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Close Encounters with Music Presents “Concetta Tomaino—Music and Medicine”

(Lenox, MA…) Close collaborator of Dr. Oliver Sacks, author of the breakthrough book Awakenings (made into a movie starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams), Concetta Tomaino has done groundbreaking research on the uses of music in the neurological rehabilitation of patients living with the effects of autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, as well as stroke and trauma.  She is…

Close Encounters with Music Presents Skylark, A Cappella Vocalists: Hidden Symbols, Secret Codes

What might happen if Robert Langdon, acclaimed professor of Symbology at Harvard University (and fictional hero of Dan Brown’s best-selling novels, including The Da Vinci Code), were enlisted to explore hidden symbols, secret codes, and long-forgotten historical connections buried in manuscripts of choral music over the centuries?

  Join GRAMMY-nominated Skylark to find out. Featuring video…

Close Encounters with Music Presents “The French Connection: Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Fauré”

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC PRESENTS:

The French Connection—Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Fauré

SATURDAY, March 21, 6 PM AT THE MAHAIWE

The greatest period of creativity among French composers coincides with the emergence of Impressionist art. Attempting to define that French “je ne sais quoi” is as elusive as describing a bottle of Château Petrus.  But, as exemplified by the music of Fauré (Piano…

Close Encounters With Music Presents A Mid-Winter Fireside Concert

(Great Barrington…) Two enduring treasures of the chamber music canon lift us into the realm of the transcendent and channel the Viennese tradition: Schubert’s Trio in B flat Major and Brahms’ in B Major were both written or rewritten towards the end of the composers’ lives. Both display masterful sculpting of heavenly melodies coupled with passion and heady romanticism.  Brahms makes use of the…

Close Encounters With Music Presents Great Strings: The Borromeo String Quartet

“The Borromeo’s playing was restless and insistent, from the piece’s edgy opening to the coda, played with a thrilling sense of abandon.” – BOSTON GLOBE

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(Great Barrington, MA…) Anton Arensky’s Quartet in A Minor for two cellos, a personal tribute to his beloved friend Tchaikovsky, is considered one of the…

Close Encounters with Music Presents A Viennese Buffet of Genius, Neurosis and Melodrama…

Three Gentlemen of Vienna—Beethoven, Schubert and Mahler

THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF ITS 2019-20 CONVERSATIONS WITH….SERIES… INTIMATE AND STIMULATING AFTERNOONS ON MUSIC AND IDEAS

(Lenox, MA…) Music speaks the language of the irrational, and it cannot, as Freud frustratingly found, be intellectualized or rationally explained. Musician and analyst, Melinda Haas is ideally suited to explore the…

Berkshire High Peaks Festival Continues with “Years of Pilgrimage”

SHEFFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS- “Years of Pilgrimage,” Thursday, August 1, 7 PM in the Allen Theatre, Berkshire School in Sheffield, traverses two centuries of Italian brilliance and demonstrates how it inspired its famous tourists (Mendelssohn, Byron, etc.) and residents. This concert showcases selections from the mercurial keyboard music of Baroque-era Domenico Scarlatti, the humor and exuberance of…