Stuart Soloist at Opening of Chamber Music Season
Prominent operatic tenor James Morgan Stuart will be guest soloist for the Chamber Music Society of Pittsfield opening concert in the Berkshire Museum Ellen Crane Room. Accompanied by Helen Morgan, he will sing Mozart Brahms Poulenc and Bizet, then perform Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge with a string quartet and other players. The fourConcert season is funded by memberships, free to the public.
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James Morgan Stuart
Chamber Music Society
Ellen Crane
Berkshire Museum
Mr. Stuart
Helen Morgan
Mozart
Brahms
Poulenc
Bizet
Wenlock Edge
Vaughan - Williams
Jan Stocklinski
Malcolm Knott
Jay Rosenfeld
Nardus Lessing
Chamber Music Society of
Pittsfield
Pittsfield Community Music School
Community Arts Calendar Details Local Arts Events Through 1964
Berkshire Arts Center coordinates a monthly Community Arts Calendar with a five dollar inclusion fee. The calendar lists public events through June 1964 with admission often charged. Highlights include Opera Workshow and various theater productions, chamber music, lectures, children’s theater, exhibitions, and an Oratorio at churches and museums in Pittsfield and surrounding towns.
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Berkshire Arts Center
Arts Center
Berkshire Art Exhibition Faces Tougher Curation
The Berkshire Museum hosts the Twelfth Annual Berkshire Art Association show through October 29 with 67 paintings and six sculptures chosen from 442 works. Juror David G. Carter admitted 63 artists from 245, leaving 28 perennial entrants, while the regional display raises questions about drawing wider audiences beyond New England and New York.
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Berkshire Art Association
Berkshire Museum
David G. Carter
Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design
Fred Laros
Kinderliok
N.Y
University Theater to Present Five Dramas in 1961-64 Season
Amherst The University Theater at Massachusetts announces a five play slate for 1961 64 under the speech department Sponsored season opens October 17 19 with Plautus The Twin Mena followed by Henrik Ibsens Ghosts Shakespeare s Othello Robert Penn Warren s All the King s Men and a reading yet to be named by an American playwright Related lectures and stage exhibits will accompany the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amherst
University Theater
Department of Speech
University of Massachusetts
Plautus
Hendrik Ibsen
Robert Penn Warren
Town Players Ticket Sale For Angel Street Season Opener
Tickets for Angel Street, the Pittsfield Town Players opening production, are on sale announced by Marion T Bruni president. The melodrama runs four nights from Now through April 4. single and season tickets available by calling Town Players.
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Angel Street
Pittsfield Town Players
Marion T. Bruni
Town
Movie Timetable Highlights Local Theaters
Capitol shows The VLP s with short subjects at 1 00 4 30 6 00 and 8 45 Palace presents 20000 Leagues Under the Sea at 1 10 3 40 6 10 and 8 40 Union Square offers In the French Style at 2 30 6 45 9 00 Fury of the Pagans at 1 00 4 15 7 30 Berkshire Drive In operates on weekends Pittsfield and Sunset Drive In open weekends County timetable on Page 16.
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Union Square
Sheinwold on Bridge Stay Awake Out of Bed
Bridge column explains a hand where South misfires but still hints at a correct plan. It notes the dealer holds Spade Q1097, Heart 3, Diamond A Q3, Club A8653 and recommends opening one club with 12 high card points and distribution.
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South
West
Declarer
East
Cinerama plans American firm for British home TV tape recorder
Cinerama, Inc announces formation of an American company to market a proposed British home TV tape recorder. The Rutherford Engineering Partnership in Bermuda will be affiliated with Nottingham Electronic Valve Company. The venture would grant Cinerama control and rights to manufacture worldwide excluding the UK, Commonwealth, and European Free Trade Area. Prototype in six weeks, price target under $200, versus about $12,000 for the least expensive US model. The Telcan system is cited as not yet ready for consumers.
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Berkshires
Leonard Baskin
Northampton
Laros
Willman Wilson
Fabert
Virginia Webb
New York
Cinerama, Inc
Nicolas Ressini
Cinerama
Rutherford Engineering Partnership
Bermuda
Rutherford Group
Nottingham Electronic Valve Company, Inc
United Kingdom
British Commonwealth
Unite States
Telcan
Television Digest
Britain
Europe
Historical League event draws nearly 200 in Williamstown
Nearly 200 people from across the commonwealth gathered in Williamstown for the Bay State Historical League fall meeting. Berkshire County Historical Society, Williams College and the Clark Art Institute hosted. Prof. Benjamin W. Labaree spoke on the Boston Tea Party, calling it a spark that helped spark the Coercive Acts and colonial unity. Delegates from more than 30 societies attended, with 71 Berkshire County members present, as Mrs. E. J. Coughlin Jr. and William H. Pierson Jr. led the local planning committee.
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Commonwealth
Berkshire County
Williamstown
Bay State Historical League
Massachusetts
Berkshire County Historical Society
Williams College
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown Congregational Church
Jdesup Hall
Benjamin W. Labaree
Williams
Clark Museum
Baxter, Hall
Thomas E. O'Connell
Berkshire Community College
Dean Labaree
Boston
Cape Cod
E. J. Coughlin Jr
William H. Pierson Jr
Carlisle Tyringham Art Galleries Open at Carlisle's
Springfield announces the Carlisle Tyringham Art Galleries opening on October 21 with Don R. Davis in charge. The fifth floor gallery will host one man shows and events, add an art supplies department, and offer classes for adults and children under the Berkshire gallery.
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Springfield
Joseph Garfinkel
Carlisle
Springfield Hardware
Carlisle-Tyringham
Tyringham Galleries
Carlisle's
Berkshire
Don R. Davis
Carlisle - Tyringham Galleries
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Stuart
American Savoyards
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera
Experimental Opera Theater In
America
Rochester Philharmonic
New Orleans Symphony
Philadelphia Orchestra
Robin Hood Dell
Berkshire Country Day School
Lenox
Pittsfield Community School
Messrs
South Congregational Church
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
VLPI
Spanavision
Metrocolor
Popeye
Northcote Parkinson
Wahcanah Regional High School
Dalton
Yown Players
Berkshire Arts Cenuu Chamber Music Society
Ng Charge
Beriloz
Town Players
John Mason Brown
Taplet
Town Pees
Aember Music Society
Oratoria
Church of Christ Congregational
Walter Sullivan
San
Darryl F. Zanuck
Cornelius AY
tLe
Lane Falson Jr
Willams College Museum of Art
New England
New York City
Long Island
Hugh Townley
Providence
Brown University
Rhode Island
Tam
William Baum
Crane Room
East Wall
Nakian
Marca-Relli
Marco Relli
Richard Stankiewicz
Cummington
George Rickey
East Chatham
Agostinelli
Angelach
Bate Cowley
Semple
Thomson
Puvis de Chavannes
Johansen
Maziarz
Willman H. Wilson
Robert Mitchum
Elsa Martinelli
Warmer Brothers
Jack Hawkins
Palace Theater
U. of M. Theater
Childander
Capitol
Sunset Drive-In
Sheinwold
Alfred Sheinwold
Ant
East A
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Pasa
Fass
Historical League
Art Gallery
Sue Howard Johnson
Pittsfield-Lenox Rd
Lenox Fire Department
Tallyho
Eastover
Echo Valley Boys
Leno
Leedsman
Pittsfield High School
Auspicas Shiraz Grotto
Grand Ole Opry
Oaeg
Tess
Sammy Vincent
North ST
Aduite
Kian
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