Weekend Preview Nov 12-14
ANI DIFRANCO RETURNS to the COLONIAL
Ani DiFranco, the self-described “righteous babe” who bucked the music industry’s major-label system, producing, manufacturing, and distributing her own albums of highly personal and politically outspoken punk-folk, paving the way for the independent music scene on her way to the cover of national magazines, returns to the Colonial in Pittsfield, Mass., on Nov 16 at 7:30. Singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick warms up the crowd for DiFranco.
Ani DiFranco has written hundreds of songs, played thousands of shows, captured the imaginations of legions of followers, and jammed with folkies, orchestras, rappers, rock and roll hall-of-famers, jazz musicians, poets, pop superstars, storytellers and a martial arts legend. She’s “fixed up a few old buildings” and minimized her carbon footprint before it was trendy—from installing a geothermal heating and cooling system in the renovated church that her label calls home to using organic inks on all the t-shirts she sells. But nothing she’s done in her 18-year career has garnered more attention than a business decision.
Since Ani bucked the major label system in the early ’90s, opting to release her music on her own terms, the self-described Little Folksinger has been the subject of all kinds of hyperbole. She’s been called “fiercely independent” (Rolling Stone,) “inspirational” (All Music Guide,) “the ultimate do-it-yourself songwriter” (The New York Times,) etc. As the cracks in the music industry get larger and more big-name artists follow Ani’s lead—Radiohead, Madonna and Nine Inch Nails among them—maybe people will just start calling her “smart.”
Tickets are $55 and $35 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10-5, performance Saturdays 10-2, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.thecolonialtheatre.org.
NAKED ART in PITTSFIELD
Naked, an exhibition featuring new female figurative work by Berkshire artist Jeanet Ingalls and Norwegian artist by way of Brooklyn, Anki King, opens at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in Pittsfield, Mass., on Saturday, Nov 13, with a reception at 5. The exhibition will run through Sat, January 8, 2011.Until Jeanet Ingalls was seven, adopted by missionaries and brought to Lenox, Mass., she spent her days running through the streets, carrying cement blocks and diving for coins in the canals of Cagyan de Oro City, Mindanao, Philippines. Later, while studying art at Parsons School of Design, the impressions and memories of her childhood bled into her paintings, contextualized by her inquiry into the place of women in the human condition; the objectification of women through their sexuality; and motherhood. In her work, Jeanet is trying to find the strength and structure in the human body ravaged by life.
Her work has appeared at the Lauren Clark Gallery in Housatonic, Mass., the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in Pittsfield, and the F Collective in Hudson, New York. She was the costume designer and producer of the feature length film, “Dressed like a Hitman” and is currently working on a feature film titled “Between Sea and Sky” based on her early childhood in the Philippines.
The paintings are raw, catching the figures in moments of stillness and unconscious and unembarrassed self revelation. Inherent in the paintings are all the emotions, psychology and states of being read into the word itself: Naked. Jeanet Ingalls notes, “In my portraits and figures, my subjects are contorted by the hardships and struggles and the sheer biomorphic effort to transform pain into discovery of self. “
Anki King grew up in a small village in Norway. After completing her arts education in Oslo, Norway, she moved to New York City in 1994 where she studied at The Art Students League until 1998. She describes her paintings as using the human form as a vehicle of evoking subtle emotions as a tool of education to one’s own psyche. 
In New York, King has built a strong career as a painter and exhibits frequently both in Europe and in the USA. Her work is included in many private and public collections and she has exhibited at the Katonah Museum of Art, NY, Las Cruces Museum of Art, NM and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo. She recently won the 2010 London International Creative Competition.Anki King explains her creative process: “When I start a painting, I don’t have a goal—I don’t set out to make something pretty. The paintings tell me what to do and what they need, including the palette, which is always limited. You have to hunt for the colors. I suppose they’re more precious that way, just like everything else in the painting that is revealed only after some time and effort.”
The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts
28 Renne Ave.
Pittsfield, Mass.
413.499.9348
28 Renne Ave.
Pittsfield, Mass.
