Berkshire Symphony to premiere Barrow work in Williams College concert
The Berkshire Symphony conducted by Julius Heggs will present its second concert of the season on Friday November 30 at 8 30 p m in Chapin Hall Williamstown The program features the world premiere of Robert Barrow Sinfonia Concertante with soloists David Cobb contrabass Michael Canonico trumpet and Rene Prins English horn Also on the bill Beethoven Symphony No 8 and Brahms Serenade in D Op 11 The 29th season draws more Williams College students into the orchestra among professionals from Vermont Connecticut New York and Massachusetts Tickets are at Harts Drug Store and at the door Williams and area students under twelve free Call 413 597 2127 for details
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Berkshire Symphony
Julius Heggs
Chapin Hall
Robert Barrow
David Cobb
Michael Canonico
Rene Prins
Barrow
Williams College
Beethooven
Berkshire
Williams
North Adams State College
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Connecticut
New York
Massachusetts
Harts’ Drug Store
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Arts events unfold across Vermont and New York campuses
In North Bennington Bill Bollinger's sculpture show continues through Monday, Nov. 26 at Asdan Gallery and adjoining lawns. A ceramics and photography exhibit and sale co sponsored by the Community Arts Association of Southwest Vermont and Park McCullough House opens Dec. 1 at 3 to 5 p.m. and runs weekdays 12 to 2 and 5 to 8. In Schenectady a Dumont Goodwin photo collection from glass negatives, 1890s, spans Adirondacks to Lake George and Albany. Kenneth Roberts will give a piano recital Nov. 27 at 8:30 p.m. in Williams College Thompson Memorial Chapel. Street Songs by William Finn will be shown at Adams Memorial Theatre Nov 29 to Dec 2 with admission. Williams College hosts three lectures: Linda Bundtzen discusses Macbeth and the rhetoric of the unconscious on Nov 27. Antonia Glasse talks Soviet satire and humor on Nov 28. Kathleen Weil Garris Posner speaks on Michelangelo and Bandinelli on Nov 30 at 4 30 p.m. in Clark Art Institute auditorium.
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Asdan
Community Arts Association of
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Park-McCullough
Schenectady
N.Y
Scott Dumont Goodwin
Schenectady Museum
Upper
Adirondacks
Lake George
Glens Falls
Albany
Williamstown
Mass
William Finn
Adams Memorial Theatre
Williams College
Linda Bundtzen
Williams
Fitch- Prospect
Antonia Glasse
Cornell University
Weston Language Center
Kathleen Weil-Garris Posner
New York University
Bandinelli
Clark Art Institute
Kenneth Roberts Solo Recital at Williams College
Kenneth Roberts of Williams College Music Department will give a solo piano recital in Thompson Memorial Chapel on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. Admission is free. Roberts, director of the Williams Choral Society and Chamber Singers, is known for guiding major choral programs and for scholarly work connected with performances. He has taught and conducted widely, led ensembles abroad, and appears annually in local chamber music series. The program features Mozart and Beethoven sonatas, Schumann’s Second Sonata, Chopin, Debussy, and an Emmanuel Chabrier piece, planned for student and community audiences.
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Kenneth Roberts
Williams College Music Department
Thompson Memorial Chapel
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Philharmonic Choir
West Berlin
Stockholm
University of Michigan
Denison University
Oberlin College
Ohio
Chopin
Debussy
Emmanuel Chabrier
Respighi and Schmitt on New Ormandy Philadelphia Release
A UPI review surveys Respighi tone poems on The Respighi Album with The Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome plus Church Windows and The Birds, praising orchestral texture and imaginative listening. It notes Schmitt’s Psalm 47 and La Tragedie de Salome in a first stereo recording, plus nostalgic reissues featuring Eileen Farrell as Medea and Eleanor Steber in Berlioz Nuits d ete.
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UPI
Igor Stravinsky
Arnold Schoenberg
Ottorino Respighi
Rome
Eugene Ormandy
Philadelphia Orchestra
Columbia MG
Respighi
Florent Schmitt
Angel
Schwann
Salome Ballet
Schmitt
Jean Martinon
Andrea Guiot
Gaston Litaize
Eileen Farrell
Luigi Cherubini
Farrell
Eleanor Steber
Steber
NASC music professor at training institute North Adams
North Adams report notes Dr. Dwight Killam, an associate professor of music at North Adams State College, focusing on a training institute program. Further details on the institute and Killam's role are provided in the dispatch.
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NASC
Training Institute
North Adams
Mass
Dwight Killam
North
Pownal and Institute News Across Vermont Events
The Methodist Youth Fellowship schedules Sunday meet at Pownai United Methodist Church from 5 to 7 pm. Pownai PTG names prize winners in a benefit, with turkey prizes won by Mrs. Charles Wilson, Carl Bailey and Dan Leonard and ham prizes for Nancy Hermann and Mrs. Fred Babcock. Five dollar rewards go to Gwen George, Mark Leonard, Dan Leonard, Sue Potter and Jeff McLenahan for selling winning tickets. Adams State College took part in an instrumental music training institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Music Educators Association and UMass. Dr. Edwin Gordon delivered the keynote on current learning theory in instrumental music instruction, with panel and sessions on teaching strategies. Dr. Gordon and Dr. William D. Gaver also participated as coordinator and speaker. In Sandgate, William Henry, chair of the civil defense program, arranges a home fire prevention lecture by a Vermont state official on Tuesday Nov 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sandgate Town Hall. all residents are welcome.
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Pownai
Edwin Gordon
University of Buffalo
New York
Dr. Gordon
William D. Gaver
Dr. Gaver
Mt. Greylock Regional High School
Williamstown
Mass
William Henry
Sandgate
State of Vermont Department of Public Safety
Christmas Book Picks Portraits and Prose Packed in Pictures
A trio of recent biographies and a glossy reminiscence fill shelves for holiday shoppers. Christopher Columbus by a celebrated traveler historian offers a handsome visual retelling of the Discoverer. Catherine de Medici by Hugh Williamson is a lavishly illustrated portrait of power during France’s religious turmoil. Happy Times by Brendan Gill and Jerome Zerbe surveys cafe society from 1930s to 1960s with playful nostalgia and abundant imagery.
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Hugh Ross_ Williamson
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Francis II
Charles IX
Williamson
Brendan Gill
Jerome Zerbe
Harcourt
Gill
Zerbe
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