Lenox Library Announces Schedule for Tanglewood Pre-Concert Talks

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Lenox, Mass.—Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University Jeremy Yudkin returns for the Lenox Library Tanglewood Pre-Concert Talks. 
 
The pre-concert talks will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
 
They are free thanks to the Town of Lenox; Margery and Lewis Steinberg; Lenox Library Association; and Adams Community Bank.
 
More information here
 
The schedule is as follows:
  • Friday, July 8: “It’s A Brand-New World.” 
  • Sunday, July 10: “Romanticism Old and New.”
  • Friday, July 15: “Love, Class, Humor, Revenge.”
  • Sunday, July 17: “Brahms’s Choral Masterpiece.”
  • Friday, July 22: “Wagner, Chopin, and Rachmaninov.” 
  • Sunday, July 24: “American Songs and Brahms 2.” 
  • Friday, July 29 and Sunday, July 31: “All of Beethoven’s Five.” 
  • Friday, August 5: “Jazzy Rhythms at Home and Abroad.” 
  • Sunday, August 7: “Beauty and the Universe.” 
  • Friday, August 12: “Mendelssohn, Debussy, Ravel.”
  • Sunday, August 14: “True Feeling Before and After World War I.”
  • Friday, August 19: No lecture.
  • Sunday, August 21: “Two Romantic Visions.”
  • Friday, August 26: “Dvo?ák and the Russians.”
  • Sunday, August 28: “Ode to Beethoven.” 

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Ghost Tours At Ventfort Hall

LENOX, Mass. — Robert Oakes, author of "Ghosts of the Berkshires," leads you through the rooms and halls of this historic estate sharing tales of its alleged hauntings.
 
There will be a tour on May 3 at 7 pm.
 
Admission is $30 and minimum age to attend is age 12. Reservations are strongly recommended as tickets are limited. Walk-ins accommodated as space allows.
 
 For reservations visit https://gildedage.org/pages/calendar or call us at 413-637-3206.
 
This is not an active investigation.
 
Robert Oakes is an author, teacher, storyteller, and singer/songwriter originally from northern New Jersey and currently residing in the Berkshires. Since 2010 Robert has led the ghost tours at Edith Wharton's The Mount in Lenox and has represented the museum and its ghosts on Syfy's Ghost Hunters, Jeff Belanger's New England Legends series on PBS, and The Apple Seed show on BYUradio. 
 
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