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Tanglewood, Tannery Pond, Taconic Music, Sevenars ShineBy Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires
12:52PM / Wednesday, July 11, 2018 | |
 Tanglewood enters its second week of classical programming with inspiring concerts in the Shed and in Ozawa Hall. As always, excellence is the watchword: from Leonard Bernstein’s delightful and brilliant comic opera "Trouble in Tahiti" to classic symphonic works of Mozart, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Wagner; from Bernstein's emotionally uplifting "Chichester Psalms" to a semi-staged performance of Puccini's "La bohème," Tanglewood hits all the high notes.
In Manchester, Vt., there's the Taconic Music festival. Taconic's concerts are always thrilling to hear and to experience, both in terms of repertoire and the level of
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Berkshire Museum Releases Financial StatementsStaff Reports,
02:18AM / Wednesday, July 11, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Museum has released its financial reports in an effort to prove that its controversial sale of artworks was needed to keep the institution open. The museum posted its independent audit, its federal tax statement Form 990, the Massachusetts state tax statement required as a non-profit, and annual filing for charitable organizations in New York State, which is filed with registration to solicit donations from New York. Together, the financial pieces show that the Berkshire Museum has been operating with a $1 million deficit. "These documents reinforce the conclusions of both the Museum's Board of Trustees and the Office of 3 Comments
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Review: Bernstein Goes to 'Town' at TanglewoodBy Nancy Salz, iBerkshires columnist
02:56PM / Monday, July 09, 2018 | |
 What a rare and delicious treat – a large Boston Pops Orchestra playing Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town" behind a stellar Broadway cast dancing and singing to perfection. The performance took place at Tanglewood on the evening of July 7 before a huge, enthusiastic audience. It was part of this summer's Bernstein 100 birthday celebration. Even the weather was in the cool, comfortable 60s.
The musical, Bernstein's first, is based on Jerome Robbins's ballet idea, "Fancy Free." With book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, "On the Town" premiered in 1944 during World War II. Between the movie and the four major Broadway
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Pittsfield To Serve As Backdrop For Photography ProjectStaff Reports,
02:30PM / Saturday, July 07, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Sections of the city will be closed off the week of the 17th for photo shoots by photographer Gregory Crewdson. Crewdson will be taking a series of still images using Pittsfield as the setting. On Wednesday, July 17, Kellogg Street between Parker and Plunkett Streets will be shut down the Fire Department is putting on a controlled burn to be featured in the photograph. On Friday, July 20 the film crew will move to Silver Lake Boulevard, at the corner of Fourth Street, for photos featuring actions in police and fire uniforms, and several emergency vehicles. And on Sunday, July 22, the photos will be shot at the intersection of 0 Comments
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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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