Last year, Close Encounters With Music shifted its musical offerings to the screen; this summer, the musical organization â now in its 29th year â plans to bring live music to the Berkshires again.
Close Encounters With Music will present the 12th Berkshire High Peaks Festival for advanced piano, string and vocal participants virtually again this summer, with an expanded faculty and new jazz and improvisation offerings. An outdoor season will start on May 23 and June 13 at Edith Whartonâs The Mount in Lenox with two programs titled âWine & Song,â featuring vocalists Emily Marvosh, Sonja Tengblad, pianist Joseph Turbessi and the a cappella jazz ensemble West Side Five. On Sept. 18, Close Encounters will present the saxophone quartet, the Prism, at TurnPark Art Space in West Stockbridge, one of several programs being planned there.