Close Encounters With Music: Drama & Melodrama – The Schumanns

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

The ever-fascinating and intimate triangle—Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms—will be brought to new light with seldom-heard works that highlight the musical cross-references and spiritual bond that united them.

The Wailin’ Jennys

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

The Wailin’ Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse — three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound.

John Pizzarelli Big Band – Dear Mr. Sinatra

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

Mr. Pizzarelli salutes the Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, performing with an excellent 17-piece big band that kicks with a brawling, Count Basie-like exuberance.

Berkshire Bach Society presents: Bach at New Year’s

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

The Berkshire Bach Society presents Bach at New Year’s: The Six ‘Brandenburg Concertos,’ an event that has been a holiday tradition since 1993.

José González

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

José González is in a class by himself. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “someone whose subtle, carefully crafted music delivers rewards to listeners who know how to wait,” González’s stellar career can only be described as a dream.

Close Encounters With Music: A Tale of Two Salons – Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

The daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer-Polignac was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leon Bakst to Jean Cocteau and Jean Giraudoux to Prokofiev, Madame Jean Lanvin, Siegfried Wagner, Arthur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Edith Wharton in her Paris salon.

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