Navigating one's way from the bso.org home page to all the relevant schedule pages is probably a bit easier than driving a semi truck through downtown Boston during rush hour, but it is still not exactly straightforward, especially when it comes to seeing lists of paid content.
Of course, as Sebring warns, the only appropriate recital space for an alphorn is the great outdoors — alps if you have them, the Berkshire hills if you don't.
The musicians' total command of the material on this program is especially noteworthy when you remember that they've been locked up like the rest of us since the time of dinosaurs.
A Berkshire summer without professor Yudkin's pre-concert lectures would be like a cheeseless apple pie or a squeezeless kiss: pleasant enough, but crucially bereft of mojo.
The upcoming Boston Pops July 4 broadcast is not all reruns. It will also feature newly created content, including the entire Pops viola section playing "Over the Rainbow" and a virtual performance of Pops Conductor Laureate John Williams' “Summon the Heroes.”
Virtually all other venues in the Berkshires are inviting, encouraging the public to get outside and enjoy their properties. It seems that if the BSO/Tanglewood really cared they would find a way to engage with the community during this difficult time.
The BSO is also releasing certain performances at the same times as they would have been heard live, with complete online recordings of BSO concerts taking place Sundays at 2:30 p.m. as an example of such scheduling.
I am here to remind you if you can’t listen to the Boston Symphony Orchestra live while picnicking on the lawn at Tanglewood, you can still picnic on a lawn somewhere and perhaps even listen to a BSO concert.
A 2018 study conducted by Williams College economics professor Stephen Sheppard concluded that Kripalu directly or indirectly generates $64 million to the total economic output in Massachusetts with $56 million of it concentrated in Berkshire County alone.
The announcement was a devastating blow to the region's economy, which is already reeling from the effects of the economic shutdown and the recently announced season cancellations from Jacob's Pillow, Shakespeare & Company and the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Which is the superior concept of ownership? Which is the better use of land? Who makes the better steward? The tension between the common good and private ownership has never been resolved.
