“I’m retelling a lot of stories in the Bible from more of a queer and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) perspective,” Tedeschi told The Berkshire Edge. “What I’m saying is, why do we accept some of the things that we accept? Why is there racism? Why is there sexism?"
The West Stockbridge Chamber Players will be performing at the Old Town Hall to benefit the Old Town Hall restoration and contribute to relief funds for Ukrainian refugees. The program will features works from by Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Arvo Pärt, and Evgeny Orkin.
After my husband died, one of my greatest concerns was whether I was capable of raising a son on my own without his father’s guidance, a son whose musical gifts were burgeoning.
Beethoven is the Shakespeare of music. His music is entertaining, but it is also very often a challenge, and it stays with us. We feel its depth and its power. And nowhere is this more true than in the late string quartets.
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.
Not everyone appreciates exuberant expressivity in classical music performances, but critics in the year of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday are finding it more difficult than ever to maintain even the appearance of reasoned thinking in their expressions of contempt.
Eric Hoeprich’s basset clarinet sung with exquisite clarity and depth in the Clarinet Quintet, K. 581. All through the piece, his perfectly calibrated, whizzing arpeggios and fluttering thirds resonated like mellow love-calls through the ensemble.
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.
My music appeals to amateurs and specialists. The amateurs because they just love it without knowing why; the professionals because they can hear everything I am doing.
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If you ever want to witness a miracle, just watch Christian Zacharias perform a Mozart piano concerto in the dual role of conductor-pianist. You really must see this to believe it.
“I thought it was important to portray the subjects of this story primarily with old-fashioned black and white film, since this is a venerable relationship between the farms and these traditional breeds which is now being rekindled. Many of the portraits I was able to create have an antique feel and seem to speak through the centuries.”
-- Photographer Erik Hoffner, whose photo exhibit is now on view at Galerie Giroux in Great Barrington
Here were four world-class virtuosi tossing off with evident delight a tour de force of scampering runs, perfectly coordinated phrases, and stunning, gorgeous, dynamic surprises. One doesn’t listen to music making like this every week, or for that matter, every year.
If the BSO really wants to appear more open and accessible to its audience, it should try a heavily reduced-price Shed ticket program for young people and students.
