| Birds and Dvořák Sing to Each Other: we get to listen | Birds and Dvořák Sing to Each Other: we get to listen The BSO at … | 2021/07/19 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2021-07-19 23:18:36 |
| Springtime and Jazz Provide the Caffeine: an Evening of Modern and Contemporary Music at PS 21, Chatham | Springtime and Jazz Provide the Caffeine: an Evening of Modern and Contemporary Music PS … | 2021/07/19 | Larry Wallach | Contemporary Music | 2021-07-19 13:48:03 |
| A Crop of Recordings XXXIV: British Harvest—Britten, Bridge, Berkeley, Bliss, Walton, Vaughan Williams | ≈ ENGLISH MUSIC FOR STRINGS ● John Wilson, conductor; Sinfonia of London ● CHANDOS … | 2021/05/09 | Steven Kruger | HHA, Recordings | 2021-05-09 14:02:23 |
| Writing Responsibly for the General Reader: One Music Critic’s Experiences in 1971 and in 2020 | How should music scholars write for non-specialists? That is the wide-ranging question that … | 2021/05/09 | Arts Press | HHA | 2021-05-09 11:54:25 |
| Retrospective Fragments from a Virtual 2020 – Hamelin Schubert Recital and the Parker Quartet | Retrospective Fragments from a Virtual 2020 at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, Mass. … | 2021/04/24 | Seth Lachterman | Music, New York Arts | 2021-04-24 14:53:02 |
| Der Traumgörge: A Dark Fairytale Opera from 1907 Makes Its Way Today, on CD and in Performance | Der Traumgörge: A Dark Fairytale Opera from 1907 Makes Its Way Today, on CD … | 2021/04/17 | Ralph P. Locke | HHA | 2021-04-17 17:04:42 |
| Glimmerglass 2021 – Thinking Outside of the Box | Recovery at Glimmerglass: Thinking Outside the Box 2021 Glimmerglass Festival Preview For over a … | 2021/03/30 | Arts Press | HHA | 2021-03-30 00:03:48 |
| Berlin Philharmonic Returns with a Bite | Conductor Thomas Søndergård (Photo: Martin Bubant) “Golden Twenties” Part 1. February 20, 2021 Berliner … | 2021/02/27 | Seth Lachterman | Music, New York Arts | 2021-02-27 16:17:18 |
| Locke’s List for 2020: Major Discoveries and Pleasant Diversions in Operatic and Other Vocal Music (Plus a Ballet to a Scenario by Arthur Schnitzler) | Locke’s List for 2020: Major Discoveries and Pleasant Diversions in Operatic and Other Vocal … | 2021/01/02 | Ralph P. Locke | HHA | 2021-01-02 21:09:05 |
| A Crop of Recordings XXXII: Four Austrians and a Frenchman: Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, von Einem, Rott, and Messiaen | ≈ ZEMLINSKY The Mermaid ● Marc Albrecht, conductor; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra ● PENTATONE … | 2020/11/23 | Steven Kruger | HHA | 2020-11-23 17:40:45 |
| Summer Retrospective: Miranda Cuckson and Conrad Tao at PS21 in Chatham, New York | Grand Statements, Intimate Forces: the return of live concerts a Review of two concerts … | 2020/11/23 | Larry Wallach | Contemporary Music, Music | 2020-11-23 15:38:53 |
| Summer Retrospective: Timo Andres and (via stream) Conor Hanick at PS 21: Andres, Copland, Rzewski, and Ustvolskaya | From PS21’s Modern Music Fest August 21, 7pm Timo Andres, piano Timo Andres – … | 2020/11/23 | Michael Miller | Contemporary Music | 2020-11-23 12:00:27 |
| Tanglewood Stream Fishing Part 3-Daniil Trifonov Plays Bach’s Art of Fugue | Tanglewood 2020: Stream Fishing with Daniil Trifonov August 11, 2020 J. S. Bach, Die Kunst … | 2020/09/09 | Seth Lachterman | Music, New York Arts | 2020-09-09 17:58:44 |
| Tanglewood Stream Fishing 2020 Part 2: Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax Play Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn | Songs my Motherboard Taught Me: Music in the Age of Isolation. Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel … | 2020/09/09 | Seth Lachterman | Music, New York Arts | 2020-09-09 17:52:25 |
| John Luther Adams’ “Ten Thousand Birds” Performed by Alarm Will Sound under Alan Pierson at PS 21 | PS21 August 7, 4pm John Luther Adams – Ten Thousand Birds Alarm Will Sound, Alan … | 2020/09/02 | Michael Miller | Contemporary Music, New York Arts | 2020-09-02 16:18:10 |
| DAN ROSE FACES 2020 | DAN ROSE FACES 2020 Dan Rose has published another artist book. This one, FACES, … | 2020/08/17 | Richard Harrington | HHA, Drawings | 2020-08-17 11:01:09 |
| Tanglewood Stream Fishing 2020, Part 1 | Songs my Motherboard Taught Me: Music in the Age of Isolation. Tanglewood Great Performers in … | 2020/07/31 | Seth Lachterman | HHA, Music | 2020-07-31 02:03:09 |
| Public Concerts Resume at PS21 in Chatham, New York—Second Concert: Beethoven by the Calidore String Quartet | PS21, Chatham, New York July 24, 6 PM and 8 PM. Two one-hour concerts. … | 2020/07/30 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts | 2020-07-30 14:48:14 |
| Ian Hobson will perform a streamed recital co-presented by SubCulture NYC, Florida State University, and Sinfonia da Camera this Wednesday, July 22nd, 5:00 p.m. EDT | Ian Hobson will perform a streamed recital co-presented by SubCulture NYC, Florida State University, and Sinfonia … | 2020/07/21 | Michael Miller | HHA | 2020-07-21 18:18:04 |
| A Crop of Recordings XXXI: Piston, Gould, Hanson, Roussel, Dukas, Strauss, Liszt. Beethoven…and Knecht! | ≈ PISTON Symphony No. 7. GOULD Stringmusic¹. HANSON Symphony No. 4 ● Carlos Kalmar, … | 2020/07/12 | Steven Kruger | Recordings | 2020-07-12 15:08:21 |
| Our Time, a Collage of Records from Williams, a 90th Birthday Tribute to Stephen Sondheim (’50) at Williams College – a Review | Williams Theatre Department & Sondheim@90@Williams present: Our Time, a Collage of Records from Williams … | 2020/03/26 | Michael Miller | Theater, New York Arts | 2020-03-26 23:21:25 |
| Happy Birthday, Stephen Sondheim! …from his alma mater, Williams College | Stephen Sondheim turns 90 today. His alma mater, Williams College, chose to honor her … | 2020/03/22 | Michael Miller | Musical Theater, New York Arts | 2020-03-22 12:17:48 |
| Florent Schmitt’s “Légende” and “Oriane et le Prince d’Amour” with Debussy and Rachmaninoff—the Buffalo Philharmonic under JoAnn Falletta | Kleinhans Hall, Buffalo March 7, 2020 The Buffalo Philharmonic JoAnn Falletta, conductor Nikki Chooi, … | 2020/03/18 | Steven Kruger | Music, HHA | 2020-03-18 15:17:31 |
| Evening all Afternoon: A Chilly Season Warmed by Capital Region Classical at Union College | Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Messiaen, Beethoven, Benjamin and Sweelink, November 24, 2019 American Modern Opera Company … | 2020/03/15 | Seth Lachterman | HHA | 2020-03-15 23:13:23 |
| Fabien Gabel conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Dukas, Zigman, and Saint-Saëns, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano, and Jonathan Dimmock, Organ | Davies Hall, San Francisco February 15, 2020 The San Francisco Symphony Fabien Gabel, conductor … | 2020/02/26 | Arts Press | HHA, Music | 2020-02-26 23:07:47 |
| Richard Wagner, I maestri cantori di Norimberga (or, rather Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Sung in Italian, Beautifully | Richard Wagner, I maestri cantori di Norimberga (or, rather Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) Bruna Rizzoli (Eva), … | 2020/02/10 | Arts Press | HHA | 2020-02-10 16:58:42 |
| Ronald Gorevic and Larry Wallach will play Beethoven Violin Sonatas 3, 5, and 10, completing their complete traversal. | A message from Larry: On Sunday February 16, Ronald Gorevic and I will complete … | 2020/02/09 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2020-02-09 00:38:33 |
| Bard Music Festival 2019: Korngold and his World (REVISED) | Bard Music Festival 2019: Korngold and his World (REVISED) Full program here Works discussed: … | 2019/12/16 | Michael Miller | HHA | 2019-12-16 08:59:21 |
| A Korngold Festival! Two from the Bard Music Festival, 2019, as well as Two New Recordings | | 2019/12/12 | Arts Press | HHA | 2019-12-12 09:12:23 |
| A Fine New Recording of Korngold’s Masterpiece, Das Wunder der Heliane | KORNGOLD: Das Wunder der Heliane Annemarie Kremer – Heliane Katerina Hebelková – The … | 2019/12/07 | Ralph P. Locke | HHA | 2019-12-07 13:48:38 |
| A Crop of Recordings XXIX: Magnard, Bruckner, Korngold, and Vaughan Williams | ≈ MAGNARD Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 ● Fabrice Bollon, conductor; Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra ● … | 2019/12/05 | Steven Kruger | HHA, Recordings | 2019-12-05 19:05:40 |
| The Bard Music Festival—Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Trajectory: the Symphony in F#, Music for Hollywood, Chamber Music | The Bard Music Festival: Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Trajectory Second weekend (August 16-18, 2019) … | 2019/12/05 | Larry Wallach | HHA | 2019-12-05 17:02:52 |
| A Crop of Recordings XXIX: Magnard, Bruckner, Korngold, Vaughan Williams | ≈ MAGNARD Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 ● Fabrice Bollon, conductor; Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra ● … | 2019/12/05 | Steven Kruger | Recordings | 2019-12-05 01:00:58 |
| Wire and Light Legerdemain: Richard Harrington’s unique art at MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, Massachusetts | Any resemblance to the pedantry of “Platonic geometric solids” afflicted upon us in high-school … | 2019/09/24 | Seth Lachterman | HHA | 2019-09-24 00:25:16 |
| TUNDI’s remarkable Tristan und Isolde at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro, Vermont | Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner, Music and Libretto TUNDI at the Latchis Theater, Brattleboro, … | 2019/09/17 | Michael Miller | Richard Wagner | 2019-09-17 02:59:35 |
| A Singer’s Notes 154: Johann Pachelbel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and Heitor Villa Lobos | The Aston Magna concert of July 27 in Saint James Place in Great Barrington featuring … | 2019/09/02 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Early Music and Baroque | 2019-09-02 11:58:46 |
| A Singer’s Notes 153—Shakespeare and Company: Two Outdoor Performances: The Taming of the Shrew and The Merry Wives of Windsor | Shakespeare and Company: Two Outdoor Performances The Taming of the Shrew In William Shakespeare’s The … | 2019/09/02 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2019-09-02 11:34:30 |
| A Singer’s Notes 152: National Youth Orchestra of the United States at Tanglewood, Sir Antonio Pappano conduction, with Isabel Leonard, Mezzo-Soprano | National Youth Orchestra of the United States at Tanglewood Conductor Antonio Pappano led the young … | 2019/09/02 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2019-09-02 10:50:34 |
| Wagner’s Die Walküre and Verdi’s Requiem under Andris Nelsons at Tanglewood | Saturday, July 27, 8 p.m. Shed The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert Tanglewood Music Center … | 2019/08/27 | Michael Miller | Richard Wagner, Music | 2019-08-27 02:37:46 |
| A Singer’s Notes 151: Giancarlo Guerrero leads the TMC Orchestra in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony | Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at Tanglewood is what I have been waiting for … | 2019/08/27 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2019-08-27 01:39:22 |
| A Singer’s Notes 150: Tchaikovsky at Tanglewood | Stefan Asbury conducts Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 with the TMC Orchestra. Photo Hilary Scott. … | 2019/08/27 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2019-08-27 01:26:26 |
| Sibelius Pivots to the Symphony | Dima Slobodeniouk leads the BSO in Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1. Photo Hilary Scott. Sibelius … | 2019/08/27 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2019-08-27 00:42:42 |
| An Immersive Tristan und Isolde, Performed to the Highest Standards at the Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro, Vermont, by TUNDI. Last performance Sunday, August 25, at 10 am. | Tristan und IsoldeRichard Wagner, Music and LibrettoTUNDIat the Latchis Theater, Brattleboro, Vermont TUNDI Festival … | 2019/08/24 | Michael Miller | Richard Wagner | 2019-08-24 03:29:35 |
| Rameau, Scriabin, Beethoven: Who Provided the Contrast? Juho Pohjonen, pianist, at Tannery Pond | Juho Puhjonen, Pianist Juho Pohjonen, pianistTannery Pond Concerts, July 27, 2019 Rameau, Suites in … | 2019/08/02 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2019-08-02 11:32:15 |
| Gertrude and Claudius at Barrington Stage Company | Gertrude and ClaudiusA New Play by Mark St. GermainBased on the novel by John … | 2019/08/01 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2019-08-01 14:00:03 |
| Two Premieres and Revival of a Standard and a Forgotten Charmer at Tanglewood: Asbury, Aspinall, and Farrell Conducting the TMC Orchestra; Intimacies of O’Keefe and Stieglitz by Kevin Puts Premiered by the BSO under Nelsons | Monday, July 15, 2019 8:00 PMSeiji Ozawa HallTanglewood Music Center OrchestraStefan Asbury, conductor, with TMC … | 2019/07/31 | Michael Miller | Music | 2019-07-31 12:43:06 |
| Ives Revealed: the four Violin and Piano Sonatas, along with Some Hymns used in the Sonatas | Stefan Jackiw and Jeremy Denk play Ives’ Violin Sonatas at Ozawa Hall. Photo. Hilary Scott. … | 2019/07/31 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2019-07-31 11:24:10 |
| A Singer’s Notes 149: Twelfth Night or What You Will at Shakespeare and Company—Not to be missed! Closing August 4th! | Twelfth Night 2019. Bella Merlin, Gregory Boover, Miles Anderson, and Steven Barkhimer. Photo Daniel Rader. … | 2019/07/31 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2019-07-31 10:47:09 |
| Subtlety in the Shed: an Oxymoron? Nelsons and the BSO play Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Gershwin, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Subtlety in the Shed: an Oxymoron? Gershwin – Concerto in F … | 2019/07/27 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2019-07-27 13:31:17 |
| Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive at the Chester Theater Company | The Night Alive written by Conor McPherson The Chester Theatre Company June 20 – … | 2019/07/20 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2019-07-20 00:18:44 |
| Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra conducted by Killian Farrell, Nathan Aspinall, and Andris Nelsons, with Thomas Rolfs, trumpet soloist; July 8, 2019: Iconoclastic Shostakovich, plus Bombastic Tchaikovsky, Ingenious Glanert, Giddy Berlioz: the TMC Orchestra’s First Concert of 2019 | Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra conducted by Killian Farrell, Nathan Aspinall, and Andris Nelsons, with … | 2019/07/12 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2019-07-12 15:36:08 |
| Tanglewood’s Boston Symphony Orchestra Opening Night, Friday, July 5, 2019: Mozart Piano Concerto in E Flat, K. 482 and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony | Prelude Concert, Ozawa Hall: Mozart, Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat, k. 452 … | 2019/07/12 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2019-07-12 14:05:11 |
| Stockbridge: Summer 1966, A memoir of the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s inaugural season — Part III, Conclusion | Martin Fried’s production of Murray Schisgal’s Fragments Gene Frankel’s production of Waiting for Godot … | 2019/05/31 | Peter Maloney | Theater | 2019-05-31 11:58:22 |
| Stars Crossing in New York’s Electric City | Union College’s amazing concert series perseveres through a plague of performer illnesses. It is … | 2019/04/28 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2019-04-28 12:29:24 |
| Stockbridge: Summer 1966, A memoir of the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s inaugural season — Part II (of 3): George Tabori’s Production of The Merchant of Venice, set in a Nazi concentration camp | George Tabori’s production of The Merchant of Venice, set in a Nazi concentration camp … | 2019/03/20 | Peter Maloney | Theater | 2019-03-20 10:53:33 |
| Stockbridge: Summer 1966, A memoir of the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s inaugural season — Part I (of 3): Beginnings and Arthur Penn’s Production of The Skin of Our Teeth, with Anne Bancroft | Stockbridge: Summer 1966 A memoir of the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s inaugural season — Episode … | 2019/02/26 | Peter Maloney | Theater | 2019-02-26 00:59:41 |
| A Crop of Recordings XXV: Gliere, Respighi, Lortzing, Antheil, and Wagner | GLIÈRE Symphony No. 3, “Il’ya Muromets” ● Gabriel Feltz, conductor; Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra ● … | 2019/02/21 | Steven Kruger | HHA, Recordings | 2019-02-21 13:31:09 |
| Allyn Burrows, Artistic Director of Shakespeare and Company, talks to Michael Miller about the 2018 season, directing, acting and actors, and, of course, Shakespeare. | With Shakespeare and Company’s Winter Studio Festival of Plays drawing to a belated … | 2019/01/27 | Michael Miller | Theater, Podcasts | 2019-01-27 03:35:07 |
| A Crop of Recordings XXIV: Rued Langgaard, Ruth Gipps, Hubert Parry, Vilhelm Stenhammar, and Witold Lutosławski | LANGGAARD Symphony No. 2¹, “Awakening of Spring”; No. 6, “The Heaven-Rending.” Unnoticed Morning Stars. … | 2018/12/26 | Steven Kruger | HHA, Recordings | 2018-12-26 22:54:36 |
| Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood, by the Boston Lyric Opera | Schoenberg in Hollywood An Opera by Tod Machover Music by Tod Machover Libretto by … | 2018/12/04 | Charles Warren | Contemporary Opera, HHA | 2018-12-04 03:53:52 |
| Actor Gary Hilborn and Playwright Michael Miller received the Award for Best One-Man Drama at the United Solo Closing Gala for “Transfiguration.” | We are delighted to announce that actor Gary Hilborn and playwright Michael Miller received the … | 2018/11/25 | Arts Press | HHA | 2018-11-25 23:22:51 |
| WAGNER: Lohengrin under Rudolf Kempe from Bayreuth, 1967 | Richard Wagner: Lohengrin Heather Harper – Elsa Grace Hoffman – Ortrud James King … | 2018/11/05 | Ralph P. Locke | HHA | 2018-11-05 10:34:47 |
| Sawyers, Goldmark, and Sibelius by David Lockington and the Albany Symphony Orchestra with a triumphant violin performance by Dylana Jenson | Dylana Jenson First published: November 12, 2006 on Berkshire Fine Arts I’ve been harping on … | 2018/10/29 | Michael Miller | Music | 2018-10-29 16:44:59 |
| A Crop of Recordings XXIII: Barenboim’s Brahms, Orozco-Estrada’s Strauss, Szell’s Walton and Stravinsky | BRAHMS Symphonies No. 1-4 ● Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Staatskapelle Berlin ● DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 00028948352524 … | 2018/10/02 | Steven Kruger | HHA, Recordings | 2018-10-02 11:44:38 |
| A Singer’s Notes 148: As You Like It in the Outdoor Garden at Shakespeare and Company | As You Like It in the Outdoor Garden at Shakespeare and Company The best … | 2018/09/10 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2018-09-10 20:26:43 |
| More Strength Than Mystery—the Musical Spaces of Adès and Sibelius | Thomas Adès, Suite from Powder Her Face (1995-2017) Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in d, … | 2018/09/10 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2018-09-10 16:23:42 |
| A Singer’s Notes 147: A Quiet Place | A Quiet Place The Tanglewood Vocal Fellows singing Bernstein made a marvelous display of … | 2018/09/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2018-09-09 12:03:23 |
| A Singer’s Notes 146: August Strindberg’s Creditors at Shakespeare and Company | The plays of August Strindberg that I know tend to reach their greatest intensity … | 2018/09/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2018-09-09 11:51:47 |
| The Devil, Greed, War, and Simple Goodness: Ostrčil’s Jack’s Kingdom (1934) | OTAKAR OSTRČIL: Honzovo Království, opera; and “Calvary” Variations, for orchestra Jaroslava Vymazalová (Princess), Ivo … | 2018/08/26 | Ralph P. Locke | Opera, Recordings | 2018-08-26 00:00:51 |
| LACI BOLDEMANN’S SVART ÄR VITT SA KEJSARN (BLACK IS WHITE, SAID THE EMPEROR): A FAMILY-FRIENDLY FABLE FROM SWEDEN (1965) | LACI BOLDEMANN: Black Is White, Said the Emperor (opera) Sven Nilsson (Emperor), Gunilla Slättegård … | 2018/08/25 | Ralph P. Locke | Opera, Recordings | 2018-08-25 23:53:06 |
| Contemporary Music Old and New: Out-takes from the Festival of Contemporary Music, 2018 | The time-frame of “contemporary music” keeps expanding. “Modern music” was a term (and the name … | 2018/08/25 | Larry Wallach | Contemporary Music | 2018-08-25 10:37:19 |
| Two-Piano Recital at Simon’s Rock: Manon Hutton-DeWys and Larry Wallach will Play Brahms and Stravinsky, September 1 at 7:30 | I am excited to be performing repertory for two pianos with the wonderful pianist … | 2018/08/24 | Arts Press | Music | 2018-08-24 17:54:56 |
| A Singer’s Notes 145: Great Beginnings with the TMC Orchestra | The first two concerts this summer season by the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra were … | 2018/08/24 | Arts Press | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2018-08-24 17:27:17 |
| A Singer’s Notes 144: Aston Magna, “Dueling Violins, Genial Gambas, June 30 at Saint James Place in Great Barrington | At the risk of repeating myself, I must once again give my best praise … | 2018/08/24 | Arts Press | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2018-08-24 14:47:12 |
| Jonathon Loy and Brian Garman talk to Michael Miller and Roza Tulyaganova about The Berkshire Opera Festival’s third season opera, Verdi’s Rigoletto | Without a doubt the most encouraging cultural development in the Berkshires in 2016 … | 2018/08/22 | Michael Miller | Opera, Podcasts | 2018-08-22 22:28:07 |
| These people are ready for Richard. Are You? | We are already well into the series of performances of Shakespeare’s early masterpiece, Richard … | 2018/07/25 | The Editor | Theater, Previews | 2018-07-25 02:29:47 |
| Brahms’ and Blomstedt’s Uncompromising Vision at Tanglewood | Brahms’ and Blomstedt’s Uncompromising Vision at Tanglewood Mozart, Symphony no. 35, K. 385 (“Haffner”) … | 2018/07/22 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2018-07-22 22:57:34 |
| Bach’s Hidden Treasure Partially Revealed: the Cantata Project at Tanglewood | J. S. Bach Cantata No. 159, “Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem” Cantata No. 105, “Herr, … | 2018/07/18 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2018-07-18 23:35:19 |
| On the Jagged Edge: Paintings by Jack Millard in Catskill, N.Y. | PAINTINGS by JACK MILLARD Catskill Artist Cottage 22 Livingston St. Catskill, NY June … | 2018/07/07 | Seth Lachterman | Art | 2018-07-07 16:10:56 |
| A Singer’s Notes 143: Aston Magna in Great Barrington: “A Baroque Cornucopia” | What is best in Aston Magna’s concerts is a complete lack of pretension, whether it … | 2018/07/02 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2018-07-02 23:38:29 |
| A Singer’s Notes 142: Damn Yankees at the Mac-Haydn Theatre | “The Game”: (Left to Right) Baseball Players- Gino Cardoni, Charlie Munday, Jonah Hale, Nathaniel … | 2018/06/08 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2018-06-08 08:59:30 |
| The Landmarks of Chopin’s Development as a Composer, 1827-1846 | Henryk Siemiradzki, Chopin plays for the Radziwiłłs, 1829. Oil on canvas, 1887 In preparing … | 2018/03/18 | Michael Miller | Music, Recordings | 2018-03-18 04:19:31 |
| A Look Back to the Summer of 2017: The 26th Annual Bard Music Festival: Chopin and his World | The 26th Annual Bard Music Festival: Chopin and his World Full program and book … | 2018/03/18 | Michael Miller | Music, Bard Music Festival | 2018-03-18 04:15:20 |
| Five in the Afternoon, and more…the Boston Classical Season, So Far | Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra, led by Sir Antonio Pappano, with guest soloist Martha Argerich, … | 2018/03/15 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2018-03-15 00:27:49 |
| A Crop of Recordings XX: Gardner Read, Bruckner, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, and Pfitzner | Gardner Read, Symphony No. 2 (1942) • Gardner Read, cond; Boston Symphony Orchestra • … | 2018/03/14 | Steven Kruger | Recordings | 2018-03-14 23:57:40 |
| A Singer’s Notes 141: A New Leader for Bach at New Year’s, and some Favorite Memories from 2017 | Bach at New Year’s There was a new perspective in the New Year’s Day … | 2018/03/14 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2018-03-14 19:10:00 |
| A Flood of Unfamiliar Operas by Rossini, Saint-Saëns, and Others, Now on CD | A Scene from Paisiello’s La grotta di Trofonio, from 2016 Valle d’Itria Festival Over … | 2018/03/01 | Ralph P. Locke | Recordings, Opera | 2018-03-01 13:35:42 |
| A Master Already at 23: Vincenzo Bellini’s Adelson e Salvini, Now Superbly Recorded | Vincenzo Bellini, Adelson e Salvini (1824) Simone Alberghini – Lord Adelson Nelly – Daniela Barcellona … | 2018/03/01 | Ralph P. Locke | Recordings, Opera | 2018-03-01 13:23:56 |
| A Brilliant, Touching Adaptation: John Joubert’s Opera Jane Eyre, Finally (and Finely) Performed and Recorded | John Joubert, Jane Eyre (1987-97, revised 2016) April Frederick – Jane Eyre Mark Milhofer … | 2018/03/01 | Ralph P. Locke | Recordings, Opera | 2018-03-01 13:21:45 |
| Two Superb New Recordings of a Ravel Operatic Masterpiece: 1. Stéphanie d’Oustrac Singing L’heure espagnole (with an alert Shéhérazade as bonus) 2. L’heure espagnole, with the magnificent Gaëlle Arquez | Maurice Ravel, Shéhérazade and L’heure espagnole Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, conducted by Stéphane Denève SWRmusic … | 2018/02/04 | Ralph P. Locke | Recordings | 2018-02-04 22:34:19 |
| Inbal Segev talks to Michael Miller about Christopher Rouse’s Cello Concerto, Coming Up February 10 and 11th at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival | Last month I had the pleasure of chatting with Inbal Segev, a young … | 2018/01/17 | Michael Miller | Contemporary Music | 2018-01-17 11:12:49 |
| A Crop of Recordings XIX: Dvořák, Strauss, Brahms, Holst, Schmidt and Elgar | DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9. A Hero’s Song • Krzysztof Urbański, conductor; North German Radio … | 2017/12/23 | Steven Kruger | Recordings | 2017-12-23 22:26:11 |
| 2017: A Film Festival Restrospective from the Northeast, above all, the Berkshire and the Nitrate Picture Show at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester | Film festivals have become an integral part of film-going life. They are no longer … | 2017/12/15 | Michael Miller | Film | 2017-12-15 17:20:06 |
| Two New Releases of Lohengrin, part 1: Knappertsbusch’s Only Recorded Lohengrin, Available for the First Time | Two New Releases of Lohengrin, Part 1: Knappertsbusch’s Only Recorded Lohengrin, Available for the … | 2017/12/12 | Ralph P. Locke | Opera, Recordings | 2017-12-12 09:10:53 |
| Two New Releases of Lohengrin, part 2: Mark Elder, in a Live Concert Performance from Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw (2015) | Two New Releases of Lohengrin, part 2: Mark Elder, in a Live Concert Performance … | 2017/12/11 | Ralph P. Locke | Recordings, Richard Wagner | 2017-12-11 15:36:05 |
| A Singer’s Notes 140: The Last Wife, by Kate Hennig; directed by Kelly Galvin – WAM Theatre at Shakespeare & Co.’s Bernstein Theater | The Last Wife, by Kate Hennig; directed by Kelly Galvin – WAM Theatre I have … | 2017/11/08 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2017-11-08 14:58:52 |
| Glimmerglass 2017: Opera in Angustiis: Commentaries for our Troubled Times in Stunning Glimmerglass Season Siege of Calais | Glimmerglass 2017: Opera in Angustiis: Commentaries for our Troubled Times in Stunning Glimmerglass Season … | 2017/11/03 | Seth Lachterman | Opera | 2017-11-03 01:33:28 |
| The Sixth Concert Series at Camphill Ghent is about to begin with a Recital by Pianist Gilbert Kalish | The Sixth Concert Series at Camphill Ghent, Gili Melamed-Lev, Director In my preview of last … | 2017/10/12 | The Editor | Music, New York Arts | 2017-10-12 14:27:58 |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra: Looking Up | Writing here recently about last season at the Boston Symphony, I had recourse more … | 2017/10/12 | Charles Warren | The Berkshire Review in Boston, Music | 2017-10-12 02:00:58 |
| Three Summer Operas: Bellini’s Il Pirata at Caramoor, Dvořák’s Dimitrij at Bard, and Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at The Berkshire Opera Festival | Three Summer Operas: Bellini’s Il Pirata at Caramoor, Dvořák’s Dimitrij at Bard, and Strauss’ … | 2017/10/10 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2017-10-10 13:12:57 |
| Verlaine and Ten Composers: Exquisite Poetry, Exquisite Singing, Exquisite Playing | A Verlaine Songbook: Carolyn Sampson, soprano, and Joseph Middleton, piano Songs by Charles … | 2017/10/06 | Ralph P. Locke | Recordings | 2017-10-06 13:15:10 |
| A Singer’s Notes 139: Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound at the Oldcastle | Another excellent evening in the Oldcastle Theatre in Bennington. A uniformly fine and balanced … | 2017/10/06 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2017-10-06 12:26:28 |
| Aston Magna is Back! Bach Father & Son, & Their Peers: J.S. & C.P.E Bach, Handel, Buxtehude | Bach Father & Son, & Their Peers: J.S. & C.P.E Bach, Handel, Buxtehude Saturday, … | 2017/10/03 | The Editor | Early Music and Baroque | 2017-10-03 20:53:31 |
| Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College, May 03, 2017 – September 03, 2017 | Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College, Bowdoin College Museum … | 2017/09/22 | Michael Miller | Art, Berkshire Review, Drawings | 2017-09-22 01:18:41 |
| A Singer’s Notes 138: A Comedy of Tenors at Oldcastle — More on Gore’s Prospero | A Comedy of Tenors at Oldcastle Peter Langstaff gave us a demonstration of fine … | 2017/09/20 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2017-09-20 13:20:25 |
| Ups and Downs of the Boston Music Season, mostly Boston Symphony with Andris Nelsons, 2016-2017 | The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2017 Tanglewood Music Festival, very successful by many reports, has … | 2017/09/15 | Charles Warren | Berkshire Review, Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2017-09-15 01:45:55 |
| Festival of Contemporary Music, August 10-14, 2017 | Thursday, August 10, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall Kate Soper, soprano (Lewis) TMC Fellows … | 2017/09/11 | Larry Wallach | Music, Contemporary Music | 2017-09-11 16:17:58 |
| A Singer’s Notes 137: The Tempest, at Shakespeare and Company | On Wednesday evening, Nigel Gore’s Prospero gave me The Tempest I have been waiting … | 2017/08/22 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2017-08-22 23:38:24 |
| Jonathon Loy and Brian Garman, Founding Directors of the Berkshire Opera Festival Talk with Michael Miller about the Centerpiece of their Second Season: Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos | Two expert and experienced, highly intelligent and sensitive opera-makers, Jonathon Loy, a stage director, … | 2017/08/22 | Michael Miller | Podcasts, Opera | 2017-08-22 01:12:45 |
| Garrick Ohlsson’s Two Hands: Where the Poles of Romanticism Meet…Schubert and Scriabin at Tanglewood | Garrick Ohlsson’s Two Hands: Where the Poles of Romanticism Meet Schubert’s Summer Journey, concert … | 2017/08/14 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2017-08-14 17:47:33 |
| Pierre-Laurent Aimard Programs Birds, Ideas, and Modernist Brilliance | Pierre-Laurent Aimard Programs Birds, Ideas, and Modernist Brilliance Thursday July 27: solo piano recital … | 2017/08/08 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2017-08-08 18:25:44 |
| Sounding the Mysteries: Nature, Music, and the Human Soul | Sounding the Mysteries: Nature, Music, and the Human Soul The TMC Orchestra plays music … | 2017/08/05 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2017-08-05 16:34:02 |
| The Bard Music Festival 2017: Chopin and His World—a Preview | The Bard Music Festival 2017: Chopin and his World Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson: Fisher Performing … | 2017/08/05 | Michael Miller | Bard Music Festival, Berkshire Review, Music, Previews | 2017-08-05 15:28:57 |
| Mauritius, by Theresa Rebeck at the Oldcastle Theatre Company, Bennington. Closes August 6. | Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck Oldcastle Theatre Company, Bennington Closes August 6 Cast: Richard Howe … | 2017/08/05 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2017-08-05 00:46:29 |
| Dvořák’s Rare Grand Opera, Dimitrij, Coming Up at Bard Summerscape, beginning July 28 [REVISED] | Dimitrij – Clay Hilley, tenor Marina – Melissa Citro, soprano Xenie – Olga Tolkmit, … | 2017/07/30 | Michael Miller | Bard Music Festival, Berkshire Review, Opera | 2017-07-30 04:33:16 |
| A Singer’s Notes 136: Cymbeline at Shakespeare and Company; Elgar at Tanglewood | Cymbeline at Shakespeare and Company For me Cymbeline is all about the new Blackfriars Theater, an … | 2017/07/27 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2017-07-27 21:58:01 |
| Youthful Mozart, (Over-)Ripe Mahler from Andris Nelsons and the BSO, Daniel Lozakovich, Violin | Youthful Mozart, (Over-)Ripe Mahler Tanglewood Music Shed: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, conductor Mozart, … | 2017/07/20 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2017-07-20 22:41:27 |
| A Singer’s Notes 135: Moonlight and Magnolias at Oldcastle Theatre and the Chiara String Quartet at Mohawk Trail Concerts | Moonlight and Magnolias at Oldcastle Theatre In a play that basically pursues one action … | 2017/07/20 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2017-07-20 12:28:32 |
| A Crop of Recordings XVI: Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius and the First and Second Symphonies played by the Berliner Staatskapelle under Daniel Barenboim | ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius ● Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Angel); Andrew Staples … | 2017/07/18 | Steven Kruger | Recordings | 2017-07-18 01:41:26 |
| A Summer Home for Schubert at Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood I, hosted by Emanuel Ax | Tanglewood: Ozawa Hall: Schubert’s Summer Journey, Program 1, July 6, 2017 Emanuel Ax, piano; … | 2017/07/15 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2017-07-15 07:30:36 |
