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Travel By-The-Book : Senior Women's Travel : Favorite Cities : Theatre Tours |
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Come to the Hudson Valley (New York) & the Berkshires (Massachusetts)COOL SUMMER THEATRE, THE MAGIC OF A HISTORIC TOWN, PLUS ART,
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Garden at Bard Overlooking Hudson River |
Frank Gehry-Designed Arts Center at Bard |
Day 2…Saturday July 16…Afternoon visit to Rhinebeck…Yes, it’s where Chelsea Clinton was married last summer. Fun to stroll the small town, then visit two stately homes on the Hudson: Staatsburg, gilded age mansion, Wilderstein not a mansion but it is the lovely Home of Daisy Stuckley who was a good friend of FDR and who was with him when he died. Pre-theatre dinner in Rhinebeck before performance at the Frank Gehry designed Performing Arts Center at Bard College. Each year at its Summerscape Bard presents a dramatic play that receives rave reviews.
8pm THE WILD DUCK by Henrik Ibsen…To quote the program “Ibsen’s 1884 tragicomedy asks whether happiness is possible after life-sustaining illusions have been shattered.” Check the Bard Summerscape web site for more details on this play.
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The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home |
Day 3…Sunday July
17th
Morning visit to Edith Wharton’s beautiful house and gardens
in Lenox, Mass. Time for a stroll through town.
1pm. Picnic at Tanglewood . I will prepare something special.
2:30…pm. Boston Pops orchestra, one of Tanglewood’s
most popular concerts featuring the music of
Cole Porter.
Dinner in Lenox at Nudel, a small astonishing restaurant, or elsewhere.
Day 4…Monday July 18th Return home or
you may decide to stay on for more Hudson Valley wanderings. We’ll
help you
decide what to see.
TOUR 2
Aug 5-8
Day 1 Friday August 5th - See Day 1 of
Tour 1 to evening.
7pm. Opera at Bard’s imposing Performing Arts
Theatre designed by Frank Gehry.
Opera: Die Libe Der Danae by Richard Strauss
Each summer Bard produces a long neglected opera and brings it back to life,
always to
critical acclaim. See Bard’s Summerscape web site for more on this tale
of powerful Jupiter and
a donkey driver competing for the love of Danae.
Day 2...Saturday August 6th
Visit 2 of the historical museums in the area: The Thomas Cole house and studio in nearby Catskill. Thomas Cole is considered the founder of the Hudson River School of Painting. Also the Bronck Museum in Coxsackie,a tiny gem of a museum that tells the fascinating story of early Dutch settlers. Evening theatre performance at one of the areas many theatre groups. We’ll pick the best when The schedules are available.
Day 3 - Sunday August 7th
Morning to Lenox Ma. to visit Edith Wharton’s home, The Mount with its beautiful house and gardens. Picnic at Tanglewood 2:30 Boston Symphony Orchestra’ Lionel Bringuler conductor Emanuel Ax, piano Mozart & Tchaikovsky Dinner at Nudel in Lenox or elsewhere.
Day 4- Monday August 8th Leave for home
Tour #3
Friday August 25…Same as Day 1 in tour
#1
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Winslow Homer at the Clark Museum |
Day 2 - Sat. August 26…Williamstown Theatre Festival, one of the most respected summer theatre groups In the country. Williamstown is about an hour and a half drive from Hudson. Arrive in Williamstown about noon for a one hour visit to the Clark Museum, noted for its impressionist collection, over 90 Renoirs.
2pm New musical, Ten Cents a Dance, premieres this season. It’s a celebration of the songs of Rodgers & Hart conceived by Tony award winner, John Doyle, Tony award nominees star in this production. Dinner location to be determined.
Day 3 - Sunday August 27…early morning departure for Tanglewood for an innovative program of lectures that Tanglewood has named Tanglewood University.
9am :Three intriguing lectures by university professors :
…FDR and the path to WW11. What we know now that we didn’t know then… Richard M. Pious, Columbia University
…Where are my keys? Understanding how Memory Works John J. Stein…Brown University
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One of 90 Renoirs at the Clark Museum |
…The Beatles and Beethoven: Hearing the Connection Michael Alec Rose, Vanderbilt University
Picnic at Tanglewood
2:30 Concert Boston Symphony Orchestra Lorin Maazel Tanglewood Festival Chorus Beethoven Symphony #9
Dinner:TBD
Costs for these 3 tours: 3 nights with breakfast at Hudson b&b, entrance to all museums, stately homes mentioned in individual itineraries. Hudson Walking Tour, picnic at Tanglewood, one dinner, transportation to all venues.
Note: final costs depends on which of Hudson’s b&bs we book for you according to availability which can have a differential from $50 a night. For one person: $1700; for two people $1400 per person. Price will be confirmed before you book. RESERVE EARLY…Hudson B&B’s are an early sell out, the sooner we can buy concert and play tickets The better.
Not included: transportation to and from Hudson, lunches, two dinners, wine and alcoholic beverages.
Getting to Hudson - New York. Fly to Albany or one of the New York area airports. From New York City, Penn Station, 2 hour ride along the Hudson River to the city of Hudson. It’s a beautiful ride. From Albany, taxi service to Hudson.