John Williams to speak at Berkshire Museum

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PITTSFIELD– John Williams, composer and laureate conductor of the Boston Pops, will speak at the Berkshire Museum in downtown Pittsfield on Tuesday, August 24, at 2 pm. His talk, entitled “Composing for Film,” is the finale of the series “The Joys of Tanglewood, presented by the Tanglewood Association of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers and the Berkshire Museum. Host for the series is Martin Bookspan of PBS’s “Live at Lincoln Center.” Tickets are $12 ($10 for Tanglewood Friends or Berkshire Museum members). To order tickets, call 413-443-7171 extension 10. Williams’s music can currently be heard in the new Steven Spielberg film, War of the Worlds. The Academy- and Emmy-award-winning composer has created the music for more than 100 films, including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, the three Indiana Jones films, and the six Star Wars movies. Williams was conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1980 to 1993 and is artist-in-residence at Tanglewood. Series host Martin Bookspan is best known as “the voice of Lincoln Center,” a role he has had since the first Live from Lincoln Center broadcast in 1976. He is the author of 101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers and Consumer Reports Reviews: Classical Recordings. The Berkshire Museum is located at 39 South Street on Route 7 in Downtown Pittsfield, Mass. The galleries, presenting art, science, and history, are open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays noon to 5 p.m. Currently on view are the special exhibitions The Power of Place: The Berkshires and Wit and Wine: A New Look at Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation. Tickets for the original date will be honored on August 24. Additional tickets for August 24 are still available by telephone at 413-443-7171, extension 10. Tickets are $12 ($10 for Tanglewood Friends and Berkshire Museum members). For more information, contact the Berkshire Museum at (413) 443-7171, or visit www.berkshiremuseum.org .
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Senior Golf Series Returns in September

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Berkshire County Fall Senior Golf series returns in September with events on five consecutive Wednesdays starting Sept. 18.
 
It is the 22nd year of the series, which is a fund-raiser for junior golf in the county, and it is open to players aged 50 and up.
 
The series will feature two divisions for each event based on the combined ages of the playing partners.
 
Golfers play from the white tees (or equivalent) with participants 70 and over or who have a handicap of more than 9 able to play from the forward tees.
 
Gross and net prices will be available in each division.
 
The cost is $55 per event and includes a round of golf, food and prizes. Carts are available for an additional fee.
 
Golfers should call the pro shop at the course for that week's event no sooner than two weeks before the event to register.
 
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