David Noel Edwards is a writer, composer, and recording artist from Canaan, New York. He has been writing for the Berkshire Edge since 2015, mainly about music, but also about books, birds, and reptiles.
The Emerson Quartet violinist and Berkshire Bach artistic director discusses Bach’s reach across genres ahead of the “Bach & Friends” screening at Tanglewood's Linde Center for Music and Learning on Nov. 8.
Storyteller Baba Israel and saxophonist Sean Nowell join dancers Audrey Thao Berger and B-Boy Spidey for a morning of rhythm, poetry, and creative expression at the Linde Center.
"When you play on these guitars, they are so intimate, so sensitive, that you play differently. They are very sensitive to vibrato, to every little change of color." — Raphaël Feuillâtre
The ensemble blends Andean and classical instruments in transcriptions and arrangements that range from early New World compositions and folk themes to modern fusions of Andean and European music.
Jofre has received numerous commissions from leading orchestras and soloists, earning praise for his expressive compositions and virtuosic playing, described by the Mercury News as “electrifying” and by BBC Magazine as “arresting” and “beguiling.”
