Wednesday, August 1, 2001
Tanglewood
UPSHAW/KALISH
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Lydian String Quartet
Edwin Barker, double bass
Peggy Pearson, oboe
Arthur Haas, organ
Staging of Bach Cantata by Peter Sellars
Costumes by Dunya Ramicova
MESSIAEN Songs with piano
BACH Cantata No. 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut

August 1 - 12, 2001
Williamstown Theatre Festival
2001 Main Stage Season - STREET SCENE by Elmer Rice
Williamstown, MA
directed by Michael Greif
Itís June. It's hot - murderously hot. The streets are teeming with life and the noise never stops. A walk-up tenement is the back-drop for this 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic panorama of daily life set in Manhattan. With a cast of 50 in the grand Williamstown tradition.

Friday, August 3, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
DAVID ROBERTSON, conductor
DAWN UPSHAW, soprano
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
BRITTEN Les Illuminations
MAHLER (arr. BRITTEN) “What the Wild Flowers Tell Me” (Minuet from Symphony No. 3)
MOZART Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

Saturday, August 4, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
The George W. and Florence N. Adams Concert
SEIJI OZAWA, conductor
DEBORAH VOIGT, soprano (Salome)
JANE HENSCHEL, mezzo-soprano (Herodias)
KATARINA KARNÉUS, mezzo-soprano (Page)
SIEGFRIED JERUSALEM, tenor (Herod)
CHRISTOPHER VENTRIS, tenor (Narraboth)
FALK STRUCKMANN (Jochanaan), baritone
DAVID CANGELOSI, RICHARD CLEMENT, MARK SCHOWALTER, and STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, tenors (Jews)
CARL TANNER, tenor (2nd Nazarene)
ALFRED WALKER, bass-baritone (Soldier)
MICHAEL DEVLIN, bass-baritone (Cappadocian)
REINHARD HAGEN, bass (1st Nazarene)
MARK RISINGER, bass (Jew)
RAYMOND ACETO, bass (Soldier)
STRAUSS Salome
(concert performance with supertitles)

Saturday, August 4, 2001
Tanglewood
BSO OPEN REHEARSAL
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
10:30 AM
Sunday Program Pre-Rehearsal Talk 9:30am

Saturday, August 4, 2001
Aston Magna
BACH AND PURCELL
St. James Church, Great Barrington
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nol. 2 J. S. Bach: Ich habe Genug, cantata for baritone and ensemble
Purcell: Highlights from Indian Queen
Nancy Armstrong, soprano
William Hite, tenor
David Ripley, baritone
additional vocal soloist to be announced
instrumental ensemble led by Daniel Stepner

In 2001 Aston Magna presents its twenty-ninth season in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. This is the oldest annual summer festival in America devoted to music performed on period instruments.

Under the direction of Daniel Stepner, Artistic Director, Aston Magna's performances aim to interpret the music of the past as the composer imagined it. Aston Magna has been recognized internationally for nearly three decades for its contributions to the popularization of early music performed using historically accurate instruments and performance practices.

All concerts take place at 6 p.m. in St. James Church, on the corner of Main Street (Route 7) and Taconic Avenue in Great Barrington, near the Town Hall. Free parking is available behind Wheeler and Taylor Realty.

Saturday, August 4, 2001
MASS MoCA
Screenplay: a film series - Foolish Wives with Donald Sosin & the Salisbury Society Orchestra
Cinema Courtyard C or The Hunter Center, North Adams, MA.
8:30pm
A rare showing of Erich von Stroheim's psychologically penetrating and visually gorgeous tale of "innocent Americans" abroad. A diplomat and his wife journey to Monte Carlo in this look into a world of gambling, seduction, blackmail, fake counts, lechery, and suicide. Von Stroheim insisted on recreating the Monte Carlo atmosphere, with lavish sets and 1500 extras, for a truly breathtaking visual experience. The most expensive film from the silent era. Accompanied by Donald Sosin & the Salisbury Society Orchestra, the live original score brings in a mix of cabaret stylings.
Tickets: $12 ADULTS, $6 kids
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

August 4 & 5, 2001
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Flower Show
Stockbridge, MA
The Garden's 32nd annual flower show, featuring classes for design and horticulture.

Sunday, August 5, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
2:30 PM
ANDRÉ PREVIN, conductor
DAME KIRI TE KANAWA, soprano
PREVIN Diversions for orchestra
MOZART Concert Aria, K.582, “Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia”
MOZART Concert Aria, K.583, “Vado, ma dove?”
STRAUSS Songs with orchestra
HAYDN Symphony No. 88

Monday, August 6, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
FOUR YOUR PLEASURE
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
FOUR YOUR PLEASURE: Piano duettists Barbara & Gerhardt Suhrstedt, praised by audiences and critics alike for "astounding uniformity and precision," offer sparkling performances of Mendelssohn's "Allegro Brilliant" and Dvorak's "Slavonic Dances", as well as music from France, Russia, and the Americas.

