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SUMMARY:Ron Ramsay's Berkshire Music Salon Series presents Voices of Valor: Songs & Stories from the Front\, featuring Samantha Talora - SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Veterans Day for a moving performance by Ron Ramsay’s Berkshire Music Salon Series featuring vocalist Samantha Talora! \nFrom the Drawing Room of The Mount\, Voices of Valor: Songs & Stories from the Front honors the legacy of World War I through a live performance of music that inspired courage\, unity\, and hope. American and French melodies from the Great War will be woven together with stories of Edith Wharton’s own humanitarian work on the front lines in France. Presented by Ron Ramsay’s Berkshire Music Salon Series\, this unforgettable musical tribute celebrates veterans\, humanitarians\, and the enduring resilience of the human spirit. \n*Please note that there will be two performances of Voices of Valor\, the first at 3:00 pm and the second at 5:00 pm!*  The evening performance includes a complimentary post-show reception with festive drinks and bites following the event. \nMany readers of Edith Wharton don’t realize how active she was in World War I relief efforts. She founded and administered three separate organizations that cumulatively provided aid to some 10\,000 displaced persons in France over a period of five years\, and she organized the shipment of blankets\, clothing\, and other essentials to soldiers at the front. Read more about this history and access her short story\, Son at the Front (1923)\, in this Library of America Story of the Week. \nRon Ramsay & Samantha Talora   have been blending their voices in harmony since 2014\, bringing an exhilarating vocal tour de force to audiences throughout the northeast. Launched in 2025\, Ron Ramsay’s Berkshire Music Salon Series is an ongoing series dedicated to and inspired by Ron’s lifelong friend and mentor\, the late great Berkshire socialite\, singer\, and entrepreneur Stephanie Barber\, founder of The Music Inn and owner of the Gilded Age cottage\, Wheatleigh. Together\, Ron and Stephanie performed and sang the great songs of the American Songbook\, French and German cabaret\, and the music of their many famous composer friends throughout Berkshire County. Ron dedicates this series to the memory of Stephanie Barber\, his esteemed and wonderful friend. \n\nThese programs have reached full capacity! To join the waitlist\, click below: \nTuesday\, November 11\, 3:00 – 4:00 pm\n$30 / $25 Mount Members / Free for Veterans \nJoin the Afternoon Waitlist\n– \nTuesday\, November 11\, 5:00 – 6:30 pm\nThis evening performance includes a complimentary post-show reception with refreshments!\n$45 / $40 Mount Members / Free for Veterans \nJoin the Evening Waitlist\n– \n\nProceeds from Voices of Valor will be donated to Soldier On\, a private nonprofit organization that has been committed to ending veteran homelessness since 1994. From their Pittsfield headquarters\, Soldier On serves more than 30\,000 low-income veterans in 86 counties across four northeastern states. \n\n\nThis 60-70 minute performance takes place in The Mount’s Drawing Room in the Main House\, seating is first come\, first served. If you have seating preferences\, we recommend arriving fifteen minutes early.\nDoors open 30 minutes before each performance.\nYou are welcome to park in the upper or lower parking lots. Accessible parking is available in spaces directly adjacent to the Main House. If you park in the upper lot\, we recommend arriving 15 minutes early to allow time to enjoy the quarter mile walk down the driveway to the Main House.\n\nQuestions? Email: programs@edithwharton.org\nInterested in becoming a Member? Join today. \n\nWhat accessibility accommodations does The Mount offer? The Mount is a Massachusetts Cultural Council UP designated organization welcoming participants of all disabilities. Please contact us by phone: 413-551-5100 or by email: info@edithwharton.org to discuss accommodations needed to participate fully in this event. Golf carts will be available to shuttle those with mobility concerns between the parking lot and event venue. View The Mount’s Health and Safety Guidelines.
