Now in his 30th year of delivering Tanglewood pre-concert lectures at Lenox Library, Yudkin treated the crowd to a boatload of fascinating but little-known details about three famous pieces of music and the men who created them.
“We are thrilled that our many months of hard work have been rewarded with this designation [as an Appalachian Trail Community].”
-- Cheshire Appalachian Trail Community Committee co-chairs Eileen Quinn and Karen Daigle
Professor Yudkin literally wrote the book on music appreciation: Now in its eighth edition, “Understanding Music,“ is used by more than 20,000 students across North America every year.
His scholarship focused primarily on early Italian Renaissance and early 20th-century European art, and he curated a number of major exhibitions of contemporary Portuguese artists.
Fighting climate change can mean everything from sealing up drafty houses and driving an electric vehicle to keeping up with a fossil-free push that is gaining steam worldwide.
“Tibetan is no longer an endangered language thanks to some of our efforts. You have to understand the works we are preserving are literature; they are like the dialogues of Plato.”
--- Jeff Wallman, executive director of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center in Cambridge
Around 2 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 23, Boston University students, organized by the campus group Divest BU, walked out of classes and met for a rally at the George Sherman Union plaza on campus.
Olga had been a resident of Sheffield for the past 10 years, during which time she attended Christ Church Episcopal and Trinity Lutheran Church in Sheffield.
“Beethoven’s work,” Yudkin explains, “is of such a stature that it warrants constant reviewing and research. We’re dealing here with a genius of the highest purpose, someone on a par with William Shakespeare.”
Jane received a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education from Boston University. Jane worked as a Physical Education teacher for Mount Everett Regional High School, the former Williams High School, Monument Mountain Regional High School and as Athletic Director at the former Searles Middle School until retiring in 1980.
