Close Encounters with Music Archives

Close Encounters with Music – The Schumanns, Drama and Melodrama

The ever-fascinating and intimate triangle of musicians Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms are brought into a fresh light with seldom-heard works that highlight the musical cross-references and spiritual bond that united them. Artists: Adam Golka, piano; Itamar Zorman, violin; Helena Baillie, viola; Yehuda Hanani, cello; Michael Wise, narrator

Producer: Close Encounters with Music
Series: Close Encounters with Music
Category: Studio Shows & Interviews

Close Encounters with Music – Berkshire High Peaks Festival at Chesterwood

At Berkshire High Peaks Festival, students performed at Chesterwood, the Gilded Age home & studio of Daniel Chester French in Stockbridge, MA. It's a time of inspiration, hard work, and joy, with concerts that celebrate collaboration, tradition, and the transformative power of music.

Producer: Close Encounters with Music
Series: Close Encounters with Music
Category: Studio Shows & Interviews

Close Encounters With Music – Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“Something Borrowed, Something Blue — Cross-Cultural Synergy” offered a dynamic afternoon of jazz, tango, liturgy, waltz, Habanera and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on it's 100th anniversary.

Producer: Close Encounters with Music
Series: Close Encounters with Music
Category: Studio Shows & Interviews

Close Encounters with Music – Cafe Vienna, Nervous Splendor

Vienna, the imperial “City of Song,” has played an essential role as a leading European cultural center, hosting major personalities in the development of music, as well as literature, painting, psychiatry and intellectual thought, from the 16th to 20th centuries. This program takes a cross-section of Viennese musical modes—from operetta to waltz, Beethoven’s Piano Trio which spins on a popular song by Weigl, to Schubert’s sublime testament to his beloved métier, “An die Musik.”

Producer: Close Encounters with Music
Series: Close Encounters with Music
Category: Studio Shows & Interviews

Close Encounters With Music – Great Piano Quintets Gala Concert

Dvorák’s sublime Piano Quintet in A Major and Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34 are both majestic, symphonic in scope, and invite the listener into a lost world of powerful beauty, profundity, and nobility of sentiments, peppered with folk tunes and polkas. An all-star ensemble that shares the stage with artistic director Yehuda Hanani includes Max Levinson and violist Jordan Bak.

Producer: Close Encounters with Music
Series: Close Encounters with Music
Category: Studio Shows & Interviews