Tickets are $20., with special prices July 9, August 13, and August 27, $25. Bar service and dinner/concert packages are available. The public is invited, seating is limited, reservations are recommended. Phone: 413-443-1138

Monday, August 6, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Russell Freedman “Martha Graham: Against All Odds”
Ten Mondays At 4:00 pm
Seven Hills Inn, 40 Plunkett Street (Adjacent to The Mount)
All lectures begin at 4 pm. $16 in advance; $18 at door (includes afternoon tea). Cash bar. Discounted season pass is $150. Reservations guarantee seating. A tour of The Mount may be combined for an additional $5. All speakers are published authorities on their subjects. Their books are available from The Mount's bookshop. For lecture reservations or book orders, call EWR at 413/637-1899.

Prix fixe dinners at Seven Hills Inn are available following lectures ($30, all-inclusive). For information/dinner reservations, call Seven Hills Inn at 413/637-0060 or 800/869-6518.

Tuesday, August 7, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
"Your Ticket to Broadway"
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
The thrilling voices of Jo Dolce, soprano, Robert Van Valkenburg, tenor, and Paul Aqino, baritone, offer "Your Ticket to Broadway", favorite show tunes, Broadway at its finest. These artists, with their vast repertoire of songs, also delight audiences by filling their requests.

Tickets are $20., with special prices July 9, August 13, and August 27, $25. Bar service and dinner/concert packages are available. The public is invited, seating is limited, reservations are recommended. Phone: 413-443-1138

Wednesday, August 8, 2001
Tanglewood
DAWN UPSHAW
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
Dawn Upshaw and Friends
Folk Songs
Songs of heart and home written and arranged by BARTOK, BERIO, STEPHEN FOSTER, IVES, and others.

August 8-19, 2001
Williamstown Theatre Festival
2001 Nikos Stage Season - OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME by Frank McGuinness
Williamstown, MA
Directed by Nicholas Martin
Perhaps Frank McGuinness's finest work, this is the story of eight Irish nationalists who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the start of the First World War. It is a potent examination of the individual and collective desire to honor one's beliefs and country.

Thursday, August 9, 2001
Tanglewood
FROMM CONCERT
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
2001 Festival of Contemporary Music
Collage New Music
David Hoose, conductor Janice Felty and Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-sopranos
HARBISON Motteti di Montale (complete)

Friday, August 10, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
ANDRÉ PREVIN, conductor
VAN CLIBURN, piano
COPLAND Appalachian Spring
GRIEG Piano Concerto
DVORÁK Symphony No. 7

August 10 and 11, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions -A Foundry Theatre Production: And God Created Great Whales
HUNTER CENTER, North Adams, MA.
8pm
Written and performed by Rinde Eckert
Directed by David Schweizer
"a Moby Dick to make all opera funny." The New York Times
Rinde Eckert's moving and funny musical theater adventure delves into the psyche of an artist and his hot-blooded muse. And God Created Great Whales follows a gifted composer on a quest to finish his opus: an opera based on Moby Dick. Fighting against a disease eating away at his memory, the artist Nathan is forced to rely on a tape recorder to recall yesterday's instructions to himself. As his faculties irrevocably diminish, Nathan enters into a race against time. At once humorous and tragic, he struggles through waves of confusion not only for the notes of his opera, but for his mind itself.
Tickets: $20
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Saturday, August 11, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions - IN CONVERSATION: With director David Schweizer
B-10 Theater , North Adams, MA.
6pm
An informal talk and look behind-the-scenes with this downtown director
Tickets: $5
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Saturday, August 11, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
ROBERTO ABBADO, conductor
WUORINEN Machaut Mon Chou
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
MAHLER Symphony No. 1

Saturday, August 11, 2001
Tanglewood
BSO OPEN REHEARSAL
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
10:30 AM
Sunday Program
Pre-Rehearsal Talk 9:30am

August 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 2001
Berkshire Opera Company
Music at the Mahaiwe
Mahaiwe Theatre, Castle Street
Great Barrington, MA
An all-star cast and the Berkshire Opera Company orchestra will perform favorite arias and ensembles as a preview of our 2002 season at our new home, the Mahaiwe Theatre in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

About our new home:
After seventeen years of wandering, Berkshire Opera Company purchased the Mahaiwe Theatre in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in September 2000. Extensive restoration plans under the guidance of renowned architect Hugh Hardy include provisions for a larger orchestra pit, enabling the company to expand its repertoire to include more ambitious operas. In addition, the acquisition of a permanent home will make it possible for the company to produce opera in repertory, presenting as many as four operas at one time during the summer months.
Our new address and phone numbers:
40 Railroad Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Phone: 413 644-9000
Fax: 413 644-9030

Sunday, August 12, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
2:30 PM
BERNARD HAITINK, conductor
SMETANA “From Bohemia’s Meadows and Forests” from Má Vlast
MARTINU Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No. 6)
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

Monday, August 13, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
BOSTON TRIO
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
BOSTON TRIO: Lucia Lin (Boston Symphony), violin, Michael Kannen, cello, and Heng-Jin Park Ellsworth, piano, performing Ravel, Trio in A minor, Dvorak, Trio in F minor, and a new work commissioned for the trio, URBAN AFFAIRS, by Andy Vores. The Boston Globe reports, "Divine lightning struck as the trio played... rare emotional commitment and imagination... superb sense of ensemble and wondrous balance...."

