Wilbur was a words-smith extraordinaire, and I have a special fondness for his writing. At a time when lesser poets were beating the drum for free-form modernism, he was quietly perfecting the formal approach with its intricate rhymes and traditional structures. All this served up with wit and elegance.
After a six-year hiatus from the Berkshires incurred while Wayne finished his educational career in Virginia, the couple began putting in the vineyard, which, over time, got bigger and bigger.
A Pittsfield native, as well as an alumnus of Pittsfield High School and Berkshire Music School, where he studied under Jean Stackhouse, Çelebi will head into his fourth year this fall at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
“Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Instrument Collection,” sponsored by Close Encounters with Music at The Mount in Lenox on Sunday, November 15.
