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Tag: Berkshire Music School
Bits & Bytes: BSO on BBC; ‘The Constitution Demands It’; pianist Lin at Berkshire Music School; Copake history talk
Prior to co-founding Free Speech For People, John Bonifaz served as the executive director and general counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute, and as the legal director of Voter Action, a national election integrity organization.
Berkshire Music School launches Painted Piano Project to celebrate Leonard Bernstein
Sixteen painted pianos are on public display around Berkshire County to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein and to recognize area libraries’ summer reading theme of “Libraries Rock” with its subtheme of Summer of Music.
‘Tubby the Tuba’ sings in the Berkshire Hills
Berkshire Music School treated children from four Berkshire County primary schools to a performance of the classic, “Tubby the Tuba.”
Bits & Bytes: 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival; Community Voices Collection; immigration workshop; Sue Morse wildlife presentations; Berkshire South Swim-a-thon
‘We believe that our immigrant population is an essential and rich part of our Berkshire community…’
— Berkshire Immigrant Center Executive Director Brooke Mead
BITS & BYTES: ‘Breathtaking Baroque’; ‘Healing Pittsfield;’ Rhythm and Rhyme Symposium; ‘Girl Rising’ at Simon’s Rock; Trio Jota Sete at BMS
Students from Hong Kong, Germany and India participating in morning workshops at Mount Everett Regional School throughout the week, creating group pieces in spoken word poetry and music.
Bits & Bytes: ‘The Messenger’ screening; touch football game; Berkshire Music School benefit; Golden Dragon Acrobats; swing dance night
This weekend the JFK Library Foundation is coordinating 35 touch football games across Massachusetts in recognition of President Kennedy’s love of the sport and commitment to physical fitness.
Business Briefs: New director at Construct Inc.; Guido’s food program donations; performance award for Hilton Garden Inn; music grant for BCArc; Best of Service award for Gallery315 Home; Maple Hill Creamery in Farm to Fork Fondo
A native of Wisconsin, Jane Ralph joins Construct Inc. from north central Vermont where she served as executive director of the Clarina Howard Nichols Center, an agency offering domestic and sexual violence victims and survivors emergency shelter, support and services.
Bits & Bytes: GB trick or treat hours; Music@theTaft; Sheffield tree planting and property walk; Cafe Palestina film festival; students plant vegetative buffer
Participants in the Sheffield Land Trust’s property walk will explore the Drury Trail from Barnum Street to Schenob Brook and hear about the property’s history, plants and animals from members of the Drury family.
Business Briefs: Crane donates property to BNRC; Austen Riggs named ‘Best Hospital;’ new Berkshire Music School trustees
The Jericho Woods property includes the Old Mill Trail, which is approximately two miles long and runs along the east branch of the Housatonic River.
Bits & Bytes: Equipment grant for GBFD; Egremont zoning changes; Behold! New Lebanon tours; Hilda Banks Shapiro CD release; Laszlo Gordony Quartet; ‘tree-torials’ at Olana
Hilda Banks Shapiro began taking piano lessons when she was 4 years old and, at 16, made her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City and Symphony Hall in Boston.
Bits & Bytes: Joshua Redman Quartet at the Mahaiwe; Museum & Archives reopening; Berkshire Blues Benefit Jam; Eugenia Zukerman & Jasper Quartet; stamp collecting talk
Following the ribbon-cutting ceremony, members of the Stockbridge community who have donated items to the Stockbridge Library’s Museum & Archives will be present to chat with visitors about their contributions to the collection, the town, and its history.
Bits & Bytes: BMS gala concert & perform-a-thon; Sausage Fest; 24-hour Theatre Project; Lakeville gallery crawl; Lenox cottages talk; adult swim lessons; Berkshire Youth Expo
In Great Barrington The Meat Market will host its fifth annual Sausage Fest on Saturday, April 2, from noon – 6 p.m., featuring 12 housemade sausages simulating an international trip.
Bits & Bytes: Marc Cohn at Colonial; healing foods discussion; Olana art for kids; food pantry benefit concert; ‘Small Steps to a Healthier You’
Berkshire Music School teacher Tari Wheeler Roosa (flute), Joshua Birns-Sprague (piano, organ, and flute) and special guest Daniel Broad (double bass) will give a concert Feb. 25 at First United Methodist Church to benefit local food pantries.
Bits & Bytes: Fuel assistance concert; BTCF application deadline; Wintergreen at Berkshire Museum; Williams to support Mt. Greylock; Eugene Drucker at Camphill Ghent
Williams College has announced that it will form a $5 million fund to support the Mount Greylock Regional School District’s capital needs.
Bits & Bytes: Fifth annual 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival; Chinese New Year celebration; Ramsdell Library Sundays; Williams diversity series; EP from Oakes and Smith
Week Five of winter Sunday afternoons at Ramsdell Public Library, the focus will be on the suffragette movement in the United States and Great Britain.
Bits & Bytes: Intergenerational symposium; novelists at the Bookstore; poet at The Mount; Music School 75th anniversary
The goal of the Multicultural BRIDGE symposium is to increase the sense of value among Berkshire County youth in their families and communities
Bits & Bytes: The Josh calls for volunteers; fall classes at Berkshire Music School; and more
The Williams convocation speaker is Michael Curtin, CEO of D.C. Central Kitchen, whose programs provide millions of healthy meals to at-risk populations.
Bits & Bytes: Arlo Guthrie booksigning; Berkshire Music School open house; Heirloom Fire summer supper; ‘Now Is Our Time’ at the Colonial; Berkshire South matching grant surpassed
“Many people don’t realize that Berkshire South Regional Community Center is a nonprofit organization, with dues and fees making up only 60 percent of our costs to operate.
— Jenise Lucey, Berkshire South’s executive director
Bits & Bytes: Drum Pow Wow; ‘Icebergs in August’; Stefan Asbury at OLLI; ‘Red Velvet’ opens; rural museum tours
Stefan Asbury has served on the faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center and currently holds the Sana H. Sabbagh master teacher chair on the Conducting Faculty which he has held since 2005.
Harriet Rothstein, of Egremont, concert pianist, beloved teacher, dies at 78
“I never heard her play a single note that was not filled with care, meaning and communicative power. She always had something urgent, beautiful and deeply personal to say through her music.”
— Evan Rothstein, Deputy Head of Strings at the Guildhall School of Music in London
Notes, footnotes & queries
Has the “species purity” movement gotten out of hand, categorizing undesirable plants and animals, even earthworms, as invasive? Next thing you know its adherents will be calling for the elimination of apple trees as an alien species.
Bits & Bytes: Lenox Lit Crawl; Berkshire Music School concert; Erik Hoffner photography exhibit
“I thought it was important to portray the subjects of this story primarily with old-fashioned black and white film, since this is a venerable relationship between the farms and these traditional breeds which is now being rekindled. Many of the portraits I was able to create have an antique feel and seem to speak through the centuries.”
— Photographer Erik Hoffner, whose photo exhibit is now on view at Galerie Giroux in Great Barrington