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Leon Fleisher receives Kennedy Center Honor

December 19th, 2007 No Comments

Leon Fleisher, who performs on an all-Mozart program with the BSO at Tanglewood Aug. 8, 2008, receives 2007 Kennedy Center Honor.

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Lichtenstein Center for the Arts - 2007-08 winter classes in Pittsfield

December 19th, 2007 1 Comment

Classes in dance, tai chi, ceramics, water colors, photography at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts throughout winter 2007-2008.

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Berkshires cultural calendar

December 4th, 2007 No Comments

Berkshires cultural calendar moved to new pages.

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Tanglewood Music Center

November 23rd, 2007 No Comments

Tanglewood is located in Stockbridge and Lenox, Mass and is the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The Tanglewood Music Festival provides contemporary, jazz and pop concerts as well as chamber and choral music. It is the oldest musical festival in the United States and is held every summer.
Tanglewood also provides musical training for [...]

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Tanglewood 2008 schedule news

November 14th, 2007 No Comments

The Tanglewood 2008 season will introduce new opportunities, discounts and benefits for music lovers in the Berkshires and beyond. As part of an effort to provide broad public access to the Boston Symphony Orchestra to year-round Berkshire residents, Tanglewood is pleased to introduce a series of new initiatives for next summer, including a $75 [...]

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Arlo Guthrie and the Springfield Symphony

November 9th, 2007 No Comments

(Washington, Mass.) Please come and join Arlo Guthrie and guest director-conductor, John Nardolillo, as they perform with the Springfield Symphony, Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 8 p.m. Go to springfieldsymphony.org for ticket purchase and more information.

Last year’s show sold out. The Republican reported that “Arlo Guthrie and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra took a [...]

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Arlo Guthrie — Solo Reunion Tour —Together at Last

November 9th, 2007 No Comments

Berkshires’ resident Arlo Guthrie brings his “Solo Reunion Tour —Together at Last” to the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA on Friday, November 16th at 8PM.

About this performance, the 60 year old Guthrie had this to say, “it’s coming up to 50 years of life on the road and I’d love to have a chance [...]

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee returns to Barrington Stage

November 9th, 2007 No Comments

(Pittsfield, MA) Can you spell h-o-m-e-c-o-m-i-n-g? Barrington Stage Company (Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director) is proud to announce that The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will return to the Berkshires to open BSC’s 14th season from June 11 through July 12, with a press opening on Sunday, June 15 at 5:00pm at Barrington [...]

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Berkshire Theatre Festival will present Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, adapted by Eric Hill, December 13 – 30 at the Unicorn Theatre

November 8th, 2007 No Comments

Stockbridge, MA—Berkshire Theatre Festival will present Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, adapted by Eric Hill, December 13 – 30 at the Unicorn Theatre. The production will be co-directed by Eric Hill and E. Gray Simons III.

Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth and spent most of his childhood in London and Kent. His first novel, [...]

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Clark Art Institute schedules June opening of Stone Hill Center

November 8th, 2007 No Comments

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute announced today that Stone Hill Center, the first phase of its expansion and institutional enhancement program, will open June 22, 2008. Designed by architect Tadao Ando, with landscape architects Reed Hilderbrand, the new building is located on a wooded hillside a short walk from the Clark’s [...]

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