Lenox, Calendar of Member Openings & Events

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May 16   

Edna St. Vincent Millay Event
At Brook Farm Inn
May 16th - Reserve Now!
Poetry and Refreshments at 3:00 PM featuring Peter Bergman, Director of The Millay Society. Call to reserve your room and to attend the event.
Join us for "The Four Seasons of Edna St. Vincent Millay"

6:00pm - Cantilena Chamber Choir, directed by Andrea Goodman, director, In residence at Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox, will present Dmitri Shostakovich’s Ten Poems by Revolutionary Poets.

Now in its fifth season, the Cantilena Chamber Choir is the Berkshire region's leading a cappella group. It is comprised of 24 singers who possess vocal training, good sight-reading skills, and considerable choral experience.

All tickets are $15 and are available at the door or in advance by email from satbchoir@yahoo.com. For additional information, call 518-791-0185, www.cantilenachoir.org.

9pm - EnlightenNext, located at the Foxhollow property in Lenox, will host a gourmet vegetarian dinner in partnership with Berkshire Grown's Farmed and Foraged initiative, bringing farmers and chefs together to showcase locally grown foods. Executive chef Katherine Miller offers a sumptuous menu overflowing with the bounty of Berkshire County's wild and cultivated veggies, complete with candlelight and select organic wines. For information and reservations: 413-637-6021 or kmiller@EnlightenNext.org.

May    20   

7:30pm – Lenox Community Center
Move to Heal – A Workshop by Uli Nagel, Pilates Instructor – FREE
This 45 minute workshop will give a hands-on overview into the use of movement to assist in healing ailments such as computer shoulders, stiff necks, lower back pain, flat feet, and knee-injuries. Learn how often simple exercises can make painkillers unnecessary while increasing your sense of well-being and empowerment. Understand why how we move is just as important as that we move.

May 21

7pm – Morris Elementary School, Lenox
Wellness in our Schools – A Dialogue - FREE
What is the health report card of our local schools? Where have we made dramatic strides? What issues are we working on now? What are the issues that still need to be addressed? This dialogue will give a chance for parents, students, teachers, school administrators, food service staff, and school committee members to open up a discussion on how to make our schools truly healthy environments for learning and growth.

May    22   

7:30pm – Tanglewood Room, Cranwell, Lenox
Four Voices on Health – FREE
Listen to talks by four of Berkshire County’s fascinating health practitioners, and ask questions. Join Richard Squailia, a teacher of Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi at Canyon Ranch; Andrew Goldman, an osteopathic physician; Michelle Hemingway, a medical doctor with expertise in a wide spectrum of healing modalities, both traditional and alternative; and Katherine Miller, Executive Chef at Lenox-based non-profit EnlightenNext, focusing on food and cultural evolution and how changing our food preferences can fuel a revolution in health and culture

May    23   

10am to noon – Lilac Park, Lenox Downtown
From Haybales to Tomatoes: Nature’s way of Gardening, The NO DIG Way! FREE
Mary Acton-Adams

Learn to garden using permaculture-like methodology with New Zealand-born gardener. Discover how to do this without having to dig! Mary is offering to help set up the first 5 attendees at their Berkshire homes.

Noon to 6:00pm – Lenox Town Hall - FREE
Our Bright Future – Berkshires Extreme Green Expo - Put on by Volunteers for Change
Technology exhibits and speakers, theatrical performance (by the Net Zero Energy Players), mural creation, kids’ activities - this event is designed to inspire and galvanize grass roots support for a new energy infrastructure in the Berkshires. Displays will give insight into the past and possible bright future of the Berkshires as a power house of innovation. Learn how other places around the world are harnessing the economic, environmental and social opportunities of the moment. If you feel that simply changing your light bulbs doesn’t do justice to these remarkable times, this afternoon can help you find out more about what is possible, and connect to your own passion for change. The event will showcase, in inspiring ways, how you can actively participate in shaping the future and begin to explore ways in which to work together.

8:00pm to Midnight – Lenox Library Reading (and rocking!) Park - FREE
Bootleg, Nude Eel, and more music Put on your dancing shoes, come out on this beautiful evening, and have a great time. Good music, good fellowship, good fun, and good for our health! Rain location: Lenox Town Hall

7th Annual Lenox Art Walk on May 23 - 24

(Lenox, MA) The 7th Annual Lenox Art Walk will take place this Memorial Day weekend on Saturday and Sunday, May 23 - 24, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sponsored by The Lenox Gallery Association in conjunction with The Lenox Chamber of Commerce, some 13 galleries will offer art lovers, collectors, and the curious a unique opportunity to view a wide range of artistic work. The weekend will also include artist demonstrations, special events, and receptions.

For more information, please contact Ralph Petillo at the Lenox Chamber of Commerce at 413-637-3625 or Lynda Strauch at The Wit Gallery at 413-637-8808 or witgallery@verizon.net.

May 24   

10am to noon – Family Hike and the Lorax - FREE
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, 472 West Mountain Road, Lenox
Walk alone, with family, with friends. Do a short walk or a long trail. Be outdoors! Bring picnic lunch. Kids’ film, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, will be shown in the barn at 11 and at 12. The Lorax speaks for the trees!

6 – 10pm – Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Duffin Theater, Lenox Memorial Middle and High School, Lenox - $8/person; $14 per family
These environmental and adventure films illustrate the Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet, and the work communities are doing to protect the environment. Prepared to be inspired, educated, and moved to action. Whatever your interests, these films will expose you to forward-thinking ideas and global awareness.

