Berkshire Lyric Presents: Genius on Broadway

Berkshire Lyric is presenting their annual “Kick The Winter Blues” pop concerts on Saturday and Sunday March 15 and 16 at 3:00 at the Lenox Town Hall Auditorium. This year’s program is titled Genius on Broadway: The Music of Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim and Stephen Schwartz. The two identical concerts will feature music from The Sound of Music, Godspell, Wicked, South Pacific and more. The Berkshire Lyric Chorus, the Lyric Children’s Chorus and Melodious Accord will be led by Berkshire Lyric’s Jack Brown and accompanist Joe Rose.

For several decades, Lyric’s KTWB concerts have been a chance for the chorus to let their hair down and explore widely different styles of music as a chorus: Academy Award Songs, Music from the Islands, Cowboy Songs, Irish Music, An Outer Space Odyssey etc. The Masterworks Concert on June 1 will feature the big three of the Viennese classical world: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven This KTWB concert celebrates the big three of the American musical: Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim and Stephen Schwarz. The 80 voice Berkshire Lyric Chorus will sing lush arrangements of some of the most beautiful and well known standards by these iconic composers. They will be joined by our two choruses for young people and a small band.

The annual KTWB concerts support the year round educational efforts of Berkshire Lyric including three tuition free choruses for young people. They will join the one hundred voice Berkshire Lyric Chorus for the Spring Masterworks Concert at Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall, performing Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven with orchestra on June 1. Recent KTWB concerts have been standing room only. Tickets are $25 with children admitted free for this family friendly concert.

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