Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
Madeleine Peyroux & Bettye LaVette
Mahaiwe Performing Arts CenterMadeleine Peyroux is an American jazz singer and songwriter who began her career as a teenager on the streets of Paris. In every note, Peyroux digs deep, rendering this exquisite work with the disarming grace and gravitas of an artist in peak form. Bettye LaVette was hailed by The New York Times as “one of […]
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: A TALE OF TWO SALONS – RAVEL, CEASAR FRANCK, FAURÉ & STRAVINSKY
Mahaiwe Performing Arts CenterStep into the dazzling world of Winnaretta Singer, patron of Ravel, Stravinsky, and Proust, in this intimate salon-style concert of music once performed in her legendary Paris mansion. The daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer, Princess de Polignac, was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leion Bakst to Jean Cocteau […]
Close Encounters With Music Presents: A Tale of Two Salons—Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust
Mahaiwe Performing Arts CenterThe daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer, Princess de Polignac, was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leion Bakst to Jean Cocteau and Jean Giraudoux to Prokofiev, Madame Jean Lanvin, Siegfried Wagner, Arthur Rubenstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Edith Wharton in her Paris salon. more importantly, she was responsible for developing […]
Close Encounters With Music Presents: A Tale of Two Salons—Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust
Mahaiwe Performing Arts CenterThe daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer, Princess de Polignac, was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leion Bakst to Jean Cocteau and Jean Giraudoux […]
