Sunday, July 1, 2001
Tanglewood
JUILLIARD STR. QTET
2:30 PM
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
MOZART Quartet No. 22 in B-flat, K.589
SCHOENBERG String Trio, Op. 45
BEETHOVEN Quartet No. 12 in E-flat, Op. 127

July 1 - 8, 2001
Berkshire Choral Festival
Week I
concert on July 7
Robert Page, conductor
Mendelssohn – Elijah, Op. 70
Turning to Bach and Handel to find a model for his own sacred masterworks, Mendelssohn composed Elijah, his most dramatic oratorio. This epic choral work is richly satisfying, with radiant choruses, beautiful arias and a strong dramatic thrust. Mendelssohn created a vivid portrayal of the Biblical prophet and of the conflict between the followers of Jehovah and those of the pagan deity Baal.

Week 2
July 8 – 15, concert on July 14
Raymond Harvey, conductor
Haydn – Heiligmesse
Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky
Combat, chaos, victory and exultation! From the lush and tranquil accompaniment of the string section to the bombastic sounds of the brass and percussion, the chorus tells the story of a legendary thirteenth-century prince. Prokofiev composed this score originally for Sergei Eisenstein's extraordinary 1938 film of the same name. The most significant movement, and the most memorable, is the celebrated 14-minute "The Battle on the Ice." The cantata ends with a resounding celebration of thunderous bells.

In stark contrast, Haydn's setting of the Mass is more simple in style yet refined in depth and spirituality. This is the first of six final Masses he composed which spanned the years from 1796 to 1802.

Week 3
July 15 – 22, concert on July 21
Frank Nemhauser, conductor
Lauridsen – Lux Aeterna
Fauré - Requiem
Haydn - Kleine Orgelmesse
Gabriel Fauré composed this gentle and sincere Requiem in memory of his father and to provide deep comfort to those in mourning. Whereas many Requiems are dark and daunting, this one is shining and bright.

Similarly, American-composer Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna contains long, flowing, beautiful melodies like that of Fauré, Duruflé and Brahms. However, its texts are drawn from sacred Latin sources, each containing references to light (lux), bracketed by excerpts from the Requiem Mass.

In addition to the two larger works, a chamber choir will perform Haydn's charming Kleine Orgelmesse. Choristers will have the opportunity during the week to audition for this select ensemble.

Week 4
July 22 – 29, concert on July 28
Amy Kaiser, conductor
Dvorak – Te Deum
Bloch - Sacred Service
Virtually the only complete setting of the Sabbath morning service, Sacred Service has become a work of universal significance. Elements of Hebrew music are clearly discernible in this deeply spiritual work. What Bach did for the church, Bloch did for the synagogue.

The later nineteenth-century brought an increasing consciousness of national identity to various ethnic groups in Europe and elsewhere in the world. In Dvorak's Te Deum, the melodic style, neither conservative nor radical, is notable for its use of both Czechoslovakian and American folk tunes.

Week 5
July 29 – August 5, concert on August 4
Joseph Colaneri, conductor
Verdi - Requiem
We close the Sheffield season with the concert that started it all 20 years ago: Giuseppe Verdi's colossal Requiem. Some critics call this "Verdi's greatest opera." The passionate and intensely dramatic writing of his Requiem was a response to the death of national Italian poet and friend, Alessandro Manzoni. In this extremely personal tribute, Verdi also expressed his deepest fears in confronting his own rnortality. The exhilarating music of this work embodies every nuance of human emotion.

We present this in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the composer's death.

July 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 2001
Barrington Stage Company
On The Twentieth Century Preview
Consolati Performing Arts Center in Sheffield, MA
Please check the Barrington Stage Company Web Site for exact times.
Join us for an hilarious screwball musical as a down- and- out theatre impresario tries to woo back to the stage his old flame, now a Hollywood star (played in the film version by John Barrymore and Carole Lombard). A slew of lovable, wacky passengers aid and abet their misadventures as they travel from Chicago to New York on the legendary luxury train, the 20th Century Limited. Winner of 5 Tony Awards, including Best Book and Score.

