September 4-7 Tanglewood Jazz Festival Sept. 4 Friday 8:00PM An evening with Paquito d’Rivera Sept. 5 Saturday 2:00PM Radio Deluxe withJohn Pizzarel, Jessica Molasky,Kurt Eling, Bucky Pizzareli, Aaron Weinstein, and Harry Allen Sept. 5 “Reverse Thread” with The Regina Carter Quartet and “Dreamin the Duke” with Nnenna Freelon, Harolyn Blackwell and Mike Garson Sept. 6 Sunday 2:00PM [...]
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Celebrate Miles Davis at the Lenox Library
August 11th, 2009 by philhalpern
Join us as we celebrate Miles Davis! on Monday, August 17th from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm Fifty years to the day, the most successful and famous album in jazz history – Kind of Blue – was released. The Lenox Library will honor this significant event with a varied program that will feature performances by [...]
Get to know George and Suzy.
July 14th, 2009 by philhalpern
Visit the home of American Abstract Artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen, set on a 46-acre estate in the heart of Lenox, Massachusetts. View their paintings, frescoes, and sculpture; experience their exquisite collection of American and European Cubist Art. The Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio are open during the summer for tours on the [...]
Ooh La La! Paris 1890- Unlaced!
July 1st, 2009 by philhalpern
Paris 1890 – Unlaced! is the title for Ventfort Hall’s summer theater. Ventfort Hall, here in Lenox just a few minutes’ walk from Brook Farm Inn, is also known as the Museum of the Gilded Age. This mansion is a great setting for the one-woman show, which provides a humorous yet poignant glimpse into Parisian [...]
"Hamlet" at Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox
June 29th, 2009 by philhalpern
We missed this production the first time around a couple of years ago, and we’re really glad that Shakespeare & Co. is reprising “Hamlet.” We saw it yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. The performance is especially interesting because a real mother, son, and step-father have leading roles. Tina Packer is Gertrude, her son Jason Asprey [...]
Steve Martin and Martin Sheen to Join Garrison Keillor on June 27 A Prairie Home Companion
June 23rd, 2009 by philhalpern
Award-winning actors Steve Martin and Martin Sheen will join host Garrison Keillor on a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion from Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts on Saturday, June 27. The show’s guests will also include Stuart Duncan, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Fred Newman, and The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band. Keillor will celebrate the radio [...]
Literary Lenox
June 3rd, 2009 by philhalpern
At Brook Farm Inn, we’re always interested in literary links to the original Brook Farm, for which the inn was named. Brook Farm was a utopian farm experiment — the original hippie commune, perhaps — that was founded by the Transcendentalists in the 1840′s. Hawthorne, Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and other famous intellectuals of the era [...]
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA APPOINTS ANDRIS NELSONS
“On The Town” Comes to the Berkshires in June
Berkshire International Film Festival May 30-June 2