Tickets are $20., with special prices July 9, August 13, and August 27, $25. Bar service and dinner/concert packages are available. The public is invited, seating is limited, reservations are recommended. Phone: 413-443-1138

Monday, August 13, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Roxana Robinson “Georgia O’Keeffe: Reading the Work as the Life”
Ten Mondays At 4:00 pm
Seven Hills Inn, 40 Plunkett Street (Adjacent to The Mount)
All lectures begin at 4 pm. $16 in advance; $18 at door (includes afternoon tea). Cash bar. Discounted season pass is $150. Reservations guarantee seating. A tour of The Mount may be combined for an additional $5. All speakers are published authorities on their subjects. Their books are available from The Mount's bookshop. For lecture reservations or book orders, call EWR at 413/637-1899.

Prix fixe dinners at Seven Hills Inn are available following lectures ($30, all-inclusive). For information/dinner reservations, call Seven Hills Inn at 413/637-0060 or 800/869-6518.

August 14 and August 28, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
The "Sparkling Entertainment" series
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
Bob Connors Sextet plays an all-new Dixieland program August 14, and returns August 28, to close the season with a final all-new Dixieland program.

Tickets are $20., with special prices July 9, August 13, and August 27, $25. Bar service and dinner/concert packages are available. The public is invited, seating is limited, reservations are recommended. Phone: 413-443-1138

Wednesday, August 15, 2001
Tanglewood
BSO CHAMBER PLAYERS
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
HAYDN Divertimento in E-flat for horn, violin, and cello, Hob. IV:5
BEETHOVEN String Trio in G, Op. 9, No.1
KIRCHNER Music for Twelve
STRAVINSKY Suite from L'Histoire du soldat

Wednesday, August 15, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
"Your Ticket to Broadway"
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
A special Spanish dance event Wednesday, August 15, at 8, presents RAMON de los REYES and Co, in an exciting and colorful evening of Flamenco and other Latin dance in costume, accompanied by Spanish guitars, a favorite of audiences around the world.

Tickets are $20., with special prices July 9, August 13, and August 27, $25. Bar service and dinner/concert packages are available. The public is invited, seating is limited, reservations are recommended. Phone: 413-443-1138

August 15-26, 2001
Williamstown Theatre Festival
2001 Main Stage Season - PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! by Brian Friel
Williamstown, MA
directed by Kyle Donnelly
An early work by the prolific Irish playwright best known for Dancing at Lughnasa. This simply delightful play is the story of a young man on the verge of emigrating to the United States who is weighing all his reasons to go - and to stay - on the night before he departs.

Friday, August 17, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
BERNARD HAITINK, conductor
RICHARD GOODE, piano
DEBUSSY Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503
DVORÁK Symphony No. 8

Saturday, August 18, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
BERNARD HAITINK, conductor
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé (complete)

Saturday, August 18, 2001
Tanglewood
BSO OPEN REHEARSAL
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
10:30 AM
Saturday Program
Pre-Rehearsal Talk 9:30am

Saturday, August 18, 2001
MASS MoCA
Screenplay: a film series - The Blue Angel with The BQE Project
Cinema Courtyard C or The Hunter Center, North Adams, MA.
8:30pm
In the role that made her an international star, Marlene Dietrich is Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel, a masterpiece of the late twenties' German grotesquerie, set in a dark nightmare world. A stuffy professor falls blindly in love with a cabaret entertainer, who proceeds to strip him of his dignity. This classic game of love and deception, passion and priorities is a cinematic work of art. Making a return appearance at MASS MoCA, Tom Nazziola's outstanding chamber ensemble, The BQE project, will perform a live original score.
Tickets: $12 adult, $6 kids
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

August 18 and 19, 2001
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Stockbridge Summer Arts & Crafts Show
Stockbridge, MA
August 18,10 am - 5 pm
August 19,10 am - 4 pm
A benefit for the Stockbridge Chamber of Commerce, this annual show features over 50 juried arts and crafts exhibitors.

Sunday, August 19, 2001
Tanglewood
PREVIN, FINCK
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
André Previn, piano
David Finck, double bass
A jazz evening with André Previn and David Finck

Sunday, August 19, 2001
Tanglewood
BERNSTEIN MEMORIAL CONCERT
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
2:30 PM
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
ROBERTO ABBADO, conductor
GIANLUCA CASCIOLI, piano
BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

Monday, August 20, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON POPS
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
KEITH LOCKHART, conductor
Program to include selections from the Pops’ Latin repertoire featuring a special appearance by the Mexican folk group Mariachi Cobre.

Monday, August 20, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
PORTLAND BRASS QUINTET
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
PORTLAND BRASS QUINTET: John Schnell, trumpet, Betty Rines, trumpet, John Boden, horn, Mark Manduca, trombone, & Michael Milnarik, with classic composers of many eras.