| A Singer’s Notes 134: BEMF intertwines two Pergolesi farces and sublime singing from Dominique Labelle at Aston Magna. | Pergolesi Operas at the Boston Early Music Festival, in the Mahaiwe Theatre, Great Barrington … | 2017/07/15 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2017-07-15 06:58:59 |
| A Room with Two Views: Campra and Handel at the Boston Early Music Festival | André Campra, Le Carnaval de Venise (1699), libretto by Jean-François Regnard; performed at the … | 2017/07/12 | Larry Wallach | Berkshire Review | 2017-07-12 03:13:58 |
| Allyn Burrows, Shakespeare and Company’s New Artistic Director, talks to Michael Miller about the 2017 season…and much else. | About Shakespeare and Company Shakespeare and Company, a presence in Lenox since its foundation … | 2017/06/23 | Michael Miller | Theater, Podcasts | 2017-06-23 12:51:15 |
| Aston Magna Music Festival 2017 – A Preview | The Aston Magna season, the 45th(!), is almost upon us. We can look forward … | 2017/06/11 | The Editor | Berkshire Review, Early Music and Baroque, Previews | 2017-06-11 23:06:20 |
| Serenade for Haiti, Directed and Written by Owsley Brown, at the Berkshire International Film Festival, June 3 | Serenade for Haiti Directed and written by Owsley Brown To be shown at the … | 2017/05/31 | Michael Miller | Film, Music, New York Arts, Previews | 2017-05-31 12:27:34 |
| Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County, directed by Omar Sangare, at Williams College | August: Osage County by Tracy Letts ‘62 Center for the Performing Arts Williams College … | 2017/05/15 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2017-05-15 00:34:02 |
| A Singer’s Notes 133: The Bookclub Play and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, coming up at Shakespeare and Company | The Bookclub Play Karen Zacarias’s The Bookclub Play at Hubbard Hall was rather like a … | 2017/04/10 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Uncategorized | 2017-04-10 02:03:03 |
| A Singer’s Notes 132: Lovers’ Spat at Shakespeare & Company; Padmore & Biss at Union College | Fr. Schwoerer illustration of Act 4, Scene 1 (Petruchio rejects the bridal dinner). Engraved … | 2017/03/19 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2017-03-19 13:46:04 |
| A Singer’s Notes 131: A Christmas Carol at The Colonial Theatre | Eric Hill and Company in “A Christmas Carol” A Christmas Carol at The Colonial … | 2017/03/19 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2017-03-19 13:26:42 |
| Three Concerts at Camphill Ghent, two Past, one to Come | Duo pianists Mark Evans and Gili Melamed-Lev. Saturday, March 18, 2017 3pm (Coming up!) … | 2017/03/12 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts | 2017-03-12 19:28:18 |
| 2016 in retrospect — The Bard Music Festival: Giacomo Puccini and his World | For a discussion of other Puccinian issues omitted here, above all the role of … | 2016/12/31 | Michael Miller | Berkshire Review, Bard Music Festival, Opera | 2016-12-31 12:32:31 |
| Rascals, an Inspired Restaurant and Performance Space in the Crossgates Mall, Albany | In cooking, as in any art, you have to know the rules—the more profoundly … | 2016/12/14 | Michael Miller | Food & Drink, New York Arts | 2016-12-14 01:48:57 |
| Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic: A musical experience of a lifetime | Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker Symphony Hall, Boston November 11, 2016 After the … | 2016/11/22 | The Editor | Berkshire Review | 2016-11-22 23:58:14 |
| A Singer’s Notes 130: Peter and the Starcatcher at Hubbard Hall | Peter and the Starcatcher at Hubbard Hall Written by Rick Elice Music by Wayne Barker … | 2016/11/19 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-11-19 22:05:51 |
| Singer’s Notes 129: The Consul, the Tramp, and America’s Sweetheart at Oldcastle; Hamlet at Shakespeare & Co.; Kožená at Union College | Oldcastle Theatre Company’s The Consul, the Tramp, and America’s Sweetheart, a world premiere by John Morogiello Yet … | 2016/11/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-11-09 21:27:29 |
| Openings: Boston Musica Viva plays Boulez, Marteau sans maître, and Nelsons and the BSO present Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier | Openings Boston Musica Viva Tsai Performance Center, Boston University September 24, 2016 Boston Symphony … | 2016/10/30 | Charles Warren | Music, Berkshire Review, Opera | 2016-10-30 02:20:36 |
| Glimmerglass Festival 2016 – Opera for the Inner Birdwatcher…and the Rest of Us! | Glimmerglass 2016 The Thieving Magpie (La gazza ladra) Music by Gioachino Rossini Libretto by Théodore … | 2016/10/23 | Seth Lachterman | Berkshire Review | 2016-10-23 00:42:18 |
| Intimate Conversations, Bach and Beyond:
Bach, Kabalevsky, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, and Telemann — Kenneth Cooper and Friends at Camphill Ghent | Intimate Conversations, Bach and Beyond:
Bach, Kabalevsky, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, and Telemann Camphill Ghent … | 2016/10/20 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts | 2016-10-20 14:17:39 |
| Bizet’s Carmen at the Boston Lyric Opera | Carmen Music by Georges Bizet Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a … | 2016/10/14 | Charles Warren | Opera, Berkshire Review | 2016-10-14 21:15:36 |
| The Concerts at Camphill Ghent 2016 – 2017: Season Opening Concert Coming Up, October 15, 3pm | The Concerts at Camphill Ghent 2016 – 2017: Season Opening Concert Coming Up, October 15, … | 2016/10/08 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts | 2016-10-08 17:07:03 |
| Patrick Dougherty’s Stickworks Augments the Experience of Fall in Massachusetts | Patrick Dougherty’s Stickworks Augments the Experience of Fall in Massachusetts Peabody Essex Museum, Salem; … | 2016/10/07 | Virginia Raguin | Art | 2016-10-07 22:48:52 |
| The Consul, the Tramp, and America’s Sweetheart, by John Morogiello, at the Oldcastle Theatre Company, Bennington | The Oldcastle Theatre Company is one of the most appealing in the Berkshires, which, … | 2016/09/12 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2016-09-12 01:27:54 |
| Nelsons at Tanglewood 2016, One Weekend | July 29 2016, Friday, 8:00 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, … | 2016/09/11 | Michael Miller | Music | 2016-09-11 01:16:32 |
| The Berkshire Opera Festival triumphs in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly | Musically, this summer in the Berkshires, there was one event that was truly exciting, in … | 2016/09/08 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2016-09-08 00:20:17 |
| A Singer’s Notes 128: Alexina Jones leaves Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre; Two Gentlemen and Henry VI at Shakespeare and Company | A singular departure this year at summer’s end. Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre (of … | 2016/09/04 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-09-04 22:07:19 |
| Shakespeare and Egypt? | The Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, Sunday, August 21 Hector Berlioz – Overture to Beatrice et … | 2016/08/26 | Larry Wallach | Berkshire, Berkshire Review, Music | 2016-08-26 02:50:47 |
| Gil Shaham’s Tchaikovsky and Bach: Double Virtuosity | August 15, 2016 The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit Kodaly – Dances … | 2016/08/26 | Larry Wallach | Berkshire Review, Berkshire, Music | 2016-08-26 02:10:16 |
| A Singer’s Notes 127: Great Things at the TMC, and Good Fun at the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Shakespeare and Company | Tanglewood Vocal Fellows and TMCO In line with the excellent work I have heard at … | 2016/08/24 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-08-24 12:21:16 |
| Nelson Freire at Tanglewood: Third Sonatas, Early and Late | Solo piano concert, Ozawa Hall on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Bach – Three Chorale … | 2016/08/10 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2016-08-10 21:38:27 |
| A Singer’s Notes 126: Lenox Nights—The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare and Company and Fellows at the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood | The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare and Company The Merchant of Venice has always been called … | 2016/08/10 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-08-10 18:27:13 |
| Race and Slavery in Mozart Operas: A Letter to the New York Times by Ralph P. Locke | A most welcome contribution from Ralph P. Locke, Professor Emeritus of at the Eastman … | 2016/08/10 | Ralph P. Locke | Berkshire Review, Opera | 2016-08-10 12:44:21 |
| The Berkshire Opera Festival: an Important New Cultural Resource to Make its Debut in Late August. Its Co-Founders, Jonathon Loy and Brian Garman Tell Michael Miller All About It. | Opera has been a cherished part of musical life in the Berkshires for many … | 2016/07/27 | Michael Miller | Opera, Podcasts | 2016-07-27 22:33:59 |
| Trans-Atlantic Sympathies: opening night at the Festival for Contemporary Music, 2016 | Trans-Atlantic Sympathies: opening night at the Festival for Contemporary Music, 2016 Thursday, July 21 … | 2016/07/26 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2016-07-26 08:04:10 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance at Barrington Stage | The Pirates of Penzance at Barrington Stage Libretto by W.S. Gilbert Music by … | 2016/07/26 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater | 2016-07-26 07:20:08 |
| A Singer’s Notes 125: Four Good Things—Aston Magna, Two from TMC Orchestra, and the Berkshire Theatre Festival | Aston Magna’s J.S. Bach concert in The Mahaiwe Theatre was a banquet of riches. The … | 2016/07/25 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-07-25 12:37:14 |
| Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at Glimmerglass | Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at Glimmerglass Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh … | 2016/07/23 | Nancy Salz | Berkshire Review, Musical Theater | 2016-07-23 15:13:29 |
| Little Shop of Horrors Meets Kinky Boots at the Berkshire Theatre Group | Little Shop of Horrors Meets Kinky Boots At the Berkshire Theatre Group Book and … | 2016/07/20 | Nancy Salz | Theater, Musical Theater | 2016-07-20 21:26:34 |
| The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, closing July 17 | Tennessee Williams, who was close to forty when The Rose Tattoo opened on Broadway … | 2016/07/13 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2016-07-13 15:18:35 |
| A Singer’s Notes 124: Fiorello, South Pacific, and My Jane | Fiorello! at Berkshire Theatre Group, Unicorn Theatre This show was terrific, beautifully staged, a … | 2016/07/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-07-09 13:42:22 |
| Best Concert of the Year? | Boston has had a very good music season since the first of the year. … | 2016/06/30 | Charles Warren | Berkshire Review, Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2016-06-30 00:24:10 |
| A Singer’s Notes 123: a Tribute to Phyllis Curtin and the Opening of Aston Magna | Aston Magna I Last night an excellent crowd listened to two hours of Italian … | 2016/06/28 | Keith Kibler | Music, A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-06-28 00:29:33 |
| Aston Magna, June 18, 2016: Love and Lamentation, Monteverdi’s Legacy in Rome | Aston Magna, June 18, 2016 Claudio Monteverdi – Prologue from L’Orfeo Lament of Arianna … | 2016/06/26 | Michael Miller | Early Music and Baroque | 2016-06-26 10:48:51 |
| A Singer’s Notes 122: From Slapstick to Silence | The 39 Steps Oldcastle Theatre’s production of The 39 Steps, adapted by Patrick Barlow, and … | 2016/06/18 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-06-18 00:18:07 |
| Aston Magna Music Festival 2016, June 16-July 9, 2016, “Love and Lamentation” — a Preview | Aston Magna Music Festival 2016 June 16-July 9, 2016 “Love and Lamentation” When I … | 2016/06/06 | Michael Miller | Early Music and Baroque | 2016-06-06 12:16:58 |
| The Bard Music Festival and SummerScape Opera 2016: Puccini and his World, with Pietro Mascagni’s Iris | The Bard Music Festival, every year since 1990, offers music-lovers a splendid gift in … | 2016/06/01 | Michael Miller | Berkshire Review, Bard Music Festival, Opera | 2016-06-01 22:57:53 |
| Rodin: The Evolution of a Genius, formerly at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Opens at The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem May 16, 2016 | [Rodin: The Evolution of a Genius Virginia Museum of Fine Arts November 21, 2015 … | 2016/05/16 | Bruce Boucher | Art | 2016-05-16 09:48:02 |
| A Singer’s Notes 121: A Miscellany | So many things. First, you must get in your car, and go see Hubbard … | 2016/05/05 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-05-05 17:06:17 |
| François-Xavier Roth with the BSO in January, with solo turns from Elizabeth Rowe (flute), Jessica Zhou (harp), and Renée Fleming (soprano) | Boston Symphony Orchestra January 7, 2016 Elizabeth Rowe, flute Jessica Zhou, harp François-Xavier Roth, … | 2016/02/15 | Charles Warren | Berkshire Review, Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2016-02-15 17:10:21 |
| A Singer’s Notes 120: the Final Gifts of 2015, including an Exciting New Group, the Auriel Camerata | Two gifts were bestowed upon me this Christmastide. The first, the arrival of a subtle … | 2016/02/04 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2016-02-04 17:37:38 |
| Nicolai’s Merry Wives at the Boston Midsummer Opera and Tanglewood Tales: Jurowski and Koenigs Tell the Whole Story | Friday, July 19, 8:30pm: Koussevitzky Music Shed Wagner – Prelude to Act I … | 2016/01/26 | Lloyd Schwartz | Berkshire Review | 2016-01-26 15:37:56 |
| True Romance on Screen: Todd Haynes’ Carol…with a Sideglance at the Latest from Spielberg & Hanks | Carol Directed by Todd Haynes True Romance. The essence of Carol, a film much … | 2016/01/26 | Huntley Dent | Berkshire Review, Film | 2016-01-26 14:40:35 |
| Vermeer’s Astronomer at the MFA | Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, through January 18 … | 2015/12/31 | The Editor | Berkshire Review | 2015-12-31 02:52:04 |
| The Year that Was: Boston Classical Music in 2015 | The major news from Boston was the ascendancy of Andris Nelsons, firming up his … | 2015/12/24 | Lloyd Schwartz | Music, Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2015-12-24 07:53:51 |
| A Singer’s Notes 119: Fall Festival, Shakespeare and Company, 2015; Jacob’s Ladder | The first thing you notice is this—the kids get it.Complex language, big fat words, antique … | 2015/12/05 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, New York Arts | 2015-12-05 08:41:05 |
| “Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia” August 18-February 15 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | “Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia” August 18-February 15 at the Museum … | 2015/11/17 | The Editor | Berkshire Review | 2015-11-17 12:24:23 |
| A Singer’s Notes 118: Death, the Imperative — An Iliad at Shakespeare and Company | Why must we kill? Why pay people large sums of money to hurt each other … | 2015/10/31 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-10-31 23:26:42 |
| Bard Music Festival 2015: Carlos Chávez and his World, Weekend I | Bard Music Festival 2015: Carlos Chávez and his World, Weekend I Program One Chávez and … | 2015/10/26 | Michael Miller | Bard Music Festival, Berkshire Review, Music | 2015-10-26 01:51:30 |
| The Bard Music Festival 2015: Carlos Chávez and His World, a Preview | For a complete schedule of the Festival, click here. This is the first Bard Music … | 2015/10/11 | Michael Miller | Berkshire Review | 2015-10-11 20:06:45 |
| A Singer’s Notes 117: A Lion in Winter at Oldcastle, Tom Sawyer at Dorset, and BEMF’s Monteverdi Trilogy Online | A Lion in Winter at Oldcastle Another outing for this rambling, aging play, this time a … | 2015/10/02 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-10-02 14:55:04 |
| An explosion of music in the Berkshires: Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now and Arthur Greene, Pianist, at Simon’s Rock; Ensemble Nieuw Nederland at the Roe-Jan Library, Hillsdale, NY | This coming weekend there will be an explosion of music in the Berkshires! and I … | 2015/09/23 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2015-09-23 01:33:33 |
| Shakespeare and Company Benefit: Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe in Richard III. October 10th at 2:00. Be there! | Is Shakespeare loquacious? Reading the last pages of Richard III one might think so. King Richard … | 2015/09/23 | Keith Kibler | Theater | 2015-09-23 00:46:11 |
| A Singer’s Notes 116: the Wonderful Frank Kelley’s Schubert, Peter Schaffer and Paul Rudnick in Vermont | Black Comedy, at Oldcastle Theatre Oldcastle Theatre’s production of Peter Schaffer’s Black Comedy is a rollicking affair. Much of the … | 2015/09/13 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-09-13 12:40:39 |
| A Singer’s Notes 115: Red Velvet and Claire de Lune on the Radio | Red Velvet Another first-rate show from The Comedy of Errors actors at Shakespeare and Company. … | 2015/09/01 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-09-01 11:05:32 |
| From Summer Opera…an Answer to the Opera Houses’ Predicament? | Permit me to indulge in a one-sided argument…or a rant, as I believe it’s … | 2015/08/31 | Michael Miller | Berkshire Review | 2015-08-31 02:10:51 |
| Mike Bartlett’s “An Intervention” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, closing August 23 | British playwright Mike Bartlett’s fast-paced short play, An Intervention, closes with a black slapstick … | 2015/08/20 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2015-08-20 23:13:41 |
| Tanglewood in Wonderland: The 2015 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music | This year’s Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood was celebrating the 75th anniversary of … | 2015/08/17 | Lloyd Schwartz | Berkshire Review, Music | 2015-08-17 17:56:19 |
| A Singer’s Notes 114: Three Great Evenings | Opus 131 at Tannery Pond Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 131 makes Horatios of us all. … | 2015/08/17 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-08-17 11:19:56 |
| Summer Operas: Opposite Poles at Bard SummerScape and Boston Midsummer Opera | The Wreckers By Ethel Smyth Fisher Center, Bard College: July 34, 2015 American Symphony Orchestra … | 2015/08/14 | Lloyd Schwartz | Berkshire Review, New York Arts, Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2015-08-14 23:36:17 |
| A Singer’s Notes 113: Two at the Mohawk Trail Concerts | Matt Haimovitz plays Poulenc It was my pleasure to hear another Mohawk Trail Concert … | 2015/08/14 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-08-14 09:35:09 |
| A Week of Contrasts at Tanglewood: Two Orchestras, Two Pianists | Sunday, July 5 Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Ozawa Hall Britten – Young Person’s Guide to … | 2015/08/01 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2015-08-01 02:06:06 |
| A Singer’s Notes 112: Remembering Gunther; Tanglewood Forever | Remembering Gunther Gunther Schuller was the toughest mentor I ever had. He expected professionalism … | 2015/08/01 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-08-01 01:17:51 |
| FINITE INFINITY: a sculpture and light installation by Richard Harrington featuring sound performances by Forrest Larson, Phil Van Ouse | FINITE INFINITY A sculpture and light installation by Richard Harrington featuring sound performances by Forrest Larson, … | 2015/07/30 | Richard Harrington | Art | 2015-07-30 17:24:42 |
| Joanna Gabler, Our River, an exhibition of digital “Transcapes,” devoted to the Hoosic River and its tributary, Broad Brook | Joanna Gabler, Our River, an exhibition of digital “Transcapes,” devoted to the Hoosic River … | 2015/07/28 | Michael Miller | Art | 2015-07-28 22:54:00 |
| Sex, Love, and Marriage come to Williamstown: Legacy, Off the Main Road, and Kinship at the Williamstown Theatre Festival | Legacy by Daniel Goldfarb Williamstown Theatre Festival Nikos Stage July 1 – July 12, … | 2015/07/28 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2015-07-28 01:45:46 |
| Bells Are Ringing—A Berkshire Theatre Group Production at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield through July 26. | Book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Music by Jule Styne Entire original … | 2015/07/21 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2015-07-21 20:59:41 |
| Henry V at Shakespeare and Company, with Glances Forwards and Backwards | Henry V by William Shakespeare Shakespeare and Company, Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre Performance Dates: … | 2015/07/12 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2015-07-12 11:56:18 |
| Apollo’s Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra at Tanglewood | Thursday, July 2, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Apollo’s Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra … | 2015/07/08 | Michael Miller | Music | 2015-07-08 02:05:37 |
| Gershwin Stands Out: American Music at Tanglewood’s Opening Night | The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, July 3, 2015. conducted by Jacques Lacombe with … | 2015/07/08 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2015-07-08 01:08:18 |
| A Singer’s Notes 111: Two at Shakespeare and Company | Henry V by William Shakespeare Bernstein Theatre Director – Jenna Ware Cast: Caroline Calkins, Jonathan … | 2015/07/05 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Berkshire, Berkshire Review, Theater | 2015-07-05 03:22:41 |
| Opera Boom: Lots of opera in Boston, but how much was really good? | I need more than two hands to count the number of operas I’ve attended in … | 2015/07/04 | Lloyd Schwartz | Berkshire Review | 2015-07-04 14:10:42 |
| Emmanuel Music, with Andrew Rangell, Piano, at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival | Emmanuel Music Andrew Rangell, piano Rockport Chamber Music Festival Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, … | 2015/07/03 | Charles Warren | Berkshire Review | 2015-07-03 02:30:54 |
| Jeannette Sorrell, Music Director of Apollo’s Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, talks to Michael Miller | (For a review of the Tanglewood concert, click here.) Just yesterday I had the … | 2015/07/02 | Michael Miller | Early Music and Baroque, Music, New York Arts, Podcasts | 2015-07-02 01:56:37 |
| Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and L’Orfeo by BEMF at Jordan Hall | Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers of 1610, Jordan Hall, June 11, 2015 Monteverdi, L’Orfeo, Jordan Hall, … | 2015/06/27 | Charles Warren | New York Arts in the Berkshires | 2015-06-27 12:39:37 |
| A Singer’s Notes 110: A Blessed Weekend — Immersion in Monteverdi | Hours and hours of the composer’s music in a 24-hour span. I’ve heard a … | 2015/06/27 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-06-27 11:45:00 |
| A Singer’s Notes 109: Vox Femina | The voice is all, especially in the rolling sounds of epic. The Iliad, now supposed … | 2015/06/27 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-06-27 11:06:36 |
| Man of La Mancha—Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield MA, June 10—July 11, 2015 | Man of La Mancha Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield MA … | 2015/06/19 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2015-06-19 07:59:03 |
| A weekend of Monteverdi will conclude the Boston Early Music Festival and launch Aston Magna in Great Barrington | This spring has been teeming with a dizzying profusion of riches for the lover … | 2015/06/19 | The Editor | Music | 2015-06-19 00:41:42 |
| 2015 Glimmerglass Preview: Verdi, Vivaldi, Mozart and Bernstein, April 19, Germantown, New York | Lucking into one of the first few nice days of a late spring, I … | 2015/05/20 | Seth Lachterman | New York Arts in the Berkshires | 2015-05-20 00:55:02 |
| Excitement at the Boston Symphony—Lots of It! But Questions Remain | Symphony Hall, Boston, April 4, 2015 Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Christian Tetzlaff, … | 2015/05/19 | Larry Wallach | Music, New York Arts in the Berkshires | 2015-05-19 09:51:16 |
| A Singer’s Notes 108: To be or not to be, that is the question | This most famous quote, precariously balanced, elevates the word question to existential status. Hamlet is a … | 2015/05/18 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-05-18 23:56:16 |
| A Singer’s Notes 107: Louis Lohraseb Conducts the Amadeus Orchestra at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, with Cicely Parnas, Cello; Gerard Schwarz and the Mozart Orchestra of New York | The first, the Amadeus Orchestra, conducted by the twenty-something Louis Lohraseb—a friend and erstwhile student … | 2015/05/16 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-05-16 02:12:49 |
| The Winter of Our Discontent: Classical Music in Boston | As everyone in New England knows, this winter was one long slog. But significant … | 2015/05/06 | Lloyd Schwartz | Music, New York Arts in the Berkshires, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2015-05-06 11:33:22 |
| The Amadeus Orchestra – Louis Lohraseb, Conductor, soloist Cicely Parnas: Bruckner, Haydn, and Brahms at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Sunday, April 19, 3 pm | Buy tickets! In 1862–63 Anton Bruckner composed the Overture in G minor. In contrast with … | 2015/04/18 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2015-04-18 02:55:33 |
| A Singer’s Notes 106: The Beauty’s in the Details — Les Violins du Roy and Marc-André Hamelin in Troy | What might have been a confusion of bedfellows in the Troy Savings Bank Music … | 2015/03/25 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-03-25 00:29:37 |
| A Singer’s Notes 105: Florence Foster Jenkins Rides Again! Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir at the Capital Rep | It is the music that matters,” says Florence Foster Jenkins in Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir at … | 2015/03/17 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-03-17 20:34:49 |
| A Singer’s Notes 104: Molière at Hubbard Hall and Schubert played by Shai Wosner at Williams | Tartuffe has lately trod the stage as a demon whose main weapon is subtlety. Doug Ryan, … | 2015/03/17 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-03-17 19:55:40 |
| Andris Nelsons in Boston…with Two Superb Concerts under the BSO’s New Assistant Conductor, Ken-David Masur, and an Appreciation of James Levine | Andris Nelsons has garnered a lot of attention during his first season as Music … | 2015/02/20 | Charles Warren | New York Arts in the Berkshires | 2015-02-20 16:37:12 |
| The Momenta Quartet to bring Tan Dun’s “Ghost Opera” to Simon’s Rock, Saturday, February 28 at 8 pm in the McConnell Auditorium of the Daniel Arts Center | Dear Music Loving Friends One of the most exciting programs I have had … | 2015/02/16 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2015-02-16 01:56:17 |
| A Singer’s Notes 103: A Concert and a Rehearsal | Troy Savings Bank Concert Hall 1.29.15 @ 7:30pm Mariinsky Orchestra Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Conductor Tchaikovsky – … | 2015/02/15 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-02-15 22:58:36 |
| Wagner, Tannhäuser Overture. Sibelius, Symphony No. 2 – the BSO’s first recording under Andris Nelsons | Wagner, Tannhäuser Overture. Sibelius, Symphony No. 2 • Andris Nelsons, cond; Boston Symphony Orchestra • … | 2015/01/25 | Steven Kruger | Recordings, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2015-01-25 12:17:47 |
| A Singer’s Notes 102: Christmas Past 2014 | Sincerity shown brightly in the Berkshire Theatre Group’s A Christmas Carol this year. The show fit … | 2015/01/07 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2015-01-07 09:35:56 |
| Opera and Passion: Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, and Odyssey Opera | Is there a more passionate art form than opera? In what other mode is the … | 2015/01/04 | Lloyd Schwartz | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2015-01-04 07:54:49 |
| A Singer’s Notes 101: Except ye become as children … | My weekend has been dominated by children, their thoughts, and my thoughts about them. … | 2014/12/16 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-12-16 08:56:01 |
| The BEMF Chamber Operas 2014: Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo | G. B. Pergolesi, La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo Boston Early Music Festival, Jordan … | 2014/12/09 | Charles Warren | Opera | 2014-12-09 16:17:14 |
| What is and what might have been: More Nelsons at the BSO, Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | I couldn’t have been more eager to hear Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra … | 2014/12/03 | Lloyd Schwartz | Music | 2014-12-03 09:02:21 |
| A Singer’s Notes 100: Shakespeare and Company’s Fall Festival | A good while ago now, I stepped into an ancient school bus, left a tiny … | 2014/12/02 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-12-02 16:20:10 |
| A Singer’s Notes 99: Hubbard Hall’s 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and a Small, Brooklyn Opera Company Brings Two One-Acters to Oldcastle | Hubbard Hall’s 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was a wild and wonderful evening. I … | 2014/11/30 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-11-30 11:21:04 |
| Richard Goode Plays Beethoven’s Last Three Sonatas and Bagatelles, Op. 119 at Jordan Hall, Boston | Richard Goode, piano Beethoven Sonatas, Op. 109, 110, 111 and Bagatelles, Op. 119 Jordan Hall, … | 2014/11/13 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2014-11-13 01:31:11 |
| The Bard Music Festival at 25: Franz Schubert and his World | My leading thought goes against much of what the Bard Music Festival and my own … | 2014/10/24 | Michael Miller | New York Arts in the Berkshires | 2014-10-24 13:03:20 |
| A Singer’s Notes 98: No Amontillado, just Ale | The much-maligned poetry of Edgar Allan Poe still bristles with excitement when one hears it. … | 2014/10/23 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-10-23 23:22:06 |
| A Treasurable Account of Poe’s Last Hours from the Berkshire Theatre Group, with David Adkins and Kate Maguire, Closing 10/26 | POE written and directed by Eric Hill Cast: David Adkins – Edgar Allan Poe Madeline … | 2014/10/18 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2014-10-18 21:41:37 |
| A Singer’s Notes 97: It’s Hot Outside—Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Clicks at Oldcastle Theatre, Bennington | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is an obsessive work which makes wildly different demands on … | 2014/10/03 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2014-10-03 13:00:19 |
| Lucy Bardo and Hilda Banks Shapiro to play Romantic Music at Simon’s Rock, October 5, 3:00 pm | Dear Concert-goers: Many of you know that my esteemed colleague Lucy Bardo is one … | 2014/09/23 | Larry Wallach | Uncategorized | 2014-09-23 22:28:22 |
| A Singer’s Notes 96: Vanya and Sonia and Sasha and Spike at Shakespeare and Company; The Mousetrap at Dorset Theatre Festival | I heard Matthew Penn’s direction of Christopher Durang’s Chekhov play as a collision of … | 2014/09/20 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2014-09-20 09:01:28 |
| A Singer’s Notes 95: The Henry Plays at Shakespeare and Company | Jonathan Epstein undertook a courageous and largely successful project making an evening’s performance out of … | 2014/09/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-09-09 13:05:37 |
| A Singer’s Notes 94: Local Excellence… and a Rare Unamplified Performance of a Broadway Musical! | Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre once again filled its house and earned rave applause for its … | 2014/09/07 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-09-07 09:48:23 |
| A Singer’s Notes 93: Denève, the TMC Orchestra, and Berlioz; McGegan and Handel; Bernstein’s Candide at Tanglewood | The excellent Stephane Denève chose two works of Hector Berlioz for his TMCO concert. Wholly … | 2014/08/29 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Music | 2014-08-29 08:54:52 |
| Murder Myth Married to Music—Lizzie Borden Wields her Axe at Tanglewood | Lizzie Borden Jack Beeson, composer Richard Plant, Kenward Elmslie, libretto a chamber version by … | 2014/08/13 | Larry Wallach | Opera | 2014-08-13 10:24:07 |
| A Singer’s Notes 92: The Cherry Orchard | The Cherry Orchard At Historic Park-McCullough in North Bennington, VT July 31 – August 9 … | 2014/08/12 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-08-12 19:15:35 |
| A Singer’s Notes 91: TMC Forever, and A Little Bit of Marlboro | The Tanglewood Center Music Orchestra took on an enormous challenge in their first outing this … | 2014/08/12 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-08-12 18:17:02 |
| Two Weekends in the Country: The BSO and the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood, Jacob’s Pillow, the new Clark, Mass MoCA, and Boston Midsummer Opera’s Bartered Bride | As life in the city slows down, life in the country west of Boston ratchets … | 2014/08/10 | Lloyd Schwartz | Art, Dance, Music, Opera | 2014-08-10 21:39:36 |
| Kander and Ebb’s The Visit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival | The Visit At the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Main Stage, July 31 – August 17 Book … | 2014/08/08 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2014-08-08 14:04:19 |
| A Singer’s Notes 90: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at Glimmerglass | Director Francesca Zambello’s Ariadne in Naxos at Glimmerglass was a saucy and well-thought out production of … | 2014/08/08 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-08-08 12:07:09 |
| Match and Mismatch: Contrasting Conductors and Orchestras at Tanglewood | Thursday, July 24 The National Youth Orchestra conducted by David Robertson Gil Shaham, violin … | 2014/08/03 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2014-08-03 10:57:58 |
| Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, 2014 — The Return of Harmony: works by Tanglewood Music Center Alumni | The Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music at Ozawa Hall: Thursday July 17 at 8 … | 2014/07/27 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2014-07-27 13:20:57 |
| A Singer’s Notes 89: HIP Today and Gone Tomorrow — Sequentia at Tanglewood and NT’s Lear on Screen | HIP (Historically Informed Performance) is not so hip as it used to be. William Christie … | 2014/07/27 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2014-07-27 12:01:03 |
| A Singer’s Notes 88: Dreaming with Bottom | Tony Simotes’ location for Shakespeare and Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a voodoo-haunted … | 2014/07/17 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-07-17 14:40:39 |
| Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music at the Berkshire Theatre Group | A Little Night Music At the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA, through July … | 2014/07/11 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2014-07-11 20:44:20 |
| Music and More at New Marlborough | The village of New Marlborough lies on Route 57 about fifteen minutes east of Great … | 2014/07/10 | Keith Francis | Music | 2014-07-10 15:08:54 |
| A Singer’s Notes 87: Innocence and Experience: Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman’s June Moon at the Williamstown Theatre Festival | Music has no morality. It hangs around with the villains, and it blesses the … | 2014/07/10 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2014-07-10 01:05:41 |
| Arts Press Summer Fundraiser — Support The Berkshire Review and New York Arts! | Summer! Photo Michael Miller 2014. Please give generously to support The Arts Press publications, New … | 2014/07/08 | Arts Press | Uncategorized | 2014-07-08 17:47:32 |
| Kiss Me Kate at the Barrington Stage Company | Kiss Me Kate Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield Massachusetts June 11-July 12, 2014 Music and … | 2014/06/19 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2014-06-19 09:39:21 |
| The New Opera to Present Bizet’s Carmen at Chapin Hall, Williams College, June 28 at 8 pm | | 2014/06/17 | The Editor | Previews | 2014-06-17 04:43:24 |
| A Singer’s Notes 86 – Shakespeare’s Will at S & Co. and the Passing of a Great Baritone | Shakespeare’s Will An act of courage is required from anyone who tries to write about Shakespeare’s wife, … | 2014/06/17 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-06-17 03:44:21 |
| A Singer’s Notes 85: John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” NOT on Broadway! | Hubbard Hall’s production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men was solidly cast and effectively … | 2014/05/31 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-05-31 16:36:50 |
| Gasland Part II – Don’t miss these opportunities to see this important movie. | Please join us for a showing of Gasland Part II on Monday, May 12th at 7pm … | 2014/05/11 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2014-05-11 11:26:35 |
| Stephen Porter to play late works by Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy at the House of the Redeemer in Manhattan, Thursday May 1, at 7.30 pm—a presentation of New York Arts | Stephen Porter will be performing the Frederick Reynolds Memorial Piano Recital on Saturday, April 12. … | 2014/04/04 | The Editor | Music | 2014-04-04 16:58:21 |
| A Singer’s Notes 84: Time yaps at the heels of comedy. Tragedy marches inexorably on. | Time yaps at the heels of comedy. Tragedy marches inexorably on. In comedy the present … | 2014/03/29 | The Editor | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2014-03-29 21:08:49 |
| A Smashing Private Lives at Shakespeare and Company | Noël Coward’s Private Lives Shakespeare and Company February 14–March 30 Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre directed … | 2014/03/29 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2014-03-29 12:48:57 |
| Please give generously to support The Arts Press publications, New York Arts and the Berkshire Review | Please give generously to support The Arts Press publications, New York Arts and the Berkshire Review! Help us … | 2014/03/05 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2014-03-05 19:26:03 |
| A Singer’s Notes 83: Christmas over the Mountain | Kevin McGuire’s Scrooge in Capital Repertory Theatre’s production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” had … | 2014/01/07 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2014-01-07 14:07:30 |
| Our end-of-year appeal: Please give generously to support The Arts Press publications, New York Arts and the Berkshire Review! | Please give generously to support The Arts Press publications, New York Arts and the Berkshire … | 2013/12/28 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2013-12-28 22:38:40 |
| W. B. Yeats and Ireland: Photographs, Music, and a Reading, with Dorien Staljanssens, James Cleveland, and Lloyd Schwartz—a Christmas Gift from The Berkshire Review | The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare … | 2013/12/26 | Michael Miller | Photography | 2013-12-26 00:57:06 |
| A Singer’s Notes 82: Ondine and King Lear | Ondine, by Jean Giraudoux at Hubbard Hall Much credit must be given to Theatre Company of Hubbard Hall’s … | 2013/12/01 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2013-12-01 16:58:51 |
| Glimmerglass 2013: A Retrospective | Glimmerglass Festival 2013 Retrospective: The Irrational and the Season of Romance Der fliegende Holländer Music … | 2013/12/01 | Seth Lachterman | Opera | 2013-12-01 14:14:37 |
| Philip Setzer, Wu Han, And David Finckel at South Mountain Concerts, with a Summer 2013 Retrospective of Chamber Music in the Berkshires | Over the past months chamber music lovers have found a few important changes in their … | 2013/11/25 | Michael Miller | Music | 2013-11-25 16:24:26 |
| Mark Morris’s Staging of Britten’s Curlew River and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Tanglewood | Benjamin Britten – Curlew River William Plomer – libretto, based on Sumidagawa by Juro Motomasa … | 2013/11/02 | Andrew Miller | Dance, Music | 2013-11-02 14:53:15 |
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| Berkshire Artist Joanna Gabler, “Emigrés – Where is Home?” at Gallery Ehva, Provincetown: October 25-November 5, 2013 – Opening Friday, October 25, 6-8 pm | Joanna Gabler, “Emigrés – Where is Home?” at Gallery Ehva, Provincetown: October 25-November 5, 2013 … | 2013/10/23 | The Editor | Art | 2013-10-23 14:40:43 |
| A Singer’s Notes 81: A Local Miscellany | Rory Kinnear’s incisive Iago made a trip to The Clark a joy last week. The … | 2013/10/16 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-10-16 12:57:42 |
| Then and Now: a Concert of Baroque Music and Contemporary Music for Baroque Instruments with Eva and Anne Legêne, Tatsuya Muraishi, and Masayuki Maki | Dear Friends and Music Lovers, Having played this concert twice in the past week, once … | 2013/10/16 | The Editor | Music | 2013-10-16 01:20:53 |
| Emily Kalish and Larry Wallach will play American Violin Music—Dvořák, Ives, Bolcom, Wallach on Sunday afternoon, October 27, at 4 pm in the Stockbridge Congregational Church | Dear Friends: I am happy to let you know that I will be collaborating with … | 2013/10/15 | The Editor | Music | 2013-10-15 15:12:42 |
| Orchestra Concerts at Tanglewood, a Summer Retrospective | Monday, July 22, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Stéphane Denève, conductor Tanglewood … | 2013/10/02 | Michael Miller | Music | 2013-10-02 03:10:19 |
| Thank you!!! Because of your donations Berkshire Review now qualifies for grants from private and government foundations. | “I never fail to consult the Berkshire Review without being impressed by the responsiveness, sympathy, and understanding … | 2013/09/25 | The Editor | New York Arts | 2013-09-25 15:19:07 |
| An Interview with Wu Han and David Finckel: Life after the Emerson Quartet and an Upcoming Concert at South Mountain Concerts | Along with the retirement of the Tokyo String Quartet, the departure of David Finckel … | 2013/09/20 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts, Podcasts | 2013-09-20 00:56:27 |
| South Berkshire Concerts at Simon’s Rock, September 22, 3 pm: Larry Wallach, Eric Martin, Ron Gorevic, Anne Legêne, and guest artist, Marka Young, will play Brahms, Prokofiev, and Mozart. | Dear Friends, On Sunday, September 22 at 3 pm in McConnell Auditorium, I will … | 2013/09/09 | The Editor | Previews | 2013-09-09 10:59:08 |
| A Singer’s Notes 80: Anna Christie and Mother Courage | Clean Eugene O’Neill’s lyricism catches us out slowly. Rarely sweet, almost tidy, it has stretches I would call … | 2013/09/04 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-09-04 19:57:30 |
| A Singer’s Notes 79: Die to Live | Die to Live — says the Priest to the falsely accused Hero at a crucial … | 2013/09/02 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-09-02 20:32:52 |
| The Long and the Short of it: Tanglewood’s 2013 Festival of Contemporary Music | August 8 6pm Elliott Carter – String Quartet No. 1 New Fromm Players Sarah … | 2013/08/29 | Lloyd Schwartz | Music, Opera | 2013-08-29 01:12:54 |
| Mark Morris’s Double Bill of English Operas at Tanglewood: Britten’s Curlew River and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas | The musical event I was most looking forward to all summer was the premiere of … | 2013/08/13 | Lloyd Schwartz | Opera | 2013-08-13 19:56:51 |
| The Bridges of Madison County – World Premiere Musical at Williamstown Theatre Festival | The Bridges of Madison County Book – Marsha Norman Music & Lyrics – Jason … | 2013/08/13 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2013-08-13 15:14:11 |
| A Singer’s Notes 78: The Contraries | The wise have shown us down the generations that beautiful spirits can hold two contrary … | 2013/08/12 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-08-12 19:08:37 |
| The Column and the Pedestal: Quartets by Brahms and Tchaikovsky, performed by the Borodin Quartet | Program: Brahms Quartet no. 3 in B-flat; Tchaikovsky, Quartet no. 3 in E-flat minor; at … | 2013/08/07 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2013-08-07 01:12:22 |
| More on Harbison’s Gatsby | My colleagues, Lloyd Schwartz and Larry Wallach, have already written extensively about Emmanuel Music’s performance … | 2013/08/01 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2013-08-01 17:17:52 |
| Tanglewood Tales: Jurowski and Koenigs Tell the Whole Story | Friday, July 19, 8:30pm: Koussevitzky Music Shed Wagner – Prelude to Act I of … | 2013/07/30 | Lloyd Schwartz | New York Arts, Opera | 2013-07-30 19:34:59 |
| Mid-century Yin and Yang: The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra plays Britten and Shostakovich | Concert at Ozawa Hall, Monday July 16, 2013 Britten, Pas de Six from the ballet … | 2013/07/23 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2013-07-23 17:33:31 |
| Implosion at Tanglewood: Nelsons, Eschenbach, and Furlanetto cancel. | Yesterday BSO officials announced the dismaying news that Andris Nelsons, the new Music Director of … | 2013/07/23 | The Editor | Music | 2013-07-23 12:12:51 |
| A Singer’s Notes 77: Music Theater Everywhere | I stand in awe of the combination of skills needed to perform the American musical … | 2013/07/22 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-07-22 18:22:46 |
| A Singer’s Notes 76: Fellows Rule | Well do I remember my first few days as a Tanglewood Fellow. The pace of … | 2013/07/22 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-07-22 18:15:29 |
| Harbison’s The Great Gatsby: Could It Be Even Better? | The Great Gatsby Music by John Harbison Tanglewood, Ozawa Hall: July 11, 2013 Gordon Gietz … | 2013/07/17 | Larry Wallach | Opera | 2013-07-17 18:51:38 |
| Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev’s Oresteia comes to Bard, then on to the Mariinsky! | Every summer, in the course of Bard College’s Summerscape, the expansive net of entertainment, education, … | 2013/07/17 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2013-07-17 01:45:22 |
| Richard II begins a History Cycle at Shakespeare and Company, through July 21 | Richard II By William Shakespeare Directed by Timothy Douglas Featuring Rocco Sisto with Jake … | 2013/07/14 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2013-07-14 16:54:23 |
| Stand up for Mahler! Mahler’s Third at Tanglewood with Frühbeck de Burgos, Anne-Sofie von Otter, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra | Saturday July 6, 2013 Mahler – Symphony No. 3 Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductior – Rafael … | 2013/07/10 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2013-07-10 13:38:30 |
| A Singer’s Notes 75: Love’s Labour’s Lost | We post-moderns know there are no real characters, right? A Falstaff is just a bunch … | 2013/07/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-07-09 23:05:12 |
| Oklahoma! At the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial Theatre through July 20, 2013 | Oklahoma! At the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial Theatre through July 20, 2013 Music by Richard … | 2013/07/09 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2013-07-09 21:04:34 |
| Word, Image, and Deed A review of Michael Phillips’s presentations on William Blake. June 28-29, 2013, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA | How do we access the past? The viewer of contemporary art is invariably ensconced in, … | 2013/07/08 | The Editor | New York Arts in the Berkshires | 2013-07-08 17:26:13 |
| A Singer’s Notes 74: the Gamba and the Voice — Bach and Marais | This was a marvelous concert. It had plenitude; there was abundance in it. It was … | 2013/07/07 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-07-07 11:02:18 |
| Classical Music’s Canon at Tannery Pond | Sebastian Bäverstam and Yannick Rafalimanana, June 8, 2013 J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G … | 2013/07/05 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2013-07-05 13:41:17 |
| “Animal Crackers” Proves an Acquired Taste at WTF | Animal Crackers Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind Music and Lyrics by Bert … | 2013/07/03 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2013-07-03 20:21:42 |
| The Berkshire Review for the Arts is ready for the 2013 season! | If the Berkshire Review appears to have been rather quiet lately, that is because New … | 2013/07/02 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2013-07-02 22:50:57 |
| The Voice (Kristen Watson) Meets the Chalumeau (Eric Hoeprich), an Aston Magna Concert at Brandeis | Aston Magna Festival The Art of the Chalumeau Slosberg Auditorium, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Thursday, … | 2013/07/02 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2013-07-02 09:52:00 |
| A Singer’s Notes 73: Michael Phillips’ Reproduction of a Blake Print | Dear Reader, I want to share one of my treasures with you. You will find … | 2013/07/01 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Art | 2013-07-01 20:02:00 |
| A Singer’s Notes 72: Boston Early Music Festival’s Almira at the Mahaiwe | Once again the Boston Early Music Festival has shown us that elegance and energy are … | 2013/07/01 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-07-01 18:28:34 |
| A Singer’s Notes 71: Callas teaches and Branagh directs… | The great pages in Terrence McNally’s Masterclass are those in which music takes stage. I … | 2013/06/26 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-06-26 09:37:44 |
| Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town at Barrington Stage Company, June 12 – July 13, 2013 | On the Town Barrington Stage, June 12 – July 13, 2013 Music by Leonard Bernstein … | 2013/06/17 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2013-06-17 21:50:14 |
| A Singer’s Notes 70: The Fantasticks at the Mac-Haydn Theatre | It was excellent to go to the venerable Mac-Haydn Theatre last night. One comes upon … | 2013/06/04 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-06-04 23:45:45 |
| Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O’Riley Open the Summer Season at Tannery Pond with All-Russian Cello Sonatas | Tannery Pond Concerts May 25, 2013 at 6.00 PM Igor Stravinsky – Suite Italienne Sergei … | 2013/06/04 | Andrew Miller | Music | 2013-06-04 23:18:27 |
| The Berkshire Beethoven Piano Project | There is a new musical enterprise making its debut on Sunday June 2 (at 5 … | 2013/05/14 | Larry Wallach | Music, Previews | 2013-05-14 00:20:41 |
| Simon Wainrib’s Legacy: his Bach Project | It seems utterly puzzling that most of the greatest music of Johann Sebastian Bach barely … | 2013/05/12 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2013-05-12 10:06:16 |
| The New Oldcastle Theatre, Bennington, Vermont: Around the World in Eighty Days | It was splendid to enter the new Oldcastle Theatre. It was splendid to enter … | 2013/04/26 | The Editor | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-04-26 11:34:46 |
| A Singer’s Notes 69: Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss at Union College and 75 Years of Tanglewood | There was an elegant sense of play in the piano recital given by Anna Polonsky … | 2013/04/13 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Uncategorized | 2013-04-13 03:16:59 |
| A Singer’s Notes 68: Macbeth at Hubbard Hall | I wish I could like this production more. Clearly well-intentioned and sincerely played, it … | 2013/03/30 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-03-30 12:23:13 |
| A Singer’s Notes 67: The Acting Company’s As You Like It in Troy Savings Bank Music Hall | The Acting Company’s As You Like It in Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Wednesday, … | 2013/03/23 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-03-23 22:51:50 |
| Philippe Jaroussky Sings Handel and Porpora Arias with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, plus Locatelli’s L’Arte del Violino in Sydney | City Recital Hall, Sydney: 13 March 2013 Philippe Jaroussky and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra travel … | 2013/03/17 | Andrew Miller | Music, New York Arts, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2013-03-17 22:09:46 |
| Bach Before Forty: Peter Sykes playing the organ of St. Stephen’s Church, Pittsfield | Bach Before Forty: Peter Sykes playing the organ of St. Stephen’s Church, Pittsfield Sunday, February … | 2013/03/16 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2013-03-16 13:00:07 |
| A Singer’s Notes 66: Corneille’s The Liar at Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, Massachusetts | Pierre Corneille, The Liar at Shakespeare and Company Adapted by David Ives Directed by … | 2013/03/16 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-03-16 12:50:13 |
| The Amazing Daniil Trifonov with The Russian National Orchestra | The Russian National Orchestra Davies Hall, San Francisco February 12, 2013 Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Daniil … | 2013/02/18 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2013-02-18 16:48:22 |
| A Singer’s Notes 65: Hubbard Hall Opera Theater’s La Traviata at Proctor’s, Schenectady | Please forgive me if I think of Verdi’s La Traviata and Otello as religious dramas—a … | 2013/02/18 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-02-18 13:23:44 |
| A Singer’s Notes 64: The Sound of Bach | It was excellent to read Kenneth Cooper’s words recently on how he loved the sound … | 2013/02/07 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-02-07 10:03:15 |
| A Singer’s Notes 63: Shakespeare Loud and Chekhov Soft | As one might expect from disciples of Kristin Linklater, the Conservatory actors at Shakespeare and … | 2013/02/03 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2013-02-03 13:06:04 |
| Who to Direct the BSO? And Reviews of Recent Concerts: Alan Gilbert Conducts Dutilleux, Stravinsky, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Daniele Gatti conducts Verdi’s Requiem and Paul Lewis in Recital at Jordan Hall Plays Schubert’s Last Three Sonatas | January 10, 2013: Henri Dutilleux – Métaboles for Orchestra Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto Julian Rachlin … | 2013/02/02 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2013-02-02 20:03:14 |
| Renée Fleming Joins the San Francisco Symphony in Music of Debussy, Holloway and Canteloube | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Sunday, January 13, 2013 Michael Tilson-Thomas, conductor … | 2013/02/02 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2013-02-02 18:34:15 |
| San Francisco Opera’s Fall Season: Reviews of I Capuletti ed i Montecchi and The Adler Fellows Gala Concert | I sadly missed most of San Francisco Opera’s very rich fall season, but I did … | 2013/02/02 | David Dunn Bauer | Music, Opera | 2013-02-02 11:56:43 |
| Six Degrees, Six Degrees: Sydney Architecture in 2012 | “Only a fool would stand in the way of progress, if this is progress.” -Captain … | 2012/12/18 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design | 2012-12-18 01:02:17 |
| Christmas Music As It Was Meant to Be: Noël! Noël! with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | “Noël! Noël!” City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney: 12 December 2012 repeats in Sydney on … | 2012/12/15 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-12-15 19:04:14 |
| 2012 Retrospective: Reflections on the 2012 Glimmerglass Opera Festival | At first, music and baseball might seem to have little in common. But don’t tell … | 2012/12/10 | Karl Middleman | Opera | 2012-12-10 20:59:25 |
| Jonas Alber conducts the Staatsorchester Braunschweig in Franck’s D Minor Symphony—a Podcast. | Some months ago an email discussion arose among our writers and friends about César Franck’s … | 2012/12/10 | Jonas Alber | Music, New York Arts, Podcasts | 2012-12-10 18:08:47 |
| An Awesome Trek Through the Cosmos with the Pinchgut Opera’s ‘Castor et Pollux’ by Rameau | Castor et Pollux, Tragédie Mise en Musique par Jean-Philippe Rameau libretto by Pierre-Joseph Bernard, 1754 … | 2012/12/10 | Andrew Miller | Dance, Opera, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-12-10 00:14:47 |
| A Singer’s Notes 62: Chestnuts (Kaufman and Hart’s You Can’t Take it with You) | We were informed upon entering Hubbard Hall on Saturday evening, that a “chestnut” was on … | 2012/12/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-12-09 11:10:22 |
| Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, at the Smith College Museum of Art, September 28, 2012 – January 6, 2013 | Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection. September 28, 2012 – January … | 2012/12/07 | Michael Miller | Drawings | 2012-12-07 04:01:10 |
| The Sydney Symphony Becomes Opera Impresario with a Memorable Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky in Concert | The Queen of Spades (Пиковая дама) Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky … | 2012/12/04 | Andrew Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-12-04 02:44:52 |
| …and just what is Fame? Long live Victor Borge! Lang Lang joins MTT and the SF Symphony in Cowell, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Friday, November 2, 2012 Michael Tilson Thomas, … | 2012/11/29 | Steven Kruger | Music | 2012-11-29 02:39:19 |
| “Helter-Shelter,” An Exploration into the Organization of Temporary Communities. Photographs by Maxwell MacKenzie, AIA Headquarters Gallery | Moving is part of our cultural heritage. We are restless; we are adventurous; we move … | 2012/11/27 | Louise Levathes | Architecture - Urban Design, Photography | 2012-11-27 00:27:03 |
| Tenores de Aterúe, Friday, November 30th at 8 pm, St John’s Church, 35 Park Street, Williamstown | Tenores de Aterúe Friday, November 30th at 8PM St John’s Church, 35 Park Street, Williamstown … | 2012/11/26 | The Editor | Preview Archive | 2012-11-26 23:13:35 |
| Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Mini Festival Opens with Manfred and Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto, Scott Davie, Piano | Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House: 21 November 2012 The SSO plays this program again on … | 2012/11/23 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-11-23 21:52:40 |
| Un Vaisseau fantôme inoubliable à Montréal…mais comment tuer Senta? | Le Vaisseau fantôme Richard Wagner, musique et livret Le Hollandais – Thomas Gazheli Erik … | 2012/11/21 | Michael Miller | New York Arts, Opera, Richard Wagner | 2012-11-21 22:19:26 |
| Tough Love: The Music of Elliott Carter | Elliott Carter, who died on November 5 a little over a month before his 104th … | 2012/11/15 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2012-11-15 11:19:31 |
| A Singer’s Notes 61: Pride@Prejudice: A Romantic Deconstruction at the Capital Repertory Theatre | Pride @ Prejudice: A Romantic Deconstruction by Daniel Elihu Kramer Capital Repertory Theatre If ever … | 2012/11/13 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-11-13 01:21:26 |
| Originality and Humanity: Anthony Marwood, Violin, Aleksandar Madžar, Piano, Play Beethoven, Debussy and Schubert | City Recital Hall, Sydney: 5 November 2012 Madžar and Marwood play again in Sydney 10 … | 2012/11/08 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-11-08 19:33:53 |
| Elliott Carter — 1908-2012 | Voyages by Hart Crane III Infinite consanguinity it bears— This tendered theme of you … | 2012/11/06 | The Editor | Music, New York Arts | 2012-11-06 21:16:38 |
| Petrenko conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Respighi, Bartók, and Pärt, with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, in his SFS Debut | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Saturday, October 8, 2012 Vasily Petrenko, conducting. Jean-Efflam … | 2012/11/06 | Steven Kruger | Music | 2012-11-06 19:55:53 |
| Cage in the Can: A John Cage Centenary Festival at the Sydney Opera House with Bang on A Can All-Stars | John Cage: Centenary Celebration The Studio, Sydney Opera House: 2 and 3 November 2012 Friday … | 2012/11/06 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-11-06 02:34:41 |
| Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel: Celebrating Five Hundred Years of the Greatest Vision of Hope | Sprawled across the east wing that stretches from the papal residence to the Vatican Museums … | 2012/11/03 | Daniel B. Gallagher | Art | 2012-11-03 21:32:13 |
| Dancers Go ‘A-Fugeing’: The Sydney Dance Company With the Australian Chamber Orchestra (Amplified!) in ‘Project Rameau‘ | Project Rameau Sydney Theatre, Wash Bay: 29 October 2012 until 3 November Sydney Dance Company … | 2012/11/01 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-11-01 19:54:20 |
| A Singer’s Notes 60: True Love | Alexina and Jason have done it again. The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater Resident Artists La … | 2012/10/29 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Opera | 2012-10-29 00:29:58 |
| Herr Stadler’s One and Only Basset Clarinet Resurrected: Craig Hill Plays Mozart’s Concerto, also Mozart’s Violin Concerto with Madeleine Easton and Mendelssohn’s Hebrides on Period Instruments of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | City Recital Hall, Sydney: 24 October 2012 travels to Melbourne 27 and 28 October, then … | 2012/10/27 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-10-27 02:43:18 |
| Burr & McCallum, Architects | A few years ago I went to a lecture of which the most compelling theme … | 2012/10/24 | Richard Harrington | Architecture - Urban Design | 2012-10-24 16:44:43 |
| The Porches in Context – Burr & McCallum, Architects | | 2012/10/24 | Michael Miller | Architecture - Urban Design | 2012-10-24 15:37:41 |
| UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents Another Dazzlingly Diverse Season | Santa Barbara, California is not the sleepy town that many outsiders assume. On the contrary, … | 2012/10/24 | Victoria Martino | Previews | 2012-10-24 06:57:55 |
| A Singer’s Notes 59: Kristin Linklater performs Shakespeare Sonnets at Shakespeare & Company | Completeness is its own kind of extravagance. It enables risk. The completeness I speak of … | 2012/10/22 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2012-10-22 23:17:30 |
| With summer gone…Lagrein, Madiran, Garnacha, Cabernet…Chinon! | With summer fading into the past, one compensation for earlier nightfalls and chillier water temperatures … | 2012/10/20 | Geraldine Ramer | Food & Drink, New York Arts | 2012-10-20 03:45:09 |
| Dvořák and Shostakovich with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony, Jian Wang, Cello, Plus Some Extra Cellomania | Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House: 11 and 12 October 2012 Thursday, 11 October Dvořák – … | 2012/10/15 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-10-15 02:48:56 |
| The Straight Dope: The USADA’s Reasoned Decision Against Lance Armstrong | “I assert my innocence. Certainly I have never tested positive. I have never been caught … | 2012/10/14 | Alan Miller | Uncategorized | 2012-10-14 03:43:32 |
| Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at Symphony Hall – Amplified Again! (Is amplification musical doping?) | Thursday, September 27, 8 p.m. Friday, September 28, 8 p.m. Saturday, September 29, 8 p.m. … | 2012/10/14 | Michael Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2012-10-14 00:20:48 |
| Three at Tannery: David Finckel and Wu Han; Todd Palmer, Elizabeth Futral, and Ran Dank; and the Harlem String Quartet | Tannery Pond Concerts September 22, 2012, 6 pm David Finckel, Cello Wu Han, pianist Beethoven … | 2012/10/11 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-10-11 00:44:54 |
| Why I am a Whinger | My reaction to the release of what Infrastructure NSW calls a 20 Year State Infrastructure … | 2012/10/06 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-10-06 00:20:37 |
| The Kuss Quartet and Naoko Shimizu Play Quartets and Quintets by Mozart, Brahms, Kurtág and Gordon Kerry | City Recital Hall, Sydney: 29 September, 2012 The Kuss Quartet Jana Kuss – violin Oliver … | 2012/10/02 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-10-02 22:15:42 |
| The San Francisco Symphony Opens its New Season with Semyon Bychkov | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Saturday, September 8, 2012 Semyon Bychkov, conductor … | 2012/10/01 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-10-01 20:10:05 |
| Hannu Lintu Conducts the Sydney Symphony in Dutilleux and Beethoven, and Angela Hewitt Plays Mozart’s D Minor Piano Concerto | Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House: 21 September 2012 Henri Dutilleux – Mystère de l’instant Mozart … | 2012/09/27 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-09-27 03:00:04 |
| Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Orfeo and Eurydice, and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Photo by Steven Godbee. L’Orfeo, Favola in … | 2012/09/25 | Andrew Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-09-25 05:12:55 |
| Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, with Philip Seymour Hoffman | Apocalypse then. As an act of recollection, The Master captures the Fifties with perfect pitch, … | 2012/09/23 | Huntley Dent | Film, New York Arts | 2012-09-23 01:56:12 |
| TMC Nights, 2012, including the Festival of Contemporary Music | See also Nancy Salz’s “A Tanglewood Conducting Master Class — My Bird’s Eye View.” The … | 2012/09/23 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-09-23 00:34:28 |
| The Tour of Guimardia (English Version) | Un Maserati ne peut pas parcourir l’avenue Foch aussi vite qu’on peut accéder à la … | 2012/09/19 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-09-19 16:55:11 |
| Le tour de Guimardia (version française) | The English version of this text is as easily found as a Guimard building on … | 2012/09/19 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-09-19 02:25:34 |
| Henry V by William Shakespeare, directed by Des McAnuff, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario | Henry V by William Shakespeare Festival Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario until September 29 … | 2012/09/19 | Daniel B. Gallagher | Theater | 2012-09-19 00:04:25 |
| Sophocles’ Elektra, translated by Anne Carson, directed by Thomas Moschopoulos – until September 27, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario | Sophocles’ Elektra Director – Thomas Moschopoulos Designer – Ellie Papageorgakopoulou Lighting Designer – Itai Erdal Composer … | 2012/09/18 | Daniel B. Gallagher | Theater | 2012-09-18 12:15:17 |
| A Subtler Dance — Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s ‘En Atendant’ and ‘Cesena’ at the 18th Sydney Biennale | Carriageworks theatre, Sydney, September 11 and 14, 2012 En Atendant Choreography – Anne Teresa De … | 2012/09/18 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-09-18 01:34:39 |
| Saint-Saëns: Apollo Among the Dionysians | The Bard Music Festival, “Saint-Saëns and his World,” August 10-12 and 17-19, 2012 At first, … | 2012/09/17 | Larry Wallach | Bard Music Festival, Music | 2012-09-17 23:19:01 |
| The Proms: Haitink and Perahia with the Vienna Philharmonic | Prom 73 – September 6 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Bruckner … | 2012/09/15 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music | 2012-09-15 23:41:11 |
| Timon of Athens at The National Theatre | Timon of Athens By William Shakespeare Directed by Nicholas Hytner National Theatre of Great Britain … | 2012/09/15 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Theater | 2012-09-15 21:01:02 |
| CORRIGENDUM in Seth Lachterman’s survey of the Glimmerglass season, “Crusading for Reason…” – omitted paragraph restored. | CORRIGENDUM in Seth Lachterman’s survey of the Glimmerglass season, “Crusading for Reason…”: The fifth … | 2012/09/15 | The Editor | New York Arts, Opera | 2012-09-15 15:21:11 |
| The Berkshire Review paywall has been removed. All content is now free. | The Berkshire Review paywall has been removed. All content is now free. We are moving … | 2012/09/14 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2012-09-14 22:31:21 |
