When an all-Russian ensemble like Chamber Orchestra Kremlin performs Shostakovich, the listening experience is strangely gripping and uniquely satisfying. Why? Because the music is about them.
At the beginning of the of Watergate investigation, cartoonist Geoffrey Moss contacted the Washington Post, whose editors were aware of his graphics; however, until then, no captionless art had ever appeared on their editorial pages.
Pops Peterson has gained prominence with his critically acclaimed series, "Reinventing Rockwell," in which he is updating the iconic works of Norman Rockwell with contemporary social and political issues to celebrate the diversity of today's America.
The Dover Quartet is one unbelievably tight band. If you had closed your eyes during this concert, you’d have sworn a single musician was somehow playing every instrument.
The Summer Training Institute provides young actors the opportunity to immerse themselves in Shakespeare six days a week during the height of Shakespeare & Company’s summer performance season and is geared toward but not limited to undergraduate theater majors.
Bishop Gene Robinson is an advocate for full rights and marriage equality for gay, bisexual, and transgender people at the state, national and international levels.
However, what no one could possibly have anticipated — neither the Mahaiwe audience nor anyone living in the 18th-century — was the unprecedented genius of the great patriarch, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Created and performed by playwright and actress Rachel Siegel, "Special" is based on personal experience and interviews with mothers of children with special needs.
Soyeon Kate Lee’s delivery of Scriabin’s Op. 28 is so manifestly heartfelt that it would be difficult to say whether she owns the piece or is possessed by it.
The Berkshire Country Day celebration will also feature an announcement about the creation of a new music and performance room in Furey Hall, making this the most dramatic upgrade to BCD’s historic campus in almost two decades.
“Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Instrument Collection,” sponsored by Close Encounters with Music at The Mount in Lenox on Sunday, November 15.
