(Given the Tanglewood aspect of this, I’m re-posting it from my personal blog daveread.me) June 26, 2018 – When the email announcing Donald Hall’s death arrived Sunday morning, I was drafting a letter to him, which would include a blank bookplate for him to sign, for my pre-ordered copy of A Carnival of Losses; Notes […]
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Harry Connick, Jr. at Tanglewood June 23, 2018
Article updated June 25, 2018 by Dave Read Harry Connick, Jr. transported the Tanglewood audience Saturday night from the high land overlooking Lake Mahkeenac to the Ninth Ward below Lake Pontchartrain by way of a concert/seminar of nearly two and a half hours that included a second-line parade through the Koussevitsky Music Shed. Is it […]
Continue reading Harry Connick, Jr. at Tanglewood June 23, 2018Tanglewood schedule July 2018
Article posted Feb. 14, 2018 by Dave Read The 2018 Tanglewood schedule features a season-long celebration of the centennial of the birth, in Lawrence, MA, of Leonard Bernstein, who became the protege of Serge Koussevitsky in 1940 as a member of the first class of what became the Tanglewood Music Center. Bernstein’s last performance was […]
Continue reading Tanglewood schedule July 2018Steven Stills and Judy Collins at Tanglewood June 17, 2018
Article updated June 20, 2018 by Dave Read Tanglewood schedules present an embarrassment of riches, putting us at risk of fun-overload, which is as dangerous as second-helpings of pecan pie at Thanksgiving. Having covered Tanglewood since the Clinton Administration, we know enough to moderate, not overbook, and to look closely at the lineup so as […]
Continue reading Steven Stills and Judy Collins at Tanglewood June 17, 2018Alison Krauss at Tanglewood June 19, 2018
Article updated June 20, 2018 by Dave Read The original iteration of the Berkshires as a playground for the obscenely rich was during the last quarter of the 19th century, when it became an autumnal retreat for robber barons and other scallywags who’d grown bored of their Newport and Adirondack estates. In terms of man-made […]
Continue reading Alison Krauss at Tanglewood June 19, 2018Northeast Fiddlers’ Convention at Hancock Shaker Village
Article updated June 27, 2018 by Dave Read The 1st Annual Northeast Fiddlers Convention convened on June 9, 2018 at Hancock Shaker Village, a co-production with Oldtone, amounting to the most apt pairing of venue and event, especially given the critical role played by music and movement in Shaker life. Dates for the 2nd annual […]
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