Tickets are $20., with special prices July 9, August 13, and August 27, $25. Bar service and dinner/concert packages are available. The public is invited, seating is limited, reservations are recommended. Phone: 413-443-1138

Monday, August 20, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Maureen Howard “Edith Wharton’s Short Stories: Sex and the Supernatural”
Ten Mondays At 4:00 pm
Seven Hills Inn, 40 Plunkett Street (Adjacent to The Mount)
All lectures begin at 4 pm. $16 in advance; $18 at door (includes afternoon tea). Cash bar. Discounted season pass is $150. Reservations guarantee seating. A tour of The Mount may be combined for an additional $5. All speakers are published authorities on their subjects. Their books are available from The Mount's bookshop. For lecture reservations or book orders, call EWR at 413/637-1899.

Prix fixe dinners at Seven Hills Inn are available following lectures ($30, all-inclusive). For information/dinner reservations, call Seven Hills Inn at 413/637-0060 or 800/869-6518.

Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
Swing is the thing
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
Henry Francis Sextet, starring Henry on piano, presents programs of their own special stylings of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fats Waller, and other swing celebrities.

Tickets are $20., with special prices July 9, August 13, and August 27, $25. Bar service and dinner/concert packages are available. The public is invited, seating is limited, reservations are recommended. Phone: 413-443-1138

Thursday, August 23, 2001
MASS MoCA
Concerts - Cowboy Poets & Chuckwagon Tales Waddie Mitchell and Don Edwards
CONCERT COURTYARD D or THE HUNTER CENTER, North Adams, MA.
7pm
Saunter out and head for the range as infamous buckaroo poet Waddie Mitchell, one of America's premier cowboy poets (heard on NPR and The Tonight Show), and balladeer Don Edwards bring a taste of the Wild West to MASS MoCA. These masters spin tales of humor and hard-learned lessons from the first baby calf to the last old one-eyed crippled cow. Expect a night full of sweeping landscapes, prairie dogs, and cowboy coffee as the Poets are joined by Texan Tom Perini, former rancher, expert in down-home victuals, and author of Texas Cowboy Cooking. Perini chimes in with chuckwagon history and lore. Hickory Bill serves up lip-smacking BBQ for sale before and during the concert.
Tickets: $15 adult, $8 kids
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Thursday, August 23, 2001
MASS MoCA
Feasts - Cowboy Cookbook author Tom Perini with Cowboy Poets Waddie Mitchell and Don Edwards
CONCERT COURTYARD D or THE HUNTER CENTER, North Adams, MA.
7pm
Join Texan Tom Perini, former rancher and author of Texas Cowboy Cooking, for a lesson in range cooking and an entertaining history of chuckwagon lore. He'll introduce you to cowboy cooking and then welcome his friends acclaimed Cowboy Poets Waddie Mitchell and Don Edwards, to the stage. Expect a night full of sweeping landscapes, prarie dogs, and cowboy coffee. Hickory Bill serves up lip-smacking BBQ for sale before and during the concert.
Tickets: $15 adult, $8 kids
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Friday, August 24, 2001
Tanglewood
ORCH. ST. LUKES
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S
DONALD RUNNICLES, conductor
PETER SERKIN, piano
All-MOZART PROGRAM
Symphony No. 25
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K.459
Symphony No. 39

AUGUST 24 and 26, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
Shakespeare & Young Company
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
FOUNDERS' THEATRE
Shakespeare performed by young actors, aged 16-20
This season we are all exploring the new Founders' Theatre in its Elizabethan seating configuration, where the audience is in close relation to the actors on all four sides of the stage — and on the stage. What better performance to test the new space than our most Elizabethan performers! The genius, wit, and energy of Shakespeare & Young Company's teenagers breathe refreshing life into Shakespeare's plays, creating an Elizabethan fervor unique in today's theatre experience. For more information about the company's nationally recognized Education Program, call (413) 637-1199 ext. 123 or e-mail us at education@shakespeare.org .

Saturday, August 25, 2001
Tanglewood
ISRAELI PHILHARMONIC
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
ZUBIN MEHTA, conductor
Vadim Repin, violin
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
MAHLER Symphony No. 5

Saturday, August 25, 2001
Zoar Outdoor
10th Annual Zoar Outdoor Film Series - "Costa Rica Rios"
Charlemont, MA
Hosted at the Zoar Pavilion on Saturday evenings throughout the summer.
6:00 pm
Tom Foster, founder of OCNE and author of paddling instruction books will share his slides from "Costa Rica Rios", an adventure travel company that runs trips in Costa Rica on August 25th. Tom is a co-founder of the company and now spends about 70 days straight guiding paddlers down Costa Rican rivers each winter.

Come join us for some exciting adventures! These programs are free and open to the public. A simple summer barbecue starts at 5:00 pm for $5/person and shows begin at 6:00 pm at the Zoar Outdoor Pavilion.

