Saturday, March 15, 2008
MusicWorks in the Berkshires, Inc. and the South Berkshire Concert Series of Simon’s Rock College present
Made in America
Chamber Works of Copland, Piston, Rorem, Foss, Hagen & Post

Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Virginia Eskin, piano
Fenwick Smith, flute
Hawthorne String Quartet

Pre-concert discussion 6:30 p.m., concert 8:00 p.m.
McConnell Theater at the Daniel Arts Center
Simon's Rock College, 84 Alford Rd, Great Barrington (click for directions)

American Classics features chamber works of pivotal
American composers of the twentieth century and recent compositions by their students. The program will include Copland Duo for Flute and Piano, Lukas Foss Rondo Fantasy, Walter Piston Quintet for Flute and String Quartet, Ned Rorem Three Barcarolles, Daron Hagen Piano Variations  and David Post Quintet for Piano and Strings. The program will conclude with the world premiere of David Post's Quintet for Piano and String Quartet dedicated to pianist Simone Dinnerstein and the Hawthorne String Quartet.

Participating in the pre-concert panel discussion at 6:30 PM, will be composers Daron Hagen and David Post, Flautist Fenwick Smith, MusicWorks director Mark Ludwig, and
Simon's Rock College Professor Laurence Wallach.

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein will be making her Berkshire debut.  Ms. Dinnerstein has fast been gaining international attention as a commanding and charismatic artist, and as one of the most compelling women pianists performing today. Since being featured by The New York Times as an artist
"poised for a breakthrough," Ms. Dinnerstein has performed to a sold-out audience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, debuted with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein and signed a recording contract with Telarc International, which released her much-anticipated recording
of Bach's Goldberg Variations worldwide in August 2007. The CD earned the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Classical Chart in its first week of sales and has remained highly ranked since then. It was called "precisely the kind of playing that the early 21st century most needs, infused as it is with a deep and pervasive sense of beauty and tenderness of heart which is often profoundly affecting," by Piano Magazine.

Tickets are $25, $20 for seniors (over 62), with students and youth 18 and under admitted FREE. Tickets sales at the door. MusicWorks is not able to accept credit card payments.

MusicWorks is generously funded by the Pittsfield, Lee and Richmond Cultural Councils, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and also by our many private supporters. Thank you one and all for your support of MusicWorks. We could not have reached over two decades in existence without you.

Also, many thanks to our partner in education, WMHT.