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.
Close contact with dogs has been shown to lower blood pressure, relieve anxiety, release endorphins, and reduce cravings for inflicting physical harm on one's siblings at family gatherings.
The program for Sunday is a musical retelling of Meg Medina's children's book "Mango, Abuela, and Me," illustrated by Mexican-born artist and author Angela Dominguez.
"If Christmas, with its ancient and hospitable customs, its social and charitable observances, were ever in danger of decay, this is the book that would give them a new lease." — Thomas Hood
If you have never witnessed a professional hand bell ensemble in concert, then you may not realize how advanced some of the repertory can be in these performances.
In its 60-year history, Berkshire Lyric has presented operas, operettas, Broadway musicals, cabaret evenings, holiday Christmas concerts, and most of the great oratorios.
"It was refreshing to see the story stripped to its essence, simple and direct, focusing on Dickens’ wry and revealing language, the message of repentance and charity wrapped cozily in song." — Libby Hanssen for KC Studio
Laura Hamilton on violin, Eugene Drucker on violin and viola, Roberta Cooper on cello, and Mariken Palmboom on organ and harpsichord will perform a program of Baroque favorites at the First Congregational Church.
Like Kearney, McLaughlin is based in Nashville, but don't expect twangy vocal stylings from either of these guys: They are pop singers of broadly cosmopolitan tastes.
Hold onto your hat, because the Dover Quartet will engage Schubert's piece with overpowering fury, delivering what promises to be the perfect ending to another thrilling South Mountain season.
Composers of vocal music dream of finding voices as supple and resonant as Daniel McGrew's. But for all the likelihood of their finding one, they may as well dream of sugarplums.
The Juilliard String Quartet somehow always has "the same persona, the same sound, the same sort of musical intensity, the same grit" as it always did, says its first violinist.
It is well known to everyone familiar with the likes of Sam & Dave that certain dance moves are inextricably linked to the saxophone family of musical instruments.
There are so many great jazz musicians in the Berkshires that whenever they all get together, we have to call it a festival. Or, if performances are held out of doors, we call it a Stroll. 2023 Lenox Jazz Stroll September 15 and 16.
