The Lyric Children’s Chorus, Melodious Accord and the Berkshire Lyric Choral Scholars. This annual concert will include a selection of music composed by contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, whose music will also be performed weeks later as part of Berkshire Lyric’s Masterworks Concert at Seiji Ozawa Hall Tanglewood.
The imperial “City of Song” has played an essential role as a leading European cultural center, hosting major personalities in the development of music, as well as literature, painting, psychiatry and intellectual thought, from the 16th to 20th centuries. As in the architecture, musical styles that sprang up are a mix of Baroque, Classical, Art […]
Conceived by performer, composer, and American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) member Keir GoGwilt, Zarabanda Variations bring together a group of visionary composers, improvisers, and performers, inspired by musical histories of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century New Spain. The zarabanda is a dance with possibly Spanish, American, and Arab origins, a plausible etymology from the Bantu nsala-banda, which eventually transformed […]
Saint James Place opens its doors to families with children who love music for this interactive free family concert. Aston Magna Family Event introduces children to the instruments and music of past centuries, which continue to have a place in today’s concert halls. Event is on Saturday, May 25 at 3pm in our Great Hall. […]
On Sunday, May 26th at 5 p.m. in the Old Town Hall, the Chamber Players will honor our town with a march that was written in 1774. Featuring Chamber Players’ artistic director Catherine Hudgins on clarinet, Sheila Fiekowsky on violin, Jennifer Elowitch on violin, Daniel Getz on viola, Mary Ferrillo on viola, and Oliver Aldort […]
Bruckner Mass no. 3 in f minor, Brahms’ Nänie and Arvo Pärt’s Da Pacem Dominum. 100 voice Berkshire Lyric Chorus with soloists and full orchestra. This is the Berkshire’s biggest locally produced musical event of the year! Recent concerts in the series include large works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms and were broadcast […]
Join Berkshire Bach in a concert of music for violin and harpsichord by J.S. Bach and others with The Berkshire Bach Ensemble’s Laura Lutzke, Baroque violin, and Mariken Palmboom, harpsichord.
Vocalis Youth Choir will perform a concert on June 8th at 4:00pm with funds going to The People’s Pantry of Great Barrington. Participating artists: Eric Martin, fiddle; Jon Suters, guitar; Dorothy Cowles, piano; Elizabeth Allyn, piano. Join us for a selection of beautiful, upbeat, and inspiring music and poetry from the classical, contemporary, and folk […]
Dvořák’s sublime Piano Quintet in A Major occupies a lofty place in the chamber music canon, at the same elevation as Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34. Simply put, both works are majestic, symphonic in scope, and invite the listener into a lost world of powerful beauty, profundity, and nobility of sentiments, peppered […]
Join us outdoors on the Trinity Labyrinth for a colorful season finale with the renowned Hyperion Quartet, including works by Puccini, Shostakovich, and Mozart, alongside Barber’s heartrending Adagio for Strings. Crisantemi” for String Quartet by Giacomo Puccini Two pieces for String Quartet, “Elegy and Polka” by Dmitri Shostakovich “Adagio” from String Quartet in B minor […]
Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
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