Arts All That Jazz: Wanda Houston Sings with Heart & Soul When Wanda Houston sings her zippy version of "Over the Rainbow," it's as if you've never heard the Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg tune before. When she puts a gospel spin on Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'," By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts "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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