| The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar By William Shakespeare Directed by Gregory Doran Royal Shakespeare Company Cast: Ray Fearon … | 2012/09/13 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Theater | 2012-09-13 22:17:35 |
| Red Hot Patriot at the Arena Stage, Washington, DC — Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins,, with a Preview of the Arena Season | There are moments during Kathleen Turner’s stunning performance in Arena’s Stage current production of Red … | 2012/09/13 | Louise Levathes | Previews, Theater | 2012-09-13 17:08:30 |
| A Singer’s Notes 58: Music in the Theatre | “We Are Women: A Bernstein Cabaret”, a concert of Leonard Bernstein’s songs in The Colonial was … | 2012/09/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Music, Theater | 2012-09-09 17:30:36 |
| A Singer’s Notes 57: Just Plain Good | Sometimes you want to go into the theatre to have fun, to have sweetness, to … | 2012/09/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-09-09 08:55:40 |
| Crusading for Reason in an Age of Anger: Redefining Opera’s Role — Glimmerglass Festival 2012 and a Social-Centric Agenda | Aida Music by Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, 1871 Ramfis, bass-baritone – Joseph Barron … | 2012/09/07 | Seth Lachterman | New York Arts, Opera | 2012-09-07 03:26:58 |
| Turner at the Tate | A penny for the old guy. The original London Eye wasn’t a Ferris wheel on … | 2012/09/05 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Art | 2012-09-05 00:43:15 |
| The UNC Symphony Orchestra has won The American Prize in Orchestral Performance – College/University Division for 2012 | The University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra has won The American Prize in Orchestral Performance … | 2012/09/04 | The Editor | Music | 2012-09-04 14:52:15 |
| Damien Hirst Retrospective at the Tate Modern | Grinning zany. No British artist in living memory has achieved the glaring notoriety of Damien … | 2012/09/03 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Art | 2012-09-03 07:13:23 |
| BBC Proms 67 and 69: The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly | Prom 67 – September 1 Mendelssohn – Overture ‘Ruy Blas’ Violin Concerto in E minor, … | 2012/09/03 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music | 2012-09-03 00:45:09 |
| Philadelphia, Here I Come! By Brian Friel at Donmar Warehouse | | 2012/09/02 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, The Berkshire Review in London, Theater | 2012-09-02 01:41:25 |
| BBC Prom 63: Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle | Ligeti – Atmosphères Wagner – Lohengrin – Prelude (Act I) Sibelius – Symphony No. 4 in A minor … | 2012/09/01 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music | 2012-09-01 13:34:04 |
| A Tanglewood Conducting Master Class — My Bird’s Eye View | The conductor’s arms froze mid-air. The musicians stopped playing. Stefan Asbury, leader of the … | 2012/09/01 | Nancy Salz | Music | 2012-09-01 00:19:50 |
| Much Ado About Nothing at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival | Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Until October 27, Festival Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, … | 2012/09/01 | Daniel B. Gallagher | Theater | 2012-09-01 00:09:11 |
| The Confidence-Man, a series of Melvillean Dreams by Douglas Paisley, now on View at Arrowhead through October 15 | The Confidence-Man, paintings and drawings by Douglas Paisley at Arrowhead through October 15. The exhibition … | 2012/08/31 | Michael Miller | Art | 2012-08-31 17:01:33 |
| In our private universe: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom | The rise of digital technology in cinema has been a decidedly mixed blessing, and not … | 2012/08/31 | Gabriel Kellett | Film | 2012-08-31 05:07:08 |
| Patrick Keiller: The Robinson Institute at Tate Britain | Tate Britain Commission 2012, 7 March – 14 October 2012 Occasionally I’ve thought that in … | 2012/08/31 | Gabriel Kellett | Art, The Berkshire Review in London | 2012-08-31 02:15:56 |
| Peter Grimes, Prom 55, London 2012 | Peter Grimes By Benjamin Britten Performed Friday, 24 August 2012 at The Royal Albert … | 2012/08/30 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Opera | 2012-08-30 11:01:16 |
| Glyndebourne’s Swinging Marriage of Figaro at the Proms | The Marriage of Figaro By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Glyndebourne Festival Opera Orchestra of the Age … | 2012/08/30 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Opera, The Berkshire Review in London | 2012-08-30 00:35:53 |
| April De Angelis’ Jumpy at the Duke of York’s Theatre | Jumpy By April De Angelis Directed by Nina Raine Duke of York’s Theatre Lizzie Clachan … | 2012/08/29 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, The Berkshire Review in London, Theater | 2012-08-29 00:08:14 |
| A Singer’s Notes 56: The Price | Never have I seen the price of forgiveness so costly on stage as in Olympia Dukakis’s singular, and … | 2012/08/29 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-08-29 00:05:31 |
| Saint-Saëns’ Other Grand Opera, Henry VIII at Bard | Henry VIII by Camille Saint-Saëns Sunday, August 19, 2012, 4.30 pm Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, … | 2012/08/28 | Michael Miller | Bard Music Festival, Opera | 2012-08-28 19:26:25 |
| Prom 54: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Frederick Delius and Shostakovich | Prom 54 — August 23 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Tasmin Little, violin Vasily Petrenko, conducto … | 2012/08/26 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2012-08-26 16:36:25 |
| A Singer’s Notes 55: The TMC Forever! | I just saw a spectacular production of Higglety, Pigglety, Pop with the Tanglewood Fellows and … | 2012/08/25 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-08-25 15:05:09 |
| Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh at Wyndham’s | Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh Directed by Lindsay Posner Jill Halfpenny – Beverly Joe Absolom … | 2012/08/25 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent | 2012-08-25 12:15:36 |
| The Gore Vidal memorial at the Schoenfeld Theatre, New York, as I saw it… | Most writers fall in love with their words. They greet changes to the text, particularly … | 2012/08/23 | Louise Levathes | Literature, Theater, Uncategorized | 2012-08-23 23:54:19 |
| Watch out for Porgy and Bess! Or, better, keep an ear to the ground… | The Symphony Hall performance, also amplified, unfortunately, is reviewed here. Boston audiences may possibly have … | 2012/08/22 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2012-08-22 13:23:09 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 54: Mozart/Schikaneder, Die Zauberflöte at Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre | The cast and orchestra of Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre’s production of Die Zauberflöte. Photo … | 2012/08/21 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-08-21 23:14:15 |
| Emanuel Ax explores Beethoven sonatas; Pamela Frank returns…with Brahms at Tannery Pond | Tannery Pond Concerts Sunday, August 12, 2012 at 4 pm Beethoven – Sonata in … | 2012/08/16 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-08-16 10:58:34 |
| A Singer’s Notes 53: Lully’s Armide at Glimmerglass | Marshall Pynkoski’s direction of Lully’s Armide at Glimmerglass was a beautiful and unpretentious thing. It was also … | 2012/08/09 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Opera | 2012-08-09 08:28:52 |
| The Damnation of Faust and the Ascension of Berlioz | Charles Dutoit conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Hector Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, Dramatic … | 2012/08/09 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2012-08-09 03:56:39 |
| Wiederkehr ans Leben wiederholt: Gerhard Oppitz plays the complete piano music of Brahms, Part II | Gerhard Oppitz plays the complete piano music of Brahms (Concerts 3 and 4) Wednesday, July … | 2012/08/09 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2012-08-09 01:36:16 |
| Father and Son Mozart: Kurt and Ken-David Masur conduct the Boston Symphony, with Gerhard Oppitz Playing Mozart’s C Minor Piano Concerto, K. 491 | Sunday, July 22, 2.30 pm Shed Boston Symphony Orchestra Kurt Masur and Ken-David Masur, conductors … | 2012/08/08 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-08-08 23:20:31 |
| Late Raphael at the Prado, Madrid (until September 16th, 2012) | Late Raphael continues at the Museo del Prado until September 16th, 2012. A slightly different … | 2012/08/08 | Bruce Boucher | Art, New York Arts | 2012-08-08 02:14:09 |
| Opening Night at SPAC, with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stéphane Denève, with Garrick Ohlsson, Piano | Saratoga Performaing Arts Center Wednesday, August 1 / 8:00 PM Opening Night The Philadelphia Orchestra … | 2012/08/07 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-08-07 14:03:57 |
| Classical Music at SPAC: The Philadelphia Orchestra and André-Michel Schub’s Chamber Music Festival | The Saratoga Performing Arts Center presents the Philadelphia Orchestra’s three-week residency in tandem with an … | 2012/08/07 | Michael Miller | New York Arts, Previews | 2012-08-07 13:12:58 |
| A Plea to Wine Lovers | Pessimist by nature that I am, my fears about the state of the wine universe … | 2012/08/04 | Geraldine Ramer | Food & Drink, New York Arts | 2012-08-04 01:00:56 |
| Robert A. Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power | Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, Knopf, 2012 I … | 2012/08/03 | Alan Miller | Literature | 2012-08-03 21:20:01 |
| The Elephant Man at the Williamstown Theatre Festival | The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance directed by Scott Ellis Timothy Mackabee, Scenic and … | 2012/08/03 | Michael Miller | New York Arts, Theater | 2012-08-03 02:01:18 |
| King Lear at Shakespeare and Company, directed by Rebecca Holderness, with Dennis Krausnick | King Lear by William Shakespeare directed by Rebecca Holderness Cast: Dennis Krausnick with Thomas Brazzle, … | 2012/07/31 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2012-07-31 00:40:39 |
| Gluck, Hummel and Haydn Concertos with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Keyed Trumpeter Gabriele Cassone | “Dazzling Virtuoso” City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney: 25 July, 2012 plays in Melbourne on … | 2012/07/29 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-07-29 00:01:43 |
| A Singer’s Notes 52: Bastille Day, and Fabulous Fellows | These last weeks there was French music everywhere. An excellent program of alternating Debussy and Messiaen … | 2012/07/28 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-07-28 18:01:11 |
| Making Sense of Three Modern Classics | Tanglewood Music Festival Ozawa Hall, Monday July 23 The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra conducted by … | 2012/07/28 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2012-07-28 00:33:45 |
| Chabrier’s Le Roi malgré lui, a Forgotten Comic Masterpiece, at Bard Summerscape, July 27-August 5, 2012 | Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94) Le Roi malgré lui, 1887 (The Reluctant King) American Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leon Botstein, music … | 2012/07/27 | Michael Miller | Bard Music Festival, Opera, Previews | 2012-07-27 03:57:03 |
| The Famous Five Play Brahms: The Tinalley String Quartet Plays with Kristian Chong | “As dreams are made on” Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room: 23 July 2012 The Tinalley … | 2012/07/27 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-07-27 03:08:02 |
| Michael Francis Conducts the San Francisco Symphony in “My Classic Americana,” With Pianist Charlie Albright in His San Francisco Debut | Davies Hall, San Francisco The San Francisco Symphony Thursday, July 19, 2012 Michael Francis – … | 2012/07/26 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-07-26 22:36:32 |
| The Bard Summer Music Festival 2012: Saint-Saëns and his World | See also: “Orientalism in France: Leon Botstein and the ASO play Saint-Saëns, Franck, Ravel, Delage, … | 2012/07/25 | Michael Miller | Bard Music Festival, New York Arts, Previews | 2012-07-25 17:52:48 |
| Far From Heaven: A New Musical based on the 2002 film at the Williamstown Theatre Festival | Book by Richard Greenberg Music by Scott Frankel Lyrics by Michael Korie Direction by Michael … | 2012/07/24 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2012-07-24 11:34:05 |
| Seven Ways to Improve the Tour de France | I wouldn’t go so far as the three-time world-champion Óscar Friere, who reckons that the … | 2012/07/23 | Alan Miller | En France avec la Berkshire Review, Places | 2012-07-23 02:21:45 |
| Wiederkehr ans Leben: Brahms’ Piano Music, Part I (a Hoffmannesque fantasy with assistance by Gerhard Oppitz) | Gerhard Oppitz performs Brahms’ Complete (Published) Piano Works, Ozawa Hall, July 18 , 19, 25, … | 2012/07/22 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2012-07-22 02:40:32 |
| The Bangarra Dance Theatre Dances ‘Terrain’ | Terrain Bangarra Dance Theatre Drama Theatre: Sydney Opera House: July 18, 2012 In Sydney until … | 2012/07/21 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-07-21 22:26:17 |
| Dan Zhu triumphs, Christoph Eschenbach conducts the BSO at Tanglewood in Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s Symposium and Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” | Tanglewood Festival Friday, July 20, 8:30 pm, Shed Boston Symphony Orchestra Christoph Eschenbach, conductor Dan Zhu, … | 2012/07/21 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-07-21 02:07:40 |
| Rossini’s Ciro in Babilonia at Caramoor, with Ewa Podleś, Jessica Pratt, and Michael Spyres; Will Crutchfield conducting | Ciro in Babilonia Gioachino Rossini. music Francesco Aventi, libretto Bel Canto at Caramoor Saturday, 8.30pm … | 2012/07/20 | The Editor | Opera | 2012-07-20 17:47:32 |
| Iranian Arts Now at the Cité International des Arts in Paris | Exhibitions of progressive new Iranian art have flourished over the last several years, in commercial … | 2012/07/19 | Erin C. Devine | Art | 2012-07-19 07:39:48 |
| Developers’ Rule: A New Plan for Planning in New South Wales | Dear Sir, I have a complaint… -Radiohead A true story: one day at the New … | 2012/07/19 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-07-19 05:12:37 |
| Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration in the Music Shed, a Review | Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Pops Orchestra Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra John … | 2012/07/17 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-07-17 23:40:03 |
| Romantic Stravinsky, Wagnerian Brahms: Andris Nelsons’ Boston Symphony Debut at Tanglewood | Tanglewood Music Festival Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, Conductor Sunday July 15, 2012, Shed Tanglewood … | 2012/07/17 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2012-07-17 19:59:35 |
| Ghostly and Mysterious: The Martinez Urioste Brey Trio | Opening Concert of the Twenty-Second Season of Tannery Pond, Sunday 3PM, May 27, 2012 Gabriela … | 2012/07/15 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2012-07-15 22:08:57 |
| Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony: Schoenberg and Beethoven at Davies Hall | San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Davies Hall San Francisco Symphony Chorus Ragnar Bohlin, … | 2012/07/14 | David Dunn Bauer | Music | 2012-07-14 00:02:50 |
| The Emerson Quartet at Tanglewood: Mozart, Adès, and Late Beethoven, the B Flat Op. 130 with the Große Fuge | Emerson String Quartet Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Thursday, July 5, 8 pm Mozart – Quartet No. … | 2012/07/13 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-07-13 23:37:08 |
| Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Season Preview (2012) and Concert Schedules (UPDATED) | (For a review of the gala 75th anniversary concert, click here.) Last November Mark Volpe, … | 2012/07/13 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-07-13 03:03:33 |
| Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Opening Set: Lucy Boyle’s The Blue Deep and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest | The Blue Deep (June 27 – July 8) by Lucy Boyle Directed by Bob Balaban … | 2012/07/12 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2012-07-12 16:07:52 |
| An Orchestra for All Seasons: Dvorak’s Faith, Schuller’s Dream, Prokofiev’s Shakespeare | The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, conducted by Alexandre Bloch, Vlad Agachi, Gunther Schuller, and Miguel … | 2012/07/11 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2012-07-11 22:09:53 |
| Chamber Sextets and Octet by Spohr, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky With The Sydney Omega Ensemble | Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House: 8 July, 2012 Spohr – Octet in E major, … | 2012/07/11 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-07-11 03:36:06 |
| A Singer’s Notes 51: North County – South County | The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Directed by David Hyde Pierce Williamstown Theatre … | 2012/07/11 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2012-07-11 01:54:40 |
| Opening Night at Tanglewood, Friday, July 6, 2012: Boston Symphony Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor – Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 and the Leonore Overture No. 3 | Friday, July 6, 2012, 8:30 pm Shed Opening Night at Tanglewood Boston Symphony Orchestra Christoph … | 2012/07/10 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-07-10 01:55:54 |
| Parasite Drag by Mark Roberts, directed by Stephen Rothman, at Shakespeare & Company through September 2 | Parasite Drag by Mark Roberts directed by Stephen Rothman June 20–September 2 Elayne P. Bernstein … | 2012/07/09 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2012-07-09 19:33:45 |
| Old Master Drawings, the successor to The Drawing Site, is now online. | Old Master Drawings, the successor to The Drawing Site, is now online. In it, Michael … | 2012/07/09 | The Editor | Art, Drawings, New York Arts | 2012-07-09 12:49:37 |
| Paul Huang and Jessica Osborne to Play at Tannery Pond, July 14, 8pm | Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30, No. 3 Camille … | 2012/07/09 | The Editor | Music | 2012-07-09 03:01:36 |
| Altogether Now: the 18th Biennale of Sydney | At the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pier 2/3, … | 2012/07/08 | Alan Miller | Art, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-07-08 05:20:34 |
| A Singer’s Notes 50: Listening to King Lear | King Lear by William Shakespeare Directed by Rebecca Holderness Musical Director: Bill Barclay Shakespeare and … | 2012/07/04 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2012-07-04 03:09:33 |
| The Philadelphia Orchestra at Davies Hall — A Great Legend Intact — Two Concerts | Davies Hall, San Francisco The Philadelphia Orchestra Charles Dutoit – conductor Saturday, June 9, 2012 … | 2012/06/30 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-06-30 00:34:06 |
| Paris aime la photographie III | Eva Besnyö, 1910-2003: l’image sensible, until 23 September at the Jeu de Paume, Paris. Helmut … | 2012/06/29 | Erin C. Devine | En France avec la Berkshire Review, Photography | 2012-06-29 21:51:13 |
| Sviatoslav Richter (1915 – 1997) on Disc: Hunting the Snark | Angelic demon. Two musical instruments rise above all others in their humanity — the violin, … | 2012/06/29 | Huntley Dent | Recordings | 2012-06-29 13:22:19 |
| Monadnock Music 2012 Preview and Concert Schedule: the First Season under the Directorship of Gil Rose | In the wake of Opera Boston’s sad demise, the appointment of Gil Rose, who had … | 2012/06/28 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-06-28 15:45:01 |
| The Takács Quartet Visits Sydney | City Recital Hall, Angel Place: 23 June 2012 The Quartet play in Newcastle on 29 … | 2012/06/28 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-06-28 03:14:33 |
| Mohawk Trail Concerts 2012: Preview and Concert Schedule | The Mohawk Trail Concerts have been taking place in the Federated Church in Charlemont, Massachusetts … | 2012/06/27 | The Editor | Music | 2012-06-27 11:29:46 |
| Music Mountain Chamber Music Series Season Preview and Schedule 2012: the Summer of String Quartets Continued | This will be an unusually rich summer for string quartets, but Music Mountain will send … | 2012/06/26 | Michael Miller | Music, Preview Archive | 2012-06-26 23:02:57 |
| Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Season Preview and Concert Schedule 2012 | This year, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the festival of the Yale School of Music, … | 2012/06/26 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-06-26 15:50:10 |
| Ruth Reichl, Ellen Doré Watson, Patty Crane, Francine Prose, and Elizabeth Graver respond to Walker Evans’ “Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead” now posted on the new Gastronomica online..with interviews with Darra Goldstein and Hannah Fries | As part of the second annual Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, Orion and Gastronomica co-hosted a reading … | 2012/06/26 | Michael Miller | Food & Drink, Photography, Podcasts | 2012-06-26 12:00:13 |
| The Museum of Contemporary Art Opens a New Wing (and an Old Debate…) | Circular Quay is Sydney’s great public space, but it is no Piazza San Marco. The … | 2012/06/24 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-06-24 22:20:33 |
| Verdi’s Attila at the San Francisco Opera | Attila Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Temistocle Solera San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera … | 2012/06/24 | David Dunn Bauer | Opera, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-06-24 04:39:36 |
| Fiddler on the Roof at the Barrington Stage Company | It felt so good to return to the tiny village of Anatevka – to be … | 2012/06/23 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2012-06-23 13:48:27 |
| The Tokyo Quartet make their final appearance at the Tannery Pond Concerts with Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Debussy in Minor Keys | Tannery Pond Concerts The First Congregational Church, Stockbridge Saturday, June 16, 2012, 7 pm The … | 2012/06/22 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-06-22 04:58:23 |
| Nixon in China at the San Francisco Opera | San Francisco Opera Nixon in China John Adams, music Alice Goodman, libretto Richard Nixon – … | 2012/06/22 | David Dunn Bauer | Opera, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-06-22 02:27:33 |
| Must Paris Reconquer the Seine? | Pour accéder à la version française, cliquez ici. The global city is an oxymoron. No … | 2012/06/20 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-06-20 18:43:26 |
| Faut-il reconquérir la Seine? | To read the English version, click here. La ville mondiale est un oxymoron. Personne n’y … | 2012/06/20 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-06-20 17:00:18 |
| Paris aime la photographie II | The exhibition of Joel-Peter Witkin at the Bibliothéque Nationale is not a retrospective, but an … | 2012/06/17 | Erin C. Devine | En France avec la Berkshire Review, Photography | 2012-06-17 15:48:58 |
| Borromeo String Quartet conclude their Traversal of the Beethoven Quartets at the Gardner Museum with Nos. 13 – 15 | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Calderwood Hall Sunday, April 15, 2012 Borromeo String Quartet Nicholas Kitchen, … | 2012/06/16 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2012-06-16 00:46:59 |
| Mozart’s Magic Flute, a New Production at the San Francisco Opera, designed by Jun Kaneko | San Francsico Opera The Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, music Emanuel Schikaneder, libretto (Sung and … | 2012/06/14 | David Dunn Bauer | Opera, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-06-14 15:38:19 |
| Paris aime la photographie I | Although Photo Month in Paris is November, exhibitions of emerging and renowned photographers seem to … | 2012/06/14 | Erin C. Devine | En France avec la Berkshire Review, Photography | 2012-06-14 15:31:52 |
| The English National Ballet On Tour Spreads The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Festivities | The Concourse Theatre, Chatswood, Sydney: 8 June 2012 continues in Sydney until 17 June. Apollo … | 2012/06/13 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-06-13 04:56:56 |
| Interview with Judy Grunberg and Yehuda Hanani – PS21 presents the
7th Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert
, Saturday, June 16, 7.30 pm: Yehuda Hanani, cello;
Emma Tahmizian, piano | Saturday, June 16, 7:30 pm 7th Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert Yehuda Hanani, cello Emma … | 2012/06/13 | Michael Miller | Music, Podcasts | 2012-06-13 02:23:35 |
| La Nuit des Musées, Paris | Each year, there is a cultural event in Europe, La Nuit des Musées, when for … | 2012/06/09 | Erin C. Devine | Art, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-06-09 17:21:40 |
| The Sydney Theatre Company Plays Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood | Under Milk Wood, A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas Sydney Opera House, Drama Theatre: … | 2012/06/03 | Andrew Miller | The Berkshire Review in Australia, Theater | 2012-06-03 02:13:42 |
| The New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano; at Davies Hall, San Francisco, play Dvořák, Lindberg, and Tchaikovsky | The New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano Davies Hall, San Francisco Sunday, … | 2012/06/02 | Steven Kruger | Music, New York Arts, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-06-02 02:07:20 |
| Aston Magna Celebrates its 40th Anniversary: Season Preview with Concert Schedule 2012 | Like all the great institutions which are celebrating anniversaries this year, Aston Magna’s 40th anniversary … | 2012/05/31 | Michael Miller | Music, Previews | 2012-05-31 23:01:58 |
| Vespers Cantata: Hesperus is Phosphorus – The Premiere of an Important New Work by Lewis Spratlan at Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Saturday, June 2, 2012 ~ 8:00 pm | Vespers Cantata: Hesperus is Phosphorus Network for New Music Linda Reichert, artistic director The Crossing … | 2012/05/31 | The Editor | Music | 2012-05-31 17:48:28 |
| The Music of Mozart’s Last Months: La Clemenza di Tito at Emmanuel, Die Zauberflöte at Salzburg under Furtwängler, 1951, and Beecham’s Requiem from Pristine. | Mozart – La Clemenza di Tito Saturday, April 14, 2012 – 8 pm Pre-Concert Talk … | 2012/05/30 | Michael Miller | Opera, Recordings, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2012-05-30 03:56:54 |
| Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Turns 80: Preview and Schedule for the 2012 Festival | June 16 – August 26, 2012 Jacob’s Pillow, Becket Massachusetts See below for schedule. That … | 2012/05/29 | Andrew Miller | Dance, Previews | 2012-05-29 05:10:14 |
| Tannery Pond Benefit Concert: Sebastian Bäverstam, cello, and Yannick Rafalimanana, piano, play Kodály and Franck | Tannery Pond Benefit Concert May 5, 2012 Sebastian Bäverstam, cello Yannick Rafalimanana, piano at the … | 2012/05/28 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-05-28 23:56:58 |
| A Singer’s Notes 49: Amadeus at Hubbard Hall, Macbeth at Shakespeare and Company | Amadeus at Hubbard Hall Macbeth at Shakespeare and Company Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Schaffer’s Amadeus are … | 2012/05/28 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2012-05-28 16:52:30 |
| Gérard Grisey’s “Le Noir de L’Étoile” at Yellow Barn, Putney, VT, Friday, May 25 at 8.16 pm | Listen to Vela Pulsar: Residency Discussion With Tom Geballe Tuesday, May 22 | 7:00pm Putney … | 2012/05/28 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-05-28 14:28:08 |
| Still Life with Baer, open June 2, at Baer’s Den Bakery & Deli, 7 East Hoosac St., Adams, Massachusetts | STILL LIFE with BAER Featured artists: Joanna Gabler, Richard Harrington, Henry Klein, David Lane, … | 2012/05/26 | The Editor | Art, Previews | 2012-05-26 13:01:54 |
| Trio Dali On Their Australian Tour Play Gordon Kerry, Maurice Ravel, Franz Schubert | City Recital Hall, Sydney: 21 May 2012. Trio Dali plays in Melbourne on 26 May, … | 2012/05/25 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-05-25 02:01:54 |
| LAST CHANCE! At the Bennington Museum, “Memento Mori” The Art and Commerce of Gravestones in Bennington to Close May 22. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! | “Memento Mori” The Art and Commerce of Gravestones in Bennington The exhibition takes place in … | 2012/05/18 | The Editor | Art | 2012-05-18 15:49:01 |
| The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Plays Johann Sebastian Bach and His Contemporaries | City Recital Hall, Sydney: 9 May, 2012 Continues in Sydney until 19 May. J. S. … | 2012/05/17 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-05-17 01:13:14 |
| Susanna Mälkki conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Grisey, Prokofiev, and Sibelius, with Horacio Gutiérrez, piano | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Saturday, April 28, 2012 Susanna Mälkki, conductor … | 2012/05/16 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-05-16 22:34:18 |
| In certain regions some wines are famous, while others are ignored… | It’s always gratifying to have one’s theories confirmed and that’s what happened when I ran … | 2012/05/15 | Geraldine Ramer | Food & Drink, New York Arts | 2012-05-15 00:59:33 |
| The Australian Ballet Dances John Cranko’s ‘Onegin’ | Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House: 4 May, 2012 Onegin continues in Sydney until 21 May, … | 2012/05/11 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-05-11 03:07:23 |
| Audience Misbehavior: Everyone Wants To Get In On The Act | They looked like a normal Broadway audience, these adults attending a matinee of Seminar. Then … | 2012/05/07 | Nancy Salz | Theater | 2012-05-07 23:35:18 |
| Two Orchestral Concerts at Chapel Hill: Tonu Kalam conducts the UNC Symphony Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the European Union Youth Orchestra | The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Memorial Hall Wednesday, April 11, 2012 UNC Symphony … | 2012/05/03 | Steven Kruger | Music | 2012-05-03 02:09:04 |
| Some Paris Parks (English Version) | Pour accéder à la version française, cliquez ici. Writing about parks is more fun than … | 2012/05/01 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-05-01 03:35:16 |
| Quelques parcs parisiens (version française) | To read the English version, click here. Les parcs m’intéressent plus que les bâtiments. Les … | 2012/05/01 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-05-01 02:42:54 |
| The Clevelanders Visit San Francisco: Welser-Möst Conducts Mendelssohn, Saariaho, and Shostakovich at Davies Hall | Davies Hall, San Francisco Sunday, April 15, 2012 The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Mendelssohn … | 2012/05/01 | Steven Kruger | Music | 2012-05-01 01:05:19 |
| Esa-Pekka Salonen and Leila Josefowicz in Salonen’s Violin Concerto, with Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin and Stravinsky’s Complete Firebird | Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, April 13, 2012, 7.00 pm Symphony Hall Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Leila … | 2012/04/25 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2012-04-25 15:45:01 |
| The St Lawrence String Quartet and Diana Doherty on Oboe, Play Music by Haydn, Dvořák and Mozart and Contemporary Music by Matthew Hindson and Gordon Kerry | City Recital Hall, Sydney: 21 April 2012 The St Lawrence Quartet and Diana Doherty play … | 2012/04/24 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-04-24 03:45:25 |
| Berkshire Review’s International “Portals” | As The Berkshire Review has grown, we have developed certain international centers, where our writers … | 2012/04/22 | The Editor | Berkshire Review Local Sites, Extra Transfer, Places | 2012-04-22 23:17:23 |
| A Singer’s Notes 48: Simple Gifts – The Knights play Copland, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer at the National Theatre, London, Live in HD | I’m sitting now in the late sunlight, looking at my cat’s ear. A translucent point … | 2012/04/21 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-04-21 22:13:30 |
| The Tinalley String Quartet’s Unique Voice: Bach, Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven | Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room: 16 April 2012 Tinalley plays this program in Adelaide on … | 2012/04/19 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-04-19 22:40:38 |
| Three New Ballets to Open the Australian Ballet’s 50th Anniversary in Sydney | Sydney Opera House, Opera Theatre: 10 April, 2012 continues in Sydney until 25 April The … | 2012/04/15 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-04-15 04:58:08 |
| Opera Houses in the City, Part II: The Opéra Bastille (English Version) | Pour accéder à la version française, cliquez ici. What does it matter what you say … | 2012/04/09 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-04-09 18:17:00 |
| Les opéras en contexte, deuxième partie: l’Opéra Bastille (version française) | To read the English version, click here. What does it matter what you say about … | 2012/04/09 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-04-09 16:04:41 |
| “Music for a Time of War” – The Oregon Symphony under Carlos Kalmar play Ives, Adams, Britten, and Vaughan Williams on a Pentatone Release…Highly Recommended! | Music for a Time of War The Oregon Symphony Sanford Sylvan, Baritone Carlos Kalmar, Music … | 2012/04/07 | Michael Miller | Recordings | 2012-04-07 13:39:05 |
| A Singer’s Notes 47: The Night of the Iguana | The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams Hubbard Hall March 2-25, 2012 Art is … | 2012/04/04 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2012-04-04 07:27:05 |
