Music: A Close Encounter with Yehuda Hanani
People attend the Close Encounters with Music concert series, which has its season debut at the Mahaiwe on October 18, as much to hear what cellist Yehuda Hanani has to say about the music and its origins, as to listen to the music itself. Hanani calls this pastiche of erudition and concertizing “concept concerts,” and he fell into doing it by accident decades ago, when the program notes failed to show up in Aspen and someone in Miami happened to catch the consequences on TV.
American Ballet Theatre at Bard
For anyone who suffers withdrawal when Jacob’s Pillow closes for the season, here’s a good fix: the august American Ballet Theatre will be giving five performances at the Fisher Center at Bard College from Friday, October 17, to Sunday, October 19, featuring work by the choreogarphers Jiří Kylián, Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp
Theatre: Berkshires Stages Burning BrightYou can’t call it summer stock anymore now that Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, and Shakespeare & Company in Lenox have all extended their seasons into the fall with plays that are meant to challenge as much as entertain. | 
Art: A Vassar Alumna's Avant-Garde EyeAs a student in the 1980s, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn spent countless hours in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. Now an influential art adviser and curator in New York City, she is exhibiting excerpts from her highly-regarded collection, including Marilyn Minter’s Glazed (excerpted above), at the museum in Poughkeepsie | 
Books: Banned Book Week Celebrates Its 27thBanned Book Week has been around since 1982, yet this year, it feels particularly compelling that we DO SOMETHING. A couple of area bookstores have risen to the occasion: Oblong Books & Music is sponsoring an Internet Scavanger Hunt; Spotty Dog Books & Ale is having a sweet little event for kids. |
