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Sandra Oh is The Chair on Netflix
Cancel Culture on Campus
By: - Aug 27th, 2021Sandra Oh stars as The Chair in a six episode comedy on Netflix. Set on small college Pembroke it is a broad and hilarious satire of cancel culture on campus. While played for laughs the hit comedy has evoked a dialogue about its uncanny, over the top, accuracy. It's the truth that makes this hilarious series sad and all too compelling.
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Faust by Berlioz in Salzburg
A Masterpiece Revealed
By: - Aug 27th, 2021La Damnation of Faust is a glorious dramatic legend. It bombed in Paris, much to composer Hector Berlioz’ dismay and confusion. Yet even members of the orchestra he conducted at the premiere asked the composer about notes he wrote. “That note does not exist,” complained a horn player. “It sounds like a sneeze.” “That’s just what I wanted,” replied Berlioz. No one contests the musicality of the "Romane" aria, "D'amour l'ardente flame," so beautiful that it was selected to conclude the memorial service for Maria Callas.
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Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle
At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Aug 26th, 2021Drawing from the Guggenheim’s exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well as a selection of his illustrated books, spanning the artist’s earlier years in Russia and Germany and through his exile in France at the end of his life.
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2021 Challenging for Vineyards
Les Alexandrins, Rhone Valley
By: - Aug 25th, 2021After a mild winter, a dry mid-spring and a July that seemed more like a November, our wine-growers have really been through the mill.
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Elektra in Salzburg
Supreme Strauss
By: - Aug 25th, 2021Elektra, the stage drama that underlies the opera Elektra, was written by Hugo von Hoffmansthal for a theatre venue run by Max Reinhardt in Berlin. Reinhardt would go on to found the Salzburg Festival in 1920. After a hundred years, this Festival is inarguably one of the world’s most satisfying. Their new production of Elektra is classic and thrilling.
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Lorie Hamermesh at Gallery Naga
After a 15 Year Hiatus Now Desire/Shame
By: - Aug 24th, 2021After a nearly 15 year hiatus from art making and exhibiting, Lorie Hamermesh is back in a daring and spectacular fashion at Gallery NAGA for a solo exhibition accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog and essays by fellow Boston artists Carol Daynard and Cameron Barker.
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Collage Brain, by Lynn Gall
Insights, Ideas, Inspiration
By: - Aug 24th, 2021Lynn Gall started working as a collagist more than 15 years ago. First, while living in Bristol, in the United Kingdom, in a flat with very little space to call her studio; in fact, she had not much more than a desk and some storage space for her material. in 2019 she published in New York City a 269 page handbook with 120 full color images. She also makes a myriad of suggestions: 'how to create successful collages.'
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Knights Orchestra Returns to the Clark
Celebrates Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway Exhibition
By: - Aug 24th, 2021On Saturday, September 4, at 4 pm, the renowned Knights Orchestra returns to the Clark as part of its programming to highlight Norwegian culture in celebration of its Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway exhibition.
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Berlin, Tanz im August - 2021
Berliner Festspiele
By: - Aug 23rd, 2021Tanz im August (no translation necessary) opened the way for live performances with and for the public after Covid-19 had stopped all cultural activities since late last year.
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Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 22nd, 2021“Eugene Onegin” not only represents the greatness of Russian opera but is one of the fine representatives of the whole operatic idiom. Director Alessandro Talevi marshals the creative team to give a look that blends traditional and modern elements.
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Andrea Brachfeld and Insight
Jazz in the Berkshires
By: - Aug 22nd, 2021A remarkable program features Insight with Andrea Brachfeld. The quartet represents a who’s-who of today’s jazz scene. Headed by the acclaimed award-winning flutist Andrea Brachfeld, Insight includes Bill O’Connell, piano; Harvie S, bass; and Jason Tiemann, drums. The repertoire will feature “If Not Now, When,” Andrea’s original composition, made possible by a New Works grant from Chamber Music America.
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Chuck Close at 81
An Appreciation
By: - Aug 21st, 2021Martin Mugar posted this in 2005 to the site Art Deal. Overcoming many physical and emotional handicaps Chuck Close prevailed leaving a daunting legacy of work.
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Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 20th, 2021Shakespeare’s frequent conceits include mistaken identities, confused love matches, supernatural interventions, play-within-a-play, and multiple plot lines, but “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” embraces them all, and more. Several threads are interspersed and overlapping throughout the play and opera’s narrative that may cause confusion to the uninitiated.
