Internationally acclaimed bassist Mary Ann McSweeney, vocalist Suzi Stern, pianist Peggy Stern and violinist Sara Caswell will perform in a jazz festival highlighting women leaders and their ideas of music.
Read articleTanglewood opens with a spirit of protest and freedom
As an acclaimed classical soprano, Julia Bullock has performed around the world, and on a summer night she will sing surrounded by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a pattern of West African drumming.
Read articleMark Morris’ Look of Love illuminates Burt Bacharach
‘What the world needs now is love … not just for some, but for everyone.’ On a night between storms, that refrain shifts in resonance. At Jacob’s Pillow, the Mark Morris Dance Group is offering an homage.
Read articleKyle Marshall Choreography explores the roots of rock music
They move in bare feet, laughing, advancing, with a core strength they hold like a keynote. On the opening night of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, five dancers from Kyle Marshall Choreography are performing Onyx.
Read articleEmerson String Quartet performs final Tanglewood concert
The internationally acclaimed four turn to Shostakovich’s ironic rebellion, Dvořák’s inspiration from the Ukraine and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s contemporary lyric strength — in one of their last performances.
Read articleChris Thile and the Knights expand classical bluegrass
What happens when Grammy Award-winning singer songwriter Chris Thile meets The Knights, an internationally acclaimed orchestral collective ‘on a quest to expand the boundaries of classical music’?
Read articleCome here the music play! — #Berkshiresummer
‘What good is sitting alone in your room’ … Summer is opening all around us. As Cabaret takes the stage at Barrington stage Company, Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival are stirring.
Read articleJuneteenth celebrates global Black American music — #Berkshireweekend
Guitar and percussion are racing, warm and complex as a river in the rain, and Tendai Muparutsa is singing songs he grew up knowing … laughing, drawing in the audience to clap, playing the rhythms against one another.
Read articleWildwoods warm up Nebraska folk music in the Northeast
Guitar chords build. The fiddle is rising in a low minor wave, and the bass beats slow. Two voices are singing in close harmony. Noah and Chloe Gose on guitar and violin and Andrew Vaggalis on bass perform as the Wildwoods.
Read articleLama Tashi Norbu fuses Tibetan mantras and tattoo art
Isaac Rivera, Williams College ’26, honors his Zapotec and Chinantec roots, as Tibetan Lama Tashi Norbu offers him a tattoo drawn from Buddhist iconography and a mantra crafted uniquely for him.
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