Close Encounters with Music – Nocturne Night and Dreams

To paraphrase Walt Whitman, only the darkness of the night reveals all the stars—in the Heavens and on stage! Max Levinson, piano; John Viscardi, baritone; Kobi Malkin and Grace Park, violin; Luke Fleming, viola; Lizzie Burns, double bass; Yehuda Hanani, cello. Presented on Sunday, December 3 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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Close Encounters with Music – The Roaring Twenties

Yehuda Hanani casts his gaze back over the turbulent era of the 1920’s finding that the restless urgency to break taboos and overcome or demolish barriers was part of a larger cultural upheaval, the product of irresistible and inevitable forces.

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Close Encounters with Music – One Earth World Premiere

FAdventurous chamber music! Enjoy Close Encounter With Music's world premiere of composer Tamar Muskal's "One Earth." In the words of Muskal, “We live in a very challenging time—a time of war, sickness, climate disasters, and economic difficulties. 'One Earth,' for a rapper/beatbox artist, table player, string quintet and a treble chorus, calls all people to positive action, to love, to beauty, and to anything that protects the planet and humanity. The piece is rich in sonorities, a fusion of different musical worlds, and contrasts between energetic rhythms, lyrical melodies and powerful rapping.”

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