413.499.9348
Saturday, November 13th, 2010 – Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 13th, 2010 5-7 Free admission
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesdays – Saturdays Noon to 5 Free admission
CHUCK PROPHET HEADLINES at HELSINKI
A weekend of raucous, rocking roots and indie rock at Club Helsinki Hudson is headlined on Saturday, Nov 13, by rock singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet, whose latest album, ¡Let Freedom Ring!, is a fraught, ambivalent mash note to America recorded in Mexico. Also on tap this weekend are acclaimed Hudson Valley based singer/songwriters Elvis Perkins and Tracy Bonham, performing a benefit for Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary on Friday, Nov. 12, and folk-pop quartet Girlyman on Sunday, Nov 14.About ¡Let Freedom Ring!: The studio was state-of-the-art…for 1957. Surgical masks were as common as sunglasses. Earthquakes shook the streets. This was Mexico City, 2009, the city that was the muse for Chuck Prophet’s latest album ¡Let Freedom Ring! Needing a vantage point outside his home country to make what he calls, “a political album for non-political people,” Chuck and his band found themselves at the epicenter of the biggest pandemic scare of the new century.
Swine flu was in the air literally and figuratively yet underneath the paranoia of H1N1 lay something more, something even larger. A cultural sea change was stirring. Brought on by the democratizing power of the Internet, traditionally poverty stricken youth all over Mexico City were being exposed rapid-fire to music and art that had always been hidden from them.Chuck Prophet got more than he bargained for. He and his band ventured to Mexico City to record the follow-up to 2007's "boundaryless" (New Yorker) album 'Soap & Water' and encountered a swine flu pandemic, an earthquake, electric brownouts, and crashing hard drives. They emerged with the hard-hitting, broad-ranging album '¡Let Freedom Ring!,' which will be released October 27 on Yep Roc Records.
"I just wanted the energy of this place," Prophet says of Mexico City. "I'm looking at a studio that is totally state of the art... for 1957. I stood in the middle of that room, I clapped my hands and I knew we could make a great record."
Chuck Prophet has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) and Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC). He has collaborated with Warren Zevon, Dan Penn and Alejandro Escovedo among many others, and his songs have been recorded by everyone from Solomon Burke to Heart. In 2006, Prophet launched his own record label, (((belle sound))) releasing an album by Sonny Smith and archival recordings by his seminal 1980s band Green on Red ("by far one of the best bands in the United States for almost an entire decade," according to the New York Times).
Folk rocker Elvis Perkins crafts brooding, thoughtful melodies with a sophisticated pop sensibility. His songs sound both catchy and timeless, earning lofty comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. Known for a wide range of dynamics and eclectic instrumentation, his recordings and live shows have become the darling of bloggers and top-ten lists. 
Tracy Bonham is a twice Grammy-nominated powerhouse. Billboard called her latest album, Masts of Manhatta (Engine Room Recordings), "full of attractive instrumentation and unfalteringly charming lyricism." From the instruments she plays (violin, guitar, piano) to the genres she explores (folk, blues, country, classical, tango). Tracy is truly a rare talent. Atlanta-based trio Girlyman bring their harmony-driven gender pop sounds to Club Helsinki. Friends since grade school and college, they are influenced by 60s vocal groups like Simon & Garfunkel and The Mamas and the Papas, and infused with years of classical and jazz training, Girlyman's songs are a dance of melody and suspensions - an irresistible blend of acoustic, Americana, and rock The Village Voice calls "really good, really unexpected, and really different."
The first few years brought critical delight, awards, and long opening runs with the Indigo Girls and Dar Williams. Girlyman quickly became a strong headliner in its own right, and now plays in every corner of the country to intensely loyal "girlyfans" who often travel hundreds of miles to see shows. Girlyman describes their musical style as "leading edge three-part harmony folk-pop," and enjoy a strong following in the queer community. Their self-released debut album, Remember Who I Am, sold 5,000 copies before it was re- released by Daemon Records, the independent record label run by Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. Their folk-rock musical style is heavy on close harmony. Girlyman sells out renowned venues such as The Barns at Wolftrap, The Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, The Ark, and The Freight and Salvage. They also frequent festival main stages, making a huge splash at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, the Kate Wolf Memorial Folk Festival, and the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, to name a few.
