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BITS & BYTES: Sondheim at Glimmerglass; Jason Carter at Fisher Center; Erica Feldmann at MASS MoCA; Bill Bowers at Chester Theatre; Third Thursday at...

Nominated for 10 Tony Awards and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Sondheim’s innovative score explores pointillism in sound before opening out into one of the most glorious choral finales in the repertory.

CONNECTIONS: Tragic Tanglewood traffic tangle in Stockbridge

For decades a Stockbridge police officer stood that corner assuring the safety. Now, drivers navigate without assistance. Some say it is too dangerous for a policeman to stand that post.

CONNECTIONS: The mystery of the first Berkshire BSO concert

We know that the time and place of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's first concert in the Berkshires was the summer of 1936 – or do we?

CONNECTIONS: Birth of the Tanglewood Music Festival

From the genesis, the “advancement and material gain to the Berkshires” was the first concern of the Berkshire Symphonic Festival, with classical music a means rather than an end.

Connections: Part II: Defining moments in Berkshire history: GE and Tanglewood

No other single decision did more to shape Pittsfield during the 20th Century than the loss of local control of the Stanley Works and the entrance of GE.
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