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SUMMARY:Adapting Wharton: The Operatic Reimagining of Roman Fever\, hosted by New York City's Grace Church
DESCRIPTION:In a landmark collaboration\, The Mount and Grace Church (New York City) will celebrate the life and legacy of Edith Wharton in the very place of her baptism on Easter Day in 1862. The special evening features selections from an exhilarating new operatic adaptation of Wharton’s iconic short story\, Roman Fever\, composed by Louis Karchin with a libretto by Joan Ross Sorkin. \nTransforming Wharton’s razor-sharp drama of friendship\, jealousy\, and betrayal into powerful operatic theater\, the work brings the story’s simmering tensions and dark secrets vividly to life. The event offers audiences a rare behind-the-scenes experience\, blending performance highlights with an intimate conversation moderated by Natalie Johnsonius Neubert\, President and CEO of Berkshire Opera Festival\, about the creative process of adapting literature for the stage. \nSoprano Kerrigan Bigelow will perform the role of Grace Ansley\, alongside soprano Sofia Scattarreggia as Alida Slade\, with pianist Luke Poeppel providing musical direction. The evening invites audiences to encounter Wharton’s enduring voice anew—through music\, song\, and conversation—in the city where her story began. \n\nLOCATION: \nGrace Church\n802 Broadway\nNew York\, NY 10003 \nTICKETS: \nThis event is FREE and open to the public!\nPlease REGISTER using this link. \n\nThe music of Louis Karchin (b. 1951\, Philadelphia) has been heard throughout the world and has garnered praise for its “fearless eloquence” (The New Yorker)\, “bare-nerve intensity” (NY Times)\, and “coruscating beauty” (San Francisco Chronicle). Among his more than one hundred compositions are three operas and numerous works for chamber and solo combinations. Eleven portrait CDs are on Naxos\, Bridge\, New World\, and New Focus labels\, and recognition has come from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (three awards) and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among others. In 2000\, he was one of 53 composers chosen by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to represent New York City at the turn of the Millennium\, and in 2022\, the Eastman School of Music\, his undergraduate alma mater\, awarded him a Centennial Medal for lifetime achievement in music. Mr. Karchin was twice a Leonard Bernstein Fellow in Composition at Tanglewood\, where he was invited to return in 2011 to conduct his Chamber Symphony in Ozawa Hall. He is Professor of Music at New York University. \nJoan Ross Sorkin is an opera librettist\, musical bookwriter/lyricist\, and playwright. In addition to Roman Fever with Louis Karchin\, her opera libretti include: The Reef with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis; Guest Speaker\, The Mount (“Wharton Revisited” Summer Lecture Series) and Edith Wharton Book Club (2024); Finalist\, 2018 Pellicciotti Opera Prize; Act I presented in concert in Merkin Hall\, NYC by Berkshire Opera Festival (2024); Libretto presented in Center for Contemporary Opera’s Prima Le Parole and Libretto Slam! Strange Fruit with Chandler Carter\, developed at New York City Opera’s VOX 2003; commissioned/premiered by Long Leaf Opera (2007); presented in concert by Harlem School of the Arts in association with NYCity Opera (2009); materials archived at NY Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture. White Witch: A Monodrama for Contralto and Percussion with Brian Schober; premiered at Symphony Space (2014); Roulette concert (2016); produced by Salem State U. (2019). Jubilee with Randy Klein; commissioned by Margaret Walker Center\, Jackson State U (2025); upcoming concerts at Yale and Jackson State (2026). \nAmerican German conductor and pianist Luke Poeppel is the Assistant Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony and a 2025 winner of a Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award. He recently served as the Associate Conductor for Cerrone & Fleischmann’s opera In a Grove at the 2025 Prototype Festival\, stepping in to conduct the full run of performances. In Summer 2025\, Poeppel conducted In a Grove with Opera Saratoga and also served as the Assistant Conductor for Tosca and Sunday in the Park with George at the Glimmerglass Festival; he returns to Glimmerglass in 2026 for Fellow Travelers and Madama Butterfly. In the 25/26 season\, beyond his duties in Kansas City\, he debuts with the Grossman Ensemble and assists for Andrea Chénier at OperaDelaware. Poeppel has served as a cover conductor for orchestras and ensembles\, including the New York Philharmonic\, San Diego Symphony\, Tokyo Symphony\, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra\, and Juilliard Opera. Photo: Meredith Hart. \nSoprano Kerrigan Bigelow is a Masters student at The Juilliard School\, where she studies with Amy Burton. Bigelow has performed as Gretel in Juilliard’s production of Hänsel und Gretel\, Flora in The Turn of the Screw\, with the New Series in Pierrot Lunaire\, and at Merkin Hall as a winner of the Vocal Arts Honors Recital. Most recently\, she made her AXIOM debut in Alice Tully Hall\, performing Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments. She has been a New England and Gulf Coast Regional finalist of the Laffont Competition\, a grant recipient of the Gerda Lissner Art Song Competition\, and an encouragement award winner with Opera Index. Bigelow was a vocal fellow at Tanglewood in summer ‘25\, performing a range of repertoire from La princesse in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortiléges to Reid’s When the World as You’ve Known it Doesn’t Exist. Upcoming\, Bigelow will be an Apprentice Artist at the Santa Fe Opera. Following that\, she will reprise the role of Gretel with the Sarasota Opera\, making her debut with the company. Photo: Coco Studios \nLauded for their “crystal-clear high register” (Opera Today) and commanding interpretations\, Italian-American soprano Sofia Scattarreggia is making an impact both on and off the stage. They have appeared in a wide range of soprano roles\, including Blanche in Dialogues des Carmelites\, Florencia in Florencia en el Amazonas (Catán)\, among others. Most recently\, Dr. Scattarreggia covered the roles of Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and made debut with Annapolis Opera as Donna Anna in their fall production of Don Giovanni. Dr. Scattarreggia regularly performs challenging modern and post-tonal chamber and large-scale compositions. Upcoming projects include premiering Susan Kander’s opera Cary My Own Suitcase with Buffalo Opera Unlimited\, and workshopping Tobias Picker’s new opera Safe Haven with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. They have collaborated with other acclaimed\, active composers such as Sheila Silver\, John Musto\, and Libby Larsen. They are thrilled to be participating in the premiere of Louis Karchin’s Roman Fever interpreting the role of Alida Slade. \n\nFounded in 1808 and occupying its present landmark building at the corner of Broadway and 10th Street since 1846\, Grace Church has been one of New York’s preeminent cultural institutions for more than two centuries. Founded as an offshoot of Trinity Church Wall Street by Hamiltons\, Astors\, Schermerhorns\, and many other old New York families\, Grace has enjoyed a storied position within the cultural history of New York beginning with its origins in the early decades of the American Republic\, through its social preeminence during the Gilded Age\, and continuing today as a vibrant\, active\, and inclusive community of faith.
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LOCATION:Grace Church\, New York\, 802 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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