A good old-fashioned nor’easter buried Lenox and the Berkshires in upwards of two feet of snow. We thought it would be fun to make a video record of the eerily quiet beauty of the freshly plowed but largely deserted village of Lenox around 4PM Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. It can serve as encouragement to persons interested in skiing in the Berkshires, or perhaps down the road a few months as admonishment to Tanglewood patrons whining about the weather!
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DuBois Center at Great Barrington
DuBois Center at Great Barrington
Article by Dave Read.
The life and legacy of Great Barrington native W.E.B. DuBois (1868 – 1963), co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), will be celebrated through events February 5 and 6, 2011 as the Du Bois Center holds its fifth anniversary weekend celebration.
February 5 at 3 p.m.: Concert : Trombonist Craig Harris performs “Souls Within the Veil” at Simon’s Rock’s Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, Mass. The event will be hosted by Simon’s Rock professor Wesley Brown with an introduction by playwright Ed Bullins. Presentation of Du Bois Center Pioneer Awards to philanthropist Rachel Fletcher and maestro Maurice Peress. Reception to follow at the Du Bois Center.
February 6 at 11 a.m.: Film : “The Road to Freedom: The Vernon Johns Story,” starring James Earl Jones and Nicole Leach, at the Du Bois Center. This special showing hosted by Ms. Leach and co-executive producer Richard Rubinstein. $35 admission includes concert and film (Simon’s Rock community free). The events are co-sponsored by Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
DuBois Center at Great Barrington contact info.
- The Du Bois Center at Great Barrington
- 684 South Main Street,
- Great Barrington, MA 01230
- 413-644-9595
- duboiscentergb.org
See also: W.E. B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Hunter’s Moon, poem by Molly Fisk
Hunter’s Moon
by Molly Fisk
Early December, dusk, and the sky
slips down the rungs of its blue ladder
into indigo. A late-quarter moon hangs
in the air above the ridge like a broken plate
and shines on us all, on the new deputy
almost asleep in his four-by-four,
lulled by the crackling song of the dispatcher,
on the bartender, slowly wiping a glass
and racking it, one eye checking the game.
It shines down on the fox’s red and grey life,
as he stills, a shadow beside someone’s gate,
listening to winter. Its pale gaze caresses
the lovers, curled together under a quilt,
dreaming alone, and shines on the scattered
ashes of terrible fires, on the owl’s black flight,
on the whelks, on the murmuring kelp,
on the whale that washed up six weeks ago
at the base of the dunes, and it shines
on the backhoe that buried her.
American Life in Poetry: Column 300 – by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006
This is our 300th column, and we thank you for continuing to support us. I realized a while back that there have been over 850 moons that have gone through their phases since I arrived on the earth, and I haven’t taken the time to look at nearly enough of them. Here Molly Fisk, a California poet, gives us one of those many moons that you and I may have failed to observe.
July 15 – 21, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 2
Second week of the 2011 season Tanglewood schedule, July 15-21, features Kurt Masur conducting the BSO in a program of Dvorak and Schumann, John Storgaards leading an all-Sibelius program, a tribute to Cole Porter by the Boston Pops led by Keith Lockhart with Broadway stars Kelli O’Hara and Jason Danieley, plus pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing Ravel’s music for solo piano in two Ozawa Hall concerts.
Friday, July 15
- Friday, July 15, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Prelude Concert
- Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Friday, July 15, 7:15 p.m. Shed
- This Week at Tanglewood
- Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
- Friday, July 15, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Kurt Masur, conductor
- Lynn Harrell, cello
- DVORÁK Cello Concerto
- SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring
Eminent German conductor Kurt Masur, a frequent guest of the BSO and at Tanglewood, conducts Dvo?ák’s Cello Concerto, featuring soloist Lynn Harrell, and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Spring.
Saturday, July 16
- Saturday, July 16, 9:30 a.m. Shed
- Pre-Rehearsal Talk
- Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m. Shed
- Rehearsal, Saturday program
- Saturday, July 16, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- John Storgaards, conductor
- Nikolaj Znaider, violin
- ALL-SIBELIUS PROGRAM
- Finlandia
- Valse triste
- Violin Concerto
- Symphony No. 5
Maestro John Storgaards leads the orchestra and is joined by Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider (making his Tanglewood debut) for an all-Sibelius program featuring the soaring Violin Concerto, the gripping Symphony No. 5, the beloved tone poem Finlandia, and Valse triste.
Sunday, July 17
- Sunday, July 17, 2:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Keith Lockhart, conductor
- Kelli O’Hara, vocalist
- Jason Danieley, vocalist
Broadway stars Kelli O’Hara and Jason Danieley join conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra for a program of Pops orchestral favorites and a tribute to the great Cole Porter.
- Sunday, July 17, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
- Kurt Masur, conductor
- Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
- DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
- KODÁLY Háry János Suite
- STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
- SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2
Kurt Masur, along with TMC Conducting Fellows, will lead the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in a program including Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Kodály’s Háry János Suite, Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks, and Schumann’s rousing Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61.
Wednesday, July 20
- Wednesday, July 20, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
- RAVEL Complete Works for Piano, Program 1
- Serenade grotesque
- Menuet antique
- Miroirs
- Sonatine
- Gaspard de la nuit
Thursday, July 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Thursday, July 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
- RAVEL Complete Works for Piano, Program 2
- Pavane pour une infante défunte
- Jeux d’eau
- Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
- Valses nobles et sentimentales
- Prélude
- A la manière de Borodine
- A la manière de Chabrier
- Le Tombeau de Couperin
Outstanding French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Ravel, offers an incredibly rare opportunity to hear the composer’s complete music for solo piano between two Ozawa Hall concerts. Highlights include Miroirs, Gaspard de la nuit, Jeux d’eau, Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Le Tombeau de Couperin. Ravel’s piano music virtually defines the Impressionist period in which he composed, and is considered some of the finest keyboard writing of any era.
