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Hamlet's Vision by Pedro Américo
What spooky silhouette in the shadows of Shakespeare’s stage is conjured by Ludwig van Beethoven’s mournful crescendos and tremolos? The theatrical inspiration for Beethoven’s Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major — nicknamed “The Ghost Trio” by the composer’s Austrian pupil Carl Czerny — varies according to the source.
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Decades after Janis Ian “learned the truth at seventeen,” sad girl music has become a genre-spanning library on Spotify.
Donald Sosin is a resident of Salisbury, Conn., and one of the world’s foremost players of scores for silent films.
Beloved artist and jazz musician Robert Andrew Parker and Jive by Five are back on stage at Music Mountain after a two-year hiatus. Photo courtesy Scott Heth
In recent years, Robert Andrew Parker has been best known locally for his world-famous art, which he generously shares at area fundraising art shows (to the delight and good fortune of his legion of fans).
Litchfield County’s beloved Joint Chiefs continue to perform folk song covers and new compositions throughout the region. Look for them next at The Egremont Barn in Egremont, Mass., on Saturday, Aug. 27.
Berkshire Opera Festival wraps up its second full season since the COVID-19 pandemic with a fully staged “Don Giovanni,” with Andre Courville as the insatiable seducer, Christian Zaremba as the comic sidekick Leporello, Laura Wilde as Donna Anna and John Cheek as the commendatore.
The final of four concerts by the New Baroque Soloists will be held in Gordon Hall at Music Mountain in Falls Village, Conn., on Wednesday, Aug. 10, at 5 p.m.
Two outdoor music festivals are offered this summer by the Park and Recreation Commission in Cornwall, Conn. The first was on Friday, July 1, and featured bluegrass music by the Zolla Boys. There was a food truck and an ice cream truck and activities for children.
Steve Katz, a founding member of Blues Project, can still spend all day noodling around with his guitars in his home studio in Kent, Conn. His band, Blues Project, returns this summer with a concert June 25 and a new album. Photo by Cynthia Hochswender
Out of the ashes of Blues Project — one of the most influential bands of the mid 1960s — rose another amazing and influential band of that era: Blood, Sweat & Tears, started by Blues Project founding members Steve Katz and Al Kooper.
Even during the worst periods of COVID-19, the Music Mountain Summer Festival in Falls Village, Conn., never went “dark” — although the weekly concerts at the venerable hall on Music Mountain were held virtually for one season during the pandemic; and the live concerts were reduced in 2021, with social distancing required for audience members.
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