Saturday, August 25, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions - DANCE: Yasuko Yokoshi: Travel Theory
B-10 Theater , North Adams, MA.
8pm
Choreographer and filmmaker Yasuko Yokoshi and her dancers present a toe-tapping, new op, J-pop, po-mo, new media dance theater piece of playground power struggles. Hiroshima native Yokoshi explores the relationship between victims, aggressors, and observers witnessed through the eyes of three Japanese schoolgirls. Twisting memory and psychology, Travel Theory takes you back to childhood games to examine deeper cultural issues. Japan's answer to David Lynch, Yokoshi uses dance and film to look beyond the picture-perfect world into what lies beneath. A fascinating glimpse into the games that shape our subconscious with insights into the power of play within a society where group harmony is more valued than individuality. A showcase of daring new solo work will end the evening.
Tickets: $14
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Saturday, August 25, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions - KID'S DANCE CLASS: Movement with Nami Yamamoto
North Adams, MA.
10:30am
Travel Theory's Nami Yamamoto will stretch imaginations and bend bodies, as she introduces children to the roots of movement in modern dance.
Tickets: Free with museum admission. Advance reservations required.
To reserve tickets call 413.662.2111

Sunday, August 26, 2001
Tanglewood
ISRAELI PHILHARMONIC
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
2:30 PM

ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
ZUBIN MEHTA, conductor
CAROL VANESS, soprano
JILL GROVE, mezzo-soprano
ROBERT GAMBILL, tenor
JOHN RELYEA, bass
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9

Monday, August 27, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
CHOPIN, RACHMANINOFF, & DEBUSSY
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
CHOPIN, RACHMANINOFF, & DEBUSSY: outstanding Russian-born pianist Sergey Schepkin, brilliant favorite of audiences world-wide and acclaimed recording artist, returns to conclude the Monday Classics series. The New York Times has praised Mr. Schepkin's artistry with uncommon kudos.

Tickets are $20., with special prices July 9, August 13, and August 27, $25. Bar service and dinner/concert packages are available. The public is invited, seating is limited, reservations are recommended. Phone: 413-443-1138

Monday, August 27, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Carol Easton “Jacqueline du Pré: As I Knew Her”
Ten Mondays At 4:00 pm
Seven Hills Inn, 40 Plunkett Street (Adjacent to The Mount)
All lectures begin at 4 pm. $16 in advance; $18 at door (includes afternoon tea). Cash bar. Discounted season pass is $150. Reservations guarantee seating. A tour of The Mount may be combined for an additional $5. All speakers are published authorities on their subjects. Their books are available from The Mount's bookshop. For lecture reservations or book orders, call EWR at 413/637-1899.

Prix fixe dinners at Seven Hills Inn are available following lectures ($30, all-inclusive). For information/dinner reservations, call Seven Hills Inn at 413/637-0060 or 800/869-6518.

August 28 and 30, 2001
The Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
ALADDIN
11AM and 2PM
Replete and complete with flying carpets, genies (not just one but two!!!!), castles in the air and other magical, mystical delights.

ONGOING

September 2, 2000 through January 27, 2002
Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum
Norman Rockwell's 322 Saturday Evening Post Covers
Back by popular demand, this archival exhibition shows all 322 covers Norman Rockwell illustrated for The Saturday Evening Post. From his first cover at the age of 22, to his last in 1963, Rockwell's work for The Saturday Evening Post charmed and delighted audiences. Rockwell's covers for the Post were so popular that, when a Rockwell illustration appeared on the cover, hundreds of thousands of magazines were added to the print run to handle the increased demand.
FOR INFORMATION: Please call 413-298-4100, ext. 220

March 17 to December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Stones of Assyria: Ancient Spirits from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Two of the first objects to enter the Williams College Museum of Art's collection are re-examined in an installation that investigates their original function and location in a 7th c. BC palace in Iraq and the fascinating 19th century story of how they ended up at a small New England college. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections; Barbara Robertson, Director of Education; and Elyse Gonzales, MA '00.

May 19 through September 23, 2001
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Sculpture in the Garden 2001
Stockbridge, MA
An outdoor exhibition of contemporary sculpture presented in collaboration with Sculpture Now. The show presents the works of outstanding artists from the Berkshires and beyond displayed in a beautiful outdoor seting.

June 9 through October 8, 2001
Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum
NORMAN ROCKWELL: PICTURES FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
This major national touring exhibition, co-organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge returns to Stockbridge before completing its seven city, coast-to-coast tour at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The exhibition includes more than 70 oil paintings from the collections of the Norman Rockwell Museum, other museums, and private collectors.

This exhibition and its national tour are made possible by the Ford Motor Company. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Curtis Publishing Company and the Norman Rockwell Estate Licensing Company. Education programs for the national tour are made possible by Fidelity Investments through the Fidelity Foundation.

June 16 to September 12, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
The Comedy of Errors
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
STABLES THEATRE
"I see by you I am a sweet-fac'd youth."
Shakespeare spoke and played to everyone: royalty, business people, the fun-loving groundlings. And in his earliest comic masterpiece, he made sure everyone's funny-bone got goosed.

