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Two Choirs Come Together

Wed, 06/07/2017 - 3:52pm
Music
By
Fred Baumgarten

Two venerable musical institutions of our region — the Berkshire Children’s Chorus and Joyful Noise/Chorus Angelicus — will join forces on June 11 in an unusual concert of music for chorus and percussion at the Shed on the Battelle Estate in Norfolk.
The two groups are like sisters who grew up together. Founded a year apart, in 1990 and 1991 respectively, the Berkshire Children’s Chorus and Chorus Angelicus fulfilled a need for singing opportunities for young people, which is undiminished more than 25 years later.

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Big Takeover Plays Spring For Sound

Wed, 06/07/2017 - 3:23pm
Music
By
Darryl Gangloff

On Saturday, June 10, the village of Millerton will be transformed into an all-day concert venue during Spring for Sound, an annual festival that will feature approximately 50 bands and musicians performing every genre imaginable on multiple stages. (For more details, look in this week’s issue of The Millerton News.)

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Beautiful Music Will Aid Library

Thu, 05/25/2017 - 8:37am
Music: The Next Festival of Emerging Artists
By
Darryl Gangloff

Beginning May 28, young professional string players from throughout the country will converge at Music Mountain in Falls Village to spend a week honing their craft in a peaceful, intimate setting.
“Music Mountain is so beautiful. It’s inspiring to wake up and make music there,” said Artistic Director Peter Askim, who founded the Next Festival of Emerging Artists in 2013 as a way to help the next generation of classical musicians bridge the gap between school and their careers.

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Hear Music Royalty For Free

Thu, 05/11/2017 - 12:48pm
Music
By
Fred Baumgarten

An appearance by the Emerson String Quartet in our region is always a cause for celebration. Chamber music royalty, the Emerson players (Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violins, Lawrence Dutton, viola, and Paul Watkins, cello) are renowned for their shimmering sound, wordless communication and tradition of standing while performing.

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An Introduction To Classical Music

Thu, 05/04/2017 - 8:35am
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Third-graders from Cornwall Consolidated School, Indian Mountain School, Lee H. Kellogg School and North Canaan Elementary School packed the seats at Music Mountain in Falls Village on April 27 to enjoy the beautiful music of a string quartet from the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
“This event gives young musicians the chance to play in a great place,” Barbara Collins said as the children filed into the venue. “And it lets our students hear great music.”

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Concert: ‘Gift To The Community’

Wed, 04/26/2017 - 3:23pm
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By
Marsden Epworth

Sometimes finance and art collide. 
Gil Gutiérrez was 12 years old when he started playing the cello at school in Oaxaca, Mexico. In time he was ready for his own instrument, but cellos were expensive. He moved on to piano. Same story. Too expensive. But a guitar, Gutiérrez, told me by phone from Mexico, “guitars were very cheap.” He was set. 

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Benefit concert at Lionrock Farm April 8

Wed, 04/05/2017 - 2:52pm

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Bach’s Birthday Bash

Wed, 04/05/2017 - 2:45pm
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Bringing Rockwell’s Paintings to Life

Thu, 03/23/2017 - 9:52am
By
Darryl Gangloff

The vocalists who perform as part of the Crescendo choral group in the Northwest Corner will soon help bring the iconic paintings of Norman Rockwell to life through a mixture of music and animation.

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Warm Sounds In A New Space

Wed, 02/22/2017 - 2:17pm
Music: Close Encounters With Music
By
Fred Baumgarten

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in the Berkshires this year, Close Encounters With Music held its first concert of 2017 in the newly renovated Saint James Place in Great Barrington on Saturday, Feb. 18. A full house packed the spacious hall — which was Close Encounters’ original home and is now a dedicated performance space — for a concert of Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites.

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