Lara Tupper, an awardwinning writer and novelist, world-traveling jazz and folk singer and founder of Swift Ink stories, will lead free poetry and writing workshops across the Berkshires.
Read articleQuick moments and signs of brightness — #berkshireweekend
Someone moved behind me with a rustle and slid into the water. A high voice called softly up the scale, and I caught a glint in the corner of my eye … a suggestion of fur and a splash.
Read articleSpring brings writers to Edith Wharton’s gardens
At the beginning of spring, writers come to the Mount, sitting in Edith Wharton’s living room on a rare sunny afternoon, and reflect on the 10th annual residency.
Read articleGenée Coreno imagines new futures for WAM Theatre
WAM Theatre sees the year ahead as time of transformation, as Genée Coreno becomes their new artistic director — and their 2024 season opens with nationally acclaimed singer songwriter Tracy Grammar in Be Here Now.
Read articleNew forest paths open at Nightwood
A web spreads overhead in the branches like sails. The strands glimmer as though they’re touched by moonlight. I’m walking up the path in Edith Wharton’s forest, in this winter’s Nightwood at the Mount. And this pathway is new. ...
Read articleFrom Fado to fireflies — a taste of LuluFest Lenox
Jazz vocalist Suzy Stern opened LuluFest Lenox on Friday night, alongside acclaimed jazz musicians bassist MaryAnn McSweeney violinist Sara Caswell and jazz pianist Peggy Stern.
Read articleJazz violinist Sara Caswell celebrates ‘The Way to You’
The low voice of the strings carries an unexpected timbre, like the air on a summer across an open ridge. The sound shivers, vulnerable as anyone may be when they talk openly with someone they love.
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 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’?
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