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Mahaiwe Performance "Music that Shook the World" - Close Encounters with Music

Item Number: H208-C

Estimated Value: 200 USD
Sold: 70 USD to aw8ac36ef

Number of Bids: 1 - Bid History

Item Description

Win four tickets to "Music That Shook the World!"

June 11 | Saturday | 6 PM
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

Gt. Barrington, MA

THE 20TH CENTURY saw a series of cultural earthquakes that shook the music establishment and scandalized audiences. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Debussy’s breaking through the German hegemony with Impressionism; granting Jazz concert hall respectability; coupling music with film (from “Bad Boy of Music” George Antheil and Fernand Léger’s 1924 Ballet Mécanique); and the advent of Latin American vernacular—all radically transformed our notion of classical music.

This program brings to the fore some of the direct predecessors of John Cage, Philip Glass and John Adams. Amplifying the music, passages from Igor Stravinsky’s and Antheil’s memoirs will be threaded through the program. In Paris of the 1920s, Antheil’s concerts regularly incited huge riots. Ballet Mécanique is scored for multiple pianos, percussion, electric buzzers and airplane propellers and we offer a segment of the film. (Bring your riot gear!)

Michael Chertock, piano; Yehonatan Berick, violin; Yehuda Hanani, cello;

Special Guest Narrator, tba

Link: http://cewm.org/greatbarrington.html#6

Twenty-four years ago, Close Encounters' artistic director and cellist Yehuda Hanani began presenting thematic concerts of chamber music with commentary—at the time a novel and innovative format that has since become ubiquitous in the concert hall. In addition to tours that have taken the series to cities such as Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Omaha, Calgary, and Kansas City, Scottsdale, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Close Encounters presents concerts each season in the Berkshires. To date, over 100 themes have been explored in the series' programs.

Item Special Note

Date: Saturday, June 11, 2016

Time: 6:00 pm

Location: Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle St, Gt Barrington, MA 01230

Winning bidder will receive a certificate and brochure with information about the show.
The auction winner's four tickets will be waiting at Will Call within the hour before the concert.
Tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.
Certificate available for local pick-up in Lenox, MA. Call 413-637-0755 for details. Standard postal mailing is available free of charge.