When Antipholus and his servant Dromio arrive in Ephesus, mistaken identity is carried to outlandish extremes when the town confuses them for their identical native twins, who of course have identical names. Separated at birth on the high seas, neither pair knows the other exists, and neither knows the parental keys that could unlock their vaudevillian mystery. Only the audience holds the answer, and even that features a twist of identity!

June 17, 2001 through September 9, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890
Williamstown, MA
Eighty paintings by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, and Alfred Sisley are at the center of this exhibition exploring the complex working methods of the Impressionists. Unlike most Impressionist paintings, which were actually done in the studio, the works in this exhibition were painted quickly and are in fact among the true "Impressions" that gave the movement its name. Works by Van Gogh as well as by some early and mid-nineteenth century artists will also be included. Guest curator Richard Brettell, well known for his studies on Pissarro and Gauguin, has also written the catalogue, which is published by Yale University Press. The exhibition is organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in association with The National Gallery, London, and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Timed-entry tickets are required and are available by calling our toll-free number at 1-866-THE CLARK. Advance ticket sales will also be available at the Clark Art Institute beginning April 1.

June 28 through Labor Day, 2001
News in Review
5-Time Emmy Award Winning Satire Troupe
CRANWELL RESORT, Route 20, Lenox, MA
5-Time Emmy Award Winning Satire Troupe All new version for 2001! The Emmy award winning satire troupe returns to the Berkshires for a seventh smash summer with a side-splitting spoof of the people and places making the news. Headliners from Saddam Hussein to Katherine Harris share the stage with eternal NEWS IN REVUE faves like First Mama Barbara Bush and New York's own Hillary Clinton! The musical mayhem happens nightly (except Wednesdays) all summer long at the magnificent Cranwell Resort in Lenox. The show is performed at the incomparable Cranwell Resort. Show guests will be treated to Cranwell's special brand of five star hospitality. Stretch out in a plush chair, sip a glass of crisp chardonnay and nibble on a decadent chocolate torte as you laugh your way through ninety minutes.Join us for a sumptuous pre-show dinner featuring Cranwell's renowned cuisine. Click here to view the menus for the Wyndhurst Menu or Music Room Grill.

Now located at CRANWELL Resort! The show is performed cabaret style. Gourmet dinner packages featuring Cranwell's renowned cuisine are available. Performances nightly (except Wednesday) at 8:30.

Call for Group rates
Dinner-Show Packages are available
Cocktails and dessert and coffee are available
Performances every night except Wednesday
June 28 through Labor Day
CRANWELL RESORT, Route 20, Lenox, MA
For tickets and further information: Call (413) 637-1364 or 1 800-A-PARODY

JUNE 30 to SEPTEMBER 2, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
Wharton One-Acts
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
SPRING LAWN THEATRE
AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE
the World Premiere adapted from Henry James
by Dennis Krausnick
Henry James' tale of courtship between wealthy American girls and titled English aristocracy sparkles with a wit so wicked that both sides of the Atlantic find themselves lampooned. The peculiar, forthright habits of young American "colonials" are contrasted with those of their English counterparts, a people so reticent that the Americans wonder how they could be capable of building an empire. Love is only the excuse in this across-the-pond courtship: the real subject is the mating dance between American customs and European manners.

THE REMBRANDT
the World Premiere adapted from Edith Wharton
by Alison Ragland
When museum curator Miles Hackett over-values an alarmingly unfortunate work of art so that its destitute owner might escape starvation, philanthropy is revealed to have a double-edged sword. Wharton's lightning-quick and amusing short story makes a scathing double-bill with Mr. James' tale, mirroring what must have been the tenor of their conversations in Lenox nearly 100 years ago.

Please join us for the grand opening of the new Spring Lawn Theatre on Friday, July 6 at 8pm.
Tina Packer and the company will host a reception and house tours around a special performance of The Wharton One-Acts.
Tickets are $100 each. Seating is very limited. Call Karen Secular for details and to reserve your seats at 413-637-1199 x113.

July 10 through August 28, 2001
The Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
It is our 30th Anniversary Season in the Berkshires.
8 TUESDAYS - 11 am and 2pm, July 10 through August 28
8 THURSDAYS - 11 am and 2pm, July 12 through August 30
plus .... 4 SATURDAYS - 11 am only, July 28, August 4, 11 and 18.
17 Different classic plays in repertory....
Lot and lots and lots of parking ....
Air-conditioned Theatre ......
Tickets just $4.00 apiece ......
PLUS: The ROBBINS-ZUST FAMILY MARIONETTES will premiere our ALADDIN Tuesday, August 28 11am and 2pm and Thursday August 30, 11am and 2pm. Replete and complete with flying carpets, genies (not just one but two!!!!), castles in the air and other magical, mystical delights.

Hope we see you there ............

JULY 14 to AUGUST 2, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
Collected Stories
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
FOUNDERS' THEATRE
by Donald Margulies
directed by Danilea Varon
"Telling a story takes away the need to write it, it relieves the pressure."
At what point is it appropriate for life to intersect art? When do our personal experiences become public domain? In Donald Margulies' riveting play, the life of celebrated author Ruth Steiner is disrupted when she takes on a talented young graduate student to be her personal assistant. Lisa Morrison takes every opportunity to learn at the knee of the master. However, while looking for new subject matter, Lisa turns from her own WASP experience to Ruth's Jewish family life in 1950's New York — and her secret affair with a renowned poet.