The Lenox Gallery Association Does It Again!

Receiving rave reviews since 2002, the seventh annual Art Walk takes place this Memorial weekend on May 23 - 24. The galleries will present to art lovers, collectors, and the curious a unique opportunity to be inspired by an array of artistic work.

A weekend long feast for the eyes, special events and receptions will all be part of the Art Walk.

The Art Walk is sponsored by The Lenox Gallery Association in conjunction with The Lenox Chamber of Commerce. The Art Walk takes place on Saturday and Sunday, May 23 – May 24 from 11a.m. to 5 p.m.

Whether you are buying or browsing, you are always welcome!

May 25

Noon – Memorial Day Parade – Downtown Lenox
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The Classical Beat: Tanglewood and Sevenars Showcase Stunning Diversity


The Sparky Quintet plays at Sevenars.

LENOX, Mass. — This week, as Tanglewood embarks upon its bold mid-August schedule of events, the diversity of programming maximizes themed exploratory expression – from solo piano remembrances of personal loss to massed strings recounting the heroism of historic aviator Amelia Earhart; from concert classics by Beethoven (the "apotheosis of the dance" Seventh Symphony) and Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" choreographed by Martha Graham and performed by the BSO - the entire program danced by her eponymous Dance Company, to a career-celebration/tribute to John Williams with live orchestra (the Boston Pops conducted by Keith Lockhart) performing a broad selection of excerpted film clips/scenes composed by maestro Williams, to the Tanglewood Music Center Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop performing Gustav Mahler's emotionally overpowering Symphony No. 5…all this and much more is in store for eager audiences this week, from August 12-18. Read below for the details of five of these concert highlights.

  • Wednesday, August 12, 8:00 p.m., Studio E, Linde Center: Pianist Adam Tendler, in a themed program entitled "Inheritances" transforms personal loss into luminous art with a collection of 16 commissioned solo piano works. The pianist invited composers Laurie Anderson, Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly and Missy Mazzoli to create pieces in dialogue with his own reflections.
  • Thursday, August 13, 8:00 p.m. in Ozawa Hall: Composer/vocalist/violinist and electronics performer Laurie Anderson performs "Amelia" – a work celebrating aviator America Earhart, scored  for string orchestra, with text from the pilot's log from her final trip around the world. Strings from the Boston Symphony and guest artist Martha Mooke will be conducted by Dennis Russel Davies. 
  • Friday, August 14, 8:00 p.m. in the Shed: Conductor Anna Handler leads the Boston Symphony in a program with dance, featuring the Martha Graham Dance Company, Janet Eilber, Artistic Director. Featured works include the glorious Martha Graham-commissioned Aaron Copland score "Appalachian Spring," Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, and Christopher Rountree's "For Martha – Variations on a Theme of Leonard Bernstein."
  • Saturday, August 15, 8:00 p.m. in the Shed: Conductor/Music Director Keith Lockhart conducts the Boston Pops in "A Tribute to John Williams – Maestro of the Movies." The Pops celebrates maestro Williams in an ultimate aural feast of his film scoring career, with more than 50 minutes of specially-edited scenes and film clips taken from John Williams' best-loved films, projected in HD and synchronized to his spectacular music.
  • Sunday, August 16, 2:30 p.m. in the Shed: Conductor Marin Alsop leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in a program of composers Anna Clyne ("Masquerade,") Max Bruch (Violin Concerto No. 1,) with featured soloist Ray Chen, and Mahler (Symphony No. 5.)

For tickets for all Tanglewood/BSO concerts (lawn and Shed seating) and for special events call (617) 266-1200 or (413) 637-5180; online: tanglewood.org or customerservice@bso.org. In Lenox, visit the Tanglewood box office at the Main Gate located at 297 West Street.

Sevenars Music Festival

Founded in 1968, Sevenars Concerts, Inc., is celebrating its 58th season of six summer concerts, held at the Academy - now air-conditioned – a building designated "an acoustic gem in an idyllic setting," located in the  historic village of South Worthington,15 Ireland Street, off MA Route 112.

  • Sunday, August 16, 4:00 p.m.: For a totally fun season Sevenars Music Festival season closer, head to the country – specifically South Worthington, MA., for a great time with Sevenars' longtime friends: The Sparky Quintet:, consisting of piano, voice, guitar, violin, flute and percussion.?

Now in its fourth season at Sevenars, the inimitable Sparky Quartet - now expanded to a Quintet! - formed in tribute to late master clarinetist Bob Sparkman – has deep roots at Sevenars, beginning with Bob's collaborations with treasured pianist and composer Clifton J. "Jerry" Noble, Jr. ("Bob and Jerry"), later joined by the wonderfully versatile Kara Noble for bass and vocals. In 2023, after Bob departed this world, they added the inimitable Chris Devine on violin and flute and the extraordinary Jon Van Eps on percussion and thus became officially the Sparky Quartet. This year, guitarist Bob Ferrier joins to make it the Sparky Quintet, so please come and enjoy this newly expanded ensemble! Their playing, banter, and camaraderie are amazing and are always a big hit - so come enjoy the magic!

Sevenars concerts are presented on consecutive Sundays at 4:00 p.m. until August 16. Phone: (413) 238-5854 (please leave a message for a return call). Online: www.sevenars.org. Admission is by donation at the door (suggested $20). Refreshments will be available at no charge. 

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