*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut
Tanglewood contact info.
- 297 West Street (Rt. 183)
- Lenox, MA 01240
- Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
- Website: tanglewood.org
How to get Tanglewood brochures
Tanglewood brochures are available by sending your request
Tanglewood driving directions
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Hotels, B & B’s, Motels, and Inns near Tanglewood
- Canyon
Ranch In The Berkshires
- Lenox
MA Days Inn
- Knights Inn
Lenox
- Econo Lodge
Lenox
- Yankee
Inn
- Howard
Johnson Express Inn
- Wheatleigh< /a>
- The
Village Inn
- Hampton
Inn Suites Berkshires Lenox
- Cranwell
Resort Spa And Golf
- Wagon
Wheel Motel
- Cranwell
Resort Spa And Golf Club
- A
B&B in the Berkshires
- The Red
Lion Inn
- Stockbridg
e Country Inn
July 22 – 28, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 3
Highlights for Week 3 of the 2011 Tanglewood schedule, July 22-28 are: a program of all-baroque music conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, Beethoven and Brahms concerts led by Jaap van Zweden, from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Steven Stucky’s Rhapsodies; pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet on an all-Ravel program with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted Maestro Emmanuel Krivine.
Friday, July 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Friday, July 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Prelude Concert
- Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Friday, July 22, 7:15 p.m. Shed
- This Week at Tanglewood
- Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
- Friday, July 22, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor**
- Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts Friday, July 22 as he and the orchestra are joined by renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham for a program of all-baroque music including arias by Handel and Gluck, and orchestra works by Bach and Rameau. This concert is performed without intermission.
Saturday, July 23
- Saturday, July 23, 9:30 a.m. Shed
- Pre-Rehearsal Talk
- Saturday, July 23, 10:30 a.m. Shed
- Rehearsal, Sunday program
- Saturday, July 23, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Jaap van Zweden, conductor**
- Arabella Steinbacher, violin
- STUCKY Rhapsodies
- BRAHMS Violin Concerto
- BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden, currently Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Brahms’s Violin Concerto with soloist Arabella Steinbacher, and contemporary American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Stucky’s Rhapsodies, a series of short and diverse episodes for orchestra. He’s joined by violinist Arabella Steinbacher for Brahms’s Violin Concerto.
Sunday, July 24
- Sunday, July 24, 2:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
- ALL-RAVEL PROGRAM
- Valses nobles et sentimentales
- Piano Concerto in G
- Piano Concerto in D for the left hand
- Boléro
Outstanding pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet again takes center stage with the BSO and Maestro Emmanuel Krivine, for an all-Ravel program featuring the Piano Concerto in G, the Piano Concerto in D for the left hand, Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Boléro.
Monday, July 25
- Monday, July 25, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
- Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
- José van Dam, bass-baritone (Golaud)
- Elliot Madore, baritone (Pelleas)
- Evan Hughes, bass-baritone (Arkel)
- Vocal Alumni of the TMC
- DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande
James Levine joins the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for a concert performance of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, the centerpiece event of the TMCO’s season. Bass-baritone José van Dam as Golaud will be joined by some of the TMC’s most talented alumni Vocal Fellows, including Elliot Madore as Pelléas and bass-baritone Evan Hughes as Arkel, filling out the cast for the Debussy work.
*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut
Tuesday, July 26 – 7PM Shed
- Steely Dan
Tanglewood contact info.
- 297 West Street (Rt. 183)
- Lenox, MA 01240
- Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
- Website: tanglewood.org
How to get Tanglewood brochures
Tanglewood brochures are available by sending your request to CustomerService@bso.org.
Tanglewood driving directions
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Hotels, B & B’s, Motels, and Inns near Tanglewood
- Canyon Ranch In The Berkshires
- Lenox MA Days Inn
- Knights Inn Lenox
- Econo Lodge Lenox
- Yankee Inn
- Howard Johnson Express Inn
- Wheatleigh
- The Village Inn
- Hampton Inn Suites Berkshires Lenox
- Cranwell Resort Spa And Golf
- Wagon Wheel Motel
- Cranwell Resort Spa And Golf Club
- A B&B in the Berkshires
- The Red Lion Inn
- Stockbridge Country Inn
Berkshires street views
Berkshires street views
Article by Dave Read.
We’ve updated our Berkshires towns and cities category, using the latest mapping technology available to web developers from the clever people at Google. There are 30 towns and 2 cities in Berkshire county and we’ve created homepages for each of them. They include custom, interactive Google maps that’ll give you printable driving directions from anywhere. There are many other interesting features with the maps. You’ll also find sketch profiles of the towns, plus photos and relevant links.
Street view of the Berkshires
Using the map: Use the “zoom” function when icons are bunched together; for directions, to get directions to anyplace marked on the map with an icon, first click the icon, then click “directions” and enter your location in the box that appears just below the map.
For street view: Grab the yellow “Pegman” icon top-left and drop it anywhere outlined in blue; then you can use the scrollwheel top-left to get a panoramic view; click the +/- to zoom in and out, or click the white arrows. Return to normal view by clicking the “x” top-right.
Visit Berkshires towns listed here.
Here’s an example, marking Lenox Town Hall:
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