Margulies probes with searing intelligence the development of a student-teacher relationship that sways beneath the weight of love and betrayal.

July 20 to September 2, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
A Midsummer Night's Dream
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
OUTDOOR MAINSTAGE
Shakespeare & Company bids farewell to The Mount with the imagination befitting Shakespeare's best-loved comedy. The most magical outdoor setting in America comes alive for the last time with award-winning Tina Packer's direction of four lovers caught in the realm between our world and the world of dreams.

Experience the pageantry of love, the spirits of the night, the sublime clowning of the rustics, and the unmatched beauty of Shakespeare & Company's fairie kingdom as it lights up the majestic white pines once again. Bully Bottom, devilish Puck, feisty Hermia, and jealous Oberon promise to enthrall you by moonlight and send us all on our way to Shakespeare & Company's new home in 2002.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is the company's signature production. Please join us for our final celebration under the stars at The Mount!

Please join us for the Final Farewell performance on the Mainstage on Sunday, September 2 at 7pm. Tina Packer and the company will host a reception around a special performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Tickets are $100 each. Seating is limited. Call Karen Secular for details and to reserve your seats at 413-637-1199 x113.

July 23 to September 1, 2001
Berkshire Artisans
Pittsfield, MA
JEFF SLOMBA juried by Flood Adams, Santa Fe, N.M
public reception: July 27, 2001 at 8 pm

JULY 27 to AUGUST 24, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
Tina Talks
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
SPRING LAWN THEATRE
Join Artistic Director Tina Packer for nine different one-hour discussions on selected plays and topics from the 2001 season. Tina and her guests also will hold Q&A sessions with the audience at each discussion. Attend each Tina Talk at the individual price or purchase a Tina Talk Pass — all nine Talks in section A seating for just $100, a 20% discount, while tickets last.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
Coriolanus and our modern political world
Guest: actor Dan McCleary
We are not the first to grapple with the Popular vs. Electoral vote debate.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1
Prospero's problem: what to do at the end of your life?
Guests: actor Michael Hammond, director Eleanor Holdridge
Even a man with magical powers must deal with "retirement anxiety."

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
Looking for our other half
Guest: director Kevin G. Coleman
The energy and idiocy in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8
Digging into our dreams
Guests: actors Jonathan Epstein, Tod Randolph
Excavation of A Midsummer Night's Dream during The Mount's "farewell season."

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
The Gilded Age: the robber baron who built Spring Lawn
Guest: Project Manager Dennis Krausnick
The creation of the Berkshire Cottage legacy, including Ventfort Hall and The Mount.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15
The Lowell family: an American story
Guest: Managing Director Christopher Sink
The family includes such prominent members as Imagist poet Amy Lowell, Boston M.F.A. architect Guy Lowell (who designed Spring Lawn), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell, and the creators of Lowell, Mass.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17
Creating the ultimate playing space
Guests: Project Manager Dennis Krausnick, Managing Director Christopher Sink
Shakespeare & Company shares its dreams and plans for its new home.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22
Did the monks poison King John?
Guest: director Christine Adaire
Exploring the political church in Shakespeare's plays.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24
Melville and Hawthorne: a tangled tale
Guests: playwrights Juliane & Stephen Glantz, director Michael Hammond, and actor Dan McCleary
Contemplating a Berkshire relationship of devotion, that 150 years ago helped inspire the literary classic, Moby-Dick.

AUGUST 4 to SEPTEMBER 1, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
The Tempest
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
FOUNDERS' THEATRE
by William Shakespeare
directed by Eleanor Holdridge
"Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant"
Shakespeare's final play of compassion and forgiveness is his majestic ode to the craft of theatre itself. While encompassing the canon's most brilliant "special effects," The Tempest also ultimately reveals the actors, stage, and audience in their simplest relationship. And in the untested Founders' Theatre, exploring the consequences of Prospero's magic promises to be an exciting journey!

Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda have lived in exile on a mysterious island for 12 years. Practicing magical arts and indenturing the fairy spirit Ariel and the deformed savage Caliban, Prospero attempts to exact revenge on the brother who usurped his crown by shipwrecking the royal family on the isle. But when Miranda discovers love among the new arrivals, Prospero re-discovers his humanity, thus laying aside his and Shakespeare's art forever.

AUGUST 11 to SEPTEMBER 2, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
King John
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
STABLES THEATRE
by William Shakespeare
directed by Christine Adaire
performed by the Summer Training Institute
"Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!"
Betrayal is the weapon of choice when power politics turn deadly. When England's throne is seized by John, he battles familial infighting, war from France, desertion, and murdering ministers as he violently lurches between action and inaction, truth and deception.

God's will, long inexorably linked to state politics, here bows to heart-racing human invention. After this, the world's perception of the political maneuver would never be the same.

