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Tanglewood Classical Season Opens; Taconic BlossomsBy Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires
01:38PM / Thursday, July 05, 2018 | |
Tanglewood opens its classical season this week, with diverse and stimulating programming of classical and modern chamber and orchestral masterworks spanning three centuries, featuring Boston Symphony Conductor Andris Nelsons and the brilliant pianist Lang Lang. There’s diverse musical fare, from Mozart, Brahms and Richard Strauss to Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. For intimate and brilliantly performed chamber music, head north on Route 7 to Manchester, Vt., for Taconic Music. Finally, consider spectacular Sevenars Concerts in Worthington, Mass. Their celebratory 50th anniversary seven-week festival season opens on July 8. There’s so much music to experience
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Coming Back Like A Song: Cabaret or Play?By Nancy Salz, Special to iBerkshires
01:21PM / Thursday, July 05, 2018 | |
 "Hannah and Her Sisters" had a scene like this. So did many other movies. Imagine a party in a New York City home. Two former musical performers are urged by the gathering to relive their old hits. Everyone gathers around the piano and off the performers go – amidst "oohs" and "ahhs" in recognition as an old song begins and polite applause as it ends. Then on to the next song. "Coming Back Like A Song," a new play about Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Jimmy Van Heusen that just opened at the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Fitzpatrick Main Stage, is a lot like the above scene only the composers themselves are the performers. The play has a few
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More Drury Student Art Installed on Cascade BuildingBy Rebecca Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:58AM / Tuesday, July 03, 2018 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — This was the seventh year new artwork by Drury High School students has been installed on the side of the Cascade School Supplies building on Brown Street.
"Again we stand here in awe," Cascade President Pete Cote said Monday during a brief ceremony.
This was the first year that Mayor Thomas Bernard was on hand during the ceremony to see the art and a handful of the artists first-hand.
"It's incredible," Bernard said.
And this was the last year that Drury High art teacher Phoebe Pepper posed with the students whom she shepherded through the process and accepted the annual monetary donation from Cascade, which also donates the wood
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'Incredibles 2': The American Family to the RescueBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
04:31PM / Friday, June 29, 2018 | |
 I doubt I've ever said this in a review, so here goes: "Incredibles 2," an intelligently humorous follow-up to the 2004 original, is good fun for the entire family. There, said it. Just don't let the opportunity for bonding among parents, children and crotchety Aunt Edna, if you deign to charitably invite her, bankrupt the clan. While only an anecdotal bit of accounting, I estimate that the mom two rows in front of me spent at least 21 minutes and about $57.25 going back and forth to the concession stand fetching cheese nachos et al for her flock of five before finally sitting down. Harrumph! It boggles the mind, but I kind of get it: a phylum of moviegoer 0 Comments
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Berkshire Museum Director Van Shields Retiring| 11:40AM / Thursday, June 28, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The director who lead the Berkshire Museum through the most controversial period in its century-long history is leaving. The retirement of Executive Director Van Shields was announced on Thursday morning in a statement from the museum. David Ellis, former president and director of the Museum of Science in Boston, will step in in the interim as the museum undertakes a national search for Shield's successor. "We are grateful for Van's leadership and vision, especially through a challenging time," said Elizabeth McGraw, president of the museum's board of trustees. "Van helped chart a course to secure the museum's future, 0 Comments
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Music Before, During and After the Fourth of JulyBy Grace Lichtenstein, Special to iBerkshires
03:20PM / Wednesday, June 27, 2018 | |
 Hi, pop fans. You'll note that today's column covers both this week and next, right through the weekend following the Fourth of July. Berkshire Theatre Group There will be several new musicals to enjoy, thanks to the Berkshire Theatre Group. "Coming Back Like a Song!" features songs by Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Jimmy Van Heusen. It was written by Lee Kalcheim and is at the Fitzpatrick Main Stage, 83 East Main St., in Stockbridge. The show begins previews Thursday, June 28, at 7 p.m. and runs through Saturday, July 21. The official opening night is Sunday, July 1, with BTG's 90th gala beginning at 5p.m. and the show itself at 6 p.m. Matinees are Thursdays,
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Summer Classical Music Festival Season Heats UpBy Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires
02:50PM / Wednesday, June 27, 2018 | |
 It's here! The summer concert season is upon us, with stellar programs at Taconic Music, located in idyllic Manchester, Vt., and at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. Concertgoers will have the opportunity to hear great chamber music performed at its artistic best, in inviting and intimate surroundings. Taconic Music Taconic Music's second Summer Festival week features a masterclass with Grammy-nominated guest ensemble the Enso String Quartet, a Saturday-night concert showcasing canonical masterworks (and also including a touch of the musically exotic), and the first NextGen concert of the 2018 season.
Why go? Taconic Music is a unique and engaging music festival, with outstanding
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Berkshire Museum Seeks Private Sales in Next Round Staff Reports,
07:16PM / Monday, June 25, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Museum has selected nine more works of art to be sold toward its goal of $55 million that museum officials say is required to secure the institution's future. Thirteen pieces have been sold by auction or private sale. Sotheby's will be working with the museum to find private sales for seven more works and will auction two in September. The century-old museum's decision to deaccession parts of its 40,000-piece collection was announced almost a year ago to fund a $60 million plan to modernize and update the aging institution and develop an endowment to continue its operations. Without the funds, officials say the 1 Comment
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'First Reformed': An Inconvenient ProofBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
08:21PM / Thursday, June 21, 2018 | |
 It is unfortunate. But it only makes complete sense that Paul Schrader's dark and starkly truthful "First Reformed" will be one of 2018's most important movies. Whether or not you like its profoundly intense take on current events and how that intersects with the crisis of conscience Ethan Hawke's Reverend Ernst Toller is experiencing, the film is representative of its time. Unlike in the Great Depression, when cheerful movies tried to paste things over until happy times were here again, this intense, artistic muckrake dives headlong into the tribulation. But expect no answers as we witness Reverend Toller navigate the whims, wiles and sometimes disingenuous 0 Comments
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Big Names, Great Popular Music Land in BerkshiresBy Grace Lichtenstein, Special to iBerkshires
02:52PM / Wednesday, June 20, 2018 | |
 Yes, it’s still early in the season. But lots of toe-tapping pleasures await.
First things first: If you don't have your tickets to the Barrington Stage's "The Royal Family of Broadway," a world premiere, stop reading this column for a moment and buy them right now. The show has garnered rave reviews everywhere — in the Wall Street Journal, the Albany Times Union and elsewhere. It sounds like a cinch that the show will eventually make it to Broadway itself. But it's here in Pittsfield now — through July 7. Find details online. Tanglewood Music Festival The Tanglewood pop season is already in high gear. This weekend, Andy Grammer's debut
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