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PREVIEW: Ted Rosenthal and Tanglewood Learning Institute present a ‘trumpet summit’ on July 20 featuring Jon Faddis, Randy Brecker, Benny Benack III, and Bria...

"I’m thrilled to have four fantastic trumpeters—legends and rising stars—join my trio for an evening celebrating the richness and diversity of jazz trumpet greats: from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis and beyond." — Ted Rosenthal

Letter from New York: The unequal impact of COVID-19

When the plague finally ends or hopefully before that point, we will be forced yet again to address the problem of economic and racial inequality in this country. 

CONNECTIONS: Unpopular presidents

All five received mixed reviews, but possibly all presidents do. What they accomplished and how their terms were characterized varied.

REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s ‘Fall Springs’ is a cartoon, and not a good one

There is a cautionary environmental tale in 'Falls Springs,' and highfalutin moral lessons, too, but it’s all played so broadly, it’s just plain silly.

POEM: Papa and a Rope

Instantly a gift and a song washes over us.

POEM: Demons on the half shell

And like it or not we continue to drink from the same salted cup Toe tapping perhaps to Lonesome Sundown 

CONNECTIONS: Tales of corruption, past and present

Spiro Agnew countered that the investigation was a “witch hunt.” The investigators were “liberals and biased.” Loudly, Agnew argued that the allegations were false, politically motivated and a sitting vice president could not be indicted.

REVIEW: Father and son Ellis and Wynton Marsalis showcase taste, technical chops to jazz aficionados at Tanglewood

Ellis Marsalis' first chord made you glad to be in a venue where they know how to properly mic a grand piano. His second chord made you glad you were listening to a man with nothing to prove.

A year that will live in infamy: It’s time to act on climate 

Editor's Note: Through an editing error an earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the author as David Scribner. The author is Mark Reynolds. Those...

Harry Connick Jr. lets the good times roll at Tanglewood

His deep knowledge of New Orleans musical history was evident in spoken asides throughout the evening, offering reverence to such iconic figures as his “musical idol,” Louis Armstrong.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Fifty shades of cool

We can learn a lot from Southern gardeners as we face warmer weather here in the North, such as how to create the illusion of cool.

Poems: In memory of Hurricane Katrina

The two photographs accompanying these poems were salvaged from my flood destroyed home and studio in New Orleans August 2005.

Poem: Overdose

The Obama Administration is committing millions of dollars to contend with the prevalence of heroin addiction in New England. The Berkshires are not immune. A poem, here, about what an overdose feels like.

Jazz sensation, Eli & The Hot Six, do Gershwin at Barrington Stage

Pittsfield -- Barrington Stage Company will present Swingin' Gershwin with Eli & The Hot Six + Rebecca Sullivan on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, Monday, June...
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