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Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2015

May 30, 2015

Posted in Coming Attractions, Dance, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Preview, World Music

Get your maps and open up your calendar app—it’s time to plan your summer of jazz in New England.

Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2014

May 22, 2014

Posted in Coming Attractions, Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview

The big “destination” jazz festivals are major events, but aficionados making vacation plans will be missing out if they don’t at least take a look at the musical offerings of the smaller festivals.

Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2013

May 31, 2013

Posted in Coming Attractions, Dance, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, World Music

[Updated June 21] Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start to summer. Beaches reopen, and the jazz festival season follows close on their heels. Indeed, the first major festival kicks off this Friday, before June has even begun.

CULTURE VULTURE IN THE BERKSHIRES

July 20, 2009

Posted in Classical Music, Featured, Music, Visual Arts

A true embarrassment of riches in the Berkshires this summer, with almost every cultural institution in the county scheduling round-the-clock events and package deals designed to attract even the least culturally interested among us. By Helen Epstein James Levine conducts pianist Leon Fleischer and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood (Photo Credit: Hilary Scott) Last…