Music
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Eclectic ETHEL Debuts Original Score at Williamstown Film Festival

Robots and Ghouls at MoCA for an Evening of Intergalactic Love
By: - Nov 02nd, 2009New York's eclectic string quartet ETHEL created an original score for the Mexican Sci-Fi film La Nave de los Monstruos ("Ship of Monsters."). The group delivered a perfect melding of strings and sound effects to accompany the B-Film classic. While the film and performers were lighthearted and campy, the music had a surprising depth, performed with an ear for improvisation.
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Lang Lang and Friends at Carnegie Hall
Ancient Paths/Modern Voices in New York
By: - Oct 28th, 2009Super pianist Lang Lang performed chamber music in the company of friends and presented future talents as part of a Festival celebrating Chinese culture.
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Amanda McBroom's Cabaret Performances
Singer-Songwriter to Debut New Jacques Brel at Barrington Stage Company Oct. 23-24
By: - Oct 20th, 2009Last summer Amanda McBroom played two memorable SRO evenings at Barrington Stage 2. She was a sensation. This weekend she returns to meet the apparently insatiable thirst for genuine cabaret singers that exists in the Berkshires and surrounding hills. We talk to her about her two great talents, songwriting and singing powerful songs straight from the heart.
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Dr. Dog Unleashes a Fun, Foot Stomping Evening at Mass MoCA
Winterpills Opens for the Philadelphia Indie Group
By: - Oct 19th, 2009During Open Studios Weekend, Philadelphia based Dr. Dog rocked Mass MoCA with a people pleasing blend of psychedlia, 7th chords and synchronized foot stomping. Northampton's Winterpills, who toured with Cake last fall, opened for them. It was the first appearance by both bands at Mass MoCA which once again found a younger audience much in evidence.
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Christine Brewer Bewitches at Carnegie Hall
An American Nightingale
By: - Oct 15th, 2009Christine Brewer, a magnificent American soprano, performed a varied program accompanied by Craig Rutenberg. They performed works by Gluck. Strauss,Marx, Britten, Marx and Wagner.
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Award Winner Hahn-Bin's Debut at Carnegie Hall
Goth and Emo Styles Morph as Emerging Violinist
By: - Oct 12th, 2009What do Hahn Bin, Emanuel Ax, Ruth Laredo, Dawn Upshaw, Richard Goode, Pinchas Zuckerman and the Tokyo String Quarter have in common. They are all winners of the prestigious Young Concert Artists award. The Mohwk coiffed performer made his Carnegie Hall Award Concert debut before an appreciative audience.
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Richie Havens at the Colonial in Pittsfield
Berkshire Singer Songwriter Meg Hutchinson Opens Love Fest
By: - Oct 11th, 2009The Woodstock film captured a clip of the legendary, three hour long set by Richie Havens which opened three days of music. It earned him a place in the Hippie Hall of Fame. There was an acid flashback for the fans last night at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. With an evocative opening set by Berkshire singer Meg Hutchinson.
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Aida by Giuseppe Verdi Premieres at the Metropolitan Opera House
Live in HD Broadcast Set for October 24
By: - Oct 05th, 2009Aida made its season premier on October 2 at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. This beloved opera has everything -- a passionate love triangle, war between neighbors, father pitted against daughter (in a scene that rivals that of Brunhilde and Wotan), priests who rule under a ruthless God, and rulers who cannot accept either losses or victories as sufficient. The opera will be broadcast in the Live from the Met series on October 24 at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington.
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Amanda Palmer Pops into New Year
Joins Keith Lockhart at Symphony Hall December 31
By: - Oct 05th, 2009The bad girl and lead singer of the Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer, promises to put some zing into the traditional New Year's Eve celebration at Symphony Hall in Boston. She will join Keith Lockhart for an evening of fun and games. My goodness.
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Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic
Emanuel Ax, Pianist
By: - Oct 01st, 2009On September 30,the New York Philharmonic presented EXPO, a new Magnus Lindberg work, two compositions by Charles Ives and a dynamic performance of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto featuring Emanuel Ax.
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Brahms and Schoenberg at the New York Philharmonic
Maestro Alan Gilbert Tours the Leitmotifs
By: - Sep 26th, 2009It was exciting to be at Avery Fisher Hall as Alan Gilbert led the New York Philharmonic in the Brahms vioin concerto and Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melinsande.
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Fans Love Metropolitan Opera HD Screenings
A Phenomenon from Great Barrington to Great Britain
By: - Sep 22nd, 2009The Met's Live in HD opera presentations begins its fourth season of telecasts to the big screen on Saturday, October 10 with a new production of Puccini's Tosca. Tickets are difficult to find, and at Great Barrington's Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, tickets for the first few telecasts were quickly gobbled up by Berkshire residents. Tickets remain at other venues, and we have the latest scoop on the entire season.
