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PREVIEW: Close Encounters with Music presents ‘Mostly Amadeus—Meet the Mozarts!’ March 15 at the Mahaiwe

From Leopold Mozart’s teaching and promotion of his son’s early career to the later compositions of Franz Xaver Mozart, the program traces the musical lineage surrounding one of history’s most celebrated composers.

CONNECTIONS: Survival of the wealthiest

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher wedded the science of social Darwinism to the church, and helped obliterate criticism of the Gilded Age’s excessively disproportionate distribution of wealth. He justified the rich to their riches and blamed the poor for their poverty.

CONNECTIONS: Berkshire liaisons, Part III: Theodore Tilton v. Henry Ward Beecher

Beecher preached that love was the basis of religious experience and that God would forgive all sins. For the last decade, there were rumors that he practiced what he preached.

Connections: As presidential candidates, women face derision — or worse

Women ran for office before they had the right to vote. They ran not to win but to do what women do best and prize most: to talk. They talked about any and every conceivable issue that plagued the minds of women.
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