Most recently, Girlyman has been collaborating with comedian Margaret Cho, co-writing songs for her upcoming album,Guitarded. Of Girlyman, Cho says, "They seamlessly blend folk, country, pop, and rock, and they genre bend as fearlessly and flawlessly as they gender-bend. It's the music of my heart and soul. Girlyman is the future and the past and the present."
For dinner reservations in the club before the show: 518-828-4800
FARCICAL ‘MELANCHOLY’ in PITTSFIELD DEBUT
WAM Theatre stages Sarah Ruhl's Tony-nominated contemporary farce, Melancholy Play, at New Stage in Pittsfield Mass., Friday, Nov. 12 through Nov 21. A benefit for the Women’s Fund of Western Mass., the play tells the story of Tilly, a bank teller, who makes her sorrow so sexy that everyone in her life falls maddeningly in love with her. Tilly's sudden joyful transformation results in a mystical and hilarious quest exploring the happiness of melancholy and the melancholy of happiness.This production will run from November 12-21, 2010 at the NEW STAGE Performing Arts Center in Pittsfield, Mass., and will feature Betsy Holt (Oldcastle’s ‘Leading Ladies’) as Tilly, Todd Quick (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) as Frank, Per Janson (Trinity Rep) as Lorenzo, Karen Lee (The Wharton Salon) as Frances, Erika Helen Smith (Classic Stage Company) as Julian the cellist and Leigh Strimbeck (co-Artistic Director of WAM) as Joan.
In line with WAM Theatre's philanthropic mission, a portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts. Tickets are now on sale by calling 1-800-838-3006 or going to WAM Theatre
Kristen van Ginhoven, co-artistic director of WAM Theatre remarked, “We are looking forward to people joining us at NEW STAGE Performing Arts Center for our first full production of a play by a female playwright and our first with a local beneficiary, The Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts. By coming to see WAM’s production of ‘Melancholy Play’, you are helping to create opportunity for women and girls right here in our community.”
WHERE:
NEW STAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 55 North Street, Pittsfield, MA
WHEN:
Friday, November 12, 2010: 8pm
Saturday, November 13, 2010: 3pm* & 8 pm
Sunday, November 14, 2010: 3pm
Friday, November 19, 2010: 8pm
Saturday, November 20, 2010: 3pm* & 8pm
Sunday, November 21, 2010: 3pm
*A free post-show discussion with the actors and creative team will follow.
TICKETS:
$25 general public
$12 students
To book tickets, go to WAM Theatre or call 1-800-838-3006
POLITICAL COMEDY at the COLONIAL
Comedian Kate Clinton’s Lady HAHA Tour, with special guest Roy Zimmerman, comes to the Colonial on Saturday, Nov 13, at 8. A politically minded comic and gay activist, Clinton’s new tour gains fuel and inspiration from the recent upsurge by right-wingers and the ‘tea pary.’
Clinton has performed nationally since 1981 from Joe's Pub in New York City to the Park West in Chicago to the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, and back to New York for several off-Broadway runs, with hundreds of comedy club dates in between. She opened for the Labelle Reunion Show at the Apollo. She appeared in the True Colors show at Radio City Music Hall. Her two decades plus of material are on record in her eight comedy collections, including Climate Change, Comedy You Can Dance To, Read These Lips and The Marrying Kind.
Clinton also blogs for Huffington Post, The Progressive, Bilerico, NYC Up and Out, Beacon Broadside and Olivia Connect. She has written for the New York Times, Women's Review Of Books, and The Advocate. Kate served as a writer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show during its rollout period in 1996.
Clinton has taught humor writing at the prestigious Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA where poet laureate Robert Pinsky and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham have also taught. She lectures widely on humor and the uses of humor in cultural change.
Roy Zimmerman has been writing satirical songs for twenty years. Zimmerman has played clubs across the country, and shared the stage with George Carlin, Bill Maher, Kate Clinton, Dennis Miller, Sandra Tsing Loh, kd lang, Andy Borowitz and Paul Krassner. He’s done several shows with The Pixies’ Frank Black, swapping songs in a solo acoustic setting. His up-to-the-moment topical songs are featured on American Public Media’s syndicated broadcast Weekend America and Sirius Radio’s West Coast Live.
