Music
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Save on FreshGrass MoCA Tickets
All You Need Is Love and Bluegrass
By: - Feb 10th, 2022Prices for FreshGrass | North Adams increase in two weeks from $129 up to $149—on February 24 at 11:59pm—so snag your tickets now before you miss the chance to save $20 on each!
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Ottensamer and Bax Perform at Carnegie Hall
Music as Song Delights
By: - Feb 11th, 2022Alessio Bax and Andrea Ottensamer, two consummate artists, performed together and individually in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. They both seek to help us hear the origins of music as a communicative and an expressive medium. Yet there is nothing ponderous about their approaches.
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Music in Common's Black Legacy Project
At Pittsfield's Colonial Theatre
By: - Feb 11th, 2022On March 6, the Black Legacy Project will make its world premiere at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. The evening includes a preview screening of the documentary short about the Project produced by OUTPOST, a concert, and a community conversation. Wanda Houston, Billy Keane, Gina Coleman, Matt Cusson, Rufus Jones, Annie Guthrie, Diego Mongue, and Eric Reinhardt are just some of the performers.
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Heartbeat Opera's Fidelio
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By: - Feb 14th, 2022Heartbeat Opera is a New York based company committed to making opera for the Now. Years before George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, they adapted Fidelio, Beethoven’s sole opera, to prison life today.
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Van Cliburn Piano Competition Winner Yekwon Sunwoo
Berkshire Debut at Mahaiwe in Great Barrington
By: - Feb 15th, 2022Close Encounters with Music presents the Berkshire debut of Van Cliburn medalist Yekwon Suwoo. The pianist will appear at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington March 20 with acclaimed violinist Daniel Phillips, violist Daniel Panner, and cellist and artistic director Yehuda Hanani.
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Metropolitan Opera’s Ariadne Auf Naxos
Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 12
By: - Feb 15th, 2022The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Ariadne Auf Naxos screens at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 12, at 12:55 pm in the latest installment of The Met: Live in HD.
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Prism at Roulette in Brooklyn
World Premiere is Luminescent
By: - Feb 17th, 2022Four instruments shimmering in the lights of Roulette, the iconic Brooklyn venue, might suggest you are at the brass concert. The saxophone in all its glories, principally soprano, tenor, baritone and bass, Is a member of the wind group. It sounds are full, rich, warm and smooth. Together, the Prism group makes one single sound. It can be raucous for fun. Or very dark when the mood requires.
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Black No More at the New Group
Bill T. Jones Choreographs, Scott Elliott Directs
By: - Feb 19th, 2022Broadway Bound? Black No More is packed with A list creative talent. It is in a limited run produced by the New Group, The book’s creators wondered whether rap would work for a serious story. Black No More succeeds in spades. Andy Blankenbeuler (Lian Manuel Miranda’s dance man) learned to tell a story in movement from Bill T. Jones. Jones is the choreographer of this show.
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Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Book, Film and Now an Opera
By: - Feb 21st, 2022The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a collaboration between the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and New York City Opera opened Off Broadway on Holocaust Remembrance Day for a limited run of eight performance from January 27- February 6 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Sung in English, also with subtitles, and running three barely noticeable hours with one intermission, the opera sold out even before it opened.
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Gordon Getty Preludes His New Opera
Goodbye Mr. Chips Prmeieres at Walter Reade Theater
By: - Mar 01st, 2022Gordon Getty is his own man, as composer, librettist and supporter of the arts. His new opera, Goodbye Mr. Chilps, premieres on film on March 2nd at the Walter Reade Theatre. Berkshire Fine Arts asked a few questions.
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Soundings: New Music at the Clark
in collaboration with the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
By: - Mar 03rd, 2022The Clark Art Institute debuts Soundings: New Music at the Clark, a concert series presented in collaboration with the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. On Saturday, March 19 at 3 pm, Soundings: Some Favored Nook, the first concert of the series, takes place in the Clark’s Michael Conforti Pavilion
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Schwanda at Komische Oper, Berlin
The Bagpipe Player
By: - Mar 07th, 2022After a slow opening in Praha, Czech Republic, in 1927 Schwanda, der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe player) by Jaromir Weinberger turned into a huge success around the Western World - and before Hitler came to power.
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Verdi's Otello
At Livermore Valley Opera
By: - Mar 07th, 2022Despite its musical and dramatic excellence, “Otello” has never achieved the audience popularity of “Aida” or Verdi’s great middle-period trio of “La Traviata,” “Il Trovatore,” or “Rigoletto,” which are among the most performed operas year after year.
