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The Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit for Close Encounters with Music

Annual Luncheon Musicale Benefit

Close Encounters With Music P.O. Box 34Great Barrington,

Celebrate the Salon in the Gilded Age elegance at a private Berkshires club. The scintillating atmosphere of the 19th century institution that helped promote artists, painters and musicians as the intelligentsia gathered to exchange ideas, enhanced by gaiety and ambience. Savor a superb lunch and support Close Encounters With Music. La vie est belle!

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Close Encounters with Music program at the Mahaiwe

Cafe Vienna – Nervous Splendor

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

The imperial “City of Song” has played an essential role as a leading European cultural center, hosting major personalities in the development of music, as well as literature, painting, psychiatry and intellectual thought, from the 16th to 20th centuries. This program takes a cross-section of Viennese musical modes—from operetta to waltz, Beethoven’s Piano Trio which spins […]

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Emily Marvosh is the mezzo-soprano featured in this concert

Cafe Vienna – Nervous Splendor

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

Close Encounters With Music’s Winter/Spring 2024 concerts continue with a cross-section of Viennese musical modes—from operetta to waltz, Beethoven’s Piano Trio which spins on a popular song by Weigl, to Schubert’s sublime testament to his beloved métier, An die Musik. And of course, the quintessential café music of Fritz Kreisler, Caprice Viennois. In charm, verve, […]

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Close Encounters with Music performance at Mahaiwe

Great Quintets – Dvorak and Brahms

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

An all-star ensemble that shares the stage with artistic director Yehuda Hanani includes Max Levinson (a brilliant American pianist…who touches the listener deeply and often—Los Angeles Times) and violist Jordan Bak (a bright commanding presence…a rising star —Boston Musical Intelligencer) making his CEWM debut. So concludes Season 32 of Close Encounters—bookended by the most miraculous […]

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