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Young Composers at the Ojai Festival
Free to Be an Individual in Sound
By: - Sep 23rd, 2021John Adams writes about his release from the shackles binding him as a Northeastern composer in the US. Coming to California as a young man, he was at last able to write the music he heard, whatever shape it took. He was free to be an individual. Each of the young composers featured prominently in Ojai 2021 has clearly benefited from Adams’ experience.
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Kristy Edmunds Joins MASS MoCA
Second Director of North Adams Museum
By: - Sep 23rd, 2021The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announces that Kristy Edmunds has been appointed as its new Director, following a 10-month international search and a unanimous decision by the Board. Edmunds comes to MASS MoCA from UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), where she has served as the Executive and Artistic Director since 2011.
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Carolyn Newberger at Galatea Fine Arts
Drawing From Life: The Nude as Mirror and Muse
By: - Sep 26th, 2021Carolyn Newberger is a Berkshire based polymath. From October 1 through 31 she will exhibit Drawing From Life: The Nude as Mirror and Muse at Boston's Galatea Fine Arts. "Typically working in broad strokes on paper with watercolor and charcoal or ink, in twenty minutes or less I seek to bring onto the page the ineffable personhood of the model, his or her thoughtfulness, mental state, humor and distinctiveness," she says of this new work.
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Sculpture by Jared Abner and Steven Muller.
At Boston's HallSpace
By: - Sep 28th, 2021In "Wood Play" both artists are having fun with the materials and the forms. The work in this exhibition evokes that joy. Steve Muller's assembled sculptures play with sticks/lines, broken, abrupt, and jagged. They are simple intelligent collages, with a touch of wry humor. Jared Abner discovers forms by following the shapes and grain of the wood he is carving.
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Cleo Parker Robinson, Going the Distance
Celebrating 50 Years of Black dance
By: - Sep 29th, 2021Cleo Parker Robinson is celebrating the 51st anniversary of the founding of her dance troupe. Covid buried the 50th. This celebration had added sizzle. Live dance is happening at last.
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Clark Art Institute’s First Sundays
Free Admission on October 3
By: - Oct 01st, 2021The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sundays Free program returns on Sunday, October 3. Admission to the galleries is free to all visitors for the entire day, but advance registration is strongly recommended.
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Gateways Inn in Downtown Lenox
Announces Jazz Series
By: - Oct 01st, 2021The Gateways Inn in downtown Lenox has announced a new jazz series, starting in October and running Thursdays through Saturdays, with a special concert on Sunday, Oct. 24. Presented in association with Berkshires Jazz, Inc., the series underscores the venue’s ongoing dedication to live music.
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Trump Promised to Drain the Swamp
DC Still Mucked Up
By: - Oct 02nd, 2021It’s been almost a year since November 2020 when Mr. Trump lost his presidential reelection bid but secretly refuses to accept his defeat. And “the big lie’ theory continues to poison the political well being of the nation.
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Honoring Jazz Entrepreneur George Wein
In Tribute Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021Michael Rosenfeld Gallery had a long and personal relationship with George Wein and we remember and celebrate his kindness and spirit. In a recent letter to Michael Rosenfeld on the occasion of the gallery’s 30th anniversary, he wrote: “30 plus years ago, by chance I walked into a brownstone building on the Upper East Side. There was a sign outside that said: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. That was the day I met you. And to say it changed my life, is putting it mildly.”
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Hang at Shakespere & Company
By Debbie Tucker Green
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021In the playbill for Hang by Debbie Tucker Green, the setting is described as ‘Nearly now.’ How prescient the playwright is, to recognize old and new layers of fascism, terribly becoming everyday.
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Little Girl by Sebastien Lifshitz
French Film About a Trans Child
By: - Oct 06th, 2021Little Girl, a 2020 documentary about a young French trans girl, would be a good introduction to what it means to feel you were born in the wrong body. It’s an exquisite film, a sweet story of 7-year-old Sasha, who lives in rural France with her incredibly devoted and supportive family. Unfortunately, not everyone around her is equally as understanding.
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The Mount Calendar
Events Update
By: - Oct 08th, 2021Experience the beauty and splendor of Edith Wharton’s beloved estate. The Mount is currently open Wednesday – Sunday for tours. We are open on Saturdays and Sundays in November & December. See the mansion all dressed up for the Holidays! Holiday House tours start November 27. Tours can be booked online at EdithWharton.org. Please visit our website for the latest calendar of events.
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Mahagonny, Komische Oper, Berlin
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
By: - Oct 11th, 2021What startet 1930 as the first opera cooperation between the playwright Bertolt Brecht and the composer Kurt Weill may well turn out to be the last big opera in the 2021/22 season. Mahagonny is being presented at the Komische Oper Berlin with Barrie Kosky as director.
