for Maria Callas.
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Sweet Land, Opera of the Year
The Industry Produces Grand Opera
By: - Aug 29th, 2021Sweet Land by a consortium of artists formed by the adventuresome Los Angeles company The Industry has won the award for best new opera in 2020 from the Music Critics Association of North America. Music by Du Yun and Raven Chacon. Libretto by Douglas Kearney and Aja Couchois Duncan . Directed by Cannupa Hanska Luger and Yuval Sharon.
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Giacomo Puccini's Tosca
Produced by San Francisco Opera
By: - Aug 29th, 2021What is it about “Tosca” that endows it with near universal appeal? There have been naysayers who find the action and music of verismo to be too violent and vulgar, but they are now few. To begin with, this is a mature and confident Puccini in the follow up to his equally renowned “La Boheme.” The opera’s dissonant, ominous opening salvo of the Scarpia theme announces the tragedy to come, while the ensuing score resounds with rich melody, haunting leitmotifs, and several memorable “greatest hits” arias.
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Boston Lyric Opera's
Cavalleria Rusticana Opens Season October 1
By: - Sep 08th, 2021Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) opens its new season October 1 with the company’s first production of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” composer Pietro Mascagni’s one-act verismo tale of love, betrayal and death in a small Sicilian village.
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Mellencamp By Paul Rees
Atria Books/Simon & Schuster
By: - Sep 12th, 2021Mellencamp is British writer Paul Rees’ story of a midwestern teenager growing into a musician who came to represent heartland rock, a term he disliked. The book, written with the cooperation and support of Mellencamp and his management, is highly readable, a blend of nonfiction and oral history, with many long quotes from interviews with Mellencamp, fellow musicians, friends and relatives who shared their perspectives with Rees.
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Scalia/Ginsburg, Music and Libretto by Derrick Wang
Produced by Solo Opera
By: - Sep 13th, 2021Opera simply is not supposed to be this much fun. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were judicial titans representing the opposite ends of the political spectrum. Most opera goers would find Composer/Librettist Derrick Wang’s one-hour confection distinctive, entertaining, and evocative.
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