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This season's offerings are so rich, arts critic Lloyd Schwartz had to be particularly selective, rounding up the events that really stuck out for him, from the opera to the symphony to early music performances.
Hear the Aston Magna Players in a program of Bach, Vivaldi, Purcell, Pachelbel, and Corelli at Saint James Place, Dec. 17 at 3 p.m. or on Sunday, Dec. 18, at 3 p.m. in Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham.
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — After completing two previous cycles of violin and viola sonatas, by Brahms and Beethoven, violinist Ronald Gorevic and pianist Larry Wallach will perform works by...
Plus, an event at the “YEAR OF THE TIGER” installation and an all Handel performance at the Aston Magna Music Festival.
The mission of the Aston Magna Foundation in Great Barrington, MA is to enrich the appreciation of music of the past through the use of historical instruments and practices in performances, recordings, and workshops, and through innovative interdisciplinary educational programs, publications, and electronic media. Aston Magna’s 2022 Summer Festival begins this weekend with two musical/theatrical works that feature the struggle between personifications of good and evil: Scarlatti’s “Humanity and Lucifer” (1706) and Stravinsky’s Faustian “The Soldier’s Tale” (1918). Daniel Stepne...