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.
Mozart's violin sonatas are beloved for the way they blend melody with virtuosity, showcasing his unusual talent for both composition and violin performance.
It sounds like Bacewicz must have loved Bartók, but she definitely has a voice of her own, reinforced, no doubt, by having studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in 1932.
What makes the Pacifica different is its commitment to new music. And not just any new music but that of such daring pioneers as Elliott Carter, Keeril Makan, Julia Wolfe, and Shulamit Ran.
"Dominique Eade is one of the most dynamic and influential jazz vocalists and jazz educators of the past quarter-century." — The New England Conservatory of Music
Rachmaninoff was too optimistic to linger in minor-mode gloom—also too imaginative. So, long before the piece ends, he takes us into harmonic territory that evinces a conspicuous sense of hope and possibility.
Fifty advanced music students from around the globe will gather at the Berkshire School and undertake intensive study that will include private and group coaching, workshops, master classes, and pubic performances.
I think everything in life, everything that's good, has it's own natural duration. You choose a time — if you're lucky enough to choose the time — when perhaps one should think of stopping and looking toward new possibilities before it's too late to look for new possibilities for what to do.
Kids 4 Harmony is a free, intensive classical music program for youth from under-resourced communities in Berkshire County established in 2011 through Berkshire Children and Families.
"He's just an amazing player and a really, really nice guy, very personable…He's playing some excellent pieces, and he's truly an incredible musician. So we're really excited to have him." — Clarion Concerts President Dave Hall
"Clearly a major talent, Sunwoo played with the most delicate sensitivity and also with enormous power and dazzling velocity when the music demanded those skills." — The News-Gazette
"The voice of Pamela Knowles enters these lyrics so amply, with such insight and intimacy that it is hard to imagine the words apart from her voice, such is its range and plentitude, wit and passion." — Margaret Gibson, Professor of English, University of Connecticut
Celebrity violinists pay millions of dollars for instruments that are reputed to have tone superior to all other violins. How, then, can we valuate the sound of a child's voice?
Downtown Lee’s annual jazz festival features Roberta Donnay and the Prohibition Mob Band, Alexis Cole with the Amherst Jazz Orchestra, Mary Ann Palermo, Dave Bartley Quartet, the Lucky Five, Riverblend Jazz, and Michael Junkins.
