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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Mount Everett Tops McCann Tech to Go to 6-1

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
SHEFFIELD, Mass. – Brady Carpenter recorded a double-double, and James Green played lockdown defense Friday as the Mount Everett boys basketball team beat McCann Tech, 49-33.
 
Carpenter scored 14 points and pulled down 12 rebounds for the Eagles, who bounced back from their first loss of the season and improved to 6-1 this winter.
 
Green drew the defensive assignment on McCann Tech’s Zach Howland, who came in averaging more than 18 points per game but scored just 10 – two in the second half.
 
Mount Everett coach Jowe Warren was happy to get out of the game with Howland scoring just 10.
 
“That’s what we worked on, leading up to this game,” Warren said. “Zach was a kid we were going to look to try to stop, make somebody else beat us. I thought James did a great job.
 
“[Howland] got some space here or there, made some buckets. But he’s going to. Holding to 10, you know, that’s a fantastic night.”
 
Mount Everett’s offense got eight points apiece from Green and Darius Taliaferro. Green also pulled down nine rebounds.
 
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