Performing at New York City’s Symphony Space during the 2004 Republican Convention, he drew this review from the New York Times: “Roy Zimmerman lifted the evening with his song ‘Chickenhawk,’ ridiculing the military policies of Bush administration officials who didn’t serve in the armed forces. Zimmerman’s squawking and clucking conveyed his scorn with contagious irreverence.”
Zimmerman founded and wrote all the material for the comedy folk quartet The Foremen, who recorded four albums, two of them for Warner/Reprise Records. The Foremen toured extensively, playing the nation’s major folk venues, a lot of fancy Progressive benefits, Pete Seeger’s Clearwater Festival (under an overpass in the rain) and CBGB’s. They even warmed up the crowd for President Bill Clinton.
Steeped in musical theatre, Zimmerman was fascinated at an early age with the ingenious economy of Irving Berlin, the witty innuendo of Cole Porter and the high-wire rhyme and reason of Stephen Sondheim. Woody Guthrie, The Weavers and that other Zimmernan, Bob Dylan, are obvious lights in Roy’s pantheon. Other favorite writers are Tom Lehrer for his hilarious and impeccably crafted topicality, Ani DiFranco for her marriage of brilliance and bravery and Joni Mitchell for her seamless union of sound and sense.
Zimmerman opened for John Oliver at the Colonial in August, 2010.
413. 997.4444 or online
SHUFFLE CONCERT at LENOX ATHENAEUM
Imagine a live performance of a Pop song immediately followed by a Baroque concerto. Imagine a concert program with more than 40 possible pieces in 15 different musical styles. Imagine a concert where the pieces performed are chosen by the audience. The Shuffle Ensemble, comprised of members of the Israel Philharmonic, will do precisely this on Saturday, Nov 13, at the Lenox Athenaeum, in a family concert at noon and an evening performance at 7:30.When you come to a Shuffle Concert, you will receive an individually numbered menu filled with musical masterpieces in every possible musical style, from Neo-Classical to Cabaret. If your number is picked, you get the chance to choose what style and piece will be performed next. Every concert is a completely new experience, both for the audience and the Shuffle Concert performers.
The members of the Shuffle Ensemble are Oboe: Roni Gal-Ed, Violin: Angelia Cho, Cello: Linor Katz, Clarinet: Moran Katz, Soprano: Mary Mackenzie, Piano: Eliran Avni
Noon: Family Shuffle
A special Shuffle Concert for children with nine exciting musical categories such as Disney Tunes, Let's Dance and Fairy-Tale Music.
Don't miss this opportunity to introduce your kids to different styles of music in this interactive music-packed show!
Evening performance @ 7:30pm
Shuffle Concert
Six musicians, 15 musical styles and over 40 different musical works.
You Choose. We Play.
The Lenox Athenaeum
101 Yokun Avenue
Lenox, Mass.
101 Yokun Avenue
Lenox, Mass.
BLUEGRASS at the GYPSY JOYNT
The Steel Wheels, one of the Blue Ridge Mountains’ brightest and thought-provoking bands, blending old-time Americana with a contemporary energy, playing old-fashioned fiddle tunes and innovative original material that combines bluegrass and the blues, is at Gypsy Joynt in Great Barrington, Mass., on Friday, Nov 12.The four-piece band features Joe Lapp on mandolin and guitar, singer-songwriter Trent Wagler on acoustic guitar, Brian Dickel on the upright bass, and Eric Brubaker playing the fiddle.
Martin Anderson, the music director of radio station WNCW, has said: “There is purity and power in the sound of this band that few come close to tapping. Tight pickin’, passionate energy, and Wagler’s voice soars like an eagle.” Bluegrass Unlimited has written: “Wagler's voice is a supple instrument with an expressive bite.”
Tickets for The Steel Wheels are $15 and available at The Gypsy Joynt, 389 Stockbridge Road in Great Barrington, across from the Price Chopper complex, or by phone at (413) 644-8811.
