Close Encounters With Music, Great Barrington, MA
www.berkshirehighpeaksmusic.org
August 6 -16, 2018
Close Encounters With Music (CEWM) an organization
artistically headed up by internationally acclaimed cellist and educator Yehuda
Hanani, is making history this summer by moving its High Peaks Festival to the
Berkshire School campus in scenic Sheffield, MA. Previous editions of the
festival have taken place throughout New York State. Now, the pull of the
Berkshires, the actual home of CEWM, ultimately has drawn the festival back to
its base where audiences and supporters have enjoyed 26 seasons of concerts. .
The Festival is slated to take place August 6-August 16.
The High Peaks Music Festival was created as a logical
extension of the mission of the organization. “It has been our goal to make
great music approachable and to relate it to other artistic disciplines so that
it can receive the love and sense of wonder it merits,” says Hanani.
Each year’s Festival has a theme and this summer it’s “The
French-Russian Connection.” “There was so much reciprocal import-export of
ideas, important cultural figures and aesthetic ideals that we have a plethora
of pieces to program and talks to schedule,” explains Hanani.
The 2018 musicians are expert in strings and piano. In
addition, Baroque experts will accompany.