| American Mavericks at Davies Hall: the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas and Friends Play Cage, Foss, Cowell, and Ruggles | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Michael Tilson Thomas, … | 2012/04/02 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-04-02 23:59:08 |
| On Wisconsin, Part II: Highlights from the Chazen Museum | It may be impossible to speak of a worldwide style of art, and instead we … | 2012/04/02 | Gregory Scheckler | Art | 2012-04-02 22:09:34 |
| On Wisconsin, Part I: Highlights from MadMOCA | The global art scene certainly is alive and well in Madison, Wisconsin. Evidence: the Madison … | 2012/04/02 | Gregory Scheckler | Art | 2012-04-02 19:30:19 |
| A BR Exclusive: Superstarchitect Jefe Anglesdottir’s First Project in the Hub! | In the architect’s own words: “I call this project “soft traces and unstable vectors.” It … | 2012/04/01 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2012-04-01 00:01:45 |
| Opera Houses in the City, Part I: The Palais Garnier (English Version) | Pour accéder à la version française, cliquez ici. Imagine a peacock at the Paris Opéra. … | 2012/03/31 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-03-31 11:59:26 |
| Les opéras dans la ville, première partie: le Palais Garnier (version française) | To read the English version, click here. Imaginez un paon à l’Opéra de Paris. Après … | 2012/03/31 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-03-31 11:48:49 |
| Virtuosity and More in Behzod Abduraimov’s Piano Recital | City Recital Hall, Angel Place: 26 March 2012 Abduraimov plays in Adelaide 29-31 March Domenico … | 2012/03/29 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-03-29 05:47:10 |
| Elena Xanthoudakis Sings Rare Romantic Lieder with Jason Xanthoudakis, Clarinet and Clemens Leske, Piano | Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium of Music: 24 March, 2012 The Trio plays again in … | 2012/03/27 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-03-27 02:44:55 |
| The Drawing Site to Retire Soon. Look for Michael Miller Old Master Drawings. | Launched in 1998, shortly after its sister site, Drawing Materials and Techniques, The Drawing Site, … | 2012/03/26 | The Editor | Art, Previews | 2012-03-26 22:00:18 |
| Le Salon du Dessin 2012 – UPDATE: Jorinde Voigt has won the Contemporary Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Art Foundation. | Knowing the Salon du Dessin at first hand, and contemplating its 2012 iteration, I find … | 2012/03/26 | Michael Miller | Art, Drawings, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-03-26 01:58:16 |
| Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony Play Prokofiev with Behzod Abduraimov, Berlioz and Elliott Gyger | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 22 March, 2012 matinée Elliott Gyger – on air, dialogue … | 2012/03/25 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-03-25 03:01:03 |
| Rafael Bonachela and the Sydney Dance Company in a New Work Called “2 One Another” | 2 One Another Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay: 13 March 2012 continues in Sydney until 31 … | 2012/03/17 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-03-17 03:08:52 |
| San Francisco Symphony: Arabella Steinbacher plays the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto; Charles Dutoit conducts Stravinsky and Bartók. | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Saturday, March 3, 2012 Charles Dutoit, conductor … | 2012/03/14 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-03-14 02:13:52 |
| Doisneau: Paris Les Halles at the Hôtel de Ville (English Version) | Pour accéder à la version française, cliquez ici. Doisneau: Paris Les Halles at the Hôtel … | 2012/03/13 | Alan Miller | En France avec la Berkshire Review, Photography | 2012-03-13 04:47:45 |
| Doisneau: Paris Les Halles à l’Hôtel de Ville (version française) | To read the English version, click here. Doisneau: Paris Les Halles à l’Hôtel de Ville, … | 2012/03/13 | Alan Miller | En France avec la Berkshire Review, Photography | 2012-03-13 04:31:51 |
| Rok Miłosza (The Miłosz Year) Comes to Williams College: Inspired by Miłosz, a Tribute by Omar Sangare and his Students | Czesław Miłosz (pronouced Cheswav Meewosh), who died in 2004, was perhaps the best known … | 2012/03/10 | Michael Miller | Literature | 2012-03-10 02:48:44 |
| Matthias Pintscher, Guest Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Play Stravinsky, Ravel and Pintscher | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 7 March 2012 Maurice Ravel – Mother Goose (Ma Mère … | 2012/03/10 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-03-10 01:27:01 |
| A Singer’s Notes 46: Rhymed Verse on the Stage, a Balancing Act; and More Fun at the Clark | Balancing Act Try this for starters. Read a scene in rhymed couplets to someone you know, and … | 2012/03/07 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-03-07 23:48:05 |
| A Small Oboe Festival: François Leleux and the Sydney Symphony Play Bach, Ravel and Mozart | Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House: 2 March 2012 J. S. Bach – Orchestral Suite No. … | 2012/03/07 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-03-07 00:09:14 |
| The Skin of this Onion is Delicious: Learning from Rue Rebière (English Version) | Pour accéder à la version française, cliquez ici. A project for 180 apartments built by … | 2012/03/06 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-03-06 09:25:05 |
| La peau de cet oignon est délicieuse: les leçons de la Rue Rebière (version française) | To read the English version, click here. Un projet de 180 logements bâti par Paris-Habitat, … | 2012/03/06 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-03-06 09:06:22 |
| Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Strauss’ Zarathustra, Brahms’ Violin Concerto with Lisa Batiashvili, Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 25 February 2012 Beethoven – Coriolan Overture, opus 62 Brahms … | 2012/03/01 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-03-01 05:13:54 |
| A New Permanent Exhibition at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris (English Version) | Pour accéder à la version française, cliquez ici. Pavilion de l’Arsenal, Paris Paris, la métropole … | 2012/02/28 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-02-28 08:29:39 |
| Une nouvelle exposition permanente à la Pavillon de l’Arsenal (version française) | Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris Paris, la métropole et ses projets, exposition permanente To read the … | 2012/02/28 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-02-28 08:20:05 |
| Rare Vivaldi Concerti with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Guest Violinist Federico Guglielmo | City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney: 22 February 2012 The program will be performed in … | 2012/02/26 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-02-26 00:43:47 |
| The Sydney Omega Ensemble and Gerard Willems Play Wind and Piano Works by Jolivet, Beethoven and New Australian Music by Luke Styles | Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House: 19 February, 2012 This program repeats at the Springwood Civic … | 2012/02/23 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-02-23 21:38:29 |
| A Singer’s Notes 45: Holy Song…and a Miscellany | Holy Song One day Beethoven got up and went to the house of Dorothea Ertmann, … | 2012/02/21 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-02-21 23:23:59 |
| Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Sydney Symphony and Stephen Kovacevich Play Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Strauss’ Alpensinfonie | Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House: 18 February 2012 Friday 17 February’s perfomrance to be broadcast … | 2012/02/21 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-02-21 21:11:21 |
| God Rocks the House in San Francisco and Palo Alto: Verdi’s Requiem with the SF Symphony and Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila with the West Bay Opera | San Francisco sustained two palpable if not destructive earthquakes (3.9 and 4.0) on Thursday October … | 2012/02/21 | David Dunn Bauer | Opera, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-02-21 20:44:42 |
| The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti Visit San Francisco: Honegger: Pacific 231, Bates: Alternative Energy, Franck: Symphony in D-minor | Davies Hall, San Francisco Tuesday, February 20, 2012 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti, conductor … | 2012/02/21 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-02-21 18:23:47 |
| Marcel Storr, bâtisseur visionnaire, English Version | Pour accéder à la version française, cliquez ici. Marcel Storr, bâtisseur visionnaire at the pavilion … | 2012/02/20 | Alan Miller | Art, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-02-20 10:29:51 |
| Marcel Storr, Bâtisseur visionnaire, version française | To read the English version, click here. Marcel Storr, bâtisseur visionnaire au pavillon Carré de … | 2012/02/20 | Alan Miller | Art, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-02-20 10:18:12 |
| Jaap van Zweden Conducts the BSO in Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Emanuel Ax | Boston Symphony Orchestra Symphony Hall February 9, 2012, Thursday 8:00 pm Jaap van Zweden, conductor … | 2012/02/20 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-02-20 01:18:36 |
| Mais qu’est-ce que c’est devant le Louvre? | Mais qu’est-ce que c’est devant le Louvre? Une soucoupe volante ou un peu de Venise* … | 2012/02/18 | Alan Miller | En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-02-18 01:20:30 |
| Blomstedt Returns to the San Francisco Symphony in Tchaikovsky and Bruckner Fifths; Garrick Ohlsson Plays Mozart Piano Concerto K. 271 | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Saturday, February 4, 2012 Herbert Blomstedt, conductor … | 2012/02/17 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-02-17 23:00:52 |
| La France en relief at the Grand Palais (English Version) | Pour accéder à la version française, cliquez ici. La France en relief Grand Palais, Paris, … | 2012/02/15 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-02-15 04:30:49 |
| La France en relief au Grand Palais (version française) | To read the English version, click here. La France en relief Grand Palais, Paris, jusqu’à … | 2012/02/15 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review | 2012-02-15 04:23:05 |
| Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Embark On Their 2012 Season with Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Strauss’ Metamorphosen | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 11 February 2012 live broadcast of Monday’s concert available from … | 2012/02/14 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-02-14 01:20:10 |
| The 100th Birthday of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion: The Sydney Theatre Company Celebrates With Something Different | Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts by George Bernard Shaw Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay: 4 … | 2012/02/07 | Andrew Miller | The Berkshire Review in Australia, Theater | 2012-02-07 01:16:49 |
| Some Italian Wines You Should Know | La Cantina di Terlano Looking at the Leonard Freed photographs of Italy on these pages … | 2012/02/01 | Geraldine Ramer | Food & Drink | 2012-02-01 16:37:17 |
| Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Detroit Institute of Arts, through February 12th | Since fully reopening five years ago after a magnificent renovation and expansion project, the Detroit … | 2012/01/30 | Daniel B. Gallagher | Art, New York Arts | 2012-01-30 20:19:40 |
| Great News for Music in New England: Monadnock Music Appoints Gil Rose Artistic Director | When lamenting the fall of Opera Boston, one thing I never doubted was that the … | 2012/01/30 | Michael Miller | Music | 2012-01-30 18:10:50 |
| Heart of the City | A successful public space, they say, is one where the citizens block the steps. So … | 2012/01/29 | Steven Kruger | Places, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2012-01-29 22:58:00 |
| Richard Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: the beginning of Marek Janowski’s Historic Series of Concert Performances of the Ten Mature Operas and Music Dramas | Richard Wagner Der fliegende Holländer WWV 63 Matti Salminen – Bass (Daland) Ricarda Merbeth – … | 2012/01/25 | Michael Miller | Recordings, Richard Wagner | 2012-01-25 04:00:39 |
| The Sydney Festival: ‘Buried City’ By Raimondo Cortese at the Belvoir St Theatre | Buried City By Raimondo Cortese Upstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre, Surry Hills, Sydney: 13 January … | 2012/01/18 | Andrew Miller | The Berkshire Review in Australia, Theater | 2012-01-18 05:06:40 |
| Harbison’s Symphony No. 6 premiered by the BSO under David Zinman, also Weber, Strauss, and Beethoven’s FIrst Piano Concerto with Andsnes | Boston Symphony Orchestra, January 12, 2012 David Zinman conducting Leif Ove Andsnes, piano Paula Murrihy, … | 2012/01/17 | Charles Warren | Music | 2012-01-17 22:00:12 |
| A Singer’s Notes 44: New Year’s Day in the Hall with Johann Sebastian Bach | Something is happening with increasing frequency in Baroque performance practice these days. A kind of third … | 2012/01/17 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Music | 2012-01-17 14:20:21 |
| Dance at the Sydney Festival – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet’s ‘Babel’, Martin del Amo’s ‘Anatomy of an Afternoon’ and Gideon Obarzanek’s ‘Assembly’ | Babel (words) Sydney Theater: 10 January 2012 Choreography – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet Visual … | 2012/01/16 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2012-01-16 02:34:33 |
| Tonu Kalam Conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with the UNC Symphony Orchestra | It is our pleasure to offer another one of Tonu Kalam’s distinguished performances with the … | 2012/01/11 | The Editor | Music | 2012-01-11 20:45:39 |
| The Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University has purchased Leonard Freed’s Powder Ridge photographs from the Brill Gallery, North Adams | The Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University has purchased a collection of Leonard Freed’s photographs … | 2012/01/08 | Michael Miller | Photography | 2012-01-08 18:19:17 |
| A Singer’s Notes 43: Simple Songs | At its center Christmas is the simplest of celebrations. Its god is created not in … | 2012/01/04 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2012-01-04 18:47:09 |
| Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, The National Gallery of Art, London, November 9, 2011 – February 5, 2012 | The crowds begin as one approaches the rear of the building: a long line, snaking … | 2011/12/31 | Bruce Boucher | Art, Drawings, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-12-31 18:11:48 |
| Rembrandt and Degas: Two Young Artists, at the Clark Art Institute | Sponsored jointly by the Clark Art Institute and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, this small exhibition of … | 2011/12/29 | Gregory Scheckler | Art | 2011-12-29 22:02:41 |
| Opera Boston to Close January 1, 2012. | With no advance warning, Opera Boston board chair Winifred P. Gray and board president Gregory … | 2011/12/24 | Michael Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-12-24 06:57:55 |
| Berkshire Review’s Recommended Books and Classical Recordings 2011 | I should most likely not distract you from giving a subscription to The Berkshire Review … | 2011/12/23 | Michael Miller | Literature, Recordings | 2011-12-23 16:00:50 |
| Mozart and Yellow Warblers: Recent Performances of the Piano Concertos on Disc (Part I of a Series) | Recorded Performances of Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Derek Han, Vassily Primakov, Rudolf Buchbinder, David … | 2011/12/22 | Seth Lachterman | Recordings | 2011-12-22 21:07:36 |
| From Concord’s Jail – An Address by H. D. Thoreau | [Originally published September 25, 2008] Introduction: On July 23rd, 1846, Henry David Thoreau, protesting slavery and … | 2011/12/20 | Nathan Smith | Literature | 2011-12-20 17:27:49 |
| The Best and Worst of Sydney Urbanism, 2011 | Unlike movies or the performing arts, architecture is not seasonal. There is no year end … | 2011/12/20 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-12-20 03:21:26 |
| The New York Philharmonic: Peter Schreier conducts Handel’s Messiah
| Peter Schreier conducts Handel’s Messiah New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall Wednesday, December 14, 2011, … | 2011/12/18 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-12-18 17:46:03 |
| Perrier-Jouët Belle Époque 2004 | “see how it quivers and whispers in the glass” —George Farquhar Those clever English playwrights … | 2011/12/16 | Geraldine Ramer | Food & Drink | 2011-12-16 22:14:53 |
| Ludovic Morlot conducts the BSO in Harbison, Ravel, and Mahler at Davies Hall, San Francisco | Davies Hall, San Francisco Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Boston Symphony Orchestra Ludovic Morlot, conductor Harbison … | 2011/12/16 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2011-12-16 13:39:10 |
| A Christmas Australis with Real Music with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir | Noël! Noël! City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney: 14 December 2011 plays in Wollongong on … | 2011/12/16 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-12-16 05:09:27 |
| Osmo Vänskä and Alisa Weilerstein Collaborate with the Sydney Symphony — Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Beethoven | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 10 December 2011 Tchaikovsky – Voyevoda – Symphonic Ballad, opus … | 2011/12/13 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-12-13 19:59:16 |
| Richard Harrington, ZERO SUM Greylock Arts, Adams, Massachusetts, autumn, 2011: A Word from the Artist | Adapting the themes of this exhibition to the space at Greylock Arts has been a … | 2011/12/12 | Richard Harrington | Uncategorized | 2011-12-12 23:59:58 |
| Graeme Murphy Choreographs a New Romeo and Juliet for the Australian Ballet | Romeo & Juliet Sydney Opera House, Opera Theatre: 7 December 2011, 1.30 pm continues in … | 2011/12/10 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-12-10 22:07:53 |
| James Levine Withdraws from Met Conducting Assignments Through the End of Next Season | The Metropolitan Opera has released the following announcement, which comes as no surprise. What struck … | 2011/12/10 | The Editor | Opera | 2011-12-10 11:07:11 |
| Robert Schumann, The Complete Works for Piano Trio – Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Tanja Tetzlaff, cello; Leif Ove Andsnes, piano, on EMI Classics | Robert Schumann, The Complete Works for Piano Trio Christian Tetzlaff, violin Tanja Tetzlaff, cello Leif … | 2011/12/09 | Michael Miller | Recordings | 2011-12-09 02:29:24 |
| Things are heating up at the BSO: Harbison Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 and more under Morlot and Bělohlávek | Boston Symphony Orchestra Symphony Hall Thursday, November 17, 2011, 8:00 pm Berlioz, Mozart, Carter and Bartók … | 2011/12/06 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-12-06 13:43:50 |
| Jonathan Nott Conducts the Sydney Symphony in Brahms, Brett Dean and Schubert | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 3 December 2011 Brahms – Tragic Overture opus 81 Brett … | 2011/12/05 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-12-05 04:09:58 |
| Vivaldi’s Griselda From the Pinchgut Opera of Sydney | Griselda Dramma per musica. Libretto by Carlo Goldoni after Apostolo Zeno Music by Antonio Vivaldi … | 2011/12/03 | Andrew Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-12-03 17:51:22 |
| Your Paid Subscription to The Berkshire Review: how to get the most out of it. | Thanks, once again, to all the people who signed up on the first day! … | 2011/12/01 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2011-12-01 18:33:54 |
| Charpentier’s La Couronne de Fleurs and La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers by the Boston Early Music Society | Marc-Antoine Charpentier Double Bill La Descente d’Orphée aux enfers La Couronne de fleurs Saturday, November … | 2011/12/01 | Charles Warren | Opera | 2011-12-01 16:54:55 |
| A Singer’s Notes 42 – Listening to Pelléas: the Classic 1941 Recording under Désormières as reissued by Andante, EMI, and Pristine Classical | Very few recordings really deserve to be called iconic, but the 1941 recording of Claude Debussy’s … | 2011/12/01 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-12-01 16:06:55 |
| A Singer’s Notes 41: To Dream the Impossible Dream: Man of La Mancha at Capital Rep | Directed by Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill Man of La Mancha is manifestly a show which tries to convert. … | 2011/12/01 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2011-12-01 00:43:03 |
| Picasso at the Art Gallery of New South Wales | Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney … | 2011/11/27 | Alan Miller | The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-11-27 00:34:25 |
| Mahler’s Second Symphony: Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony Complete Their Mahler Cycle | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 23 November 2011 repeats and broadcasted live on ABC Classic … | 2011/11/26 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-11-26 20:18:09 |
| A Letter from the Editor and Publisher, Michael Miller | To our readers: I’ll break all the rules of marketing and confess that I have … | 2011/11/22 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2011-11-22 21:21:50 |
| The Australian Ballet Dances a Renovated Merry Widow | The Merry Widow a ballet in three acts Sydney Opera House, Opera Theatre: 16 November … | 2011/11/21 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-11-21 17:23:55 |
| Joanna Gabler’s Transcapes at the Milne Public Library, Williamstown, until early December | Joanna Gabler will be exhibiting her most recent works in the David and Joyce Milne … | 2011/11/18 | The Editor | Art | 2011-11-18 06:52:27 |
| Live in HD? Donizetti’s Anna Bolena from the Met in Pixels | Anna Bolena Gaetano Donizetti Felice Romani, libretto Metropolitan Opera House: 10/15/2011 HD Transmission Anna Bolena … | 2011/11/16 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2011-11-16 22:52:26 |
| Elgar Conducts Elgar: Enigma Variations; Symphony No. 2 in Acoustic Recordings, 1920-25, Splendidly Remastered by Andrew Rose of Pristine Classical | Elgar Conducts Elgar–Enigma Variations; Symphony No. 2 The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Sir Edward Elgar, … | 2011/11/15 | Steven Kruger | Recordings | 2011-11-15 03:50:05 |
| Boston Early Music Festival to Present a Marc-Antoine Charpentier Double Bill at Jordan Hall, Sat. Nov. 25 and 8 pm and Sun. Nov. 26 at 3 pm | Marc-Antoine Charpentier Double Bill La Descente d’Orphée aux enfers La Couronne de fleurs Saturday, November … | 2011/11/15 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2011-11-15 03:20:48 |
| Sabine Meyer and the Modigliani String Quartet Play Music by Mozart, Schumann and Ian Munro | City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney: 12 November 2011 The ensemble will play this program … | 2011/11/14 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-11-14 19:25:33 |
| Sculpture by the Sea | 3-20 November 2011 Nearly to the point of self-parody, Sculpture by the Sea is the … | 2011/11/12 | Alan Miller | The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-11-12 01:59:38 |
| Myung-Whun Chung and Garrick Ohlsson in Weber. Barber’s Piano Concerto, and Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” | Boston Symphony Orchestra November 10, 2011, Thursday 8:00 pm Symphony Hall Myung-Whun Chung, conductor Garrick … | 2011/11/12 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-11-12 00:18:43 |
| Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic at Davies Hall in San Francisco: Adams, Chapela, and Prokofiev…Dudamania lives! | Davies Hall, San Francisco Saturday, October 23, 2011 The Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel, conductor … | 2011/11/08 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2011-11-08 12:25:29 |
| Verdi, Macbetto, Boston Lyric Opera | Verdi, Macbetto Boston Lyric Opera November 4, 2011 Conductor – David Angus Stage Director – … | 2011/11/07 | Charles Warren | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-11-07 23:49:25 |
| Markand Thakar, Looking for the “Harp” Quartet, An Investigation into Musical Beauty | Markand Thakar, Looking for the “Harp” Quartet, An Investigation into Musical Beauty, Eastman Studies in … | 2011/11/07 | Michael Miller | Literature | 2011-11-07 00:07:55 |
| The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Led by Riccardo Minasi Plays Vivaldi, Zelenka, Sardelli, Fasch on Period Instruments | City Recital, Angel Place, Sydney: 2 November 2011 Jan Dismas Zelenka Sinfonia from the Serenata … | 2011/11/06 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-11-06 01:44:09 |
| The Berkshire Review now accepting paid subscriptions. You must subscribe in order to access most content. All pages, most previews, and some articles still free. | I never fail to consult the Berkshire Review and New York Arts without being impressed … | 2011/11/04 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2011-11-04 16:16:06 |
| Wind Quintets and Octet by Milhaud, Taffanel, Reinecke with the Sydney Omega Ensemble in the Utzon Room | Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room: 30 October 2011 Darius Milhaud La Cheminée du Roi René … | 2011/11/01 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-11-01 19:20:34 |
| Alan Miller, a New York Arts / Berkshire Review editor, wins the Architect’s Journal Writing Prize | The winner of the inaugural AJ Writing Prize in association with architecture practice Berman … | 2011/10/27 | The Editor | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-10-27 19:03:19 |
| A Singer’s Notes 40: The Liszt Sonata | The piano music of Franz Liszt makes performing the central issue, a fundamental structural presence. Twentieth-century Werktreue just … | 2011/10/26 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-10-26 22:35:08 |
| Degas and The Ballet: Picturing Movement:
Royal Academy of Arts, London
, September 17 – December 11th | Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement Royal Academy of Arts, London September 17 – December … | 2011/10/26 | Bruce Boucher | The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-10-26 15:22:36 |
| The Multifaceted Piano Sonata: Stephen Hough’s Recital of Sonatas | City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney: 22 October 2011 Stephen Hough will perform this program … | 2011/10/25 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-10-25 19:31:28 |
| Paula Robison talks to Michael Miller | On the day following her amazing recital with Katherine Chi at Jordan Hall, Paula Robison … | 2011/10/25 | Michael Miller | Music, Podcasts, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-10-25 12:18:01 |
| Berlioz, Béatrice et Bénédict, at Opera Boston | Berlioz, Béatrice et Bénédict Opera Boston October 21, 2011 Sean Panikkar – Bénédict Julie Boulianne … | 2011/10/23 | Charles Warren | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-10-23 01:12:37 |
| Why I am a NiMBY* | Three times in the past month, The Sydney Morning Herald, the city’s broadsheet of record … | 2011/10/21 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-10-21 02:16:59 |
| Mark Wigglesworth, Stephen Hough and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra play Lutosławski, Mozart and Dvořák, and a Note on the Separateness of Math and Music | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall, 13 October 2011 Witold Lutosławski Symphony no. 4 I. II. … | 2011/10/18 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-10-18 21:54:20 |
| Vasily Petrenko and Joshua Bell in a Russo-English Program with the SF Symphony: Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, and Elgar | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Saturday, October 8, 2011 Vasily Petrenko, conductor … | 2011/10/17 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2011-10-17 21:46:53 |
| Richard Harrington: ZERO SUM, an Exhibition at Greylock Arts, 93 Summer Street, Adams, Opening Oct. 28, 5.30-8.30 | Upcoming Exhibit › Richard Harrington: ZERO SUM An exhibition of mathematically based sculptures. Richard Harrington is … | 2011/10/14 | The Editor | Previews | 2011-10-14 02:28:38 |
| A Singer’s Notes 39: Reading Theater | Books aren’t what they used to be. Now we have devices. They talk and sing. … | 2011/10/12 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-10-12 22:27:41 |
| A Joyful and Humane B Minor Mass at Emmanuel Music: Ryan Turner begins his second season as Music Director, followed by a 2011-12 season schedule | Bach B Minor Mass Saturday, September 24, 2011 – 8:00 PM Pre-Concert Talk at … | 2011/10/12 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-10-12 01:21:09 |
| Some Outstanding Whites from France, Italy, Spain, and New Zealand | Sometimes I think I’m the only person in the room who likes white wine, but … | 2011/10/11 | Geraldine Ramer | Food & Drink | 2011-10-11 23:47:01 |
| The Willoughby Symphony Orchestra Plays at Sydney’s Newest Concert Hall | The Concourse, Chatswood, Sydney: 7 October, 2011 repeated 9 October 2011 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano … | 2011/10/10 | Andrew Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-10-10 23:47:30 |
| Music at the Schools: Concert Schedules and more at New England Colleges, Universities, and Conservatories [EXPANDED] | [table id=11 /] For listings in New York City and environs, click here for our … | 2011/10/07 | The Editor | Music, Previews, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-10-07 02:32:20 |
| Paula Robison and Katherine Chi play Griffes, Lanier, Taffanel and Franck at NEC’s Jordan Hall | Paula Robison, flute Katherine Chi, piano NEC’s Jordan Hall, September 25, 2011 – 2 pm … | 2011/10/05 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-10-05 14:27:09 |
| Arabella Ensemble – Lorenz Gamma, violin, Jennifer Langham, cello, Ming Tsu, piano – with Christian Steiner, piano play Beethoven, Piazzolla, and rarities by Debussy and Rebecca Clarke at Tannery Pond | Tannery Pond Concerts, Saturday, September 3, 2011, 8 pm Arabella Ensemble Lorenz Gamma, violin, Jennifer … | 2011/10/02 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-10-02 18:12:45 |
| New York Arts / Berkshire Review editor Alan Miller wins the Architect’s Journal Writing Prize | The winner of the inaugural AJ Writing Prize in association with architecture practice Berman … | 2011/09/30 | The Editor | Architecture - Urban Design | 2011-09-30 18:14:29 |
| “What Inspires Design in Istanbul?” with Superpool: Becoming Istanbul at SALT Beyoğlu | “What Inspires Design in Istanbul?” with Superpool: Becoming Istanbul at SALT Beyoğlu [REPRINTED from The … | 2011/09/29 | Renée van Staveren | Architecture - Urban Design, Extra Transfer, Previews | 2011-09-29 18:32:35 |
| The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-12 Season Schedule and Preview | Mark Volpe and his organization pulled off an impressive feat in creating this season … | 2011/09/28 | Michael Miller | Music, Previews, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-09-28 03:28:32 |
| Istanbul: New Wealth, New Architecture | As I stepped into the 47th floor garden room of a new luxury apartment … | 2011/09/27 | Louise Levathes | Architecture - Urban Design | 2011-09-27 13:34:36 |
| San Francisco Symphony: MTT and Yo-Yo Ma in Hindemith’s Cello Concerto, with Beethoven’s Leonore No. 3 and Brahms’ First Symphony | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Saturday, September 17, 2011 Michael Tilson Thomas … | 2011/09/27 | The Editor | Music | 2011-09-27 01:29:33 |
| Brahms’s First Symphony: Vladimir Ashkenazy Conducts the Sydney Symphony | Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House: 23 September 2011 Ludwig van Beethoven Overture to the Creatures … | 2011/09/26 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-09-26 02:40:41 |
| The Apollo Trio at the Meeting House, New Marlborough play Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Dvořák | The Apollo Trio at the Meeting House, New Marlborough Saturday, September 17 Curtis Macomber, violin; … | 2011/09/25 | Keith Francis | Music | 2011-09-25 05:41:43 |
| Paula Robison and Katherine Chi to play a free concert at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall | Paula Robison, flute Katherine Chi, piano NEC’s Jordan Hall, September 25, 2011 – 2 pm … | 2011/09/20 | The Editor | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-09-20 02:33:33 |
| Porgy and Bess at the A.R.T. – Opera as Broadway Musical | Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin Adapted by … | 2011/09/12 | Charles Warren | The Berkshire Review in Boston, Theater | 2011-09-12 19:18:15 |
| A Singer’s Notes 38: On the Road | I get in my little car, and I go to marvelous things. My favorite is the Mohawk … | 2011/09/12 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-09-12 17:50:49 |
| Joanna Gabler exhibits Orchid Mandalas at the Warsaw University Botanical Garden, September 2011 | In celebration of Orchid Day, the Warsaw University Botanical Garden is presenting an exhibition of Joanna’s … | 2011/09/08 | The Editor | Art | 2011-09-08 15:41:49 |
| The Australian Ballet’s 50th Anniversary Season – 2012 Season Preview and Schedule, David McAllister, Artistic Director [*UPDATED* with new anouncements] | The boronia and the pink eriostemon are at the height of their bloom, most of … | 2011/09/08 | Andrew Miller | Dance, Previews, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-09-08 06:08:46 |
| Fan Tan Alley, September, 2011: The Alamo of Victoria Heritage? | Perhaps as a graduate architectural historian, who had the advantage of critical thinking applied to … | 2011/09/05 | JC Scott | Architecture - Urban Design | 2011-09-05 17:12:03 |
