Berkshire Bach Concludes Its Season

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Berkshire Bach Society concludes its regular 2023-2024 season on Saturday, June 8, 2024, 4pm, with A Baroque Spring Posy: Music for Baroque Violin and Harpsichord, at Kellogg Music Center on the campus of Bard College at Simon's Rock (84 Alford Road, Great Barrington).

Laura Lutzke, Baroque Violin, is joined by Mariken Palmboom, Harpsichord, in chamber music by J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel.

"We are delighted to have these special musicians conclude our season with a classic Baroque combination of violin and harpsichord," said Terrill McDade, Executive Director of The Berkshire Bach Society. "Music Director Eugene Drucker invited Laura to join the Berkshire Bach Ensemble for Bach at New Year's in 2017 and she has become a regular. Dutch Harpsichordist and Stockbridge resident Mariken Palmboom is familiar to our audiences, having performed with BBS since 2022 as a soloist, a continuo player, and as our principal harpsichord technician for Bach at New Year's. Laura brings her Baroque Violin for this performance and audiences will have the chance to hear the beauty of two period instruments together as they may have sounded to Bach and Handel some three hundred years ago."

Tickets $45 available in advance at http://www.berkshirebach.org/events and at the door. Card to Culture tickets $10. Berkshire Bach member discounts apply, and as always, children under 18 and students with valid ID are admitted free.

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Great Barrington Unveils 9/11 Memorial Featuring World Trade Center Steel

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
12:58PM / Saturday, September 12, 2026

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — A piece of history will now stand in front of the Great Barrington Fire Department, serving as a lasting reminder of the courage, sacrifice, and heroism of those who rushed in, stepped forward, and answered the call on Sept. 11, 2001.

Hundreds of community members gathered outside the Fire Department for the unveiling of a 9/11 memorial featuring a steel I-beam salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

The monument marks the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, and its effect reached far and wide beyond New York, said Deputy Fire Chief James Mead.

"There are moments in our lives that become markers of time. Moments when we remember not only what happened, but where we were, who was beside us, and how the world somehow felt different afterwards," Town Manager Liz Hartsgrove said.

"For those of us who experienced September 11, 2001 — it is one of those moments for us to share."

The acquisition of the beam was a multi-year effort initiated by the late Andy Moro, former commander of American Legion Post 298 in Housatonic, and was carried on by the Legion's second vice commander, John Morris.

Morris said he was able to obtain the warped steel I-beam through connections he made during his time as a New York City firefighter.

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