"Dazzling... funny... elegant.... Puts the comedy back in musical comedy."
-- New York Times

Monday, July 2, 2001
Tanglewood
PETER SERKIN
8:30 PM
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
Peter Serkin, piano
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
David Shifrin, clarinet
Pamela Frank and Ida Kavafian, violins
Steven Tenenbom, viola
Fred Sherry, cello
SCHOENBERG Ode to Napoleon
HAYDN Piano Trio in E-flat, Hob. XV:29
SCHOENBERG Phantasy for violin and piano, Op. 47
HAYDN Piano Trio in E, Hob. XV:28
SCHOENBERG (arr. WEBERN) Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9

Monday, July 2, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Reeve Lindbergh; “Testament: A Talk about My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh”
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.

July 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, 2001
Barrington Stage Company
Love and Happiness
Consolati Performing Arts Center in Sheffield, MA
Please check the Barrington Stage Company Web Site for exact times.

Tuesday, July 3, 2001
Tanglewood
JAMES TAYLOR
7:00 PM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
Grounds open at 5pm
For tickets at the $100 price level, $45 is a tax-duductible contribution to benefit the Tanglewood Music Center.

Wednesday, July 4, 2001
Tanglewood
JAMES TAYLOR
7:00 PM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
Independence Day Festivities
Family entertainment throughout the day (grounds open at 3pm); fireworks to follow the concert.
For tickets at the $100 price level, $45 is a tax-duductible contribution to benefit the Tanglewood Music Center.

July 4 - 15, 2001
Williamstown Theatre Festival
2001 Main Stage Season - THE WINTER'S TALE by William Shakespeare
Williamstown, MA
directed by Darko Tresnjak
A jealous king, a misunderstood queen, an outcast princess, a singing salesman and a mysterious bear - they don't write 'em like this any-more. Who else but the Bard would cast these characters in a fantastical fable, and who else but Darko Tresnjak (The Skin of Our Teeth) to make it come alive with music, dance and stage magic?

Thursday, July 5, 2001
Tanglewood
PETER SERKIN
8:30 PM
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
Peter Serkin, piano
Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano
Tara Helen O'Conner, flute
Marianne Gythfeldt, Mike Lowenstern, and David Shifrin, clarinets
Ida Kavafian, violin
Steven Tenenbom, viola
Fred Sherry, cello
SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire
SCHOENBERG Suite for winds, strings, and pian0, Op. 29

Friday, July 6, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
8:30 PM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
Opening Night Performance
Seiji Ozawa, conductor
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Steven Ansell, viola
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
STRAUSS Don Quixote

Friday, July 6, 2001
MASS MoCA
Feasts - Hops for the Hip with Garrett Oliver
Courtyard C Terrace or MASS MoCA Cafe , North Adams, MA.
6pm
Sip, sample, and savor with renowned Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster Garrett Oliver, co-author of The Good Beer Book. Brewing our own MASS MoCA ale, he'll be talking about (and you'll be tasting) a variety of specialty beers out on the terrace. Discover the rich bitters, porters, summer ales and harvest brews, and meet the master who kicked aside convention in search of new aromas and flavors. Sharpen your knowledge of craft beers as we offer a full range you'd find only after extensive travel.
Tickets: $20 (Proper ID required)
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Saturday, July 7, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
8:30 PM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor
ITZHAK PERLMAN, violin
MOZART Serenade No. 6 in D, K.239, Serenata notturna
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

Saturday, July 7, 2001
Tanglewood
BSO OPEN REHEARSAL
10:30 AM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
Saturday Program
Pre-Rehearsal Talk 9:30am

Saturday, July 7, 2001
Aston Magna
UPON A SUMMER’S DAY…
St. James Church, Great Barrington
Elizabethan and Italian madrigals of the seventeenth century; a capella part-songs by Monteverdi, Luzzaschi, Gibbons and Byrd
Sharon Baker and Roberta Anderson, sopranos
Frank Kelley and William Hite, tenors
David Ripley, baritone

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.

Sunday, July 8, 2001
Tanglewood
PETER SERKIN
8:30 PM
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
Peter Serkin, piano
SCHOENBERG Piano Pieces, Opp. 11, 19, and 23
SCHOENBERG Suite, Op.25
HAYDN Andante and Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII:6
SCHOENBERG Two Piano Pieces, Op. 33
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 26 in E-flat, Op. 81, Les Adieux

Sunday, July 8, 2001
Tanglewood
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
2:30 PM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
MARISS JANSONS, conductor
MOZART Symphony No. 35, Haffner
STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

Monday, July 9, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
INNUENDO
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
INNUENDO, Piano and Strings: Lucia Lin (Boston Symphony), violin, Christopher Wu, (Pittsburgh Symphony) violin, Amadi Hummings, viola, Owen Young, (Boston Symphony), cello, and Keith Lockhart (Boston Pops Conductor), piano, make a rare concert appearance, returning to Stockbridge Summer Music with music of Hovhaness, Beethoven, and more to be announced.

