Yehuda Hanani welcomes the Prism Quartet to the Berkshires to begin the new Close Encounters With Music season. Tim McAllister, Zachary Sheman, Taimur Sullivan & Matt Levy.
Paul Schoenfield’s runaway classical hit, Café Music for piano trio, sets the tone for our celebratory re-opening. Combining elements of classical, jazz, klezmer and whimsy, Café Music is caffeine-fueled and irresistible. Claude Bolling’s musings in the Suite for Cello and Jazz Trio offer up interpolations of boogie-woogie and ragtime with Baroque underpinnings. Gershwin is represented with his Three Preludes for Piano. With a benediction from Beethoven (his Romance No. 2 in F Major for Violin and Piano) and a cameo appearance by Christylez Bacon, the first Hip-Hop artist to be featured at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and with commissions by the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institute, the season is launched.
Sonja Tengblad, soprano; Emily Marvosh, contralto; Joseph Turvessi, piano; on a warm spring day at The Mount, Edith Wharton's home in Lenox, Massachusetts, this trio presents a delightful program that entertains and raises awareness about the most important challenge of our times.
On a glorious spring afternoon, the West Side 5 (Aubrey Johnson, Katie Seiler, Tomas Cruz, Eric Hughes & Dylan Pramuk) entertain an enthusiastic crowd with a sweeping variety of a'capella jazz tunes, from classic standards to original offerings..
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center and Close Encounters With Music present Felix, Fanny and Frederic – Chopin and the Mendelssohns, on April 25, 2021, from the Mahaiwe stage to YouTube.
