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“The U.S. and the Holocaust,” coming to PBS Sept. 18, examines the reasons behind the country’s inadequate response to Germany’s persecution of Jews.

The Bard Music Festival examines whether the arch-romantic composer was more modern than he seems.

The Park Theatre, 19 Main St. in Jaffrey, will European guitar virtuoso Pedro Jóia as he guest stars with The North Country Chamber Players in “GUITAR HERO: A History of The Guitar From Baroque to Led Zeppelin” Friday, Aug. 12, at 7:30 p.m.Jóia will...

A round-up of stand-out theater productions being staged throughout the Hudson Valley and the Berkshires this summer.

Local environmental entrepreneur Ben Dobson, a Simon's Rock class of 2000 graduate and a local environmental entrepreneur, was the featured speaker for the first in-person commencement at the school in three years.

In the early 20th century, Smyth was probably the most famous female composer of her generation, but her music fell out of the repertoire. Glyndebourne Festival Opera is bringing back her 1906 maritime opera.

Leon Botstein brought his ensemble The Orchestra Now to Carnegie Hall for a sparsely attended program of neglected works written in the 1930s.

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The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include theater, film, chamber music, folk-rock … plus a whole lot more.

The Bard Music Festival returns for its 32nd season this August, with an intensive two-week exploration of “Rachmaninoff and His World.” In twelve themed concert programs, Bard examines Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), perhaps the last great exponent of Russian Romanticism, who nevertheless embodied many contradictions.