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A New Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
Karita Mattila Makes Her Met Debut as Tosca
By: - Sep 22nd, 2009An eagerly awaited new production for Puccini's Tosca opened the Met for the 2009-2010 season, and will be broadcast Live in HD on October 10.
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Maestro Alan Gilbert at New York Philharmonic
New Conductor Leads Adventuresome Program on PBS
By: - Sep 16th, 2009September 16, 2009,the day we have waited for. Maestro Alan Gilbert takes the podium at Avery Fisher Hall...
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Swings into the Berkshires
Retro Band Chooses Great Barrington to Kick Off National Tour
By: - Sep 12th, 2009The first stop on their national tour was the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy blew the roof off the venerable old hall at its opening concert. This legendary powerhouse proves that nothing comes close to the sound of a live big band.
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Summer HD Festival in Lincoln Center Plaza - Part Two
Encores from the Metropolitan Opera
By: - Sep 08th, 2009Although these opera broadcasts were encores, they seemed very present -- revealing the originals in a new and satisfying experience.
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Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2009: Come Sunday
Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller, Vanguard, Jon Faddis, Dave Holland
By: - Sep 07th, 2009The Sunday program, ending the three day Tanglewood Jazz Festival featured blistering afternoon and evening programs of straight up jazz. It was a take no prisoners conclusion to a fabulous season of music in the Berkshires.
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Regina Carter, Nnenna Freelon & Harolyn Blackwell at Tanglewood Jazz Festival
John Pizzarelli, Family and Kurt Elling with Radio Deluxe
By: - Sep 06th, 2009Day two of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival was intense with programming from 2 PM through 11 pm. The afternoon featured a broadcast of John Pizzarelli's Radio Delux. The evening started magnificently with the Regina Carter Quintet. But ended poorly with the enervating "Dreaming the Duke" which combined the singers Nnenna Freelon and Harolyn Blackwell.
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Paquito d'Rivera Opens Tanglewood Jazz Festival
A Berkshires Labor Day Tradition
By: - Sep 05th, 2009The nine time Grammy winner, Paquito d'Rivera, who defected from Cuba in 1981, kicked off the annual Labor Day Jazz Festival. He offered a stunning tribute to the original Mambo King, the bass player Israel "Cahcao" Lopez. It was a blistering evening of Latin Jazz.
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Summer HD Festival Soars in Lincoln Center Plaza
Favorite Met Operas Free for Fans
By: - Sep 03rd, 2009The economy made the traditional free concerts in New York City parks prohibitively expensive, but we've been treated to something even better. There were HD Metropolitan Opera broadcasts from Lincoln Center.
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James Taylor: Sunday at Tanglewood
Le petit déjeuner sur l'herbe
By: - Aug 31st, 2009For the Sunday afternoon concert at Tanglewood, ending the five day James Taylor marathon the sea of umbrellas out on the lawn offered shade from blazing late summer sun not shelter from the rain as on the previous soggy evenings. It was a glorious concert with JT backed by John Williams conducting the Boston Pops.
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James Taylor: Fire and Rain
With Yo Yo Ma and Sheryl Crow
By: - Aug 29th, 2009It was yet another sloppy evening for the plucky souls hunkered down on the lawn at Tanglewood. But James Taylor, with special guests, Yo Yo Ma and Sheryl Crow, just sizzled. He warmed the hearts of the thousands who braved yet another miserable evening during the Monsoon of 2009.
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James Taylor at Tanglewood
Laid Back Evening Launches Weekend Series
By: - Aug 28th, 2009James Taylor has donated his $500,000 fee for a weekend of concerts at Tanglewood. Some 60,000 tickets have been sold for the unique season ending series. The event was launched last night at Ozawa Hall in a program that featured the band and four backup singers.
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Tanglewood: Michael Tilson Thomas to Conduct Beethoven's Ninth
James Taylor August 27-30 Followed by Labor Day Jazz Festival
By: - Aug 21st, 2009Following the performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas on Sunday, August 23, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will end its Tanglewood Season. But next week, August 27-30, James Taylor will be featured in four, sold out performances. Followed by Labor Day weekend's Tanglewood Jazz Festival.
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The Brave Encompass New Opera in New York
From Chaucer to String Theory
By: - Aug 16th, 2009On June 19 and 20 at the Gerald Lynch Theater in New York the indominatable Nancy Rhodes mounted a new opera by Louis Gioia
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