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, July 9, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Brenda Wineapple “A Gentleman of the Press in Skirts: Janet Flanner, Genêt and The New Yorker”
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.

July 9, 2001
Barrington Stage Company
Bacon Brothers Concert
Consolati Performing Arts Center in Sheffield, MA
8:00 pm

Tuesday, July 10, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
The "Sparkling Entertainment" series
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
Opening July 10 with Dixieland, Bob Connors Sextet, "New Orleans Jazz Artists", features Bob on trombone.

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, July 11, 2001
Tanglewood
MATTHIAS GOERNE
8:30 PM
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Eric Schneider, piano
SCHUBERT Die schone Mullerin

July 11-22, 2001
Williamstown Theatre Festival
2001 Nikos Stage Season - DIVA by Howard M. Gould
Williamstown, MA
Directed by Neel Keller
A behind-the-scenes comedy about a spoiled yet irresistible film star who is breaking into television. Itís a scathingly funny account of her licentious and obnoxious behavior causing chaos on and off the set. A workshop production of a new play.

Thursday, July 12, 2001
Tanglewood
CHANTICLEER
8:30 PM
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
The popular vocal ensemble will perform music venerating the Virgin Mary, including Gregorian chant and works by MONTEVERDI and VICTORIA. The program will also feature BRENT MICHAEL DAVID's Night Chant, and Music from Cuba.

Friday, July 13, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
8:30 PM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor
GWENDOLYN BRADLEY, soprano
GORDON GIETZ, tenor
THOMAS MOHR, baritone
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
PALS CHILDREN’S CHORUS
JOHANNA HILL SIMPSON, artistic director
MENDELSSOHN Incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ORFF Carmina Burana

July 13 and 14, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions - Shorts: Philip Glass
HUNTER CENTER, North Adams, MA.
8pm
Philip Glass -- one of today's most innovative, influential composers - and The Philip Glass Ensemble take to the stage to perform original scores to a stunning array of new short silent films projected on the big screen. MASS MoCA is proud to present this first glimpse of new work by ground-breaking and innovative directors in an uncommon, rich collaboration. Philip Glass asked four international filmmakers and artists -- Atom Egoyan, Peter Greenaway, Shirin Neshat and Michal Rovner -- to create short films for which he wrote new musical scores. There were no rules, no guidelines, just the belief that approaching film through the music would result in a poetic combination of sound and images full of new possibilities. In addition to the new films, there will be an unprecedented live concert screening of Godfrey Reggio's (director of Powaqqatsi and Koyaanisqatsi) two short films Evidence and Anima Mundi. Please join us for a pre-opening showing prior to the world premier at The Lincoln Center Festival 2001.
Tickets: $32 orch, $28 mezz
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Saturday, July 14, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions - IN CONVERSATION: Philip Glass on Shorts
B-10 Theater, North Adams, MA.
6pm
A rare chance to hear Philip Glass talk about his music and the new films. Rather than simply providing music as accompaniment to a finished film, Glass offers his music as a parallel, narrative structure, working as a collaborator with the directors.
Tickets: $5
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Saturday, July 14, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
8:30 PM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
SEIJI OZAWA, conductor
YO-YO MA, cello
CORIGLIANO Symphony No. 2
DVORÁK Cello Concerto

Saturday, July 14, 2001
Tanglewood
BSO OPEN REHEARSAL
10:30 AM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
Sunday Program
Pre-Rehearsal Talk 9:30am

Saturday, July 14, 2001
Aston Magna
MUSIC OF VENICE AND TWO BACHS
St. James Church, Great Barrington
J. S. Bach: cantata, Wiederstehe doch er Sünde, BWV 54
J.C. Bach: lamento, Ach, dass ich Wassers genug hätte
works by Albinoni and Vivaldi
Jeffrey Gall, countertenor
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.

