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, Sevenars Proffer Classical Glories

Stephen DanknerSpecial to iBerkshires

As Tanglewood enters its third week, the concerts will be awesome. If you're a pianophile and love concertos for your favorite instrument, masterworks by Ravel and Shostakovich are scheduled. In the third Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra  program of the season, BSO Maestro Andris Nelsons conducts two brilliant and virtuosic tone poems by Richard Strauss, "Don Juan" and "Tyll Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks." TMC Conducting Fellows Julian Gilewski and Lauren Smith lead Beethoven's 'Leonore' Overture No. 3 and Hindemith's "Konzertmusik" for strings and brass. Samuel Barber's masterful Violin Concerto will also be a welcome addition. Such diverse repertoire amply demonstrates that at Tanglewood, the stylistic diversity of musical offerings is both wide and deep.

Added to these delights, there's also the inviting Sevenars Music Festival in South Worthington, MA. This week, Sevenars welcomes the prizewinning Mada-Hugh piano duo in a tribute to America's 250th birthday, showcasing works by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Jennifer Higdon, Vincent Persichetti, Florence Price and others - including the pianists' own arrangements. 

Both venues present outstanding classic and contemporary music performed at magnificent venues in pristine, bucolic settings by marvelous performers. "Who Could Ask for Anything More?" Read below for the details.

Tanglewood

Friday, July 17, 8:00 p.m. in the Shed: BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Orchestra in a fascinating program of instrumental and vocal virtuosity. A recent work by Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon, "Meditations on Grace," will open the program. Violinist Keila Wakao is the soloist in Samuel Barber's lovely and highly virtuosic Violin Concerto, with its thrilling "perpetual motion" finale. Stellar operatic soloists Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson will sing selections from composer John Adams' 1987 landmark opera "Nixon in China."

Saturday, July 18, 8:00 p.m. in the Shed: Japanese composer/conductor  Mamoru Fujisawa, known professionally as Joe Hisaishi leads the Boston Symphony in three of his works, and also the scintillating Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet the spectacular soloist.

Sunday, July 19, 2:30 p.m. in the Shed: Maestro Nelsons returns to the Shed's podium to direct the BSO in a program of Haydn (Symphony No. 22 'The Philosopher',) Shostakovich (Piano Concerto No. 1) with the stunning virtuoso pianist Danill Trifonov and accompanied by BSO Principal Trumpet Thomas Rolfe. Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 concludes the program.

Monday, July 20, 2:30 p.m. in Ozawa Hall: The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, led by TMC Conducting Fellows, and Maestro Nelsons, is featured in Richard Strauss' virtuosic symphonic poems "Don Juan" and "Tyll Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks." Beethoven's "Overture to 'Leonore' No. 3" and Paul Hindemith's "Konzertmusik" for strings and brass complete the program.

Sevenars Music Festival

Sunday, July 19, 4:00 p.m.: The Mada & Hugh Piano Duo, comprised of Romanian-born pianist M?d?lina-Claudia D?nil? and Korean-American pianist Hugh Sung, stands at the forefront of innovative 4-hand piano performances.

Together, M?d?lina Claudia D?nil?  and Hugh Sung offer a unique command of classical mastery, which they joyously bring to their performances. Their repertoire spans the ages, from timeless classics to their own dazzling arrangements of popular tunes, all the while thrilling audiences with their exceptional artistry and creativity.

The Sevenars Academy is located at 15 Ireland Street, just off Route 112 in the historic village of South Worthington, MA. Admission is by donation (suggested $20.) Phone: (413) 238-5854). Online: www.sevenars.com. Refreshments will be available at no charge.

 

 

 

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