Close Encounters With Music Presents “Rite of Spring” -Rachmaninoff/Stravinsky and masterpieces of chamber music and vocal folklore from Tchaikovsky and Moussorgsky.
Composed by Tchaikovsky to counter a bout of insomnia and melancholy, Serenade for Strings immediately cheered him up, and he reported “feeling well, invigorated and content” – as gratified listeners have over the years. The Vivace Chamber Orchestra is comprised of fourteen top-tier soloists who gather for periodic tours.
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
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.
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.”