July 14, 16m, 19, 21, 23m, 26, 28, 2001
Berkshire Opera Company
Mozart's Così fan tutte
Koussevitsky Arts Center, Berkshire Community College
Pittsfield, MA
Fiordiligi     Barbara Shirvis
Dorabella     Jennifer Dudley
Guglielmo     Stephen Powell
Ferrando     Richard Clement
Don Alfonso     John Cheek
Despina     Sari Gruber
Conductor     Joel Revzen

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, July 15, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
2:30 PM
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
JAMES CONLON, conductor
MATTHIAS GOERNE, baritone
HAN-NA CHANG, cello
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
MAHLER Rückert-Lieder
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No. 1
RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole

Monday, July 16, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
CANTILENA TRIO
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
CANTILENA TRIO: Richard B. Barnes, clarinet, Andrew Salvo, cello, and Paul Jordan, piano, present music of Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, and Brahms. The Trio is heard throughout the US, Canada, & Europe, at Musikfest-Bethlehem, Newport Art Museum, Merryall Center for the Arts, & many more.

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, July 16, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Augusta Rohrbach “Lights, Camera, The House of Mirth! The Film World Takes on Edith Wharton ”
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, July 17, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON POPS
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
JOHN WILLIAMS, conductor
Program to include music of JOHN WILLIAMS and a tribute to HARRY WARREN, composer of the music for BUSBY BERKELEY’s films.

July 17 and 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

Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Tanglewood
MITSUKO UCHIDA
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM
Sonata in E-flat, D.568
Sonata in A, D.664
Moments musicaux, D.780

July 18 - 29, 2001
Williamstown Theatre Festival
2001 Main Stage Season - THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK by Arthur Miller
Williamstown, MA
directed by Scott Ellis
In 1944, Arthur Miller introduced himself to Broadway audiences with this essential question: "How is it that one man is doomed to failure and another, no more or less capable, achieves glory? How does one wrestle with the question of the justice of fate?" WTF produces the first major revival of this overlooked early work, a charming tale of destiny by Americaís leading dramatist.

Thursday, July 19, 2001
Tanglewood
MA-AX
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Emanuel Ax, piano
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
Pamela Frank, violin
William Hudgins, clarinet
Program to include
DANIELPOUR Portraits, for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (world premiere)
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66

Friday, July 20, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
ANDREW DAVIS, conductor
EMANUEL AX, piano
BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden
STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements

Saturday, July 21, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
SEIJI OZAWA, conductor
PETER SERKIN, piano
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
VERDI Four Sacred Pieces
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1

Saturday, July 21, 2001
Tanglewood
BSO OPEN REHEARSAL
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
10:30 AM
Sunday Program
Pre-Rehearsal Talk 9:30am

Saturday, July 21, 2001
Aston Magna
MOZART AND SCHUBERT
St. James Church, Great Barrington
Trios by Mozart and Schubert
Solo piano sonata by Beethoven
Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
Loretta O’Sullivan, cello
Daniel Stepner, violin

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 July 21, 2001
MASS MoCA
Concerts - The Beat of the Berkshires featuring Adam Michael Rothberg & Bobby Sweet, Suitcase, Dr. Isosceles
North Adams, MA.
7pm
Join friends and neighbors for a hot summer night of BBQ, beer and music with the best of the local band scene. Think globally, listen locally.
Tickets: $6
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Sunday, July 22, 2001
Tanglewood
RAVEL REHEARSAL
Theatre Concert Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:00 PM

Sunday, July 22, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
2:30 PM
JAMES CONLON, conductor
FRANK PETER ZIMMERMANN, violin
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
WAGNER Overture to Rienzi; Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser; Preludes to Acts I and III of Lohengrin

Monday, July 23, 2001
Tanglewood
RAVEL'S REHEARSAL
Theatre Concert Hall, Lenox, MA.
2:30 PM

Monday, July 23, 2001
Tanglewood
YEFIM BRONFMAN
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
Yefim Bronfman, piano
BERG Sonata, Op. 1
SALONEN Dichotomie
PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 7
BRAHMS Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5

Monday, July 23, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
CINEMATIC PIANO
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
CINEMATIC PIANO: Award-winning Michael Chertock performs beautiful, dramatic, & haunting film music from classic Mozart to contemporary Leonard Bernstein, as he has for dozens of major orchestras & music festivals. American Record Guide says, "Lush, elegant technique.... bathes the listener in an intoxicating wash of piano sonority."

