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Yellow Barn Music School and Festival wraps up its 45th summer season with special concerts set for the final weeks of its successful 2014 run.
Highlighted are the work of Chinese-born American Lei Liang, Yellow Barn's composer-in-residence; and Gao Hong, from Luoyang, China, whom Yellow Barn Executive Director Catherine Stephan says is coming in as one of the world's most acclaimed pipa players.
A filmmaker with local roots - and who strongly believes in the stories he wants to tell - will return to the area to screen his short documentary and narrative films to raise funds for a coal-mining folktale inspired by his own family history. Boston/New England Emmy award-winning filmmaker...
Zeke Hecker not only has written the music, words, and book for his latest musical creation, “Now and Then,” which will be performed at the Actors Theatre Playhouse (ATP) this month. He will also be making his directorial debut with this production. Nonetheless, Hecker insists that “Now and Then”
Next Stage Arts Project, with the Putney Historical Society, was recently selected as one of 55 recipients nationwide to be awarded a $370,000 grant from ArtPlace America, a nonprofit collaboration of national foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts aimed at accelerating “creative placemaking” across the United States. Next Stage's executive director, Maria Basescu, said that landing the highly competitive grant from such a major foundation - 1,300 applicants applied for it - “is really a thrilling validation of...
Paul Oscher believes that when it comes to playing the blues, less is more. “At least with the Chicago blues, which I play and is the tradition which I promote, the blues is a language rather than a style,” he says. “The story is the most important thing. In the blues, the song is always driven by the drama of the words.” On Friday, June 20, at 7:30 p.m., Next Stage Arts Project presents this award-winning blues singer, songwriter, and...
An acclaimed French choreographer is collaborating with members from the elderly population in Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont to create a new look for a classic ballet. Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) has teamed up with Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) to bring to New England for a three-week residency Thierry Thie Thieû Niang. Joining participants aged 60 to 100, Niang will workshop a re-imagining of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring that will culminate in performances Wednesday, May...
Move over, Madonna and Lady Gaga, here comes Tosca. At least that's what Windham Orchestra Director Hugh Keelan contends about Puccini's opera. “Tosca is like a rock concert,” Keelan says. “Although it needs no electronics or amplifiers, the singing is so high-voltage that this opera is viscerally powerful. Hearing live the vocal power of these 'superhuman' opera singers, people will be astonished by the sheer sound in a way that listening to opera on records or at the cinema cannot...
Award-winning author Rebecca Coffey of Putney has written a researched, but heavily fictionalized, novel of the life of the pioneering child psychoanalyst Anna Freud. Pending in June from She Writes Press, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story already is getting rave reviews from Booklist and the Lambda Literary Foundation, a LGBT literary organization. “I'm also told that Oprah's magazine [O, The Oprah Magazine] will recommend it in either May or June's issue,” says Coffey. The multi-faceted Coffey is a documentary filmmaker, radio...
