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David Noel Edwards

David Noel Edwards is a writer, composer, and recording artist from Canaan, New York. He has been writing for the Berkshire Edge since 2015, mainly about music, but also about books, birds, and reptiles.

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PREVIEW: Simon’s Rock kicks off National Hispanic Heritage Month with Alturas Duo at Daniel Arts Center, Sunday Sept. 15

The two have appeared in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, the Smithsonian Institute, the Asolo Theater, and Connecticut's Music Mountain.

PREVIEW: Calidore String Quartet plays Haydn, Korngold, and Beethoven at South Mountain Concerts on Sunday, Sept. 15

Only greybeards have been considered capable of handling the profound emotional and interpretive demands of Beethoven's late quartets. But kids these days…

REVIEW: Bernstein & Bop: A Saxophone Colossus featuring Ted Rosenthal’s All-Star Sextet

Not only jazz aficionados but all music lovers throughout the Berkshires look forward to more fall/winter/spring programming at Tanglewood's Linde Center for Music and Learning.

PREVIEW: Lich Gate Concerts presents Antonio Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ with soloist Jorge Ávila, Saturday, Sept. 14

Soloist Jorge Ávila has worked with such prominent chamber musicians as David Finckel, Wu Han, and the Salem Chamber Orchestra. His repertoire includes all of the major violin concertos.

PREVIEW: West Stockbridge Historical Society presents Ensemble Chamarré, Messaien’s ‘Quartet for the End of Time’ Saturday, Sept. 14

Chamarré formed for the sole purpose of performing that piece, and the players admired the composer so much that they named themselves in reference to his well-known use of color.

REVIEW: Prima Music Foundation presents opera-themed benefit for Rising Stars Piano Camp at Ventfort Hall on Aug. 29

It was Mr. Dedik who stole the spotlight in no uncertain terms on Thursday, although tenor David Guzman certainly gave him a run for his money.

PREVIEW: Fifth annual Lenox Jazz Stroll, Friday, Sept. 6, and Saturday, Sept. 7

The Stroll is presented by The Mill Town Foundation in partnership with Berkshires Jazz and the Lenox Chamber of Commerce.

PREVIEW: Wu Han and friends at South Mountain Concerts, Sunday, Sept. 8

Wu Han's friends on Sunday, Sept. 8, will be cellist David Finckel, violist Matthew Lipman, and violinists Chad Hoopes and Richard Lin, all affiliated with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

PREVIEW: ‘Berkshire Bach Portals’ presents Tristan Cook’s ‘Strangers on Earth’ screening and discussion

On September 6, 7, and 8, Berkshire Bach Artistic Director Eugene Drucker discusses Cook's story of Dane Johansen walking the Camino de Santiago with a cello on his back.

TANGLEWOOD PREVIEW: Dispatch with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Aug. 31

A "divisive political climate, long-overdue reckonings on racial justice and gender equality, and a global pandemic" worked together to fuel the band’s latest album.

REVIEW: Berkshire Opera Festival’s ‘Faust’ shatters expectations

Have Garman and Loy outdone themselves? Hardly. Exceeding expectations is all in a day’s work for these guys, so maybe we should have known that BOF's "Faust" would be this good.

TANGLEWOOD PREVIEW: Judy Collins, Indigo Girls, Rufus Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche, August 30

"In our often-terrifying present, we are all in search of a daily refuge, a stolen hour or two, to engage with something that brings us joy, perspective, or maybe just calm." — The Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers

INTERVIEW: Jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal talks about his September 6 show at Tanglewood’s Linde Center

A trio of colossal saxophonists will join Ted Rosenthal's trio in Studio E to play a newly conceived program called "Bernstein & Bop: A Saxophone Colossus." Wanda Houston opens.

This weekend at Tanglewood: Chopin, Elgar, Ravel, Brahms, Beethoven, August 23, 24, 25

The Boston Symphony Orchestra closes its Tanglewood season with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 on Sunday, August 25, but two popular artist shows remain before the place goes quiet.

PREVIEW: Berkshire Opera Festival presents Gounod’s ‘Faust’ at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, August 24, 27, 30

The word is out, and the verdict is in: BOF's productions rival those of much larger companies, and they equal many of the best.

PREVIEW: PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance presents ‘House Blend’ concert series Aug. 18 through 21

PS21's open-air Pavilion Theater is located at 2980 Route 66, Chatham, NY, on 100 acres of meadows, woodlands, and trails, all of which are open to the public every day.
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