Porter Square Books in Cambridge hosted a reading for Except for Love, New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall on Aug. 16 – there’s one scheduled for the Bookstore in Lenox on November 7th. It was great fun to meet several co-contributors, and to hear their various Don Hall stories. I knew that I wasn’t […]
Continue reading Except for Love reading in CambridgeYo-Yo Ma performs Bach’s Six Cello Suites at Tanglewood
Article updated August 15, 2019 by Dave Read Yo-Yo Ma performed Bach’s Six Cello Suites Aug. 11 at Tanglewood, one of 36 venues on six continents during his Bach Project, an initiative designed to “…bind us together as one world, and guide us to political and economic decisions that benefit the entire species.” When we […]
Continue reading Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach’s Six Cello Suites at TanglewoodCage releases Tanglewood fellows
Article updated August 7, 2019 by Dave Read “…we connect Satie with Thoreau…” appears over the dense paragraph that describes Full Tilt: The John Cage Song Books (1970), the program Sunday Aug. 4 at Tanglewood’s new Linde Center for Music and Learning, the stunning suite of wood and glass sculpture on the rise overlooking Seiji […]
Continue reading Cage releases Tanglewood fellowsYo-Yo Ma leads master class at Tanglewood
Article updated August 1, 2019 by Dave Read Sometimes life in the Berkshires will feel like an embarrassment of riches, such as when you can attend a master class led by Yo-Yo Ma, as brilliant as any artist at work today, held in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, a structure and a setting as aesthetically pleasing […]
Continue reading Yo-Yo Ma leads master class at TanglewoodNelsons leads 2019 Tanglewood on Parade
Article updated July 27, 2019 by Dave Read Tanglewood on Parade took place on the penultimate Tuesday of July, only the second time this millennium that it hadn’t been scheduled for the first Tuesday in August. Since a good surmise is available, we’ll dispense with the transmission of a query up the media affairs ladder: […]
Continue reading Nelsons leads 2019 Tanglewood on ParadeMilos classical guitar at Tanglewood
Article updated July 17, 2019 by Dave Read Classical guitarist Milos drew a large and appreciative audience to Ozawa Hall on July 16, the third program to feature guitar we’ve enjoyed this season at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, following concerts by Richard Thompson, also in Ozawa Hall and by Rodrigo y Gabriela in the Koussevitsky […]
Continue reading Milos classical guitar at TanglewoodLenox the Berkshires summer photos
Article updated July 16, 2019 by Dave Read Following a busy weekend at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, where Maestro Andris Nelsons conducted three programs comprised of a dizzying array of music composed by Copland, Grieg, Verdi, Beethoven, and HK Gruber, who was present to enjoy the audience’s enthusiastic response to his Aerial, Concerto for trumpet […]
Continue reading Lenox the Berkshires summer photosJT and Yo-Yo on the porch
Article updated July 15, 2019 by Dave Read This video of James Taylor being accompanied by Yo-Yo Ma on Sweet Baby James, recorded Sept. 15, 2008 on the porch of the Red Lion Inn at Stockbridge, is blowing up the Internet – at least my little piece of it! Hotels in the Berkshires Find hotels […]
Continue reading JT and Yo-Yo on the porchRichard Thompson at Tanglewood, June 21, 2019
Article updated June 22, 2019 by Dave Read Richard Thompson strode to center stage in Seiji Ozawa hall June 21, carrying a guitar, which was all it took to fill the august band box with beautiful sound. Besides being a first-ballot shoo-in for the guitar hall of fame, artist division, Thompson also is a master […]
Continue reading Richard Thompson at Tanglewood, June 21, 2019Live From Here at Tanglewood, June 15, 2019
Article updated June 20, 2019 by Dave Read Chris Thile has the hardest job in show biz, following Garrison Keillor as host of a live radio broadcast from the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood. The show he ran June 15, 2019, was on par with the 16 editions of Keillor’s that we covered. Just as […]
Continue reading Live From Here at Tanglewood, June 15, 2019