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Nov. 14

Berkshire Community Church, Richmond
10-4; Crafters, bake sale. Contact Evelyn Goggia at 413-445-5747

Lanesborough Elementary School annual Fall Craft Fair from 10 to 4. Free admission, huge variety of arts and crafts, raffles, food and more. Proceeds go to sixth-grade trip to Cape Cod.

Vendors can contact Deb at 413-738-5349 or debhutton@aol.com or Lori at 413-499-0065 or lorittod@yahoo.com to secure a spot.

Dec. 12-13

North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Contact Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.

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'Dance of Death' Gets Multimedia Treatment

08:54AM / Wednesday, October 24, 2007

GREAT BARRINGTON - Hugo Distler’s "Totentanz" ("Dance of Death"), Op. 12/1 (1934), will receive a full multimedia treatment when the Crescendo Choir and Bard College at Simon's Rock faculty present it in Great Barrington and Lakeville, Conn., on Nov. 9 and 10.

The performances will include music, dance and animation to evoke the work's inspiration: A medieval fresco lost to the bombs of World War II.

The Distler work sets to music 14 motets about life and death, with speakers portraying Death and other allegorical characters. The Crescendo Choir and soloists will perform it in front of an animated projection of a medieval Dance of Death mural that was housed in St. Mary’s Church in Luebeck, Germany.

John Myers, a faculty member of Simon's Rock, with artist Alice Myers, painstakingly recreated and animated the 1460 Luebeck mural, assisted by Danish scholar Martin Hagstrom. Wendy Shifrin, also a Simon's Rock faculty member, has created choreography to Distler’s music for 13 student dancers.

Other works on the program are Distler’s motet "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme," Op. 12/6, and the Leonhard Lechner motet "Deutsche Sprüche über Leben und Tod" (1606), a meditation on life and death that also inspired Distler’s "Totentanz."

The program will conclude with two other variations on "Wachet auf," the joyful Lutheran hymn for All Souls' Day, Johann Sebastian Bach's prelude for organ, BWV 645, and the well-known chorale from his Cantata 140.

Soprano soloists from Chorus Angelicus, based in Torrington, Conn., will also participate, along with flutist Rodrigo Tarraza of Lenox. German conductor Christine Gevert of Lakeville is artistic director of the project.

Crescendo is a music performance organization based at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lakeville. The concerts are scheduled for Friday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at First Congregational Church, 251 Main St., and Saturday, Nov. 10, at 5 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal, 484 Lime Rock Road, Lakeville.

Tickets are $25 and $10 for children. In Great Barrington, at the door, tickets are $5 for Simon's Rock students. For information, call 860-435-4866.

The performance will also be recorded on DVD for presentation in March 2008 in Florence, Italy, at the annual convention of the European Cultural Association of the Danse Macabre.
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