TO CONNECT AND TO HEAL THROUGH MUSIC IN OUR CHANGING WORLD
Jazz and Classics for Change (“JCfC”) was established in the summer of 2019 with the mission, “To connect and to heal through music in our changing world.”
It has remained dedicated to its mission of bringing the highest quality music to its ever-growing and diverse audiences in Columbia and Berkshire Counties. The programs we have offered, performed by world-class jazz and classical musicians, have fostered a community that values music as an essential and vital expression of the human experience.
As we enter our sixth season, we are excited to continue to create, expand, and provide new programming for people from all walks of life. In addition to our public concerts we perform for those who can’t come to us so they too can experience the healing power of music. Those include concerts for young adults and adults with special abilities, residents of assisted-living facilities, and children of incarcerated parents.
Thank you, our audience members, for your unwavering support as we strive to build connections through music that enrich, inspire and honor the lives of all people.
To purchase tickets, please make a donation via PayPal of a suggested amount per ticket:
Family: $30 – $100
Adult: $20 – $50
Children: $10 – $40
Please also contact us by phone at (518) 929-5950 or via email and let us know how many tickets you are purchasing and for which concert(s).
Thank you!
Visual Representation of Beethoven Sonata for Cello and Piano, Opus 102, No.1
By Martina Angela Müller
Through synesthesia I have been able to “see” music as an inner visual experience of ever moving, radiant expressions of color and form, an unfolding world as the music gets performed. I listen to music with my eyes closed so that I can see it inwardly. Over the course of my artistic career, I have painted a good number of paintings that have been “snapshots”, or one particular “scene” from the music to represent the overall mood of the piece, or a visual expression from the music that was particularly striking. For many years I have thought about how to make this ongoing, colorful moving experience visible through a participatory process rather than just in still painting.
This project is an attempt to show a visual representation of the music as it comes to life while the sonata is being played. I worked with acrylic paint on plexiglass so that I could film the painting process from behind. What appears as simultaneous splendorous unfolding of color and form in the inner vision can still not be fully captured by this rather crude medium, but the video can let the viewer participate somewhat in the process of making a painting in the physical world, that tries to grasp the non-physical essence of the music.
The cross-pollination of one art form to another, like poetry expressed in music through song or dance, or visual art expressed in music (Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky for example), or in this case music expressed in painting is a fascinating form of artistic inspiration.
In the concert, a video projection of the painting process expressing the colors and movements of the music, the inner essence and mood of the sonata in flowing, translucent paint will accompany the performance and the four finished paintings, one for each movement, will be on display. •
To purchase tickets, please make a donation via PayPal of a suggested amount per ticket:
Family: $30 – $100
Adult: $20 – $50
Children: $10 – $40
Please also contact us by phone at (518) 929-5950 or via email and let us know how many tickets you are purchasing and for which concert(s).
Thank you!
April 6, 3:00 pm Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, New York
A concert to benefit Operation Unite, New York
ANTHONY BRACEWELL, violin and viola
JULIAN MÜLLER, cello
GILI MELAMED-LEV, piano
April 27, 4:00 pm The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA
Music in Praise of
Dignity and Care
A concert to benefit
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EUGENE DRUCKER &
KRISTA BENNION-FEENEY, violins
DANA KELLEY, viola
ROBERTA COOPER, cello
GILI MELAMED-LEV, piano
JOHN FEENEY, double-bass
Music by Dohnanyi, J.S. Bach
and The Triform Bell Choir
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
June 8, 4:00 pm Tydeman Farm, near Hudson, NY
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“Winds of Change”
ELI EBAN, clarinet
RONI GAL-ED, oboe
GILI SHARETT, bassoon
LIRI RONEN, horn
GILI MELAMED-LEV, piano
JOHN McMANUS, actor
Adults - $50
Students - $20
Family - $75
September 21, 4:00 pm Tydeman Farm, near Hudson, NY
EUGENE DRUCKER &
KRISTA BENNION-FEENEY, violins
DANA KELLEY, viola
ROBERTA COOPER, cello
GILI MELAMED-LEV, piano
JOHN FEENEY, double-bass
Music by J.S. Bach, Brahms,
Dohnanyi and Beethoven
TYDEMAN FARM
564 County Route 10,
Germantown, NY
Adults - $50
Students - $20
Family - $75
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November 9, 7:00 pm Mettabee Farm & Arts, Hillsdale, NY
May 17, 2025, 5:00 pm Saint James Place, Great Barrington, MA
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Our Camphill Ghent outreach project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CREATE Council on the Arts.
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