Featuring Greg and Candy Dawson. Greg, son of former Berkshire Quartet violist David Dawson, is author of Hiding in the Spotlight and co-author of Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis, which tell the story of his mother, Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson, who escaped Nazis in...

In 1945 the Gordon String Quartet, Music Mountain’s founding quartet, championed the music of the Czech composer Hugo Kauder

Darlene Kascak, Education Director for The Institute for American Indian Studies Museum and Research Center in Washington, Connecticut, will introduce us, through storytelling, to Quinnetukut’s Indigenous Peoples. Her style of teaching from a Native American’s point of view allows children...

Eleanor Alberga will join us via videoconference to talk about Home and Belonging in her music, and to allow us to get to know her and her music better, in preparation for the performance of her String Quartet No. 2 at Music Mountain. Questions from the audience are welcome. Born in Kingston,...

Our last pre-concert talk of the season features Leon Botstein, eminent conductor, music historian, and leader in education reform, serving as the President of Bard College since 1975, home to the Bard Music Festival, Bard SummerScape, Bard College Conservatory of Music, The Orchestra Now, and...