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, July 23, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Frances Kiernan “Mary McCarthy: The Legend versus The Woman”
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, July 24 and 25, 2001
Tanglewood
RAVEL'S L'ENFANT & L'HEURE
Theatre Concert Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:00 PM
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER VOCAL FELLOWS AND ORCHESTRA
SEIJI OZAWA, conductor (L’Heure espagnole)
ROBERT SPANO, conductor (L’Enfant)
DAVID KNEUSS, director
JOHN MICHAEL DEEGAN and SARAH G. CONLY, design
RAVEL L’Enfant et les sortilèges (concert performance)
RAVEL L’Heure espagnole (fully-staged production)

July 24 and 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

July 25-August 5, 2001
Williamstown Theatre Festival
2001 Nikos Stage Season - HAROLD PINTER'S THE DUMB WAITER and EDWARD ALBEE'S THE ZOO STORY
Williamstown, MA
Directed by Joe Mantello
Each one of these plays is a knock-out in its own right. Combined, they make up a one-two punch you won't soon forget. Pinter's dark comedy is both chilling and mysteriously charming. Albee's suspenseful drama is full of ironic humor and menacing wordplay. Together, they will have you on the edge of your seat all night.

Thursday, July 26, 2001
Tanglewood
EMERSON STR QTET/BRONFMAN
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
Yefim Bronfman, piano
haydn Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
shostakovich Quartet No. 12 in D flat, Op. 133
SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44

Friday, July 27, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
Hugh Wolff, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
SHENG "From and Mountain" and "From the Savage Land" from Postcards
BERNSTEIN Serenade for violin, strings, harp, and percussion, after Plato's Symposium
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

Saturday, July 28, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
ROBERT SPANO, conductor
KATARINA KARNÉUS, mezzo-soprano
JOHN MARK AINSLEY, tenor
DAVID PITTSINGER, bass-baritone
HARBISON The Most Often Used Chords
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings
STRAVINSKY Pulcinella (complete ballet score)

Saturday, July 28, 2001
Tanglewood
BSO OPEN REHEARSAL
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
10:30 AM
Sunday Program
Pre-Rehearsal Talk 9:30am

Saturday, July 28, 2001
Aston Magna
THE ITALIAN TRIO SONATA
St. James Church, Great Barrington
Works by Frescobaldi, Marii, Rossi, Locatelli, Castello, Colista, Stradella, Corelli
Stanley Ritchie and Daniel Stepner, violins
Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord
Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba

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, July 28 , 2001
StageWorks Theater
COMMUNICATIONS FROM A COCKROACH
Performance location: Olana State Historic Site, New York
at 8:pm - One show only, free to the public.
Directed and designed by Ralph Lee
Adapted from Archy & Mehitable by Don Marquis
Performed by Mettawee River Theatre Company
Presented by StageWorks & Olana
Archy is a cockroach with the reincarnated soul of a poet! Mehitabel is an alley cat who traces her lineage back to Cleopatra!

Featuring puppets both large & small, the tale of this bug bard & his fellow urban inhabitants of the early 20th century is sure to delight adults & children alike!

Saturday, July 28, 2001
Zoar Outdoor
10th Annual Zoar Outdoor Film Series - "Mallory & Irvine Everest Research Expedition"
Charlemont, MA
Hosted at the Zoar Pavilion on Saturday evenings throughout the summer.
6:00 pm
On July 28th, Thom Pollard, local videographer and mountaineer will share his images from the "Mallory & Irvine Everest Research Expedition". Thom was the high altitude cameraman for PBS's Nova series on this historic trip that discovered the frozen body of mountaineer George Mallory at 27,000 feet!

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 July 28, 2001
MASS MoCA
Dance Parties - Merengue
CONCERT COURTYARD D or THE HUNTER CENTER, North Adams, MA.
7pm
Merengue master Joaquin Diaz brings his lightning-fingered accordian stylings and infectious vocals drenched in Latin soul to MASS MoCA from the heart of the Dominican Republic. Merengue, a cousin of salsa with Afro-Caribbean roots, has a driving drumbeat, frantic accordian and screaming saxophone that will leave you dancing ablaze with tropical energy. To Joaquin, doing the Merengue is "dancing on a roller coaster" so buckle up and enjoy the ride. Delicious Dominican dinner for sale before and during the show.
Tickets: $12 ADULTS, $6 KIDS
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Sunday, July 29, 2001
Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
2:30 PM
The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SEIJI OZAWA, conductor
YEFIM BRONFMAN, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

Monday, July 30, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
OPERA TREASURES
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
OPERA TREASURES: Jo Dolce, soprano, Robert Van Valkenburg, tenor, Paul Aqino, baritone, and Matthew Cvetik, piano, magnificent operatic talents, offer an evening of favorite arias, duets, & trios. The artists' "REQUESTFULLY YOURS" segment invites the audience to request their own favorites.

