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5.29.11
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5.18.11
Weekend Preview May 19-24
Bob Dylan tributes, Deborah Voigt, Tom Paxton, Bill Kirchen, John Kirk and Trish Miller



5.18.11
Celebrating Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday in Style
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5.17.11
FILM REVIEW: In a Better World and Of Gods and Men
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5.12.11
Deborah Voigt Headlines Mahaiwe Gala
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5.15.11
Famed Spiritual Teacher to Speak on Nonviolence
Mother Maya in free talk at Sruti Yoga in Great Barrington, Mass., on Friday May 20 at 7pm



5.12.11
Special Effects Wizard to Be Honored by Film Festival
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5.11.11
Weekend Preview May 12-16
Cultural Highlights of the Berkshire Weekend



6.4.09
Talk about a small world
Elaine and I grew up together, but only just recently met....



5.8.11
Berkshire Living to Cease Publication
A Farewell from Publisher Michael Zivyak



5.8.11
twiGs Branches Out
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5.8.11
[MUSIC REVIEW] Avalon Quartet in Close Encounters at Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy



5.8.11
[MUSIC REVIEW] Avalon Quartet in Close Encounters at Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy



5.7.11
[FILM REVIEW] Bill Cunningham New York
Review by Seth Rogovoy



5.7.11
[FILM REVIEW] Bill Cunningham New York
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[MUSIC REVIEW] BSO, Levine, July 14-15, Schoenberg and Strauss

7.17.07
At Tanglewood, James Levine Transforms Students Into Pros

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Published: July 17, 2006

LENOX, Mass., July 16 -- On July 7 James Levine, with highly praised performances of Schoenberg's early Chamber Symphony and Beethoven's mighty Ninth, reassured the public here at Tanglewood -- not to mention the worried administrators of the Boston Symphony Orchestra -- that he was back in action. A serious shoulder injury and the resulting surgery had kept him off the podium for four months. Clearly his shoulder had mended. He had lost weight and was looking better than he had in 10 years. But what about his stamina?

Over the weekend Mr. Levine put even those concerns to rest with stunning performances of two daunting works from the first decade of the 20th century. On Friday night he conducted the Boston Symphony in Schoenberg's two-hour "Gurrelieder," an ecstatic score for huge orchestral forces, vocal soloists and chorus, a monster of a piece to rehearse.


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