The Gypsy Joynt is a family-owned restaurant serving fresh, home made lunches and dinners from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 to closing. A special breakfast/brunch is available from 8 to 2 on Sundays.
TOMMY TUNE at the COLONIAL
Choreographer, director, actor and dancer Tommy Tune celebrates a half-century in show business with Steps In Time: A Broadway Biography In Song And Dance featuring The Manhattan Rhythm Kings, at the Colonial on Friday, Nov 12, at 8
Tommy Tune has enchanted audiences over the past 50 years with his charisma, vision, and innovation. A native Texan, Tune began his career as a dancer in the Broadway shows, Baker Street, A Joyful Noise, and How Now Dow Jones. He would soon step out of the chorus and into a principal role in the Broadway musical Seesaw, which garnered him his first Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Less than a decade later, he won a Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in My One and Only.
Tune's talents were not limited to his onstage performances. Throughout his career, he would go on to win an additional seven Tony Awards, four for Best Choreography (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, Grand Hotel, My One and Only, The Will Rogers Follies) and three for Best Direction of a Musical (Nine, Grand Hotel, The Will Rogers Follies), bringing his total to an unprecedented nine Tony Awards.
Tickets are $65 and $45 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM, performance Saturdays 10AM-2PM, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.thecolonialtheatre.org.
Most recently, Tune directed the new musical, Turn of the Century, at the esteemed Goodman Theatre in Chicago. The show, slated for Broadway, was written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice of Jersey Boys fame. This year, Tune marks his 50th year in show business with his latest tour, Steps in Time, A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance.
Known for their polished performances of American popular music from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s, the Manhattan Rhythm Kings have gained a large and enthusiastic following across the country. While frequently compared with such musical greats as the Mills Brothers and Paul Whiteman’s Rhythm Boys, the trio has established a unique character of its own with a combination of close harmony singing, virtuosic instrumental work and spectacular tap dancing. The Rhythm Kings started performing together on the sidewalks of New York in 1980. From there these song and dance men graduated to playing cabarets, colleges and concert halls across the country.
413. 997.4444 or online
GOLDBERG TRIO at SIMON'S ROCK
The Goldberg Trio, with guest pianist Larry Wallach, will present "Bach and Beethoven on the Wrong Instruments" on Sunday, Nov 14 at 3 at the Kellogg Music Center at Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Mass., as part of the South Berkshire Concerts series. The Goldberg Trio consists of Daniel Stepner on violin, Ronald Gorevic on viola and Guy Fishman on cello.Daniel Stepner has performed and recorded a wide range of music on period and contemporary instruments. Since 1987, he has been first violinist of the Lydian String Quartet, in residence at Brandeis University. He is also a founding member of the Boston Museum Trio, resident at the Museum of Fine Arts, and he served as concertmaster of the Handel and Haydn Society, stepping down last May after 24 years in the post. Audiences in Western Massachusetts know him as the Artistic Director of the Aston Magna Festival, performing at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and now at Brandeis University as well. He is also a Preceptor in Music at Harvard University, where he team-teaches a course in chamber music with Professor Robert Levin.
His recorded repertoire includes sonatas of Bach, Vivaldi, Buxtehude and Telemann, and Marais; chamber music of Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, Lee Hyla, Peter Child, Martin Boykan, Yehudi Wyner, and John Harbison; and the complete violin sonatas of Charles Ives, with pianist John Kirkpatrick. He has also conducted recordings of Handel’s The Triumph of Time and Truth and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (on Centaur). Stepner studied with Steven Staryk in Chicago, Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau, France; and Broadus Erle at Yale, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
Ronald Gorevic is a founding member of the Prometheus Piano Quartet, with which he has recorded piano quartets of Saint-Saens and D’Indy. His recent recording of Brahms, Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B Minor (arranged by Brahms for solo viola and string quartet) and Brahms, Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano in A Minor, with Brahms’s own arrangement for viola instead of clarinet, was released on the Centaur label.
Guy Fishman is the principal cellist in Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society and performs with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Mark Morris Group. Fishman was the principal cellist of the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and a member of the New Fromm Players at Tanglewood.
