Berkshire Bach, Tanglewood Present BBS Portals
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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.— The Berkshire Bach Society (BBS) in collaboration with the Tanglewood Learning Institute presents the first of the 2026-2027 BBS Portals programs with The Savior, a performance, book reading, and conversation with author, violinist, and BBS Artistic Director, Eugene Drucker on Nov. 7, 3pm, at the Linde Center for Music and Learning at Tanglewood (Lenox/Stockbridge).
Tickets are available at TLI.org.
"Our audience is familiar with the superb violin artistry of BBS Artistic Director, Eugene Drucker," said Terrill McDade, Executive Director of the Berkshire Bach Society, "but on Nov-7 we see him in the role of author when he reads from The Savior, his first novel, and discusses the book with the audience. The work evokes Bach's music throughout, and that provides an opportunity for us to hear him play the great Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 in D minor—a work that touches the sublime, played by a master who has lived with it his entire life."
According to a press release:
The Savior is a character study of a young violinist in Nazi Germany who is ordered to play for prisoners in a concentration camp. He struggles with his own moral compass as he sees first-hand what the camps are about and is devastated by the realization of his own complicity. The novel was critically acclaimed at its original publication in 2007, variously described as "haunting", "bitter, beautiful, profound," and an "honest exploration of conscience." The Los Angeles Times called it a "meditation on the simultaneous indispensability and limitations of art as a transformative human experience … disturbingly provocative."
Eugene Drucker is co-founder of the Emerson String Quartet and after the group's retirement has continued to concertize as a guest artist with music organizations around the world. He is Artistic Director of the Berkshire Bach Society, Music Director for the group's signature Bach at New Year's concerts, and concertmaster of the Berkshire Bach Ensemble. In 2024 he originated and continues to host Berkshire Bach's quarterly BBS Portals series that examines creativity and the ways the music of J.S. Bach has influenced artists across disciplines and over the centuries.
Tickets $50 for nonmembers, $45 for BBS Members. $10 Card to Culture (with card). Children and Students under 25 always admitted Free.
Visit www.tli.org for more information and tickets.