| The Williamstown Theatre Festival 2011 – a Success Story, a Disaster, and an Appeal | Disagreement is a healthy sign in theater, I’ve always thought—the livelier the better—and for … | 2011/09/03 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2011-09-03 13:44:50 |
| Richard Wagner, Parsifal, directed by Stefan Herheim and conducted by Daniele Gatti, Bayreuther Festspiele (2010 Performance Reviewed) | Richard Wagner, Parsifal Daniele Gatti, Conductor Stefan Herheim, Stage Director Heike Scheele, Set Designer Gesine … | 2011/09/02 | Michael Miller | At the Bayreuth Festival, Berkshire Review in Germany | 2011-09-02 21:08:16 |
| Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Artistic Director: 2012 Season Preview and Concert Schedule (*REVISED WITH CONCERT SCHEDULE*) | It was good news that Vladimir Ashkenazy renewed his contract as artistic director of the … | 2011/09/01 | Andrew Miller | Music, Previews, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-09-01 22:00:10 |
| The Game, A Musical Version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Barrington Stage Company, closed August 28, 2011 | The Game, A Musical Version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Barrington Stage Company … | 2011/09/01 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2011-09-01 03:53:15 |
| Ian Munro and the Goldner String Quartet Play Munro, Szymanowski and Brahms | City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney: matinée 27 August 2011 Tours to Coffs Harbour 1 … | 2011/08/31 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-08-31 22:36:04 |
| A Singer’s Notes 37: Risk and Ease – Cherubini’s Medea at Glimmerglass, Handel’s Orlando at Tanglewood | Artists like Maria Callas and Vladimir Horowitz seemed to possess as part of their … | 2011/08/28 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-08-28 14:15:07 |
| McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Doing Handel’s Orlando at Tanglewood—Less is More | George Frideric Handel’s Orlando Tanglewood Festival Seiji Ozawa Hall Tuesday August 16 2011 Philharmonia Baroque … | 2011/08/23 | Larry Wallach | Opera | 2011-08-23 02:01:00 |
| Ten Cents a Dance—An Abstract Musical, conceived and directed by John Doyle, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Main Stage, August 11-28 | Williamstown Theatre Festival Main Stage, August 11-28 Ten Cents a Dance Music – Richard Rodgers … | 2011/08/23 | Nancy Salz | Musical Theater, Theater | 2011-08-23 00:31:49 |
| Fragments of a Festival, a Festival of Fragments: Festival of Contemporary Music, Tanglewood, August 3—7, 2011 | Festival of Contemporary Music, Tanglewood, August 3—7, 2011 Thursday, August 4: Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman … | 2011/08/22 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2011-08-22 14:58:57 |
| Mozart Perfection Midsummer: Emanuel Ax performs Mozart at Tanglewood, August 7, 2011…and a Triumph for Young Bringuier | Tanglewood Music Festival Boston Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Emanuel Ax, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto … | 2011/08/18 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2011-08-18 01:52:34 |
| Mari Andrejco’s The Belle of Amherst (a new version after William Luce’s play) at Triple Shadow in East Otis, Massachusetts, Friday-Sunday through August 28th | So who was Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) really? She was the “Nobody” from Amherst, MA, the … | 2011/08/16 | Deborah Brown | Theater | 2011-08-16 13:44:57 |
| A Singer’s Notes 36: Childe Maurice | He comes out like Oberon, with hair of gold and a light step. It’s a … | 2011/08/15 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-08-15 22:09:45 |
| Marlboro Music 60th Anniversary Season: an update to our retrospective “Marlboro at 60” | Marlboro Weekly Concert Programs Download a Printable Copy of the Programs Purchase Available Tickets to … | 2011/08/15 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-08-15 13:36:16 |
| Bard Music Festival 2011, “Sibelius and His World” – Program Details (REVISED, with a Note on the Composer) | The announcement of the upcoming Bard Music Festival, “Sibelius and his World,” begins with a … | 2011/08/14 | Michael Miller | Bard Music Festival, Music | 2011-08-14 01:00:07 |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales | The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite designs, studies & watercolours at the Art Gallery of New … | 2011/08/12 | Andrew Miller | Drawings, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-08-12 04:21:51 |
| The Barangaroo Review: Your concerns are important to us but we do not share them | I. “My Final Bellyache” The results of the “short, sharp” review into Sydney’s Barangaroo development … | 2011/08/10 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-08-10 22:24:50 |
| A Tale of Two Conductors (and Two Pianists, Two Concertos, Two Symphonies): Graf and Eschenbach with the BSO in Mozart, Mahler, and Brahms, with Orion Weiss and Peter Serkin | The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood: Friday, July 29 Hans Graf, conductor, Orion Weiss, … | 2011/08/09 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2011-08-09 20:43:17 |
| Touch(ed) by Bess Wohl, directed by Trip Cullman, Williamstown Theatre Festival, August 3-14, 2011 | Touch(ed) by Bess Wohl directed by Trip Cullman Williamstown Theatre Festival, Nikos Theatre August 3-14, … | 2011/08/09 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2011-08-09 18:19:56 |
| Bryn Terfel sings Schumann, Finzi, and Ibert at the Ravinia Festival, August 2, 2011 | Ravinia Festival Martin Theater August 2, 2011 Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone Brian Zeger, piano Robert Schumann, … | 2011/08/08 | David Kubiak | Music | 2011-08-08 19:48:13 |
| Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Vespro della Beata Vergine, under Kent Tritle, at the Berkshire Choral Festival | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers of 1610) Berkshire Choral Festival Stewart Center at … | 2011/08/08 | Keith Francis | Music | 2011-08-08 18:37:44 |
| Prom 26: Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, cond. Donald Runnicles, Lynn Harrell, cello | Prom 26: Debussy/Dutilleux/Ravel Royal Albert Hall August 3 rd, 2011 Debussy – Prélude à … | 2011/08/07 | Gabriel Kellett | Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-08-07 18:59:14 |
| She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, directed by Nicholas Martin, Williamstown Theatre Festival | She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith directed by Nicholas Martin Williamstown Theatre Festival July … | 2011/08/06 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2011-08-06 01:54:21 |
| Neuenfels’ Lohengrin at Bayreuth – 2010 / 2011: a (P)review | Lohengrin Bayreuther Festspiele 2010 Andris Nelsons – Conductor Hans Neuenfels – Stage Director Reinhard … | 2011/08/04 | Michael Miller | At the Bayreuth Festival, Berkshire Review in Germany | 2011-08-04 03:02:33 |
| Le Tour de France 2011 (version française) | Alfred Hitchcock serait un bon metteur en scène pour cette épreuve. -Pedro Delgado, vainqueur du … | 2011/07/31 | Alan Miller | En France avec la Berkshire Review, Places | 2011-07-31 04:13:37 |
| A New Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: Sign the Petition Calling for an Open Competition (UPDATED) | The good news is that the Australia Council for the Arts has announced plans to … | 2011/07/31 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-07-31 00:30:19 |
| Le Tour de France 2011 (English Version) | Alfred Hitchcock would be a good director of this race. -1988 winner Pedro Delgado … | 2011/07/29 | Alan Miller | En France avec la Berkshire Review, Places | 2011-07-29 04:14:23 |
| Prom 15: Liszt’s Faust Symphony, Kodály and Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 1 | Prom 15: Kodály: Dances of Galánta Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1 Liszt: A Faust Symphony … | 2011/07/29 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-29 00:01:38 |
| The San Francisco Ring, 2011 – Donald Runnicles, Conductor, Francesca Zambello, Stage Director | San Francisco Ring Cycle, 2011 Conductor – Donald Runnicles Director – Francesca Zambello Set Designer … | 2011/07/28 | David Dunn Bauer | Richard Wagner, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2011-07-28 02:58:39 |
| A Woman Killed with Kindness at the National Theatre, reviewed by Huntley Dent | (This review was previously posted on 14 July. It was temporarily removed because its author … | 2011/07/27 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, The Berkshire Review in London, Theater | 2011-07-27 15:56:46 |
| The English National Ballet’s Tribute to Roland Petit | Roland Petit English National Ballet London Coliseum Carmen Carmen – Anaïs Chalendard Don José – … | 2011/07/27 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Dance, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-27 06:31:33 |
| Prom 13: Verdi’s Requiem | Prom 13: Verdi: Requiem Marina Poplavskaya – soprano Mariana Pentcheva – mezzo-soprano Joseph Calleja – … | 2011/07/27 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-27 04:15:59 |
| A Woman Killed with Kindness at the National Theatre, London | A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood Directed by Katie Mitchell National Theatre, London … | 2011/07/26 | Lucy Kellett | The Berkshire Review in London, Theater | 2011-07-26 14:37:39 |
| Vassily Primakov plays Schubert, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff at Tannery Pond | Tannery Pond Concerts, Saturday, July 24, 2011 Franz Schubert – 14 Waltzes (Suite compiled by V. … | 2011/07/26 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-07-26 04:02:31 |
| Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show at Menier Chocolate Factory | Road Show Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Menier Chocolate Factory, London Book – John … | 2011/07/25 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-25 02:00:51 |
| Steve Levin, Recent Work, Williams College Museum of Art. Winter and Spring 2011 | Recent Work: Aida Laleian and Steve Levin, February 26 – April 24, 2011 I’ve been familiar … | 2011/07/24 | Richard Harrington | Art | 2011-07-24 23:34:13 |
| Crossing Over: Deborah Voigt in Annie Get Your Gun at Glimmerglass | Annie Oakley — Deborah Voigt Frank Butler — Rod Gilfry Buffalo Bill Cody — Jake … | 2011/07/24 | Nancy Salz | Music, Musical Theater | 2011-07-24 09:43:32 |
| Schiller’s “Luise Miller” at the Donmar Warehouse, London | Luise Miller by Friedrich Schiller English translation by Mike Poulton Directed by Michael Grandage Donmar … | 2011/07/24 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, The Berkshire Review in London, Theater | 2011-07-24 03:02:27 |
| A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Williamstown Theatre Festival, NIkos Stage, July 20 – 31 | A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Williamstown Theatre Festival, NIkos Stage July 20 – 31 … | 2011/07/23 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2011-07-23 12:07:32 |
| Richard III by William Shakespeare, directed by Miles Potter – until September 25, Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario | Richard III by William Shakespeare Director – Miles Potter Designer – Peter Hartwell Lighting … | 2011/07/21 | Daniel B. Gallagher | Theater | 2011-07-21 15:38:09 |
| Russell Sherman Plays Schumann and Liszt at Rockport Chamber Music Festival | Rockport Chamber Music Festival Sunday, July 17 Russell Sherman, piano The Rockport Chamber Music Festival … | 2011/07/21 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-07-21 05:52:59 |
| John Storgårds and Nikolaj Znaider triumph in an all-Sibelius program at Tanglewood | Tanglewood, Koussevitzky Music Shed Saturday, July 16, 8:30 p.m. Shed John Storgårds, conductor Nikolaj Znaider, violin … | 2011/07/21 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-07-21 04:55:36 |
| The French Orchestra at the Proms: Myung-Whun Chung Conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France | Prom 5: Messiaen Les offrandes oubliées Pascal Dusapin Morning in Long Island (Concerto No. 1 … | 2011/07/21 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-21 02:45:29 |
| Prom 4: Havergal Brian’s Symphony No 1 “The Gothic” | Prom 4: Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, ‘The Gothic’ Susan Gritton – … | 2011/07/21 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-21 00:35:24 |
| The Rosés of Provence | If it were possible to bottle up the spirit of a place in a wine, … | 2011/07/20 | Geraldine Ramer | Food & Drink | 2011-07-20 23:24:57 |
| East and West: 1 Bligh Joins Sydney’s Big End of Town | Into the head of the cove, on which our establishment is fixed, runs a small … | 2011/07/19 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-07-19 21:33:02 |
| The Cherry Orchard at The National Theatre | The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov National Theatre, London Director – Howard Davies Designer – Bunny … | 2011/07/19 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, The Berkshire Review in London, Theater | 2011-07-19 17:45:06 |
| Proms 2011 – a personal preview by Gabriel Kellett: Royal Albert Hall et. al., 15 July – 10 September, 2011 | Proms 2011 – a personal preview Royal Albert Hall et. al. 15 July – 10 … | 2011/07/19 | Gabriel Kellett | Music | 2011-07-19 01:57:30 |
| Bard Summerscape 2011 to Present the Greatest Opera You’ve (Probably) Never Heard. | Die Liebe der Danaë Libretto by Joseph Gregor Based on a scenario by Hugo von … | 2011/07/18 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2011-07-18 21:39:38 |
| First Night of the Proms 2011 | Judith Weir: Stars, Night, Music and Light (BBC Commission, World Premiere) Brahms: Academic Festival Overture … | 2011/07/18 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-18 05:58:45 |
| The Transformation of Ritual Space: Berlioz’s “La Grande Messe des Morts” at Tanglewood | The Transformation of Ritual Space: Berlioz’s “La Grande Messe des Morts” at Tanglewood Tanglewood Festival … | 2011/07/17 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2011-07-17 18:49:22 |
| Three Last Quartets: the Emerson at Tanglewood: Haydn, Bartók, and Schubert | Three Last Quartets: the Emerson at Tanglewood Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, July 12, 2011 Emerson String … | 2011/07/17 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2011-07-17 16:26:20 |
| Michael Francis conducts the San Francisco Symphony: Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Rachmininoff and Beethoven with Lisitsa and Buechner | Summer & The Symphony The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Friday, July 8, … | 2011/07/17 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2011-07-17 13:23:29 |
| Rubens in London | Titian, Rembrandt, and who? Several years ago I read an assessment of Peter Paul Rubens … | 2011/07/15 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-15 22:03:50 |
| Opening Night at Tanglewood, BSO, Dutoit in an Italian Opera Potpourri | Opening Night at Tanglewood Friday, July 8, 8:30 p.m. Shed Boston Symphony Orchestra Charles Dutoit, … | 2011/07/14 | Charles Warren | Opera | 2011-07-14 13:36:51 |
| The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, directed by William Church, at Interlochen | The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Harvey Theatre, Interlochen Center for the Arts June … | 2011/07/14 | Daniel B. Gallagher | Theater | 2011-07-14 12:53:42 |
| The Tree of Life, by Terrence Malick | (Read Seth Lachterman’s review of The Tree of Life in New York Arts.) I. First … | 2011/07/13 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Film | 2011-07-13 06:08:33 |
| A Singer’s Notes 35: As You Like It at Shakespeare & Co. | As You Like It by William Shakespeare Directed by Artistic Director Tony Simotes Rosalind – … | 2011/07/12 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2011-07-12 23:26:18 |
| Three Hotels, by Jon Robin Baitz, directed by Robert Falls on a Set by Thomas Lynch at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. | Three Hotels by Jon Robin Baitz directed by Robert Falls June 29 – July … | 2011/07/12 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2011-07-12 22:36:59 |
| Diane Arbus at the Tate Modern | ARTIST ROOMS: Diane Arbus Tate Modern South Bank, London until 31 March 2012 Camera obscura. … | 2011/07/11 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Photography | 2011-07-11 17:54:30 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire opens the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival | A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Williamstown Theatre Festival Nikos Stage, June 22 – … | 2011/07/11 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2011-07-11 12:19:25 |
| Lars Vogt plays Janáček, Schubert, and Beethoven Op. 111 at Wigmore Hall | Lars Vogt, piano Wigmore Hall July 7, 2011 Janáček – In the Mists Schubert – Piano … | 2011/07/11 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-11 07:28:52 |
| Celebrations in Song: Christine Brewer and Craig Rutenberg at Tannery Pond, July 2, 2011 | “When I have Sung My Songs to You” An Evening of American Music Tannery Pond … | 2011/07/11 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2011-07-11 00:58:30 |
| Lucy MacGillis: “Casa” – New Paintings from Italy, at the Hoadley Gallery, Lenox, July 7 – August 2. | Lucy MacGillis’ July exhibition at the Hoadley Gallery, ongoing since 2003, has become almost … | 2011/07/10 | Michael Miller | Art, L'Italia nella Berkshire Review | 2011-07-10 12:54:44 |
| Private Struggles, Public Outcomes: Mid-Century American Musical Negotiations: TMC Orchestra plays Barber, Copland, and Bernstein | Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra concert of American Music, July 6, 2011 Samuel Barber, Second … | 2011/07/08 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2011-07-08 15:50:26 |
| Heavenly lengths…yeah! Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs discuss Steffani’s Niobe and the future. | [At the beginning and end to the podcast you hear Philippe Jaroussky rehearsing … | 2011/07/08 | Michael Miller | Podcasts, New York Arts, Opera | 2011-07-08 02:12:42 |
| Boston Early Music Festival 2011 – I: Of Medieval Ovid and Schubert on the Fortepiano | 1. Ensemble Lucidarium directed by Avery Gosfield & Francis Biggi: Ninfale—Ovid, poetry, and music in … | 2011/07/06 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-07-06 21:51:34 |
| Boston Early Music Festival 2011 – II: Success or Excess? | 1. Frances Fitch – French claveçin music (Clérambault, Le Roux, Rameau, Jacquet de la Guerre) … | 2011/07/06 | Larry Wallach | Extra Transfer, Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-07-06 21:45:49 |
| A Singer’s Notes 34: Early Listening | Maybe the best thing about the early music movement is the way it has gotten … | 2011/07/06 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-07-06 21:41:36 |
| A Delicate Balance at the Almeida Theatre | A Delicate Balance Written by Edward Albee Directed by James Macdonald Almeida Theatre, London Cast: … | 2011/07/05 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Theater | 2011-07-05 12:32:14 |
| Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean at the National Theatre | Emperor and Galilean by Henrik Ibsen Directed by Jonathan Kent National Theatre, London Peter – … | 2011/07/05 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Theater | 2011-07-05 04:06:18 |
| Gardenia at Sadler’s Wells | Gardenia Les ballets C de la B Sadler’s Wells June 30, 2011 Gaga ladies. Unless … | 2011/07/04 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Theater | 2011-07-04 13:10:46 |
| Elisabeth Leonskaja Plays Schubert at Wigmore Hall | Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano Wigmore Hall June 27, 2011 Schubert: Allegretto in C minor D. 915 … | 2011/07/04 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-04 00:05:50 |
| The Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales | What does a landlocked museum do when thirty-five million dollars worth of contemporary art, much … | 2011/07/03 | Alan Miller | The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-07-03 23:14:32 |
| X-TrEEM Indie Filmmaking 2011 Style | The photographed world is topsy turvy, perhaps never more so than when its background … | 2011/07/03 | Alan Miller | Film | 2011-07-03 20:42:39 |
| The Pollini Project: Chopin, Debussy, Boulez, Royal Festival Hall, June 28, 2011 | The Pollini Project – Chopin, Debussy, Boulez Royal Festival Hall June 28, 2011 Fryderyk Chopin: … | 2011/07/01 | Gabriel Kellett | Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-07-01 18:22:19 |
| Maurizio Pollini Plays Chopin, Debussy and Boulez | The Pollini Project – Chopin, Debussy, Boulez Royal Festival Hall June 28th, 2011 Fryderyk Chopin: … | 2011/07/01 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music | 2011-07-01 17:40:00 |
| The Amerigo Trio and Alon Goldstein play Debussy, Dohnányi, and Brahms at Tannery Pond | Tannery Pond Concerts Sat., May 28th at 6 pm Amerigo Trio (Glenn Dicterow, violin, Karen … | 2011/06/30 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-06-30 01:05:32 |
| Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the English National Opera | A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opera by Benjamin Britten English National Opera Conductor – Leo Hussain … | 2011/06/28 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Opera, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-06-28 20:51:59 |
| A Singer’s Notes 33: Favorite Thespians | Shakespeare and Company’s touring production of Hamlet was swift and sharp. It had something … | 2011/06/27 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2011-06-27 02:50:53 |
| Handel’s Acis and Galatea at the Boston Early Music Festival | George Frideric Handel, Acis and Galatea, 1718 Version Jordan Hall Saturday, June 18, 2011 Paul … | 2011/06/27 | Michael Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-06-27 01:05:49 |
| Esa-Pekka Salonen and Christian Tetzlaff in Bartók with the Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall | Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Festival Hall , London Jun 23, 2011 Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Christian Tetzlaff, … | 2011/06/26 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-06-26 12:48:53 |
| Clarence Clemons (1942-2011) | When the change was made uptown And the Big Man joined the band -Bruce Springsteen, … | 2011/06/23 | Alan Miller | Music | 2011-06-23 01:57:19 |
| A Singer’s Notes 32: Two in Hubbard – Menotti’s The Medium and Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along | Hubbard Hall is a space which seems to fit its performers ideally. No pretension, no … | 2011/06/22 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Opera | 2011-06-22 20:03:21 |
| Jan Swafford, Chamber Music at the Boston Conservatory: listen to “They That Mourn” | On Palm Sunday there was a remarkable Boston Conservatory concert of music by Jan Swafford. … | 2011/06/21 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-06-21 00:31:48 |
| Looking Back at the Boston Winter and Spring Music Season, 2010-11 | Part I—Symphony The winter music season in Boston made a strong beginning with James Levine … | 2011/06/20 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-06-20 23:11:02 |
| Another in our series of outstanding performances from Tonu Kalam and the UNC Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s “Symphonic Dances” (Op. 45) | | 2011/06/16 | The Editor | Music | 2011-06-16 13:13:53 |
| Fauré’s Requiem as Theatre: Stephen Baynes Choreographs the Australian Ballet | Elegy The Arts Centre, State Theatre, Melbourne: 9 June 2011 continues until 18 June The … | 2011/06/15 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-06-15 23:47:00 |
| Women of Will, the Complete Journey
, by Tina Packer
, with Tina Packer and Nigel Gore
, Shakespeare & Company, Bernstein Theater, Lenox | Women of Will, The Complete Journey
, by Tina Packer
, with Tina Packer and Nigel Gore … | 2011/06/12 | Deborah Brown | Theater | 2011-06-12 22:36:56 |
| Métro insolite by Clive Lamming (English translation) | Clive Lamming, Métro insolite, Éditions Parigramme, 2011. La profondeur se cache à la surface des … | 2011/06/10 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review, Literature | 2011-06-10 02:16:04 |
| Métro insolite de Clive Lamming | Clive Lamming, Métro insolite, Éditions Parigramme, 2011. La profondeur se cache à la surface des … | 2011/06/10 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, En France avec la Berkshire Review, Literature | 2011-06-10 01:42:10 |
| Choices: Jenny Gersten’s First Season at the Williamstown Theatre Festival | If you were the artistic director of a Tony Award-winning regional theater and had the … | 2011/06/09 | Nancy Salz | Theater | 2011-06-09 13:49:08 |
| The Pollini Project – Stockhausen, Schumann, Chopin, Royal Festival Hall May 25, 2011 | The Pollini Project – Stockhausen, Schumann, Chopin Royal Festival Hall May 25, 2011 Maurizio Pollini, … | 2011/06/04 | Gabriel Kellett | Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-06-04 10:46:04 |
| New Faces Choreograph for the Australian Ballet in ‘Bodytorque’ (CORRECTED) | *Correction: I incorectly stated that Alice Topp’s Scope was danced by two men and one woman. … | 2011/05/30 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-05-30 04:51:05 |
| Tanglewood 2011 Summer Season Schedule (Third Revision): Dutoit, Krivine, Graf, and Storgårds to fill in for Levine’s major concerts | This preview of this year’s Tanglewood season has been revised twice already, as far as … | 2011/05/26 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-05-26 18:16:27 |
| Educating Agnes at the Royal Lyceum Theatre | Educating Agnes (L’école des femmes) Written by Molière, translated by Liz Lochhead The Lyceum … | 2011/05/26 | Caroline Bottger | The Berkshire Review in Scotland, Theater | 2011-05-26 09:37:56 |
| Beethoven’s Last String Quartet, Mozart, the Renaissance and Ian Munro with the Brentano String Quartet | City Recital Hall, Angel Place: 23 May 2011 Organized by Musica Viva. The Quartet tours … | 2011/05/26 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-05-26 02:03:47 |
| U.S. Department of State features Omar Sangare for a video project that will appear as part of President Obama’s trip to Poland in May 2011. | Williams College professor, Omar Sangare, who is currently starring in John Guare’s “Erased” with Glenn … | 2011/05/25 | The Editor | Theater | 2011-05-25 21:30:09 |
| Two Hearts, Four Hands are Better Than One: Two Piano Recital with Pascal and Ami Rogé | Sydney Recital Hall, Angel Place: 16 May 2011 Pascal and Ami play again at the … | 2011/05/23 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-05-23 01:33:15 |
| Mahler’s Ninth. Vladimir Ashkenazy Conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 18 May 2011 Sydney Symphony Orchestra conductor – Vladimir Ashkenazy … | 2011/05/22 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-05-22 02:10:06 |
| Barangaroo: Not so Fast? | The saga of Sydney’s Barangaroo has finally reached the point where its twists and turns … | 2011/05/20 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-05-20 03:07:05 |
| The Young Russian Pianist, Gleb Ivanov, triumphs in Haydn, Chopin, and Prokofiev at a Tannery Pond benefit | Gleb Ivanov Tannery Pond Concerts Benefit at the home of Chris and Lois Herzeca May … | 2011/05/19 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-05-19 06:32:32 |
| Boston Early Music Festival: Fringe Concert Schedule | As of May 13, 2011 | Download as a PDF Sunday, June 12 12 noon Music’s Quill … | 2011/05/18 | The Editor | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-05-18 02:36:19 |
| The Boston Early Music Festival 2011: a Preview with Concert Schedules, and about Steffani’s Opera, Niobe, Regina di Tebe | A PRACTICAL NOTE: Here are three different guides to BEMF. All should be easily readable … | 2011/05/18 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-05-18 01:17:44 |
| Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony in Mahler’s 9th | The San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor Davies Hall, San Francisco Thursday, May 5, … | 2011/05/17 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2011-05-17 01:49:09 |
| British Liaisons: The Australian Ballet Flowers From Its British Roots | British Liaisons Sydney Opera House, Opera Theatre: 7 May 2011 continues in Sydney until 21 … | 2011/05/16 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-05-16 23:25:48 |
| Williamstown Artist Joanna Gabler contributes images to Victoria Gibson’s multimedia work “Rise Up, Fallen Angel” at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn | Williamstown Artist Joanna Gabler contributes images to Victoria Gibson’s multimedia work “Rise Up, Fallen Angel” … | 2011/05/14 | The Editor | Art | 2011-05-14 17:38:46 |
| Rise Up, Fallen Angel: a Performance Work by Victoria Gibson at the Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, May 26-28, 7.30 pm | Rise Up, Fallen Angel: a Performance Work by Victoria Gibson at the Center for … | 2011/05/13 | The Editor | Art | 2011-05-13 12:51:42 |
| Towards Bikeopolis, Part 2: The Berkshire Review Guide to Enjoying your Bicycle | What follows are highly subjective opinions about the highly subjective subject of bicycles. STUFF 1. … | 2011/05/10 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-05-10 16:47:48 |
| CAPIThetical Competition Celebrates Canberra’s 100th Birthday | The question of Canberra remains, if not the most urgent, one of the most interesting … | 2011/05/08 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-05-08 20:37:29 |
| London Sinfonietta perform Louis Andriessen’s Anaïs Nin and De Staat at Queen Elizabeth Hall | London Sinfonietta perform Louis Andriessen at Queen Elizabeth Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre April … | 2011/05/07 | Gabriel Kellett | Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-05-07 14:02:54 |
| Towards Bikeopolis, Part 1 | One recent morning I witnessed a rare sight; two children, almost certainly brother and sister, … | 2011/05/04 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-05-04 17:43:30 |
| Between a Barn and Bayreuth: Francesca Zambello discusses her plans for Glimmerglass. | A Season Prélude, Millbrook, New York, April 10, 2011 Songs by Georges Bizet and Irving … | 2011/05/02 | Seth Lachterman | Opera, Podcasts | 2011-05-02 14:09:57 |
| French Government Awards Chevalier in Order of Arts and Letters to Richard Rand | The Government of France awarded Richard Rand a Chevalier in its Ordre des Arts et Lettres … | 2011/04/28 | The Editor | Art | 2011-04-28 12:39:25 |
| Introducing New York Arts, a New Magazine on the Arts in New York City | I’d like to introduce New York Arts, the sister publication of The Berkshire Review, an International Journal … | 2011/04/26 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2011-04-26 01:50:08 |
| Australian 21st Century Chamber Music and More with the Eggner Piano Trio | Eggner Piano Trio City Recital Hall, Angel Place: 18 April 2011 organized by Musica Viva … | 2011/04/25 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-04-25 01:34:16 |
| Yundi! …and the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Herbert Blomstedt: Tchaikovskian Antics and Solid Sibelius | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Herbert Blomstedt, Conducting Yundi, Piano Saturday, April … | 2011/04/25 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2011-04-25 01:04:02 |
| Pieter Wispelwey plays Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C with the Sydney Symphony | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 15 April 2011 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade in E flat … | 2011/04/21 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-04-21 06:04:35 |
| Tennessee Williams at 100, Two Early Impressions: Vieux Carré from the Wooster Group and Streetcar at Williams | douse[table id=13 /] There can be no doubt that Tennessee Williams was the preeminent American … | 2011/04/19 | Michael Miller | At the Edinburgh Festival, New York Arts, Theater | 2011-04-19 12:39:34 |
| Ballare Con Puccini – The Australian Ballet Dances Madame Butterfly | Madame Butterfly Sydney Opera House, Opera Theatre: 9 April 2011 Choreography – Stanton Welch Music … | 2011/04/15 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-04-15 06:26:39 |
| Yuri Temirkanov Conducts the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with Nikolai Lugansky, Piano in Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov | The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Davies Hall, San Francisco Monday, March 28, 2011 Yuri Temirkanov, … | 2011/04/12 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2011-04-12 23:26:48 |
| The Wonder of Understatement: Eva Legêne, Wieland Kuijken, and Arthur Haas | Baroque Virtuosi at South Berkshire Concerts, Sunday, April 3, 2011 Jean-Marie Leclair, Sonata No. II … | 2011/04/11 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2011-04-11 21:18:04 |
| Rafael Bonachela and Jacopo Godani with the Sydney Dance Company | Shared Frequencies The Sydney Dance Company Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay: 5 April 2011 in Sydney … | 2011/04/09 | Andrew Miller | Dance, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-04-09 02:35:14 |
| London Sinfonietta: Xenakis – Architect of Sound, London Sinfonietta and André de Ridder at the Southbank Centre’s Ether Festival | London Sinfonietta: Xenakis – Architect of Sound Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre April 2nd, 2011 … | 2011/04/07 | Gabriel Kellett | Music, The Berkshire Review in London | 2011-04-07 16:02:26 |
| Photography and Place at the Art Gallery of NSW | Photography and place: Australian landscape photography 1970s until now at the Art Gallery of New … | 2011/04/07 | Alan Miller | Photography, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-04-07 04:38:15 |
