Close Encounters With Music's 32nd season launches with "Virtue and Virtuosity" at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, with selections from Kapustin, Paganini, Ysaÿe, Saint-Saëns and Brahms.
Yehuda Hanani casts his gaze back over the turbulent era of the 1920’s finding that the restless urgency to break taboos and overcome or demolish barriers was part of a larger cultural upheaval, the product of irresistible and inevitable forces.
Filmed at the Saint James Place arts and culture center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Featured artists: Renana Gutman, piano; Xiao-Dong Wang, violin; Yehuda Hanani, cello.
FAdventurous chamber music! Enjoy Close Encounter With Music's world premiere of composer Tamar Muskal's "One Earth." In the words of Muskal, “We live in a very challenging time—a time of war, sickness, climate disasters, and economic difficulties. 'One Earth,' for a rapper/beatbox artist, table player, string quintet and a treble chorus, calls all people to positive action, to love, to beauty, and to anything that protects the planet and humanity. The piece is rich in sonorities, a fusion of different musical worlds, and contrasts between energetic rhythms, lyrical melodies and powerful rapping.”
Filmed at the Saint James Place arts and culture center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Featured artists: Renana Gutman, piano; Xiao-Dong Wang, violin; Yehuda Hanani, cello.
