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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Marionette Shows At Ventfort Hall for Children

LENOX, Mass. — The puppeteer Carl Sprague will return to Ventfort Hall Gilded Age Mansion and Museum in Lenox with Rapunzel for two holiday vacation week marionette performances. 
 
The dates and times are Saturday, Dec. 27 and Monday, Dec. 29, both at 3:30 pm. The audiences will have the opportunity to meet Sprague after.
 
Sprague, who has appeared annually at Ventfort Hall with his "behind the scenery" mastery, has been a puppeteer since childhood.  He inherited a collection of 60 antique Czech marionettes, each about eight inches tall that were assembled by his great-grandfather, Julius Hybler.  Hybler's legacy also includes two marionette theaters. 
 
Also, Sprague has been a set designer for such motion pictures as "The Royal Tenenbaums" and Scorcese's "The Age of Innocence," as well as for theater productions including those of Shakespeare & Company. 
 
Admission to the show is $20 per person; $10 for children 4-17 and free for age 3 and under. Children must be accompanied by adults.  Ventfort Hall is decorated for the holidays. Reservations are required as seating is limited and can be made on line at https://gildedage.org/pages/calendar or by calling (413) 637-3206. Walk-ins will be accommodated as space allows. The historical mansion is located at 104 Walker Street in Lenox.
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