The violinists, posing with Mayor Thomas Bernard, performed the last of three popup concerts for health-care workers at BMC. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The sounds of Mozart.
PITTSFIELD â After losing all or much of last season because of the coronavirus pandemic, the leaders of five major Berkshire performing arts organizations say they plan to bounce back this summer with a creative mix of indoor, outdoor and virtual programming that they believe will help them remain long-term, viable members of the local economy.
âI see this summer as an experiment in many different ways that will inform how we come back,â said Pamela Tatge, executive director and artistic director of Jacobâs Pillow Dance Festival in Becket.
The leaders or representatives of the Pillow, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Group, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Williamstown Theatre Festival took part in Fridayâs discussion, a virtual town hall that was moderated by 1Berkshire President and CEO Jonathan Butler.
Artistic Directors Mandy Greenfield of Williamstown Theatre Festival, Kate Maguire of Berkshire Theatre Group Kate and Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company; Alexandra Fuchs, chief operating officer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and Pamela Tatge, director of Jacob s Pillow Dance, joined 1Berkshire CEO Jonathan Butler for a virtual town hall on Friday. I think that we as arts organizations are back with this kind of ferocity because we know we have a responsibility to make space for that, for artists, for audiences, for people who have to reconnect with what it means to be alive, she said. This is a part of human health and well-being, we have to be back this summer, we have to continue to tear a path forward and we have to do it for as broad and diverse of a community of both artists and audiences as we can all push ourselves to do.