January
Music Highlights
Sa 2/2- WILL KIMBROUGH w/ AMY LOFTUS at Club
Helsinki, Great Barrington MA—As a guitarist for Todd Snider,
Kim Richey, Jimmy Buffett, Rodney Crowell, Josh Rose, and
many others, Mobile-born/ Nashville-based Will Kimbrough has
left asses shaking and tongues wagging with his unbelievably
tasteful and passionate 6-string work. He happens to also
be a first-rate producer, singer, and songwriter, so 100 miles
would not be an unreasonable distance to drive to hear the
guy that the Americana Music Association awarded Instrumentalist
of the Year play his pop gems. With Nashville’s Amy Loftus
(Best new singer/songwriter, Nashville Scene, 2005). Club
Helsinki, 284 Main St., Great Barrington, MA, www.clubhelsinki.com,
413.528.3394
Fr/Sa 2/1&2- THE AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
at The Richard B. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson—Under
the watchful baton of director and conductor Leon Botstein,
The American Symphony Orchestra is operating at a high level,
in the words of the New York Times, “superbly responsive…..exceptional.”
A program of well-known favorites includes Debussy’s Prelude
to the Afternoon of a Faun, Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,
Scriabin’s Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor, Op.20 (with guest
soloist Wui-Ming Gan, piano), and Copland’s Symphony No. 3.
The Richard B. Fisher Center, Rte. 9G, Annandale-On-Hudson,
www.fishercenter.bard.edu,
845.758.7900. 8 PM, with pre-concert talk w/ Richard Wilson,
ASO composer-in-residence at 6:45 PM
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