“For the past 49 years the BHRSD community has expected and supported an active and outstanding band program … I don’t think the music department can continue to provide that along with everything else they are doing with only four positions.”
-- Music instructor Jeff Stevens, who is retiring this year
In order to avoid too big an increase to taxpayers, the school committee has to cut between $400,000 to $600,000 this year. Still, Great Barrington will see an almost 7 percent increase, Stockbridge will see a 9 percent increase, and West Stockbridge, a 3 percent increase.
"The Learning Commons will engage kids in technology – appropriately – as we explore how to incorporate technology into education. At the same time, at BCD the integration of arts and humanities is at the core of what we do."
-- Paige Orloff, chair of the BCD Board of Trustees
Betty passed on to her daughters her love of language (she had studied Latin for seven years and instilled the importance of the properly spoken word as a family value) and theater as well as her commitment to exercise and healthy eating.
"The combined institution creates in one stroke the most comprehensive training ground for performing arts and related careers in the country, if not the world."
-- Boston Conservatory president Richard Ortner, describing the proposed merger of the Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory
An interview with indietronics musician Nick Zammuto, with some very cool videos of his music. "I came out here to go to school [at Williams College], and then when I was a senior I moved to North Adams into an apartment over on Miner Street, which was fantastic. It was super cheap, and there were no distractions, so I got a lot of music done."
