Tanglewood

The Yellow Barn Music School and Festival opened their Amherst season with a typical varied program, oustanding playing from its young musicians, and veteran Peter Frankl, as well as a captivating piece by Kagel.

André Previn led the BSO in a fine concert of Romantic and Modern versions of Romeo and Juliet with Rachmaninoff's little played First Piano Concerto

James Levine opened the season with fresh and insightful performances for familiar music: Mendelssohn's music for Midsummer Night's Dream and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.

It was sweltering last night as Keith Lockhart led the Boston Pops Orchestra and Tanglewood Chorus through a full concert version of the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein classic "Carousel." Predictably the perrenial favorite drew a capacity audience in the Koussevitsky Music Shed and out on the lawn.

A recent article and editorial in the Berkshire Eagle take Tanglewood to task for falling attendance. Dave Mathews and Bright Eyes to the rescue?

In addition to a gallery in Lenox, primarily focused on ceramic art, Leslie Ferrin has just opened a large new space in Pittsfield. Is this further evidence of the development of the Northern Berkshire city as a viable arts center?

An inspired celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Juilliard String Quartet and the first performance of the Bartók String Quartets as a cycle, which occurred 59 years ago at Tanglewood.

The Boston Early Music Festival's performance of Lully's "Psyché" thrilled a diverse audience in Great Barrington.

Aston Magna, the oldest and one of the most important early music festivals in North America, adds a new venue for its 35th anniversary celebration, including veteran Stanley Ritchie.

A guide to the major music festivals of the Berkshires and environs with links to all schedules.

Over the busy Memorial Day weekend the arts were officially launched with overlapping openings all over the Berkshires. We opted to covering the events in North Adams.

The first known Cambodian opera, Where Elephants Weep is a hybrid of musical genres that bridges generations and cultures, decades after Pol Pot all but devastated Cambodia.

The London Symphony, releasing their own recordings on LSO Live, have set a new standard for orchestral recording, bringing stellar performances by Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Rostropovich, and Frühbeck de Burgos to a larger audience.

Garrick Ohlsson's played four Beethoven Sonatas with his usual mastery in spite of an undersized piano of poor quality

James Levine, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a dream cast headed by Christine Brewer and Johan Botha, presented a memorable Fidelio.

The Metropolitan Opera's beautiful production Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" is graced with a consistently excellent cast of singers.

Now in its 25th Year the Mark Morris Dance Company is launching a tour of 100 performances in the U.S. and Europe including a world premiere during its May schedule at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.

James Levine will conduct eleven concerts in an ambitious season, which includes a wealth of opera performances, several distinguished musicians from the Netherlands, and Hesperion XXI.

Sir Colin and the BSO were at the very top of form for Vaughn Williams stark postwar symphony and Beethoven's Pastoral Reflections

Sir Colin Davis and Imogen Cooper delighted the matinée audience at Symphony Hall with symphonies by Mozart and Haydn and a memorable reading of Mozart's great concerto.

Guest conductor David Lockington, Music Director of the Grand Rapids Symphony offers new work by Philip Sawyers and excels in Sibelius, while Dylana Jenson earned ovations with an exemplary Goldmark Violin Concerto.

BFA classical reviewer offers an enthusiastic retrospective of the summer season...with a few apologies and complaints

Two intensive weekends of music by Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

Yo-yo Ma and Emanuel Ax carry on their long collaboration in an all- Beethoven evening shared between modern and historical performance practices. The concert was both fascinating and inspired

Bronfman and Frühbeck de Burgos captur the essence of Beethoven