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.
In a phone interview with The Edge, Pianist Garrick Ohlsson talked about the unavoidable business of art, how energized he is by his most serious and attentive fans, and why Tanglewood is one of his favorite performing venues.
With a historically informed performance approach rooted in the sound world of gut strings, the Cramer Quartet brings to Classical, early Romantic, and contemporary repertoire a palate of warm and transparent sonorities otherwise relegated to early music performance.
World-class, locally produced opera is a rarity in the Berkshires, so be sure to catch Jack Heggie's "Three Decembers" at PS21's Pavilion Theater in Chatham, New York on Thursday, July 21 or Saturday, July 23.
The West Stockbridge Chamber Players will be performing at the Old Town Hall to benefit the Old Town Hall restoration and contribute to relief funds for Ukrainian refugees. The program will features works from by Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Arvo Pärt, and Evgeny Orkin.
Dutch keyboard artist Mariken Palmboom will perform at the New Marlborough Meeting House on June 18 for a "recital and discussion" of early music presented by the Berkshire Bach Society.
If you are looking for a staid and respectable classical music recital from CEWM this weekend, you had better look elsewhere, because cellist Yehuda Hanani, pianist Max Levinson, violinist Giora Schmidt, and two flamenco artists have prepared a musical adventure for you.
No matter what flavor of jazz you prefer, you can get it from saxophonist Daryl Lowery, performing with Mary Ann McSweeney on bass, Gilson Schachnik on keyboard, and Mark Walker on drums.
"It takes chutzpah to perform "Metamorphoses," because an unaccompanied oboe is completely exposed, and the smallest imperfections can become glaring. But this is only a trivial challenge for New York Philharmonic principal oboe Liang Wang.
Renowned baritone Benjamin Luxon will be your guide through a performance that includes a world premiere and a U.S. premiere of works by Richard Pantcheff.
A composer who wants her music performed with fanatical attention to detail should consider engaging instrumentalists who are composers themselves, such as the trio Umama Womama.
"The best day on 'Grand Budapest' was the day I was cast in it. I was a featured extra portraying a distant relation, in the will reading sequence. My whole job was to snort into a champagne glass."