Larry Wallach is a pianist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer who holds the Livingston Hall Chair in Music at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and teaches composition at Bard College. He studied piano privately with Henry Danielowitz and Kenneth Cooper and was trained at Columbia University, where he studied music history and composition and earned a Doctorate in Musicology in 1973. In 1977 he joined a year long National Endowment for the Humanities seminar at the University of North Carolina on performance practices in earlier piano music. He has been an active performer of chamber music with harpsichord and piano, and of twentieth century music. He is on the staff of summer early music workshops at World Fellowship.
CHAMBER MUSIC with the BOSTON BAROQUE
The Williams College Department of Music presents four members of Grammy-nominated Boston Baroque in a concert of intimate chamber music on Sunday, Nov. 14, at 3 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams college campus. This free event is open to the public.Founded in 1973 by Martin Pearlman, three-time Grammy nominee Boston Baroque has toured the world, receiving critical acclaim. Boston Baroque's recordings—of which Fanfare magazine wrote “each one is an incomparable gem”—are heard by millions on classical radio stations in this country and Europe. Boston Baroque is the resident professional ensemble for Boston University's Historical Performance Program, where it is helping to train the next generation of period-instrument performers.
The performers of Boston Baroque visiting Williams bring with them a great deal of experience: Violinist Christina Day Martinson is concertmaster of Boston Baroque and recorded Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Boston Baroque for TELARC records in 2009.
Susanna Ogata, violinist, received her Bachelor and Master degrees from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with and served as teaching assistant for Charles Castleman.
Sarah Freiberg is a principal cellist of the Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque. She has performed with the New York Collegium, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), Portland Baroque (Oregon), Seattle Baroque, the Boston Early Music Festival and Arion (Montreal).
Boston Baroque’s leader and harpsichordist, Martin Pearlman, is one of this country's leading interpreters of Baroque and Classical music on period and modern instruments. Hailed for his “fresh, buoyant interpretations,” and his “vivid realizations teeming with life,” Pearlman has been acclaimed for more than thirty-five years in the orchestral, choral, and operatic repertoire from Monteverdi to Beethoven. Mr. Pearlman is the only conductor from the period-instrument field to have performed live on the internationally televised Grammy Awards show. He serves as Professor of Music at the Boston University School of Music.
concert hotline: 413-597-3146
POET JOANNA KLINK at SIMON”s ROCK
Acclaimed poet Joanna Klink reads from her work in Blodgett House on the campus of Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Mass., on Thurs, Nov 18, at 7:30. Klink is the author of three collections of poetry: They Are Sleeping, Circadian, and Raptus. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Chicago Review, and other journals. Linda Gregg has called Klink a poet whose "intensity makes the world visible.” Mark Strand noted that in her poetry: “everywhere, a forceful, scrupulous intelligence is active — a luminous diction, a range of cadences." A recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, she is the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University and a member of the faculty in the MFA program at the University of Montana.
CONCERT and CHAMBER CHOIRS at WILLIAMS COLLEGE
The Williams College Department of Music presents the Concert and Chamber Choirs under the direction of Brad Wells with Eyes Like Sapphire: Vocal Music of Bulgaria & Georgia and Early Western Polyphony on Friday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. in Thompson Memorial Chapel on the Williams College campus. This free event is open to the public.
The men of the Concert Choir give voice to the ancient polyphony of Georgia while the Concert Choir women sing the vibrant rhythms and haunting melodies of Bulgaria and Macedonia. The Chamber Choir explores medieval and early Renaissance music from western Europe.
The students of the Concert Choir have built their repertoire of Georgian and Bulgarian songs by working closely with guest teachers Carl Linich of Trio Kavkasia and Eva Salina Primack of the vocal duo Ӕ. Both Linich and Primack are world class performers and master teachers of Georgian and Bulgarian music, respectively.
Williams College has long had a fine tradition of music performance in its choral ensembles. Brad Wells, Director of Vocal Activities, has helped that tradition flourish. The choral program has much to offer students interested in singing, with a number of performances throughout the year, a wide range of repertoire, recordings, and tours.
concert hotline: 413-597-3146
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