Hudson Valley (New York)/The Berkshires
(Massachusetts)
2 Outstanding Summer Music Festivals: Tanglewood and Summerscape at
Bard College
2 Dates: Tour #1 - July 23 - 27 2010 (4
days, 4 nights)
Tour
#2 - July 30 - Aug 3 2010 (4 days, 4 nights)
No other tour offers you such
wonderful summer entertainment…the opportunity to experience two of the
country’s best summer festivals, Bard College’s Summerscape and Tanglewood,
music at its best ranging from pop to the classics.
Bard College’s Summerscape in
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York has film, opera, theatre, concerts and, each year,
an in-depth look at one renowned composer. The 2009 focus is on Richard Wagner.
All on a magnificent campus on the Hudson River and with a Frank Gehry-designed
performing arts center.
Tanglewood in Lenox, Masssachusetts
has been wowing concert goers for decades. With James Levine as artistic
director, Tanglewood is better than ever featuring the world’s greatest
performers. Our seating preference is a lawn chair with a picnic, a glass of
wine and music wafting around us (totally relaxing). But we’ve been rained out
so we will probably opt for covered seating.
Our itinerary:
Tour 1:
Friday, July 23
Day One
Arrive in Hudson, check into Croff House, a hansome b&b, that
was new in 2009. Schedule for Day 1 determined by time of your arrival.
Visit Olana, home of Frederic Church, one of the most prominent
members of the Hudson Valley School of Painting, the first American
art movement. The landscape and views of the Hudson magically remain
intact just as Church painted them. If time allows we will also
visit the home and studio of Thomas Cole, the leader of the movement
in Catskill.
Hudson Walking Tour focuses on the fascinating history of the city
of Hudson dating back to 1784. Dinner at Madelin’s Table in
Tivoli 8pm : Judgment Day, Odon von Hovrath’s 1937 drama with
a gripping plot. It was the runaway hit of London’s fall 2009
season. Marvel at Frank Gehry’s dramatic Performing Arts Center
at Bard College
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Garden at Bard Overlooking Hudson River |
Frank Gehry-Designed Arts Center at Bard |
Sat. July 24…
Day Two
Lenox Ma. and The Mount to visit the beautiful home and gardens
of Edith Wharton 12:45…Shakespeare & Co. performance of
Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, one of the Bard’s most
riotous comedies
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The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home |
Sun. July 25
Day Three
In Stockbridge, a visit to Chesterfield, the home and studio of
Daniel Chester French,sculptor of the Abraham Lincoln statue at
the Lincoln Memorial. Picnic Lunch at Tanglewood, weather permitting
2:30 pm: Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine conductor All Strauss
Program. Lynn Harrell, Cello. Steven Ansell, viola
Monday July 26
Day Four
Rhinebeck & Hyde Park Staatsburg, a Gilded Age mansion on the
Hudson River Wilderstein isn’t a mansion but it is the lovely
house where Daisy Stuckley lived, a good friend of FDR, who was
with him when he died. Hyde Park: Visit FDR’s home and the
first presedential library, a modest affair. Time to browse the
shops in Rhinebeck.
Farewell dinner
Tuesday July 27…Leave for home
TOUR 2
July 30-August 3rd
Friday July 30 - See Day 1 of
Tour 1
8pm The Distant Sound… Bard under the direction of Leon Botstein,
music director, have lead the way in producing operas not usually
performed in the United States. Last year, it was Les Huguenots,
that played to enthusiastic Bard audiences. This year its Franz
Schreker (1878-1934) Distant Sound. To quote Bard…”Schreker’s
masterful melding of drama, psycology and competing cultural forces
along with the beauty and brillance of the score, combine to make
the Distant Sound one of the most moving operas of the 20th century.”
Saturday July 31
Visit The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home and gardens in Lenox,
Ma. 2pm…Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale at Shakespeare
& Co.
Sun. August 1st
All Tanglewood Day 10:30 Chamber Music Concert Picnic Lunch –
weather permitting 2:30pm Yo Yo Ma, cello Sibelius, Elgar &
Mussorgsky
Mon. August 2 - See Day 4 Tour 1
Tues. August 3rd
Leave for home
Costs: $2100 for 4 nights (single occupancy, no
single supplement). Price includes B&B accomodations with breakfast,
theatre tickets, One dinner, one picnic lunch, transportation in
a Honda hatch back, Entrance to homes and museums in each itinerary.
Price does not include: transportation to and from Hudson, meals
not specified, coffee stops, alcholic beverages.
BOOK EARLY, CONCERT TICKETS SELL OUT EARLY AND SPACE IN HUDSON B&B’s
in limited.
These tours are for one to 4 people.
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.
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