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Lizard Boy
Produced by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Oct 13th, 2021With “Lizard Boy,” youth is served and age is respected. This is a big tent musical that will please anyone with an open mind and a caring heart. The auteur, Justin Huertas who wrote the book, music, and lyrics, and who plays the lead role, has fashioned an absolutely riveting theater piece that pulsates with emotion and extracts enormous empathy.
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Letter to the Editor
Re: "Miroirs" by Wataru Iwata
By: - Oct 13th, 2021This is Wataru Iwata emailing from Japan. I’ve been working as a pianist, music composer, visual artist and recently putting more time into digital art.
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Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Rose Art Museum's Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence
By: - Oct 14th, 2021The Rose Art Museum named Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (b. 1954, Cheyenne/Arapaho) its 2021-2022 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence. Since 2002, the Perlmutter Residency has been part of the Rose Art Museum’s longstanding tradition of promoting artists of extraordinary talent whose works address contemporary issues of vital urgency.
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Leiber & Stoller's Smokey Joe’s Café
At ACT-CT in Ridgefield
By: - Oct 18th, 2021Smokey Joe’s is a pure jukebox musical; there is no plot and no dialogue, just the songs from this team – Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller whose fame was mainly in the 1950s and ‘60s. Their music connected to both rock ‘n roll and rhythm and blues genres and was made popular by Elvis Presley among others
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Mussorgsky's Original Boris Godunov at the Met
How Do we Assess Versions
By: - Oct 18th, 2021Alternate versions of an opera arouse controversy.The multiple versions of Verdi’s grand opera Don Carlos (Don Carlo) were a response to different productions. Terrence Blanchard adapted his opera Fire Shut up in My Bones for the Metropolitan Opera’s stage. Now we have the magnificent, original Boris Godunov.
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Shakespeare & Company Benefit Screenings
Speak What We Feel, a Documentary by Patrick J. Toole
By: - Oct 19th, 2021Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2021 Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) and the first feature-length film project in the Company’s 44-year history, Speak What We Feel follows hundreds of students from 10 high schools across Berkshire, Hampden, and Columbia counties as they prepare to stage a full production of a Shakespeare play under the guidance of Shakespeare & Company education artists.
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Todd Haynes Documentary Evokes The Velvet Underground
Is There More to the Story of Lou Reed and His Band
By: - Oct 21st, 2021Steve Nelson was the foremost producer/promoter of concerts by The Velvet Underground in the period 1967-1970. He managed the legendary rock club The Boston Tea Party and produced shows in western Mass. at his club The Woodrose Ballroom and at the Paramount Theater in Springfield. He also designed several of the posters promoting those shows. He was an Archival Consultant to the Haynes film and provided visual materials for it.
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Faure's Consoling Requiem at Greenwood Cemetery
Angel's Share Concludes Its Season
By: - Oct 22nd, 2021Andrew Ousley has just the right touch as he presens music from all time and places in surprising venues across the city of New York. Earlier concerts at the Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn took place in catacombs. For the performance of Gabriel Faure’s Requiem by Cantori, Ousley moved outside. The audience sits among the dead, consoled by a requiem at peace.
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The Great Khan by Michael Gene Sullivan
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021Playwright Michael Gene Sullivan fills the house with laughter in addition to thoughtfulness and social reflection. In his affecting premiere “The Great Khan,” an otherwise unassuming, middle-class, black teenage boy, Jayden, has saved a black teenage girl, Ant (full name - Antoinette), from a gang of boys.
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Broken Nose Theatre’s Audio Play, Kingdom
Tells a Black LGBTQ Story With Heart
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021Kingdom is an entirely LGBTQ African American story, sensitively told, and illustrates through the characters’ varied life experiences how Black gay culture is different from White gay culture. The lyrical script keeps the symbolism of the Magic Kingdom as a meaningful background theme, until the very end.
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M. Butterfly, the Opera, to Premiere in Santa Fe
Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang Join Forces
By: - Oct 25th, 2021The world premiere of M. Butterfly, the opera, will take place on July 30,2021 at the Santa Fe Opera. We got a taste of its music, its story and the sound of the delicious man/girl Song. Kangmin Justin Kim is a countertenor with special tremulos and vibratos which suggest the feminine voice. Many layers weave through the new telling to the tale made famous in its first iteration as a Tony and Pulitzer-finalist play by David Henry Hwang. He is the librettist for the new work by composer, Huang Ruo.
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Cuban Pianist and Composer Harold López-Nussa
New England and NY Tour Dates
By: - Oct 25th, 2021On his vibrant and spirited third recording for Mack Avenue Records, Havana-based pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa sets out to capture that stirring sensation with an exhilarating marriage of jazz and Cuban pop music. On a global tour there are dates for Florence (near Northampton), Boston and NY.
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