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Christian Tetzlaff and James Levine at Tanglewood: Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps and Brahms’ Violin Concerto

After Friday's intelligently conceived, but incompletely realized Pathétique Maestro Levine deserved a personal triumph, I thought, and it came, not quite by surprise, in the form of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps. His performances of this work have been highly regarded for years, most recently in December of last year, when it was performed as a hundredth-birthday tribute to Elliott Carter, whose career was shaped by a performance of the work he heard in his youth. Hence, this afternoon, every detail was thoroughly polished.

Moist and Interior: Bach, Schumann, and Beethoven

Stephen Kovacevich at Tanglewood, Ozawa Hall, Thursday, July 2, 8 p.m. Bach, Partita No. 4, D-Major, S.828; Scuhmann, Kinderscenen Opus 15; Beethoven’s 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Opus 120 One thought that the foggy and dewy atmosphere at Ozawa hall on Thursday night was a welcome ambience for London resident Stephen Kovacevich. But, in the [...]

Opening Night at Tanglewood, James Levine, conductor,
 Yefim Bronfman, piano: 
All-Tchaikovsky Program


What could be more appropriate for opening night at Tanglewood than two Tchaikovsky warhorses? His late Romantic idiom and imaginative affinity for broken heterosexual passion, cheapened to Romance by popular reception, makes his music ideal for performance under the stars, whether in the Hollywood Bowl or at Tanglewood. My first music teacher, an Australian disciple of Casals, who may therefore have known her own share of real passion, noting my enthusiasm for Tchaikovsky, tried bravely to instill contempt and loathing for his music through ridicule and constant exposure to Bach. I played the two- and three-part Inventions with enthusiasm; she urged be to seek out Casals' Prades recordings of the Brandenburgs, hard to find back then. She won, to a degree, but I never quite gave up on Tchaikovsky, and now, many years later, I can look back on Tchaikovsky through the substantial lenses of Shostakovich and Prokofiev and see him as a latter-day Russian Bach, at least the father of Russian music, Mikhail Glinka having receded to a shadowy Saturnian role, at least in the West.

Aston Magna presents Baroque Masterpieces, July 10-12: Vivaldi, Tartini, Rameau, and J. S. Bach

Baroque Narratives Vivaldi: La Tempesta Tartini: The Devil's Trill Sonata Rameau: La Rameau, and other musical portraits J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 J.S. Bach: Cappricio on the departure of a beloved brother John Gibbons, harpsichord; Christopher Krueger, baroque flute; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; Daniel Stepner, baroque violin; Jane Starkman, violin, Loretta O'Sullivan, cello • July 10, 8:00 P.M.: Olin Auditorium • [...]

Freud’s Last Session by Mark St. Germain, Barrington Stage Company

Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session, which is receiving its permiere at the Barrington Stage Company this month was inspired by Armand Nicholi's valuable little book, The Question of God (2002). Dr. Nicholi, a practising psychiatrist, teaches at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and has also taught an undergraduate course on Freud for many years at Harvard College. Written in very simple, clear prose and taking nothing for granted in the reader, even that the reader knows who Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis were, he compares their thinking on the existence of God and other related matters, in such a way as to suggest a debate, between the two. Lewis, a generation younger than Freud, was influenced by him during the earlier part of his life, when he professed atheistic beliefs. In The Question of God, which I did not know before seeing this production and which is readable by almost anybody, Dr. Nicholi accomplishes an extremely important task with unparalleled success: he demonstrates that it is by no means necessary to believe in God, but that it is necessary to define one's beliefs and to think about them in a rational way.

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Michelle Silva

New online shop

Hi Folks.
Just a quick note to share some info that I find exciting. I recently launched an online jewelry business called 6 Petal Girl. I have two sister shops. One on Etsy and one on Artfire.
http://www.6petalgirl.etsy.com
http://www.6petalgirl.artfire.com

Take a look. I welcome feedback. What kinds of things would you like to see that you don't?
Have a great holiday weekend and I'll "see" you online!
Michelle

Posted by Michelle Silva on May 21, 2009 at 7:38am

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NEW!!! Eclipse Mill Newsletter

Hi everyone. New from the Eclipse mill, a newsletter to keep you posted on what's going on in the gallery and with all the artists located here. Go to http://www.eclipsnewsletter.com to sign up for the free monthly newsletter and receive all the information you need such as Berkshire Salon information, upcoming openings, artist updates and more.

Posted by Michelle Silva on May 4, 2009 at 7:24am

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Eclipse Mill Gallery to host arts/community related events

The Eclipse Mill Gallery would like to begin hosting events for the North Adams community. If you or a group you may know would be interested in having your concert, workshop, performance, etc. in this space, please contact the Events Director (Michelle Silva) at events@eclipsemillgallery.com for more information.

Posted by Michelle Silva on April 16, 2009 at 9:24am

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Berkshire Review recommended an article : Rare Peek at Riches of Past in Rome

ROME — For decades now, excavations in the Roman Forum and on the Palatine Hill have yielded grand halls and imperial residences with fanciful frescoes and graceful stucco reliefs.

Berkshire Review recommended an article : In Venice, Peter Greenaway Takes Veronese’s Figures Out to Play

In the abbey on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, a digital replica of Veronese’s “Wedding at Cana” has been given cinematic treatment.

Berkshire Review recommended an article : In Athens, Museum Is an Olympian Feat

Exterior view of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, which is scheduled to open on Saturday. Its glass-enclosed third-floor gallery has full views of the Parthenon.More Photos >

Berkshire Review recommended an interactive graphic : On the High Line: A Garden in the Sky

A panoramic view of the horticulture preserve above 17th Street.

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Naughty & Nice Eggnog

Every holiday season, there are two recipes people ask me to divulge, one for eggnog, the other for chocolate truffles. The recipe for chocolate truffles is a true secret passed onto me from my mother and, I fear, it cannot be shared until I’ve reached my dotage and am no longer to make them [...]

Couscous for a Carnivore

Of late, my life is better suited to seduction in organic chemistry lab rather than in my kitchen. So while chemistry fills my days, it does not fill my heart and stomach in the way it used to. But I am lucky to be able to live vicariously through my friends and their [...]

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant

I picked up the most delightful collections of essays the other day on cooking for one and eating alone entitled Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant. Many of my favorite foodies, including Laurie Colwin and M.F.K Fisher, explore the art of a meal for one. Is it a lonely act to cook [...]

Always Say Yes to Cute Guys and Recipe Contests

For all you culinary Romeos and Juliets out there, here’s your chance to share your prowess with the world! The 92nd Street Y is hosting a recipe contest with some pretty dynamite, and romantique, prizes. Tickets for two to anywhere JetBlue flies, a weekend getaway at the Affina Hotel in NYC or Chicago, [...]

Gastrosexuals

Who knew there was a name for such men? Check out this article from the Daily Mail: Rise of the ‘gastrosexual’ as men take up cooking in a bid to seduce women. They stole a trick right out of our play book! Thank you, Ms. B, for passing this along!
 
 

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Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: a1425 (1399) Forme of Cury 175 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 137 Plaunt it above with prunes damysyns..and wi{th} dates quarterede and piked clene.

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Gelato, Granita…and snow!

We have Emperor Nero, who lived in Rome and ruled around 60 A.D., to thank for his love of icy treats of fruits and nectars. It is said that he sent his slaves as runners to climb the nearby Apennine mountains to amass snow and ice to provide him with frozen treats all year long. Much [...]

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