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.
Bard College's The Orchestra Now (TŌN) will perform works by Ukrainian composer Théodore Akimenko, Jacob Druckan, and Dmitri Shostakovich, along with the overture to an opera Charles Ives never got around to writing at the Daniel Arts Center at Simon's Rock on Sunday, November 20 under the baton of Assistant Conductor Andrés Rivas.
Whenever we speak of "historically informed" performance practice, it's always good to ask, "Whose vrsion of history?" That seems to be the question Anthony Newman has been asking all his life.
I spoke with Mr. Vieaux by telephone this month and learned a lot about what it means to be a modern classical guitarist. (We've come a long way since Andrés Segovia established the instrument's legitimacy in classical music circles a century ago.)
The intrepid musicians of Pink Martini feel it's their duty to spread good cheer to every corner of the Earth, bravely venturing into such hazardous locales as the Middle East, Texas, Florida, and Boston.
Actor Ronnie Marmo spoke with me last month from his home in California to discuss his one-man show, "I'm Not a Comedian... I'm Lenny Bruce," which plays at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on October 14 and 15.
See banjo god Tony Trischka at the Guthrie Center Saturday, October 8. Doors open at 6:30, concert at 8 p.m. The workshop will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. The Guthrie Center serves food, wine, and beer.
Bartók's music is at all times as honest and uninhibited as a shrieking toddler and so genuinely human that a listener feels bound to inquire and to really understand what all the noise and fuss is about.
The Rick McLaughlin Trio, consisting of Berklee professors Rick McLaughlin, Sheryl Bailey, and Yoron Israel, will close out the West Stockbridge Historical Society's 2022 Jazz Concert Series at the Old Town Hall, Saturday, September 24, at 8 p.m.
Formed at New York's Juilliard School in 1976, the Emerson String Quartet has released more than 30 recordings and won the Avery Fisher Prize, three Gramophone awards, Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year” award, and nine GRAMMYs.
Exploring the full spectrum of chamber music repertoire is certainly an admirable undertaking. But this quartet (as well as commissioning ensembles like the Cramer) are expanding that repertoire, and none are doing it more boldly or more winningly than the Harlem Quartet.
In the second movement, you can picture stout, gout-prone, middle-aged men in wigs trying to look dignified as they execute intricate dance moves in the gilded ballrooms of Vienna.
The Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello) formed around the idea that standard chamber music repertoire and contemporary, non-standard works ought to receive equal attention.