| A Singer’s Notes 31: Black Ink | Bad things have been raging in the world. Still, today I see my old cat rolling in … | 2011/04/06 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-04-06 11:43:29 |
| Another Angle on Wagner’s Lohengrin in Chicago | Lohengrin Music and libretto by Richard Wagner Lyric Opera of Chicago … | 2011/03/31 | Amy Stebbins | Extra Transfer, New York Arts, Richard Wagner | 2011-03-31 23:37:30 |
| Lohengrin Revived at the Lyric Opera of Chicago | Lohengrin music and libretto by Richard Wagner Lyric Opera of Chicago Civic Opera … | 2011/03/31 | David Kubiak | Richard Wagner | 2011-03-31 22:47:07 |
| A Singer’s Notes 30: Our Town, at Hubbard Hall. Go to this! | Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, at Hubbard Hall, Cambridge, New York Thursday, March 10 at 8pm … | 2011/03/25 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2011-03-25 04:25:09 |
| Purcell and Handel with Andreas Scholl & Co. | Sydney Recital Hall, Angel Place: 12 March 2011 part of the Musica Viva series repeat … | 2011/03/21 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-03-21 03:55:19 |
| Eye to Eye: European Portraits 1450–1850, Clark Art Institute, January 23 – March 27, 2011 | We pass by a marble relief of a youth attributed to Baccio Bandinelli to enter … | 2011/03/17 | Michael Miller | Art | 2011-03-17 12:03:44 |
| Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony Play Mahler’s Sixth; Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto | Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall: 3 and 5 March 2011 Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting Franz Liszt … | 2011/03/08 | Andrew Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2011-03-08 02:01:13 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Omar Sangare – March 10, 11, 12, 7:30 pm, Adams Memorial Theatre, Williams College | A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Omar Sangare March 10 , … | 2011/03/06 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2011-03-06 00:28:43 |
| The End of the Levine Years: James Levine to step down Sept. 1, withdraws from his remaining BSO concerts of the 2010-11 season | The following news has just been released in two instalments by the Boston Symphony Orchestra: … | 2011/03/02 | The Editor | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2011-03-02 18:24:26 |
| A Singer’s Notes 29: The Power of Music | Dr. Johnson was much exercised by John Dryden’s ending his Cecilia’s Day Ode with the … | 2011/02/25 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-02-25 02:55:04 |
| Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale School of Music – Summer Concert Schedule 2011 | The Norfolk Music Festival emerged in the 1890’s from the interest of two generations of … | 2011/02/22 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-02-22 01:11:57 |
| Bard SummerScape 2011 Explores the Life and Times of Jean Sibelius with a Seven-Week Arts Festival in New York’s Hudson Valley, July 7 – August 21, 2011 | Bard SummerScape 2011 Explores the Life and Times of Jean Sibelius with a Seven-Week Arts … | 2011/02/21 | The Editor | Bard Music Festival, Previews | 2011-02-21 01:45:56 |
| Bach, the Organist, A Trumpet and Organ Concert, Berkshire Bach Society, Allen Dean trumpet and Walter Hilse, Organ | Trumpet and Organ Concert Berkshire Bach Society Bach, the Organist Sunday, February 13, 2011 at … | 2011/02/20 | Michael Miller | Music | 2011-02-20 19:39:09 |
| Williamstown Theatre Festival announces three mainstage productions for 2011. | Our beloved Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced its Mainstage productions for the 2011 season, which … | 2011/02/17 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2011-02-17 18:15:52 |
| Leonard Freed, Worldview, at the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium | Leonard Freed, Worldview Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium curated by William Ewing and Nathalie … | 2011/02/15 | Silvia Magna | Photography | 2011-02-15 01:50:20 |
| Best of 2010: Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Production | Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Production Saturday, November 27, … | 2011/02/11 | Michael Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston, The Best of 2010 | 2011-02-11 01:18:21 |
| The Glimmerglass Festival Announces Season Schedule for 2011 | Four New Productions, Including a World Premiere and Professional Premiere, Headline the 37th Festival. Festival … | 2011/02/10 | Seth Lachterman | Opera | 2011-02-10 14:04:23 |
| A Singer’s Notes 28: Steven as Cordelia | I just drove past Steven’s little house. The front drapes were heavy — closed, a … | 2011/02/03 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-02-03 13:00:45 |
| Passions according to Joshua: Claverack Landing and Helsinki Hudson presents Joshua Rifkin | Claverack Landing, Gwen Gould, Director, at Helsinki Hudson Joshua Rifkin, piano Rags, Tangos, Preludes, Fugues … | 2011/01/30 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2011-01-30 14:07:22 |
| Life in a Day | Life in a Day, a YouTube user-shot feature video, premiered at Sundance and streamed live … | 2011/01/29 | Lucas Miller | Film | 2011-01-29 11:06:02 |
| A Singer’s Notes 27: Christmas Past | Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a moralizing tale, strictly speaking. It’s one of those that’s … | 2011/01/18 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2011-01-18 11:52:40 |
| In Memoriam Steven Dennis Bodner (1975-2011), Artist-in-Residence, Williams College | Steven was an impassioned artist who always spoke quietly in rehearsal. Indefatigable, his conducting style was … | 2011/01/12 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Music | 2011-01-12 06:23:41 |
| Epiphany – Venice | | 2011/01/06 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2011-01-06 05:33:59 |
| The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, through March 13, 2011 | The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer Curated by Jay Clarke Sterling and Francine Clark Art … | 2011/01/05 | Michael Miller | Drawings | 2011-01-05 18:37:09 |
| A Singer’s Notes 26: Fall Festival at Shakespeare & Co. and the Madwoman of Cambridge | Fall Festival at Shakespeare and Company It could be a tough crowd, but it isn’t. … | 2011/01/03 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2011-01-03 16:15:55 |
| Season’s Greetings from the Berkshire Review | All the best wishes for the holidays from the Berkshire Review! For more about the … | 2010/12/25 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2010-12-25 05:11:12 |
| MTT conducts the SF Symphony in Cowell, Mozart (with Gil Shaham), and John Adams’ Harmonielehre | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco December 11, 2010 Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor … | 2010/12/21 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2010-12-21 01:20:55 |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra: Schumann and Harbison under Masur and Levine | Boston Symphony Orchestra: Schumann and Harbison November 18, 2010: Kurt Masur conducting; Nelson Freire, piano … | 2010/12/07 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-12-07 00:46:51 |
| Cantata Singers & Ensemble, David Hoose, Conductor: Vaughan Williams, Imbrie, Fine, and the Premiere of Wyner’s Give Thanks for All Things | Cantata Singers & Ensemble David Hoose, Music Director and Conductor Jordan Hall, Saturday, November … | 2010/12/07 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-12-07 00:20:29 |
| Tea Party Invaders! Douglas Sirk’s No Room for the Groom (1952) | “…I can remember nothing about this picture at all.” -Douglas Sirk on No Room for … | 2010/12/06 | Alan Miller | Film | 2010-12-06 22:54:59 |
| Baroque Hors d’œuvres with a Bach Main Course : Berkshire Bach Premières Kenneth Cooper’s Reconstruction of J. S. Bach’s Vergnügte Pleißen-Stadt S.216 (1728) | Berkshire Bach Society, “The Many Faces of Bach,” November 27, 2010: First Congregational Church, Great … | 2010/12/06 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2010-12-06 18:27:11 |
| Julia Morgan Leamon, Painting and Video Art | Julia Morgan Leamon is a painter and adjunct faculty member at Williams College and, among … | 2010/12/01 | Richard Harrington | Art | 2010-12-01 19:28:03 |
| The Institution is Immaterial: Frederick Wiseman’s La Danse | La Danse: the Paris Opera Ballet (2009), a documentary by Frederick Wiseman The Musée d’Orsay … | 2010/11/30 | Alan Miller | Film | 2010-11-30 22:21:46 |
| Marlboro at 60 – a Look Back, with a Schedule of Touring Concerts 2010-11 | So much is out of joint in the United States, that it is easy to … | 2010/11/24 | Michael Miller | Music | 2010-11-24 00:07:25 |
| Opera America Launches the North American Opera Journal, an online scholarly journal about opera in the Western Hemisphere. | I am quite excited to announce the publication of the inaugual issue of the North … | 2010/11/23 | The Editor | Opera | 2010-11-23 14:54:48 |
| Boston Lyric Opera, Tosca, November 16th, Shubert Theater | Conductor – Andrew Bisantz Stage Director – David Lefkowich Original Production – Anthony Besch Set … | 2010/11/23 | Charles Warren | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-11-23 00:43:49 |
| Openings: The Boston Season begins. | Boston Symphony Orchestra, October 7 and 15, James Levine Conductor Mahler, Second and Fifth Symphonies; … | 2010/11/02 | Charles Warren | Film, Music, Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-11-02 02:25:54 |
| A Singer’s Notes 25: He That Hath Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear | In The Crucible, the Proctors sit at their plain table with John’s brief failing between them. … | 2010/10/28 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2010-10-28 15:59:26 |
| An Interview with Yehudi Wyner | Yehudi Wyner, whose career as a composer and a performing musician goes back some … | 2010/10/27 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts, Podcasts, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-10-27 14:41:31 |
| Brasserie Jo Boston Back in Form Again. Highly Recommended! | After a period of uneven visits, I’m happy to say that Brasserie Jo Boston is … | 2010/10/26 | Michael Miller | Food & Drink, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-10-26 13:26:59 |
| Arthur Miller’s The Crucible directed by Julianne Boyd – a Triumph for the Barrington Stage Company | The Crucible By Arthur Miller Directed by Julianne Boyd October 6, 2010 – October 24, … | 2010/10/23 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2010-10-23 01:30:35 |
| Omar Sangare: from Dialogue One at Williams to United Solo (usolo) on Forty-Second Street, with an Account of D1 2009 and Jonah Bokaer | As Omar Sangare’s new enterprise, the United Solo Theatre Festival approaches (opens November 12), I’d … | 2010/10/15 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2010-10-15 22:07:26 |
| From Indifferent to Engaged: Confessions of a Museum Bench-Sitter | Museum benches aren’t just for the weary. They’re for the bored and unreceptive, for the … | 2010/10/11 | Nancy Salz | Art | 2010-10-11 23:50:11 |
| Club Helsinki Hudson in a Latin Beat – ClaverackLanding Debuts in Hudson, New York, October 2, 2010 | Osvaldo Golijov, Last Round Arvo Pärt, Fratres (version for string orchestra and percussion) Jonathan Talbott, … | 2010/10/07 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2010-10-07 18:34:33 |
| Arnulf Rainer: der Übermaler, Alte Pinakothek (Munich), closed September 5th, 2010 | I have long deemed Munich’s Alte Pinakothek one of the most underrated … | 2010/10/03 | Daniel B. Gallagher | Art, Berkshire Review in Germany | 2010-10-03 14:14:25 |
| Wagner and Masks | [Adapted from a presentation delivered as part of the LA Opera “Ring Festival” at the … | 2010/10/02 | Katherine Syer | Richard Wagner | 2010-10-02 23:56:49 |
| A Singer’s Notes 24: Words and Music | One Christmas my magic daughter gave me a picture of a baboon. Above it she wrote … | 2010/09/29 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2010-09-29 10:20:58 |
| MTT leads the San Francisco Symphony in Harrison, Copland and Tchaikovsky | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco September 25, 2010 Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor … | 2010/09/29 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2010-09-29 09:53:26 |
| Finding Brahms at the end of a rainbow: Tannery Pond | Frautschi, Ruske, and Muzijevic at Tannery Pond, September 4, 2010 Chamber recital for violin, horn, … | 2010/09/13 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2010-09-13 23:30:47 |
| A Singer’s Notes 23: Three from the Bard | The Winter’s Tale is the finest play by Shakespeare which nobody knows. Form and content meet and … | 2010/09/08 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2010-09-08 03:39:34 |
| Blurring the Lines, Part 2 The Bard Retrospectives: “Berg and His World,” Second Weekend | FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2010 Symposium: Rethinking the Modern Garry Hagberg, moderator; Daniel Albright; Richard Eldridge; … | 2010/09/06 | Larry Wallach | Bard Music Festival, Music, New York Arts | 2010-09-06 03:17:33 |
| Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music: Old Copland, New Carter, and Others | Monday August 16, 2010 at Ozawa Hall “Aureoles” (1979) by Jacob Druckman Conductor – Keitaro Harada … | 2010/09/05 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2010-09-05 14:45:59 |
| Save the Warburg Library! by Anthony Grafton and Jeffrey Hamburger (from the New York Review of Books | Particularly painful is the University of London’s attempt to disperse the unparalleled collections of the … | 2010/09/02 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2010-09-02 19:26:17 |
| A Singer’s Notes 22: To Sing in Endless Morn of Light | The very short apotheosis at the end of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at Hubbard Hall … | 2010/08/30 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-08-30 20:01:22 |
| A Lamb, a Book, and the Apocalypse at Bard Summerscape, August 22, 2010 | Franz Schmidt’s Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (1935-1937), The Book with Seven Seals Christiane Libor, … | 2010/08/26 | Seth Lachterman | Bard Music Festival, Music | 2010-08-26 22:59:53 |
| The View from Usher Hall, Edinburgh | Our first Edinburgh Festival and our first visit to Usher Hall opened with a delightful … | 2010/08/26 | Michael Miller | At the Edinburgh Festival, Music, The Berkshire Review in Scotland | 2010-08-26 17:47:59 |
| A Singer’s Notes 21: So many good things… | So many good things… Ah, the tone of a production. Was Schumann right when he … | 2010/08/23 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-08-23 06:52:50 |
| Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Bach, Ligeti and Carter at Tanglewood: thought-provoking, ear-opening | Tuesday, August 10, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano Members of the Chamber Orchestra … | 2010/08/23 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2010-08-23 05:41:09 |
| Blurring the Line Between Romanticism and Modernism: a review of the first weekend of “Berg and His World” at Bard College, August 13—15: Berg and Vienna | Bard Music Festival, “Berg and His World” Weekend One, August 13—15: Berg and Vienna Friday, … | 2010/08/21 | Larry Wallach | Bard Music Festival, Music, New York Arts | 2010-08-21 12:49:58 |
| Soirée Musicale at Tannery Pond, August 14, 2010 | Songs by Pauline Viardot (and Bellini, Haydn, Gounod, Schumann, and Fauré) Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano Craig … | 2010/08/20 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2010-08-20 16:23:32 |
| A Note from Bayreuth | I had originally planned this commentary simply to let you, our readers, know about the … | 2010/08/15 | Michael Miller | At the Bayreuth Festival, Berkshire Review in Germany, Richard Wagner | 2010-08-15 18:59:27 |
| American Gothic – Aaron Copland The Tender Land, Glimmerglass 2010 | American Gothic – Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land, Glimmerglass 2010 The Tender Land Music by … | 2010/08/14 | Seth Lachterman | New York Arts, Opera | 2010-08-14 18:32:28 |
| Schreker’s Der ferne Klang at Bard’s Summerscape | Der ferne Klang, opera (1912) by Franz Schreker American staged premier, American Symphony Orchestra Conducted … | 2010/08/11 | Larry Wallach | Bard Music Festival, New York Arts, Opera | 2010-08-11 22:49:14 |
| Henry Moore Exhibition at the Tate Britain | Henry Moore at the Tate Britain (24 February – 8 August 2010) Ship of state. … | 2010/08/11 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent | 2010-08-11 14:24:42 |
| A Singer’s Notes 20: Hubbard Hall Opera Theater’s upcoming “Hansel and Gretel” – an Interview with Cast Members | Kara Cornell – Hansel Question: how is portraying this role different from Carmen? “I have to … | 2010/08/11 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-08-11 03:59:34 |
| Tosca on the Edge: The Glimmerglass Opera, 2010 | Tosca Music By Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Luigi Illiaca and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on the … | 2010/08/11 | Seth Lachterman | New York Arts, Opera | 2010-08-11 00:18:42 |
| The Business of Designing Dreams: Christopher Nolan’s Inception | One day during my architecture studies, a lecturer gave the game away. He said that … | 2010/08/10 | Alan Miller | Film | 2010-08-10 18:42:11 |
| Mezzo-Soprano Kara Cornell on Hansel and Gretel, coming up at the Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre | Kara Cornell, who sang and acted such a brilliant Carmen at Hubbard Hall last summer, … | 2010/08/09 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2010-08-09 06:36:29 |
| Love Potion Opus 60: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at Tanglewood, August 2, 2010 | Ariadne auf Naxos Opera in One Act with a Prologue by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Music … | 2010/08/07 | Seth Lachterman | Opera | 2010-08-07 18:22:52 |
| Lewis Spratlan’s Opera “Life is a Dream” Premiered at the Santa Fe Opera | Life Is a Dream Santa Fe Opera, July 24th through august 19th Music by Lewis … | 2010/08/05 | Charles Warren | Opera, New York Arts | 2010-08-05 02:23:40 |
| Preview of the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music | 2010 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, AUGUST 12-16, CELEBRATES THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER … | 2010/08/05 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2010-08-05 00:02:05 |
| Music@Menlo, The English Voice: Britten, Walton, and Elgar | Music@Menlo St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto July 27, 2010 The English Voice Benjamin Britten … | 2010/08/01 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2010-08-01 12:42:51 |
| Our Town Is More Than Ever: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town at the Williamstown Theatre Festival | Our Town by Thornton Wilder Williamstown Theatre Festival July 28 – August 8 Directed by … | 2010/08/01 | Deborah Brown | Theater | 2010-08-01 11:24:38 |
| Beowulf, sung and recited by Benjamin Bagby at Tanglewood | Seiji Ozawa Hall, Thursday, July 22, 2010 Benjamin Bagby has been performing Beowulf now for … | 2010/07/31 | Michael Miller | Music, The Best of 2010 | 2010-07-31 17:05:40 |
| 2010 Bard SummerScape Festival presents the First U.S. Staging of Franz Schreker’s Opera Der Ferne Klang (July 30 – Aug 6) and a New Production of Oscar Straus’s Operetta The Chocolate Soldier (Aug 5 -15) | It is the long-standing custom of the Bard SummerScape Festival to present an … | 2010/07/29 | The Editor | Bard Music Festival, New York Arts, Opera | 2010-07-29 02:30:48 |
| Elephants Begone! – Bach’s Cello Suites Deconstructed and Reconstructed – Pieter Wispelwey at Tanglewood | Pieter Wispelwey, The Bach Cello Suites. Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood. Thursday, July 22, 8pm. I was … | 2010/07/28 | Seth Lachterman | Music, The Best of 2010 | 2010-07-28 12:07:26 |
| A Singer’s Notes 19: Remembering | Everywhere around me leaving two great concerts at Tanglewood this week, the talk was of … | 2010/07/27 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-07-27 21:54:07 |
| Ödön von Horváth’s Judgment Day, at Bard College’s Summerscape | Ödön von Horváth, Judgment Day Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin Cast: Herr Hudetz – Kevin O’Donnell … | 2010/07/23 | Michael Miller | The Best of 2010, Theater | 2010-07-23 22:28:14 |
| Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the TMC Orchestra in Mahler’s Third Symphony at Tanglewood | Saturday, July 17: Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Karen Cargill, alto … | 2010/07/21 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2010-07-21 01:21:58 |
| Opening Night at Tanglewood: Michael Tilson Thomas serves Mahler and the BSO most splendidly in the “Resurrection” Symphony | Opening Night at Tanglewood Friday, July 9, 8:30 p.m. Shed Mahler, Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection” … | 2010/07/21 | Michael Miller | Music | 2010-07-21 00:29:49 |
| Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, A co-production of Walking the Dog Theatre and PS21, directed by David Anderson | Thornton Wilder’s Our Town A co-production of Walking the Dog Theatre and PS21 Wednesday, July … | 2010/07/20 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2010-07-20 00:36:40 |
| A Singer’s Notes 18: Give My Ears a True Face | I would like to say something about Barrington Stage’s “Sweeney Todd” and the singing therein, … | 2010/07/18 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-07-18 23:39:10 |
| Jeremy Denk, piano, at Tannery Pond Concerts, Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 8 pm | Jeremy Denk, piano at Tannery Pond Concerts, Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 8 pm Johann … | 2010/07/18 | Michael Miller | Music | 2010-07-18 02:08:49 |
| A Singer’s Notes 17: Great Things All Over | Down in the splendid old Meeting House at New Marlborough, Kenneth Cooper, Ben Luxon, and … | 2010/07/15 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-07-15 19:29:38 |
| The Gift of Music: The Uel Wade Music Scholarship | You could drive through the center of Spencertown, New York in about the time it … | 2010/07/15 | Nancy Salz | Music | 2010-07-15 18:52:00 |
| Emerson String Quartet with guest clarinetist David Shifrin, Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Tuesday July 6 at 8 pm | Emerson String Quartet with guest clarinetist David Shifrin Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Tuesday July 6 at … | 2010/07/13 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2010-07-13 01:36:54 |
| Daniel Harding, Renaud Capuçon, and the LSO play Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Bruckner’s Seventh | London Symphony Orchestra 1 July 2010, Barbican Hall Renaud Capuçon – violin Daniel Harding – … | 2010/07/04 | Huntley Dent | A London Summer with Huntley Dent, Music | 2010-07-04 22:54:44 |
| Everything but the Vuvuzela: Brazilian Music comes to Tannery Pond – Paula Robison, Romero Lubambo, Cyro Baptista Trio at the Tannery Pond Concerts | Paula Robison, Romero Lubambo, Cyro Baptista Trio at the Tannery Pond Concerts An evening … | 2010/06/27 | Michael Miller | Music | 2010-06-27 21:46:09 |
| A Singer’s Notes 16: Pélleas et Mélisande | Why has Debussy’s Mélisande become a mezzo-soprano role? Maybe David Mamet has given me the … | 2010/06/26 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-06-26 16:23:18 |
| First Glimpse – A Glimmerglass Aperitif: Ives and Copland Teasers for the 2010 Season | A Recital of Songs by Ives and Copland performed by Jamilyn Manning-White, soprano; Adam Fry, … | 2010/06/24 | Seth Lachterman | Opera | 2010-06-24 16:49:59 |
| Vermont Hippies! Photographs by Peter Simon and Rebecca Lepkoff at the Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT | Vermont Hippies: Photographs by Peter Simon and Rebecca Lepkoff, an exhibit of some forty … | 2010/06/22 | The Editor | Photography | 2010-06-22 21:57:27 |
| Changes and Passages | As sundry acts of God and man are manifested, unexpected changes, substitutions, and permanent transitions … | 2010/06/14 | Michael Miller | Uncategorized | 2010-06-14 19:00:40 |
| Tanglewood: an updated 2010 Season Preview, and a Backwards Look at 2009 – James Levine not to appear. | The news I have been expecting has now officially arrived: James Levine will withdraw from … | 2010/06/14 | Michael Miller | Music | 2010-06-14 13:50:45 |
| Memorable Day at Tannery Pond (reprinted courtesy of the Boston Musical Intelligencer) | Inaugural concert of 2010 Concerts At Tannery Pond, Saturday, May 29, 2010, on the grounds of … | 2010/06/07 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2010-06-07 14:15:35 |
| As the final concert of the Cantata Singers’ Schütz Season approaches, David Hoose talks about music in Boston, Choral music, and Bach | Cantata Singers, May 14, 8 pm Heinrich Schütz: Opus ultimum – Schwanengesang Psalm 119 Psalm … | 2010/05/05 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-05-05 10:01:33 |
| Minsoo Sohn in Beethoven, Liszt arrangements, Ravel, and Kirchner at Jordan Hall, Friday, April 30, at 8 pm. | Minsoo Sohn plays Beethoven, Liszt arrangements, Ravel, and Kirchner at Jordan Hall, Friday, April 30, … | 2010/04/28 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-04-28 10:01:26 |
| Spoils of Conquest: Crescendo Performs Latin American Choral Music (1600–2010) Saturday, April 17, 2010, First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts | Latin American Baroque music by Juan Pérez de Bocanegra (c.1598–1631), Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c.1590–1664), … | 2010/04/24 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2010-04-24 15:04:18 |
| The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis | The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, … | 2010/04/24 | Nancy Salz | Literature | 2010-04-24 10:37:06 |
| A Passion for Bach: a composer’s greatness shines through at the Leipzig Gewandhaus | Each spring, Easter offers us a time for family, a time for oversized rabbits, for … | 2010/04/12 | Amy Stebbins | Music | 2010-04-12 20:37:21 |
| Gruberova and Haider bring back Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux at the Bayerische Staatsoper | Roberto Devereux Gaetano Donizetti Salvatore Cammarano (libretto) Bayerische Staatsoper Nationaltheater, March 8, 2010 to be … | 2010/04/12 | Michael Miller | Berkshire Review in Germany, Opera | 2010-04-12 19:58:47 |
| Now available: “Celebrating Carter’s Century,” music by Elliott Carter from the 2008 Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood | An especially exciting bit of news was tucked away in the middle of the 2010-11 … | 2010/04/12 | The Editor | Recordings | 2010-04-12 04:19:49 |
| Landscapes of the Mind at the Williams College Museum of Art | Landscapes of the Mind Williams College Museum of Art January 30 through May 2, 2010 … | 2010/04/11 | Richard Harrington | Art | 2010-04-11 19:56:09 |
| Spring Breaks, Musical Rests: The Bard College Conservatory of Music, Sunday April 4, 2009 | Edward Elgar, In the South (“Alassio”), Op. 50 George Perle, Concerto No. 1 for Piano … | 2010/04/08 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2010-04-08 22:54:10 |
| Travel | The only real way to travel is to travel aimlessly, without a destination, purpose, or … | 2010/04/07 | Michael Miller | Places | 2010-04-07 20:14:04 |
| Mozart and Da Ponte’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Bayerische Staatsoper | Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater Sunday, March 7, 2010 Mozart/Da Ponte, Le Nozze di Figaro Conductor – … | 2010/04/05 | Michael Miller | Berkshire Review in Germany, Opera | 2010-04-05 14:10:02 |
| Chailly, Lortie, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra play Beethoven at Symphony Hall | Symphony Hall, February 25, 2010 Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Riccardo Chailly, conductor Louis Lortie, piano … | 2010/04/05 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-04-05 10:10:28 |
| Henry Purcell’s Fairy Queen from Glyndebourne: Semi-Opera Made Whole, at Last | The Fairy Queen a semi-opera by Henry Purcell BAM March 25, 2010 based on … | 2010/04/03 | Larry Wallach | Opera, New York Arts | 2010-04-03 10:57:01 |
| The Nose, Metropolitan Opera, NYC | The Nose by Dmitri Shostakovich Directed by William Kentridge Conducted by Valery Gergiev Metropolitan Opera, … | 2010/04/03 | Ilya Khodosh | Opera | 2010-04-03 05:12:24 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 15: Masks | Gilbert and Sullivan is not my cup of tea. Its style wears a mask. I can … | 2010/03/27 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-03-27 20:07:51 |
| Frederic Rzewski at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Saturday, March 20 at 8 pm | The pianist-composer performs a program of works for solo piano, including the early work “Dreams” … | 2010/03/25 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2010-03-25 02:39:40 |
| Boston Baroque under Martin Pearlman play Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 | Jordan Hall, Friday, February 19, 8:00 pm Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers of 1610 Boston Baroque Martin … | 2010/03/16 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-03-16 12:25:21 |
| Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in an All-Ravel Program | Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Davies Hall, San Francisco Sunday, March 7, 2010 Myung-Whun Chung, … | 2010/03/15 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2010-03-15 12:44:51 |
| Simon Keenlyside sings Schumann, Wolf, and Schubert at Alice Tully | Lincoln Center Great Performers Starr Theater, Alice Tully Hall Sunday Afternoon, February 28, 2010, at … | 2010/03/13 | Michael Miller | Music | 2010-03-13 13:52:12 |
| Maximum Stupid: Sydney’s Big Barangaroo Blowup | “The Master Plan suggests an architecture that, despite its scale, will not overshadow any of … | 2010/03/04 | Alan Miller | Architecture - Urban Design, Places, The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2010-03-04 18:00:08 |
| Beethoven’s Third and Fourth Symphonies…Levine and the BSO | Boston Symphony Orchestra James Levine, conductor Friday, February 19, 8 p.m. All-Beethoven Program Symphony No. … | 2010/02/26 | Jan Swafford | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-02-26 22:58:16 |
| Wild, but Not Crazy Enough: Scorsese’s Shutter Island | It’s good news that somebody, let alone a director of Martin Scorsese’s calibre, has finally … | 2010/02/24 | Alan Miller | Film | 2010-02-24 17:53:46 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 13: Youth Is Not Wasted on the Young – of Così Fan Tutte, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Romeo and Juliet | Cosi Fan Futte is an opera I have sung often so I looked forward to … | 2010/02/23 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Theater | 2010-02-23 12:43:03 |
| Gil Rose talks to Michael Miller about contemporary music, BMOP, and the Opera Boston premiere of Madame White Snake | Gil Rose is best known for his leadership of two high-profile Boston organizations, the Boston … | 2010/02/23 | Michael Miller | Opera, Podcasts, Recordings, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-02-23 03:04:07 |
| Renée Fleming, James Levine, and the Boston Symphony in Berg, Richard Strauss, and Mahler | Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, February 12, 8 p.m. James Levine, conductor Renée Fleming, soprano Berg, … | 2010/02/20 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-02-20 23:58:40 |
| The Short, Fast Life of Jonathan Van Allen | Jonathan Van Allen’s family and staff had no time to grieve. The day after he … | 2010/02/20 | Nancy Salz | Places | 2010-02-20 23:05:05 |
| Walton’s Violin Concerto and Holst’s “The Planets” at the San Francisco Symphony with Dutoit and Barantschik | The San Francisco Symphony Davies Hall, San Francisco Saturday, February 13, 2010 Charles Dutoit, Conductor … | 2010/02/16 | Steven Kruger | Music, The Berkshire Review in San Francisco | 2010-02-16 13:19:21 |
| Vintage Beethoven, and a Rare Bruckner Varietal at Bard College, February 6, 2010 | American Symphony Orchestra Leon Botstein, Conductor Sosnoff Auditorium, Fisher Hall, Bard College Saturday, February 6, … | 2010/02/14 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2010-02-14 14:21:21 |
| The Boston Symphony in the New Year: Levine Returns | Friday, January 8, 1.30 pm Ton Koopman, conductor and harpsichord Yo-Yo Ma, cello Haydn, Symphony … | 2010/02/10 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-02-10 20:29:20 |
| Sitting under the piano… | It is a dark object that keeps its softness, a ponderous roof, and a gentle. When you sit … | 2010/02/06 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-02-06 15:50:10 |
| Two Little Battlers: Alasdair McGregor, Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin | Alasdair McGregor, Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony … | 2010/02/06 | Alan Miller | The Berkshire Review in Australia | 2010-02-06 01:11:19 |
| Riccardo Chailly talks to Michael Miller about his upcoming tour of the United States with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and more. | Riccardo Chailly, not only one of the great conductors of our time, but one … | 2010/02/03 | Michael Miller | Music, Podcasts | 2010-02-03 23:36:57 |
| Sir Colin Davis conducts James Macmillan’s St. John Passion with the BSO | Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, January 22, 8 p.m. James Macmillan, St. John Passion (American premiere; … | 2010/01/28 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-01-28 16:49:24 |
| Berkshire Bach Society’s New Year’s Brandenburgs 2010 with Kenneth Cooper at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall | Bach at New Year’s 2009-2010: The Six Brandenburg Concerti January 2, 2010 • 4 pm … | 2010/01/27 | Michael Miller | Music | 2010-01-27 15:49:54 |
| Mahler and Inspiration: Benjamin Zander at Albany’s Palace Theater | Johann Strauss II, Kaiser-Walzer op. 437 Gustav Mahler, Fifth Symphony The Albany Symphony Orchestra It … | 2010/01/25 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2010-01-25 21:13:37 |
| Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More: Photographs and Traveller, a film by Alen MacWeeney (UPDATED, including audio: Traveller Liam Weldon sings “The Blue Tar Road”) | Traveller Liam Weldon sings “The Blue Tar Road”: player below. Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More … | 2010/01/23 | Michael Miller | New York Arts, Photography | 2010-01-23 23:00:23 |
| Sadness—The Cantata Singers and More | The Cantata Singers conductor, David Hoose John Harbison: “We do not live to ourselves” “My … | 2010/01/23 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-01-23 17:25:32 |
| James MacMillan, St John Passion: London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, conductor | James MacMillan, St John Passion (for a review of the BSO performance, click here) London … | 2010/01/22 | Michael Miller | Music | 2010-01-22 00:35:22 |
| Master Drawings New York 2010 | Master Drawings New York 2010 Preview: Friday January 22, 4pm to 9pm Galleries open: Saturday January 23 … | 2010/01/21 | Michael Miller | Art | 2010-01-21 01:33:02 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 11: New Year’s Blessings and my Favorites from ’09 | The holidays are over in my rural kingdom of music and art, and there were … | 2010/01/18 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-01-18 22:52:27 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 10: Menotti the Modern | Is there any 20th century composer less comfortable to contemporary tastes than Menotti? A rehashed Romantic, they … | 2010/01/18 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2010-01-18 21:25:49 |
| Thoughts on Schumann and the 2nd Symphony | Bach – Thou Beethoven – We Mahler – Me Stravinsky – It J.S. Bach’s music, … | 2010/01/15 | David Hoose | Music | 2010-01-15 12:20:09 |
| Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic in Webern, Mozart, and Schumann | New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, December 30, … | 2010/01/13 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts | 2010-01-13 22:07:46 |
| Music Small and Large, Boston, Fall 2009 | Boston is full of excellent musicians who give concerts in various configurations of established chamber … | 2010/01/12 | The Editor | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-01-12 22:56:26 |
| David Hoose talks to Michael Miller about his education, about conducting and conductors, the BSO, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, and Gustavo Dudamel | David Hoose continues his conversation with Michael Miller about his education, about conducting and conductors, … | 2010/01/08 | Michael Miller | Music, Podcasts, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2010-01-08 02:38:36 |
| Letter from Holland: Organ Concert at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam – Saskia Roures plays works of Byrd, Caroso, Bach, and Buxtehude | Holland is known as an incubator of the movement to restore the use of historically … | 2010/01/06 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2010-01-06 15:11:58 |
| Tannery Pond 2010, the Twentieth Anniversary Season, with a look back at 2009 | Over the past few years, my enthusiasm for the Tannery Pond Concerts has been no … | 2010/01/05 | The Editor | Music | 2010-01-05 23:57:15 |
| A New Acquisition for the Clark: Théodore Rousseau’s La Ferme dans les Landes | At a time when many institutions are seriously discussing deaccessioning and other radical means of … | 2010/01/04 | Michael Miller | Art | 2010-01-04 22:03:24 |
| Avatar | Until reading Manohla Dargis’ review in the New York Times, I had no intention of … | 2009/12/26 | Lucas Miller | Film | 2009-12-26 14:38:18 |
| György Kepes: a Polaroid and a Reminiscence | This hypnotic light graphic, which was commissioned by the Polaroid Corporation, was done using a … | 2009/12/25 | Richard Harrington | Photography | 2009-12-25 04:51:24 |
| Season’s Greetings from the Berkshire Review for the Arts | | 2009/12/24 | The Editor | Places | 2009-12-24 18:18:55 |
| Commentary: Here and There… of Anthropology at Home and Abroad | The ethnographic films of Robert Gardner and anthropology in general resonate quite powerfully with me, … | 2009/12/24 | Michael Miller | Extra Transfer, Film, Places | 2009-12-24 01:33:06 |
| Christmas, 1559 | A hundred small fires light up the close. Animals are everywhere. Sheep cries. At the … | 2009/12/23 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2009-12-23 22:25:11 |
| Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937 | Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937 Organized by the Foundation … | 2009/12/17 | Michael Miller | Photography | 2009-12-17 02:20:47 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 9: Ben…Benjamin Luxon in Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale | Stravinskys Soldier’s Tale is a recalcitrant work, its center always just out of reach It is … | 2009/12/14 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2009-12-14 03:23:17 |
| Entertainment for the Passengers of a Ship Amongst Icebergs: The Ten Best Films of the Decade | Everyone likes a top ten list, especially when the paragraph which precedes the list is … | 2009/12/14 | Alan Miller | Film | 2009-12-14 02:49:40 |
| Robert Gardner, Human Documents: Eight Photographers | Anthropological photographs are boxes within boxes. Most tribal cultures are dependent on the control of … | 2009/12/08 | Michael Miller | Photography, New York Arts | 2009-12-08 02:29:04 |
| Nicholas Martin will be leaving the Williamstown Theatre Festival at the end of next season. | Nicholas Martin, 71, the director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival since 2008, will leave at … | 2009/12/08 | The Editor | Theater | 2009-12-08 01:12:12 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 8: On Handel’s Messiah | How many times have you heard “Messiah” sung? I reckon I have sung it at … | 2009/12/04 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2009-12-04 03:08:46 |
| William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, from the
American Shakespeare Center, at UMass Amherst | William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Director – Jim Warren American Shakespeare Center Bowker Auditorium, University … | 2009/12/04 | Heidi Holder | Theater | 2009-12-04 02:34:44 |
| Some True Things Arranged Deceptively – a Screenplay | Note: To be shot in 70mm, black and white. FADE IN: INT. AIRPORT CORRIDOR – … | 2009/12/02 | Alan Miller | Extra Transfer, Film, Places | 2009-12-02 03:19:45 |
| Handel’s Acis and Galatea in its 1718 Chamber Version, presented by The Boston Early Music Festival | George Frideric Handel, Acis and Galatea in the original 1718 chamber version Saturday, November 28, … | 2009/12/02 | Michael Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-12-02 00:47:08 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 7: Three mezzos (and three more) | Our area is the best in the country for hearing young singers. If you go … | 2009/11/26 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Music | 2009-11-26 16:19:47 |
| Superior Donuts, The Music Box Theater, Broadway, NYC | Superior Donuts By Tracy Letts Directed by Tina Landau The Music Box Theater, New York … | 2009/11/24 | Ilya Khodosh | Theater | 2009-11-24 15:00:14 |
| Radio City—A Great Escape? | Why do we go to the theater? To learn? To be inspired? To infuse our … | 2009/11/24 | Renée Dumouchel | Dance | 2009-11-24 00:30:13 |
| Acis as Genius of Cannons | “Consult the genius of the place in all; That tells the waters or to rise, … | 2009/11/23 | Gilbert Blin | Extra Transfer, Opera, Places, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-11-23 18:04:30 |
| Music for Civility and Civil Defense: Crescendo Performs Georg Philipp Telemann | Concert November 15, 2009 – First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, MA Concerto in C-Minor, TWV … | 2009/11/20 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2009-11-20 17:31:56 |
| Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic play Brahms and Schoenberg at Carnegie Hall | Carnegie Hall, November 11-13, 2009 1. Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Simon Rattle, Music Director and Conductor … | 2009/11/19 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts | 2009-11-19 00:57:03 |
| Angela Gheorghiu at the Royal Festival Hall – Introducing our new London correspondent, Gabriel Kellett | Angela Gheorghiu at the Royal Festival Hall November 10th, 2009 Leonard Bernstein: Candide – Overture … | 2009/11/13 | Gabriel Kellett | Opera, The Berkshire Review in London | 2009-11-13 02:39:11 |
| Ensemble Rebel’s Concert: “Kingdoms and Viceroys: Music of Spain and its Dominions” | November 8, 2009, at the Bedford NY Presbyterian Church Ensemble Rebel: Jorg-Michael Schwartz and Karen … | 2009/11/13 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2009-11-13 01:30:05 |
| Das Reichsorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich, A film by Enrique Sánchez Lansch | The Reichsorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich, A film by Enrique Sánchez Lansch … | 2009/11/12 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-11-12 18:42:52 |
| The Future of Collecting: Masterpiece 2010, London, with a look at Old Master Week | I had an extremely interesting conversation the other day with Thomas Woodham-Smith, the Director of … | 2009/11/10 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2009-11-10 15:44:28 |
| The Cantata Singers’ Schütz Season Opens with Schütz, Distler, Bach, and Schoenberg | The Cantata Singers David Hoose, conductor Jordan Hall, November 7, 2009 Sonja Tengblad, Lisa Lynch, … | 2009/11/09 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-11-09 01:00:36 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 6: West Toward Home | Listen to Earl Eddy’s Favorite, played by Vic Kibler (fiddle), and Paul Van Arsdale (dulcimer), from Vic Kibler: … | 2009/11/05 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2009-11-05 22:23:56 |
| David Hoose, Music Director of The Cantata Singers, Boston, talks to Michael Miller, with a Season Preview | The Cantata Singers of Boston will begin their 2009-10 season on November 6 at Jordan … | 2009/11/01 | Michael Miller | Music, Podcasts, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-11-01 02:50:22 |
| Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Atlantic Theater Company NYC | Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet: Keep Your Pantheon and School Directed by Neil Pepe … | 2009/10/31 | Ilya Khodosh | Theater | 2009-10-31 19:47:37 |
| Beauty and the Beast: South Berkshire Concerts present Schoenberg, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc The Proteus Ensemble, Hai-Ting Chinn, Mezzo-Soprano | Claude Debussy: Syrinx, Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune (arranged by James Johnston) Francis Poulenc: Le … | 2009/10/29 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2009-10-29 14:11:26 |
| Royall Tyler’s The Contrast at The Metropolitan Playhouse, New York: the very earliest of American plays lives on! | The Contrast by Royall Tyler The Metropolitan Playhouse, New York October 17, 2009 Now in … | 2009/10/29 | Heidi Holder | Theater | 2009-10-29 12:28:02 |
| Rossini’s Tancredi at Opera Boston | Tancredi by Gioacchino Rossini Conducted by Gil Rose Directed by Kristine McIntyre Scenic and … | 2009/10/29 | Michael Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-10-29 03:05:06 |
| Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Opens the BSO Beethoven Symphony Cycle | Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, October 23, 1:30 pm Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor (replacing James Levine) … | 2009/10/28 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-10-28 00:44:31 |
| Classics Declassified: Leon Botstein’s Tour of the Beethoven Symphonies with the ASO at Peter Norton Symphony Space, New York | For some reason that escapes me 2009 has become a “Beethoven year,” or at least … | 2009/10/27 | Michael Miller | Music, New York Arts | 2009-10-27 00:32:07 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 5: The Roar of the Greasepaint | About two decades ago, big music schools decided that music theatre wasn’t all that bad. … | 2009/10/22 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Music | 2009-10-22 00:54:52 |
| Basically Beethoven at Bard College with new works by Farberman and Ran | Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #1 in C-Major, Opus 21; Symphony #2 in D-Major, Opus 36 … | 2009/10/20 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2009-10-20 15:09:46 |
| Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Renaissance Center Theater Company, Amherst, MA | Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle Director: Nathaniel Leonard Renaissance Center Theater Company … | 2009/10/18 | Heidi Holder | Theater | 2009-10-18 00:32:45 |
| William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, National Theatre (London), NT Live Telecast | William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well Director – Marianne Elliott Designer – Rae Smith Lighting … | 2009/10/17 | Heidi Holder | Theater | 2009-10-17 12:51:38 |
| The Berkshire Review for the Arts, now beginning its third year, thanks its readers. | The summer is over. In the Berkshires it is hard to ignore the equinox. Rituals … | 2009/10/14 | The Editor | Berkshire Review | 2009-10-14 03:02:35 |
| Claudio Monteverdi, L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Boston Early Music Festival, 2009 | L’Incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea) Music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Libretto by Francesco … | 2009/10/13 | Michael Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-10-13 23:57:40 |
| A Singer’s Notes, 4: From "Live in HD" to Christmas Shopping to Angels…and Walter Frye | Lo, I am with you always. Sometimes I think all is lost. Mostly when I … | 2009/10/07 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler | 2009-10-07 21:56:33 |
| At Tannery Pond: Joan Kwuon, violin, and Teddy Robie, pianist, in Copland, Ravel, and Franck | Tannery Pond Concerts Saturday, October 3, 2009 Joan Kwuon, violinist Teddy Robie, pianist Aaron Copland … | 2009/10/06 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-10-06 01:36:45 |
| Bach on the Piano: Simone Dinnerstein plays for the Berkshire Bach Society | Berkshire Bach Society Presents Simone Dinnerstein Playing J. S. Bach Saturday October 3 at Daniel … | 2009/10/05 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2009-10-05 23:20:07 |
| Plectra, Plectra: Harpsichord Festival at Simon’s Rock, September 26, 2009 | Concertos for multiple harpsichords, strings, and solo harpsichord works by J. S. Bach, Christian Erbach, … | 2009/10/02 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2009-10-02 02:43:24 |
| A Singer's Notes, 1: Two Young Singers – Kara Cornell and Devon Guthrie | Two marvelous young singers are appearing in our area. If you want to see what … | 2009/09/25 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Opera | 2009-09-25 17:31:38 |
| A Singer's Notes, 3: The Slavic Center – of Norman Treigle and The Philadelphia Orchestra | Here I am riding home on a dark, late summer night. The windows are down, … | 2009/09/25 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Music, Opera | 2009-09-25 16:45:16 |
| A Singer's Notes 2: Meistersinger Redux | All my performing life Die Meistersinger has been more a polemic than a performance. It … | 2009/09/25 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Richard Wagner | 2009-09-25 14:23:28 |
| The Seattle Ring 2009 | Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen Seattle Opera House, Speight Jenkins General Director Conductor, Robert … | 2009/09/14 | Michael Miller | Richard Wagner, The Berkshire Review on the West Coast | 2009-09-14 00:24:31 |
| The New Rigged Ship: Reinmar Seidler, cello, and Jacqueline Schwab, piano, at PS 21, Chatham, NY | The New Rigged Ship: Reinmar Seidler, cello, and Jacqueline Schwab, piano at PS 21, Chatham, … | 2009/09/09 | Larry Wallach | Music | 2009-09-09 23:23:00 |
| Lucy MacGillis, paintings, at the Hoadley Gallery, Lenox, Ravello Series, July 9 – Aug. 4 | Hoadley Gallery, 21 Church Street, Lenox, Massachusetts, 01240 413.637.2814 · 413.443.4713 fax http://www.hoadleygallery.com Lucy MacGillis … | 2009/09/09 | Michael Miller | Art | 2009-09-09 12:01:23 |
| Menotti’s The Consul at Glimmerglass Opera | The Consul Glimmerglass Opera
, Cooperstown, NY August 9th, 2009 Music and Libretto: Gian Carlo Menotti … | 2009/09/08 | Heidi Holder | Opera | 2009-09-08 14:44:42 |
| The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton by Iliya Troyanov | The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton by Iliya Troyanov translated … | 2009/09/04 | Eugene HIll | Literature | 2009-09-04 22:23:52 |
| Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas by the New Opera at Williamstown and the New York Collective of the Performing Arts in Boston | Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Dido And Aeneas (1689 or earlier) Tragic Opera In Three Acts Libretto … | 2009/09/04 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2009-09-04 21:53:00 |
| Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Glimmerglass, a Theatrical View | Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas Music: Henry Purcell Libretto: Nahum Tate Director: Jonathan Miller Conductor: Michael … | 2009/09/04 | Heidi Holder | Opera | 2009-09-04 21:43:15 |
| Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Glimmerglass, a Singer’s View | Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas Music: Henry Purcell Libretto: Nahum Tate Director: Jonathan Miller Conductor: Michael … | 2009/09/04 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Opera | 2009-09-04 21:26:51 |
| Wagner Bash: Bard’s Triumphant Solution to the Wagner Problem | Wagner’s own extracts, arrangements, and sequences from the operas: Parsifal: Prelude to Act I, Finale … | 2009/09/04 | Seth Lachterman | Bard Music Festival, Richard Wagner | 2009-09-04 11:37:32 |
| Die Geierwally at the Bromberger Waldbühne in Bromberg, Austria | Die Geierwally at the Bromberger Waldbühne in Bromberg, Austria Cast Die Geierwally – Bernadette Abendstein … | 2009/09/01 | Amy Stebbins | Theater, New York Arts | 2009-09-01 15:22:50 |
| Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, directed by David Leveaux | Arcadia by Tom Stoppard at the Duke of York’s Theatre Directed by David Leveaux Samantha … | 2009/08/30 | Huntley Dent | Theater | 2009-08-30 03:25:05 |
| Movies Used to Be Flammable: A Review of the New Film, Inglourious Basterds | Great films, like big fish with teeth, have a disturbing tendency to obliterate lesser films. … | 2009/08/26 | Alan Miller | Film | 2009-08-26 02:59:30 |
| Got Wagner? – Wagner and the Choral Tradition | Saturday, August 15, 2009 Wagner and his World: Program III. Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, … | 2009/08/21 | Seth Lachterman | Bard Music Festival, Richard Wagner | 2009-08-21 12:32:05 |
| Matthias Goerne and Christoph Eschenbach in Late Schubert | Ravinia Festival Matthias Goerne, baritone Christoph Eschenbach, piano Franz Schubert: Monday, 27 July, Die Schöne … | 2009/08/17 | David Kubiak | Music | 2009-08-17 17:03:57 |
| Gioachino Rossini, Semiramide – Bel Canto at Caramoor – Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Will Crutchfield, conductor | Gioachino Rossini, Semiramide Bel Canto at Caramoor Friday, July 31, 2009, 8:00pm ~ Venetian Theater … | 2009/08/16 | Michael Miller | Opera | 2009-08-16 00:42:19 |
| Concupiscent Consumption: La Traviata at Glimmerglass | Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, and directed by Jonathan Miller Glimmerglass … | 2009/08/13 | Seth Lachterman | Opera | 2009-08-13 16:17:44 |
| Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots: French Grand Opera Comes to Bard. | Les Huguenots Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps American Symphony … | 2009/08/10 | Michael Miller | Bard Music Festival, New York Arts, Opera | 2009-08-10 12:25:39 |
| Remembering Michael | Remembering Michael I first talked to Michael Steinberg on stage. The work was Schoenberg’s massive … | 2009/08/06 | Keith Kibler | A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler, Music | 2009-08-06 12:10:54 |
| Pond-Crossing, Cross-Dressing, and Theatrical Cross-Training: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Walking the Dog, August 6–20 | William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Hudson’s Walking the dog Theater and Chatham’s PS/21 collaborative production with … | 2009/08/06 | Seth Lachterman | Theater | 2009-08-06 01:32:20 |
| The Torch-Bearers
by George Kelly, Williamstown Theatre Festival, July 29 – August 9 | The Torch-Bearers by George Kelly adapted and directed by Dylan Baker Becky Ann Baker – … | 2009/08/04 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2009-08-04 11:45:48 |
| Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen, Glyndebourne Festival Opera at the Proms | BBC Proms no. 7, July 21, 2009 Glyndebourne Festival Opera Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen … | 2009/08/04 | Huntley Dent | Opera | 2009-08-04 11:16:29 |
| Aeschylus’ Oresteia at Bard, translated by Ted Hughes, directed by Gregory Thompson | Manibus E. T. V. The Oresteia by Aeschylus Agamemnon, Choephoroi, and The Eumenides A Translation … | 2009/08/03 | Michael Miller | Bard Music Festival, Theater | 2009-08-03 02:08:14 |
| Bernstein’s Candide at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, starring Julian Whitley | Berkshire Theatre Festival, July 11 – August 15 Candide Music by Leonard Bernstein Book adapted … | 2009/07/27 | Michael Miller | Opera, Theater | 2009-07-27 16:25:52 |
| SECRET CENTURY
Greylock Arts and Pure Theory, Adams, Massachusetts through August 27th 2009 | SECRET CENTURY
Greylock Arts and Pure Theory, Adams, Massachusetts through August 27th 2009 (THE DNA-PHOTON … | 2009/07/27 | The Editor | Art | 2009-07-27 12:49:59 |
| Selig sind die Toten – What Schütz Taught Brahms | Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem, Opus 45 Saturday, July 25, 200 The Boston Symphony Orchestra, … | 2009/07/27 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2009-07-27 11:50:15 |
| Award-winning Playwright A. R. Gurney brings Ancestral Voices to Shakespeare & Company: A Photo Gallery | Award-winning Playwright A.R. Gurney brings Ancestral Voices to Shakespeare & Company One-Night Only Benefit Performance … | 2009/07/26 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2009-07-26 09:55:02 |
| Duet for One, by Tom Kempinski | Vaudeville Theatre Until 1 August 2009 Creative Team: Director – Matthew Lloyd Designer – Lez … | 2009/07/24 | Huntley Dent | Theater | 2009-07-24 17:41:34 |
| The Brentano String Quartet at Tannery Pond Monteverdi, Haydn, and Beethoven | Tannery Pond Concerts, July 4, 2009 Brentano String Quartet Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, violinists;
Misha … | 2009/07/21 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-07-21 15:10:42 |
| Dorian Gray Choreographed by Matthew Bourne, Sadler’s Wells Theatre | Supermodels gone Wilde. At first glance there doesn’t seem to be much that would attract … | 2009/07/21 | Huntley Dent | Dance | 2009-07-21 09:53:23 |
| Tanglewood, Mozart and Mahler with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine and Leon Fleisher | Tanglewood, Friday, July 17, 8:30 p.m. Boston Symphony Orchestra James Levine, conductor Leon Fleisher, piano … | 2009/07/20 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-07-20 13:08:00 |
| A Major Minor: Mozart, Mahler & MRIs. Tanglewood, July 17, 2009 | Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K.488, Leon Fleisher, Piano; James Levine, Conductor; … | 2009/07/20 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2009-07-20 11:19:54 |
| Knickerbocker,
by Jonathan Marc Sherman, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, July 8 – 19 | Williamstown Theatre Festival, July 8 – 19 Knickerbocker by Jonathan Marc Sherman directed by Nicholas … | 2009/07/17 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2009-07-17 00:32:43 |
| What would “Die Meistersinger” sound like on a cruise ship? | Tanglewood, Saturday, July 11, 8:30 p.m. Music Shed Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act … | 2009/07/12 | Michael Miller | Richard Wagner | 2009-07-12 15:16:55 |
| Williamstown Theatre Festival 2009, Opening Night: Children by A. R. Gurney | Children by A. R. Gurney Directed by John Tillinger Sets by James Noone Lighting by … | 2009/07/08 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2009-07-08 01:10:09 |
| Aston Magna Festival Celebrating Joseph Haydn and J. S. Bach | Dominique Labelle, soprano Stephen Hammer, baroque oboe Daniel Stepner and Nancy Wilson, baroque violins David … | 2009/07/06 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-07-06 19:57:15 |
| Christian Tetzlaff and James Levine at Tanglewood: Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps and Brahms’ Violin Concerto | Tanglewood, Sunday, July 5, 2:30 p.m. Koussevitzky Music Shed Boston Symphony Orchestra James Levine, conductor … | 2009/07/06 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-07-06 01:10:04 |
| Moist and Interior: Bach, Schumann, and Beethoven | Stephen Kovacevich at Tanglewood, Ozawa Hall, Thursday, July 2, 8 p.m. Bach, Partita No. 4, … | 2009/07/04 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2009-07-04 19:05:07 |
| Opening Night at Tanglewood, James Levine, conductor,
Yefim Bronfman, piano:
All-Tchaikovsky Program
| Opening Night at Tanglewood Friday, July 3, 8:30 p.m. Boston Symphony Orchestra James Levine, conductor … | 2009/07/04 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-07-04 02:57:11 |
| Freud’s Last Session by Mark St. Germain, Barrington Stage Company | June 10 through July 3 at BSC’s Stage 2 Freud’s Last Session by Mark St. … | 2009/07/02 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2009-07-02 06:06:05 |
| Emerson String Quartet at Tanglewood, Friday, June 26, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
| Emerson String Quartet Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer violins, Lawrence Dutton viola, David Finckel cello, … | 2009/06/29 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-06-29 21:38:30 |
| Juilliard String Quartet play Haydn Op. 20 at Tanglewood | Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Sunday, June 28, 2:30 pm Juilliard String Quartet All-Haydn Program Sun … | 2009/06/28 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-06-28 21:12:46 |
| The Royals We Love to Hate | Boston Early Music Festival and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington, … | 2009/06/26 | Seth Lachterman | Opera | 2009-06-26 01:20:14 |
| Carousel, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Barrington Stage Company | June 17, 2009 – July 11, 2009 Music by Richard Rodgers Book and Lyrics by … | 2009/06/26 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2009-06-26 00:53:54 |
| Duett – inspired by Heiner Müller’s “Quartett” and Søren Kierkegaard’s “Either/Or” – Concocted by Amy Stebbins – At the Loeb Ex (A.R.T.), Cambridge | translated from the German by John-Henry Nijenhaus and Amy Stebbins concocted by Amy Stebbins starring … | 2009/06/25 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2009-06-25 12:30:41 |
| It’s All in the Presentation: A New Look at Schopenhauer | Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Presentation—trans. Richard E. Aquila in collaboration with David … | 2009/06/24 | Seth Lachterman | Literature, Richard Wagner | 2009-06-24 01:51:42 |
| The Virgil Thomson Project at the Norfolk Festival: A Celebration of an American Musical Life | The life and work of Virgil Thomson will be the focal point of the 2009 … | 2009/06/22 | The Editor | Music | 2009-06-22 18:07:34 |
| At Tannery Pond: Saturday, June 13th. Misha and Cipa Dichter in works by Dvorak, Schubert, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Copland, and Liszt | Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) From the Bohemian Forest, Opus 59: Five Legends, for piano, four-hands Franz … | 2009/06/18 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-06-18 00:33:47 |
| Music Mountain, Sunday, June 14 – 80th Season Opening Benefit Concert: Peter Serkin and Madalyn and Cicely Parnas Play Bridge, Schubert, and Brahms | Peter Serkin, Piano Madalyn Parnas, Violin Cicely Parnas, Cello Frank Bridge, Three Miniatures for Piano … | 2009/06/17 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-06-17 00:00:18 |
| Don Giovanni at the Met x 2 | Metropolitan Opera House Don Giovanni Mozart-Da Ponte Conductor – Louis Langrée Continuo: Dennis Giauque, Harpsichord … | 2009/06/01 | Roza Tulyaganova | Opera | 2009-06-01 10:25:23 |
| Mozart, Don Giovanni, Boston Lyric Opera, April 26th, 2009 | Conductor – Anthony Barrese Stage Director – Tazewell Thompson* Set Designer – Donald Eastman* Costume … | 2009/05/31 | Charles Warren | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-05-31 17:00:37 |
| Tannery Pond Concerts Season Opening: Carter Brey cello and Christopher O’Riley piano | Tannery Pond Concerts, May 24, 3 pm Carter Brey cello and Christopher O’Riley piano Richard … | 2009/05/31 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-05-31 16:02:36 |
| Shakespeare and Company, Romeo and Juliet | directed by Jonathan Croy Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, May 21 – June 7 Benjamin Brinton, … | 2009/05/30 | Michael Miller | Theater | 2009-05-30 01:52:55 |
| Wagner Today and Forever | [Reprinted with thanks from From Beyond the Stave, The Boydell & Brewer Music Blog, originally … | 2009/05/29 | Ralph P. Locke | Richard Wagner | 2009-05-29 12:56:34 |
| After Bomarzo… | Just as the last major events of the spring season approached, including the final … | 2009/05/29 | Michael Miller | Places | 2009-05-29 02:31:59 |
| Lully’s Psyché by the Boston Early Music Festival, 2007, now on CD | Psyché (1678), tragédie, by Thomas Corneille called de Lisle (1625 – 1709), Bernard le Bouvier … | 2009/05/28 | Michael Miller | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-05-28 02:22:42 |
| The Hudson River Valley Photographed, Two Views: Greg Miller and Stan Lichens | The Hudson River: A Great American Treasure Photographed by Greg Miller, Foreword by Bill McKibben, … | 2009/05/26 | Michael Miller | New York Arts, Photography | 2009-05-26 23:00:30 |
| Boston Early Music Festival Presents Two One-Act Chamber Operas: John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s, Actéon | Boston Early Music Festival presents the First of New Chamber Opera Series: two one-act operas … | 2009/05/22 | Michael Miller | Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-05-22 02:24:08 |
| Metflix: Popcorn, Raisinettes, and Grand Opera: Wagner’s Rheingold – HD opera from the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia | Three aquatic maidens, whose squirt-gun breasts hose down a lurking sexual predator, are hoisted above … | 2009/05/17 | Seth Lachterman | Richard Wagner | 2009-05-17 21:21:34 |
| Mozart Season 2009: Symphonies from Levine, Botstein, and Mackerras | Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor Linn Records CKD 308 (Winner of the 2009 … | 2009/05/17 | Michael Miller | Music | 2009-05-17 01:59:20 |
| NEW!!! The Eclipse Mill Newsletter (North Adams, MA) | New from the Eclipse Mill, thanks to Michelle Silva, a newsletter to keep you posted … | 2009/05/04 | The Editor | Art | 2009-05-04 05:34:48 |
| All-Natural, Free-Ranging Baroque at Simon’s Rock, April 26, 2009. | Baroque chamber music with Larry Wallach, Lucy Bardo and Stephen Hammer. For twenty-five years audiences … | 2009/05/01 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2009-05-01 13:35:24 |
| Welcome to the new Berkshire Review for the Arts | Welcome to the new Berkshire Review for the Arts, which will be easier and more … | 2009/04/30 | The Editor | Uncategorized | 2009-04-30 00:00:13 |
| The Best Minds of our Generation…Patti Smith, Philip Glass, and Allen Ginsberg at the City Winery | On Palm Sunday at the City Winery, it was a great honor to see two … | 2009/04/28 | Robert Kurilla | Music | 2009-04-28 04:49:48 |
| Emmanuel Music – Bach, St. Matthew Passion; John Harbison, conductor; April 5, 2009; Schütz, St. Matthew Passion; April 10, 2009 | Bach’s St. Matthew Passion functions as religious music, presenting the trial and crucifixion of Christ, … | 2009/04/20 | Charles Warren | Music, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-04-20 06:28:34 |
| Summer Theatre Festivals – A Guide | Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington … | 2009/04/14 | The Editor | Theater | 2009-04-14 18:39:11 |
| Mozart/Da Ponte, Le Nozze di Figaro, the debut of the Capital Opera Company, Albany | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro Lorenzo Da Ponte, libretto The Capital Opera Company … | 2009/04/14 | Michael Miller | Music, Opera | 2009-04-14 11:46:51 |
| Mendelssohn 200: Crescendo sings rare gems from frère et soeur | Mendelssohn Bicentennial: Crescendo presents rarely heard gems from frère et soeur March 21, 2009, First … | 2009/04/12 | Seth Lachterman | Music | 2009-04-12 19:50:06 |
| A Tourist at the Opera, A Visitor’s Impression of the Northern Berkshires | A Tourist at the Opera, A Visitor’s Impression of the Northern Berkshires, March 2009 (Click … | 2009/04/01 | JC Scott | Places | 2009-04-01 19:33:37 |
| Artists Without Borders – Brill Gallery: Rydygier, Fujinami, Gabler | Artists Without Borders Brill Gallery, Eclipse Mill, North Adams, February 1, 2009 – May 31, … | 2009/04/01 | JC Scott | Art | 2009-04-01 18:48:49 |
| John Harbison, Winter’s Tale (1974, rev. 1991) | John Harbison, Winter’s Tale (1974, rev. 1991) First complete performance of the revised version Opera … | 2009/03/30 | Charles Warren | Music, Opera, The Berkshire Review in Boston | 2009-03-30 13:10:04 |
| Sol LeWitt III: The ABCDs of Sol Lewitt | The ABCDs of Sol Lewitt at the Williams College Museum of Art, November 14, … | 2009/03/13 | Richard Harrington | Art | 2009-03-13 21:27:07 |
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