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Infinity Music Hall Debuts in Norfolk

Live music and good booze are a great combo, but you don't always get to enjoy them at the same time when you attend a concert.  At the just-opened Infinity Music Hall, an intimate yet grand 300-seat club in a restored 1883 building in Norfolk, CT, you can

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Music: Something to Talk About

The first time cellist Yehuda Hanani saw his future wife, Hannah, he was in a taxi heading to his apartment from the airport following an out-of-town engagement.  Stopped at a red light at the intersection 95th and Broadway, where the Thalia used to be, he saw two young women hurrying

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Romantic Music and Sexual Intrigue

Their relationship is the stuff of legend and, of course, song.  When they met at the home of a mutual friend of both their parents, she was just nine, he eighteen, and her piano playing so inspired him that he resolved to give up law to study music with her

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Guess Who's Coming To Breakfast? James Taylor and Yo Yo Ma

You don't have to wait until next summer at Tanglewood to hear James Taylor and Yo Yo Ma give an outdoor concert in the Berkshires. The two local favorites will be peforming live on the porch of the Red Lion Inn on Monday, September 15, as part of

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Bravo! Berkshire Opera's "Figaro" at The Colonial

My highly-cultured friend, the Mozart Maven, is a regular at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center so I hesitated asking her to drive an hour to Pittsfield to see the Berkshire Opera's production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (which has two more performances on August

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"In Formations" Kicks up Dust in Ancram

Last week, they played for free before a crowd of passersby and random on-lookers at a little-known venue in lower Manhattan and, for their trouble, got a rave revue in the New York Times; tomorrow, they open at the Veterans Memorial Ball Field in Ancram, then later do a follow-up

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New Marlborough's Music & More

Even as hoards of the music enthusiasts descend on Tanglewood, elsewhere, in a quieter corner of Berkshire County, another series of concerts thrives.  Over the past 17 years, pianist Harold Lewin, with his series Music & More, has made the historic Meeting House in New Marlborough a favorite destination for

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Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Astonishes at Jacob's Pillow

Memo to organizers of Barack Obama's inauguration: Book Alonzo King's LINES Ballet. On Wednesday night at Jacob's Pillow, the San Francisco-based troupe opened a five-day run with two epic pieces Migration: The hierarchical migration of birds and mammals and Rasa, which is set to

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What Will Tanglewood Be Like Without James Levine?

Tanglewood's quarterback has been sidelined for the season. It was announced on July 8 that James Levine, the musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will undergo surgery this week to remove a kidney because of a cyst causing pressure and discomfort. The recuperation period is six weeks

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Hudson Summer Concert Series Launches

On Saturday night, you have a choice:  You can either kick up your heels and take a picnic to the Hudson Waterfront Park, spread a blanket on the ground, and, even as you nibble cold chicken and sip vinho verde, experience bands like Bunnybrains, Family of Love, Franklin Mint, Hexual

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The Maestro of Bard College

"At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel," Leon Botstein once said.  Leon Botstein has spent the past 33 proving that he's the exception to the rule. As the president of Bard College since 1975, he

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Classical Concerts: No Tickets Necessary

We'll never know if it's liberal (arts) guilt that motivates them, but we are grateful that the elite boarding schools and private colleges that dot our region often open their doors to the community for gratis lectures, concerts and exhibits.  This Friday night, April 4 at

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