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Berkshire International Film Festival
Goes Virtual This Time
By: - Aug 20th, 2021BIFF continues to celebrate independent film and this year we share stories of hope, of our future, of our past, of heroism, of inspiration and of laughter, loss and love. So, we invite you to check out the program and watch all the films you want, whenever you want, wherever you want. Specific instructions will follow on the BIFF website for passholders and all others interested in the virtual event.
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Ojai Festival 2021
John Adams Music Director
By: - Aug 20th, 20212021 Music Director John Adams announces initial programming for its 75th Festival 2021 Festival composers include Samuel Carl Adams, Timo Andres, Dylan Mattingly, Gabriela Ortiz, Rhiannon Giddens, Carlos Simon, and Gabriella Smith
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Richard Strauss' Home Town 2021
The Richard Strauss Insitute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
By: - Aug 19th, 2021Garmisch Partinkirchen is less than two hours by train from Munich, where Richard Strauss was born. After the smashing success of his opera Salome, Strauss hired the Art Nouveau architect Emanuel von Seidl to build a villa on the property located at Zoeppritzstraße 42 in Garmisch.
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The Lord of Cries by John Corigliano
Commissioned by Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 19th, 2021“The Lord of Cries” is an unusual melange of two literary works written two millennia apart. The more recent is Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” which has been used as the basis for operas before, but none have entered the repertoire. Adamo concludes that Stoker must have known the other contributing piece, Euripides’s “The Bacchae.”
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George M. Cohan Tonight!
An Irish Repertory Theatre Streaming Production.
By: - Aug 19th, 2021The Irish Repertory Theatre (IRT) is streaming a shortened version of George M. Cohan Tonight! through Aug. 29. IRT gave the piece its theatrical debut in 2006. The original IRT production earned award nominations. While reservations are free, IRT suggests a $25 donation for those who can afford it.
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Pennie Brantley at Real Eyes Gallery
The Presence of the Past
By: - Aug 18th, 2021One of the most accomplished artists of the Berkshire region, Pennie Brantley is displaying her crisply rendered painting at Real Eyes Gallery in September. She states that, "Perhaps ironically, my attraction to painting unpeopled structures, especially from travels to other cultures, is inspired by a keen awareness of those who have lived in or made them -- or simply the march of humanity past them sometimes over centuries. The images that stir my need to paint them have made me more intensely aware of the connectedness people share..."
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World Premiere by Composer Eve Beglarian
Twenty-four Double Basses in a Grove of Trees
By: - Aug 16th, 2021When was the last time you listened to music that was composed by a piece of birch wood? Eve Beglarian, in collaboration with superstar bassist Robert Black, one of the founding members of the renowned Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars, has composed a fascinating new work entitled "A Murmur in the Trees."
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A Tony Award for Woodie King Jr.
At Last
By: - Aug 16th, 2021Woodie King Jr. will receive a Tony Honoring for Excellence in the Theatre on September 26. These awards were established in 1990. It's about time! King and his New Federal Theatre have been producing excellent work for over fifty years.
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Suzette Marie Martin at Eclipse Mill Gallery
Viral Load, Bearing Witness to the Pandemic
By: - Aug 15th, 2021“Viral Load”, an exhibition of works by artist Suzette Marie Martin at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, is a meditative suite of ten mixed-media paintings on canvas, bearing witness to the cumulative, collective loss of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Painters Andrew Forge and David Row
Exhibitions in New York and Maine
By: - Aug 14th, 2021Here Martin Mugar considers two abstract painters. The gesture of Forge is one of the traditional hand-application of the brush to canvas. The notion of a painting existing in time took on some meaning when I saw the show of David Row at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. It is probably one of the more perfect installations I have ever seen.
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Shaker Village Appeal
Oldest Structure Needs a New Roof
By: - Aug 14th, 2021Our Laundry & Machine Shop desperately needs a new roof. What's involved? 24,320 cedar shakes. 48,640 nails. 4,500 square feet of roof.
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Walden by Amy Berryman
TheaterWorks in Conjunction with Riverfront Recapture
By: - Aug 14th, 2021Welcome to Walden the new play presented by TheaterWorks in conjunction with Riverfront Recapture running through Sunday, Aug. 29. It will also be available for streaming from Sunday, Aug. 15 to Sunday, Aug. 29.
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