King John, today noted for his enforced granting of the Magna Carta and for his appearance in James Goldman's popular play A Lion in Winter seven centuries later, was the youngest son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. John assumed the throne when his eldest brother Richard the Lion Heart was imprisoned in Germany, an assumption that sparks the opening international conflict in Shakespeare's explosive play.

August 28 to September 2, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
The Studio Festival of Plays
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
FOUNDERS' SPRING LAWN THEATRES
This year's Festival is a fun and formal testing ground for new scripts, acted and directed by this season's artists. Originally inspired by actors to create a company fringe festival, the Studio Festival of Plays now will take that same inspiration and apply it to planning the company's future seasons, with the audiences' feedback. As in years past, each of the six performances may be presented in any format: reading, staged reading, or open rehearsal. It always makes for an exciting final week of the summer performance season, and it is an opportunity to see Shakespeare & Company's actors in the process of working on new scripts. The Studio Festival has transferred several acclaimed projects to following seasons: this year's A Tanglewood Tale, Coriolanus, Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), and also Wit, Summer, Betrayal, Mrs. Klein, and Laughing Wild. Watch for the full schedule to be announced in August 2001. Please join us!

August 29 to September 16, 2001
StageWorks Theater
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
North Pointe Cultural Arts Center located in Historic Kinderhook, New York.
by Moises Kaufman & Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Regional Premiere! The story of an American town. A true story that is destined to become an American theater classic. In 1998, a month after student Matthew Shepard was murdered, Award-winning playwright Moisés Kaufman & members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to explore a crime and a town.

Over the next year, they conducted over 200 interviews. The result is an electrifying new play about hope, hate, fear and courage

Through August 12, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Labeltalk 2001
The fifth in a popular exhibition series that explores the multiple ways in which a work of art can be interpreted. Eight works of art in this exhibition are accompanied by three labels, written by different Williams College professors from the point of view of their discipline. The result is a fascinating interdisciplinary look at the numerous possible interpretations of any work of art. Organized by Stefanie Spray Jandl, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Associate.

Through September 3, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Photography EXPOSED
An installation of photographs from the museum's collection investigating the question, "what makes a portrait?" Included in the exhibition are anonymous daguerreotypes along with work by Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lewis Hine, Barbara Morgan, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz, and James Van Der Zee. Organized by Rachael Arauz, Visiting Professor of Art and Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- A Wall Drawing by Sol Lewitt
To launch its 75th anniversary year, the Williams College Museum of Art invited renowned, conceptual artist Sol LeWitt to create a wall drawing for the museum's atrium. Consistent with the artist's belief that the concept and not the execution is the most important aspect of a work of art, a representative from his studio along with three Williams College students created the 33-foot high painting according to a set of LeWitt's site-specific plans. For two weeks in January 2001 visitors watched Uneven Bands from the Upper Right Corner take form from beginning stages to finished work. The completed wall drawing in red, blue, yellow, purple, green, and orange is on view through December 2001.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- American Pop
In their efforts to explore the aesthetics of mass culture, American Pop artists produced an enormous body of art in a variety of media. This exhibition includes 16 images -- paintings and works on paper -- by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Johns, Rauschenberg, Rivers, and Ruscha in which the viewer confronts the clash of high art, painterly values, and the mundane commercial world. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Masterpieces Ancient to Modern
Celebrating WCMA's 75 years of dedication to teaching and learning about art, this exhibition provides an interesting and informative survey of the breadth and strengths of the College Museum's holdings. It reveals the complicated story of the evolution of this unique museum, shaped by individual directors and curators, changing philosophies of taste and the results of just plain chance. The painting, sculpture and work on paper selected from the over 12,000 objects in the collection will offer fresh insight and perspective to the multiplicity of forms, historic periods, individual expressions and diverse world cultures. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Pulling Prints: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Collection
Approaching the museum's permanent collection from the artist's perspective two Williams College studio faculty members, select works that exemplify the process and temporality specific to the printmaking medium. Artists including Francisco Goya, Alberto Giacometti, Judy Pfaff, Roger Brown, and Joyce Neimanas explore a variety of techniques from traditional lithography and etching to serigraph, monoprint, silkscreen, inkjet, and photogravure. Organized by Barbara Takenaga, Professor of Art, Frank Jackson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, and Lisa Dorin, Curatorial Assistant.

Throughout 2001
Buggy Whip Factory
Buggy Whip Factory opens historic exhibit
Southfield, MA
The museum, free and open to the public, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Thursday through Monday. It will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday until May 1.

The Buggy Whip Factory, a 20,000- square-foot complex in the Southfield section of the town now occupied by about 60 antiques dealers and craftsmen, has opened a permanent historic exhibition to honor and document the "whip shop's" 200 years of achievement.

The Turner & Cook Whip Manufactory got its start in 1791 as a small tanning operation. It grew into a large enterprise at its present site, specializing first in rawhide whip cores. Then, as the demand for buggy whips faded, belt pins and rawhide mallets became the focus until the shop ceased operation.
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