Music

Thanksgiving’s over, the leftovers are gone, and now it’s time to get out of the house and see some live entertainment. 

Close Encounters With Music invites its audience to embrace the magic and mysticism of December’s darkness with a thematic concert titled “Nocturne — Night and Dreams,” held at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Mass., on Sunday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m.

Every seat in the Great Hall of the Norfolk Library was full. The audience ranged from toddlers held in their parents’ arms to gray-haired couples eagerly waiting to experience the music of the Dinuk Wijeratne Trio.

Clearly, there is no shortage of lovers of good music in Sharon, judging from the capacity audience that assembled at Christ Church Episcopal in Sharon for a benefit concert of sacred and secular solos and duets on Sunday, Nov. 12.

The Colonial Theatre rocked the night away on Friday, Nov. 3, as Cherry Pie Band took the stage for a performance benefitting AHA, the after school program at North Canaan Elementary School. 

Crescendo, the early-music organization based in Lakeville, Conn., is offering the public a musical treat over the weekend of Oct. 28 and 29 called "Fantastic Baroque!" — a celebratory concert marking Crescendo's 20th anniversary that will feature festive Baroque music for chorus, soloists, accompanied by a period instrument orchestra.

She’d hide behind

a new identity — that was it.

She wouldn’t be Zhanna.

She’d use an alias.

She’d drop the Zh from her name

become Anna —

smaller, plainer,

more able to blend in.

She’d begin again.

Following a three-year hiatus, The Hotchkiss School is finally resuming its Summer Portals Concert Series on the stage of The Katherine M. Elfers Hall in The Esther Eastman Music Center on the grounds of the preparatory school’s Lakeville, Conn., campus — but first, it is heading to New York City.