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Berkshire Opera Festival
Three Decembers by Jake Heggie
By: - Mar 08th, 2022Berkshire Opera Festival mounts a new production of THREE DECEMBERS by Jake Heggie as its Second Stage production this year. BOF to partner with PS21, a state-of-the-art green-energy theater in Chatham, NY, which since completing its new theater has evolved into the Hudson Valley's mecca for innovative programming by leading and emerging artists in contemporary music. It will be staged July 21 & 23 at PS21 in Chatham, NY.
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Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
BSO Free LIve Stream
By: - Mar 10th, 2022The Boston Symphony’s archival concert stream of its 1963 American premiere of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, recorded at Tanglewood, will be made available free of charge at bso.org/now, March 10 through April 8. Under the direction of Erich Leinsdorf (BSO Music Director, 1962–69), the historic recording features vocalists Phyllis Curtin, Nicolas di Virgilio, and Tom Krause, as well as Chorus Pro Musica and Columbus Boy Choir.
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Boston Symphony Performs Stunning Wozzech
Carnegie Hall Hosts
By: - Mar 16th, 2022The Boston Symphony with Andris Nelsons at the helm performed Alban Berg’s Wozzeck at Carnegie Hall. The composer left an early performance of Georg Buchner’s play on which the opera would be based, remarking: this must be an opera and I will compose it. The Boston Symphony gave a defining performance of the work.
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Opera Philadelphia Returns with O Festival
Premiere Opera Company Surprises and Delights
By: - Mar 15th, 2022Opera Philadelphia will return with the O Festival in September. 2022.
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Huang Ruo and Basil Twist Team-up in New York
St. Ann's Warehouse Holds Magical Moments
By: - Mar 18th, 2022Book of Mountains & Seas, a new opera by Huang Ruo and Basil Twist, takes us out of ourselves and our space into a new and exotic world. Yet we are anchored in human concerns. Huang Ruo originally adapted The Book of Mountains and Seas, a work created in China in the 4th century BC and set its spirit in a vocal-theater for twelve singers. Full of good humor and infinite curiosity, Ruo comments on the visions possible with this unusual number: 2, 3, 4, 6. He uses all the combinations seamlessly.
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Passing Strange by Stew
Produced by Shotgun Players
By: - Mar 20th, 2022With “Passing Strange,” musician/playwright Stew created a multi-faceted coming-of-age story set to music and verse. The music is a mashup of rock era styles that never hits a false note. Both song lyrics and spoken sections set to music drive the narrative forward.
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Vam Morrison at Tanglewood
First Appearance Sunday, September 4
By: - Mar 21st, 2022On Sunday, September 4 at 7 p.m., Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet, and multi-instrumentalist Van Morrison performs for the first time at Tanglewood.
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The Hours by Kevin Puts
Philadelphia Hosts Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara and Jenifer Johnson Cano
By: - Mar 21st, 2022The Hours, a new opera by Kevin Puts, previewed at Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Cultural Center in Philadelphia. The stellar cast featuring Renee Fleming in what we call the Meryl Streep role, Kelli O’Hara in Julianne Moore’s and Jennifer Johnson Cano in the role for which Nicole Kidman, with a fake nose, won an Academy Award for best actress. Philip Glass wrote the score for the film. Puts gives us a richer diversity in orchestration.
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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival
Moved to Jazz Month in April
By: - Mar 24th, 2022Pittsfield CityJazz Festival has moved from our traditional mid-October date to become part of the nationwide Jazz Appreciation Month activities, which take place every year in April. The music starts on April 23.
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La Cage aux Folles
Produced by Altarena Playhouse
By: - Mar 27th, 2022The musical ran on Broadway for over four years, garnering six Tonys, including the most coveted – Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book. Accordingly, any production of “La Cage aux Folles” starts with great material.
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Michel Van Der Aa at the Park Avenue Armory
Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams
By: - Mar 28th, 2022Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works. This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work.
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Composer Jeremy Gill and the Parker Quartet
Premiere of a Kaleidoscope of Fairy Tales
By: - Mar 28th, 2022“Motherwhere” continues Jeremy Gill’s ongoing collaboration with the award-winning Parker Quartet, and is his first work for New York Classical Players. It premieres in New York on April 1. The author of the book that inspired the work, Zsófia Bán, is arriving from Hungary for the performance.
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