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Carolyn Newberger

After an academic career in psychology at Harvard Medical School, Carolyn Newberger moved to the Berkshires and established a second career as an artist and writer. She writes and illustrates music and dance reviews for The Berkshire Edge, often in collaboration with her husband, Eli Newberger, and records in paintings and prose the treasures and insights that she discovers in the Berkshires forest.

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Arts & Entertainment

Music magic with Derek Wang

Derek Wang first performed his "Magic Piano" and "The Chopin Shorts" in a children’s film festival at Lincoln Center when he was 12 years old! But what followed was as enchanting for adults as for children.
Life In the Berkshires

Lighting the way together: Pittsfield celebrates Kwanzaa

This year’s theme, “Practicing the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa in dimly lit times, lifting up the light, hurrying the dawn,” reflects both the challenges of the moment and the enduring strength found in community.
Arts & Entertainment

Pluto String Ensemble brings heart, history, and harmony to The Foundry

They played with the kind of musicality that makes you sit a little taller—clean, intelligent phrasing, infectious rhythmic vitality, and an ensemble cohesion that only years of shared history can create.
Arts & Entertainment

James Howe to present new picture book on Yo-Yo Ma at Lenox Library on Aug. 2

James Howe’s visit to Lenox is more than a book launch—it is a celebration of imagination, empathy, and the music we carry within us all.
Life In the Berkshires

A Heartfelt Evening with Kids 4 Harmony

As they addressed the audience with warmth, humor, and intelligence, we were not only impressed by their musicianship but by the thoughtful, poised young adults they have become.
Arts & Entertainment

REVIEW: Natalia Bernal Quintet and Kids 4 Harmony deliver a performance from the heart

The blend of professional and student artistry was both seamless and stirring. I found myself unable to stay seated, and the audience joined in.
Viewpoints

CAROLYN NEWBERGER: Two lessons from my cataract surgery

The one reality that we might be able to agree on is that we all see through our own lenses. If we were able to see through multiple lenses at the same time, it seems to me that we might be able to solve many of the world’s problems.
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: Julian C. E. Clauss-Ehlers and Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers’ ‘Eating Together Being Together: Recipes, Activities and Advice from a Chef Dad and Psychologist Mom’

"Eating Together Being Together" provides abundant insights and ideas to bring the family together as helpers and partners in food choices, preparations, the community of meal and family time, and the many celebrations that food can provide.
News

U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin endorses Andrea Harrington

Raskin also delivered the Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture at the Mahaiwe that afternoon.
Viewpoints

My Ukrainian ancestors and their search for safety: Is past prologue?

I feel as though history has come full circle. The city from which my family fled violence more than 100 years ago is now the victim of violence. And yet the Ukraine of 100 years ago is not the Ukraine of today, especially for Jews.
Arts & Entertainment

CONCERT REVIEW: South Mountain Concert Series returns with Calidore String Quartet

The Pittsfield-based chamber music series made its triumphant return with "a concert of exultation, lament, and gratitude."
Arts & Entertainment

DANCE REVIEW: The inexorable power of we — Contra-Tiempo inspires Jacob’s Pillow

The dances called out the ways in which people are marginalized and oppressed, as well as the ways people can resist and move into joy. 
Arts & Entertainment

DANCE REVIEW: Dorrance Dance comes through for Jacob’s Pillow

"The piece conveyed a sense of elation, each solo and grouping ... part of a vital, vibrant community, making connection after the stress and pain of separation."
Life In the Berkshires

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 52: Keys

In the absence of that busyness, the challenge now is to engage in a different way, perhaps finding surprising richness in places we hadn’t noticed before. As with the forest, I am finding keys that unlock what I might have otherwise overlooked.
Life In the Berkshires

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 51: Needing the forest for the trees

We don’t see each other much, living pretty far away. Our relationship is far from perfect, having its own burls and snarls. Yet we are a forest.
Life In the Berkshires

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 50: A mother robin

The robin did not return, but we left the nest undisturbed just in case, sorrowful that we were so poorly able to protect her from ourselves.
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