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, July 30, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Allan Keiler “The Many Voices of Marian Anderson : Legendary Singer and National Symbol”
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, July 31, 2001
Tanglewood
TANGLEWOOD ON PARADE
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
8:30 PM
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
SEIJI OZAWA, KEITH LOCKHART, JOHN WILLIAMS, and ANDRÉ PREVIN, conductors
VERDI Overture to La forza del destino
BRITTEN Sinfonia da Requiem
BRUBECK Concerto for Pops Orchestra
WILLIAMS Music from Harry Potter
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
Co-sponsored by Filene's and GE Plastics

Tuesday July 31, 2001
Stockbridge Summer Music
The "Sparkling Entertainment" series
Seven Hills Inn, Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.
8:00 PM
Bob joins Lee Childs, soprano sax, tenor sax, and clarinet, in the Bourbon Street Quartet, July 31, with the best Bourbon Street sound the Creole state can offer.

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

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.

May 25 to July 08 , 2001
Shakespeare & Company
Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
STABLES THEATRE
Dear Lord, they're back!
It ran for just nine performances last year. Wasn't that enough?! Still, many of you weren't able to see it, and now you've called for its return. So don't blame us!

Josef, John, and Jonathan will perform all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in only two hours. For those of you who thought Shakespeare was revered at The Mount, come to have that myth exploded: Titus bakes, Henry V passes the pigskin, Juliet gets hit by the ugly tree, and Hamlet returns to Denmark on "backwards day."

June 4 to July 14, 2001
Berkshire Artisans
Pittsfield, MA
FRANKO PELLIGRINO and WILLIAM BOND WALKER jufied by FloodAdams, Santa Fe, N.M
public reception: June 8, 2001 at 8 pm

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 13 to JULY 13, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
Coriolanus
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
FOUNDERS' THEATRE
by William Shakespeare
directed by Tina Packer
"a hellbent-for-leather performance"
The Boston Globe
Last season's provocative and courageous experiment with Shakespeare's final Roman tragedy makes its triumphant return to open the new Founders' Theatre.

Tina Packer brings the political upheaval of the early Roman Empire to life with only nine actors, including the critically-acclaimed performances of Elizabeth Ingram as Volumnia, Jonathan Epstein as Aufidius, and Dan McCleary as the infant Mars, Caius Martius Coriolanus.
Don't miss the most important theatrical revelation of the Berkshire season.

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 27 to July 15, 2001
StageWorks Theater
North Pointe Cultural Arts Center located in Historic Kinderhook, New York.
THE COUNTESS
by Gregory Murphy
Regional Premiere! John Ruskin, the most influential art critic of the 19th Century, has chosen to wed a "goddess" -- only to find that she is just a woman.

When Ruskin invites his protégé, the Pre-Raphaelite painter, John Everett Millais, to join him and Effie on a holiday in Scotland, what transpires is a sensational Victorian love triangle that rocks London society!

June 28, 29, 30; July 1, 2, 3 & 4, 2001
Berkshire Opera Company
Opera Film Festival
Koussevitsky Arts Center, Berkshire Community College
Pittsfield, MA
For the first time ever on the big screen, three great opera films come to the Mahaiwe Theatre: Rigoletto starring Luciano Pavarotti and Edita Gruberova; Tosca starring Placido Domingo, Raina Kabaivanska, and Sherrill Milnes; and Madama Butterfly starring Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo and Christa Ludwig. The festival closes with the classic comedy, A Night at the Opera, starring the Marx Brothers.

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

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.

Through July 22, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
The Art of Leisure: Maurice and Charles Prendergast in the Williams College Museum of Art
The two Prendergast brothers, Maurice (1858-1924) and Charles (1863-1948), dedicated their art to leisure themes that were dear to newly affluent Americans at the turn of the 20th c. In this exhibition, about 50 of their paintings of beaches, parks, quaint New England towns, European tourist attractions, and fashionable idylls will be explored in terms of social attitudes and aspirations of the period. Drawn from the WCMA collection and organized by Nancy Mowll Mathews, Eugénie Prendergast Curator.

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.
For more info call (413) 229-3576