Tanglewood Festival, 2009
 
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Music and Art in the Berkshires: New England's Cultural Mecca Tanglewood Festival, Norman Rockwell Museum, The Clark Institute and more August 13 – 16, 2009 |
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An exciting, informative tour arranged for The Volunteers' Circle of The National Gallery of Canada |
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Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is a magical blend
of the formal and informal, of joy and hard work. Enjoy two Tanglewood performances and tour the Williams College Museum of Art, the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Naumkeag House & Gardens and The Mount. Accommodations at the historic Red Lion Inn. Please join us on this exciting, informative tour. |
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August 13th – Early morning departure for Stockbridge,
Massachusetts from the National Gallery of Canada on Sussex Drive. Enroute, a delicious gourmet box lunch prepared by the NAC’s “Le Café.” Guided tour at Williams College Museum of Art, in Williamsburg, one of the finest college art museums in the U.S. Check in at the Red Lion Inn, which has been welcoming travelers to the Berkshires for more than two centuries. Welcome Dinner at the hotel. LD |
 
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August 14th – After breakfast at the hotel, transfer to the Norman
Rockwell Museum for a guided tour, with free time to explore the museum. Norman Rockwell Museum houses the world's largest and most significant collection of original Rockwell art. Highlights include enduring favorites from Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post covers, the powerful Four Freedoms, and the nostalgic Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas. The Norman Rockwell Archive contains more than 100,000 photographs, letters, and other rare mementos. After lunch on your own, transfer to Naumkeag House, designed by noted architect Stanford White in 1885, for a guided tour. Naumkeag is a 44 room, shingle-style country house now operated by The Trustees of Reservations as a nonprofit museum. Naumkeag was designed as the summer estate for Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917), a prominent New York City attorney and American ambassador to England 1899 to 1905, and then his daughter, Mabel Choate. The house is built in the Shingle Style with a wood-shingled exterior featuring brick and stone towers, prominent gables and large porch, and interiors with fine woodwork. It contains the Choate family's furniture, Chinese porcelain, and artwork collected from America, Europe, and the Far East. The house sits within 8 acres of terraced gardens (including The Rose Garden, The Afternoon Garden, and The Chinese Garden) and landscaped grounds surrounded by 40 acres of woodland, meadow, and pasture. Its grounds were first designed in the late 1880s by Nathan Barrett, then replanned and expanded between 1926 and 1956 by the noted landscape designer Fletcher Steele. Barrett's original designs included two terraces, perennial beds (now the Chinese Garden), and an evergreen topiary. Steele's additions include the Afternoon Garden (1926); arguably his most famous design, the Blue Steps (1938); and the Chinese Garden (1936-1955). The U.S. Department of the Interior designated Naumkeag a National Historic Landmark on March 29, 2007 Return to the Red Lion Inn for dinner on your own before transferring to Tanglewood for an exciting evening performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, with Russian-Israeli pianist Yefim Bronfman. Return to the Red Lion Inn for overnight. B |
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August 15th – Breakfast at the hotel, then depart for a guided tour at The Clark Art Institute with free time and lunch on your own. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, known for its intimate galleries and stunning natural environment, focuses almost exclusively on art from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. Our visit will coincide with the scheduled special exhibit: Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence, which explores the comparisons between the two major American modernist painters, Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keefe. "Though Dove and O’Keeffe’s approach to imagery ultimately diverged, their shared interest in capturing the ephemeral, fugitive traits of nature such as the play of light on water, the transitions of the sun and moon, and the rustle of the wind through grass, was the basis for an abiding commitment to each other’s works and a profound aesthetic connection that lasted throughout their lifetimes." Return to Stockbridge with the remainder of the afternoon free. Buffet dinner at Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club. The centerpiece of the property, with its extraordinary views of the Berkshires, is the hilltop Tudor-style Mansion, which has dominated the countryside for more than a century. The history of Cranwell is entwined with many stories of the opulent period between 1880 and 1920 that is known as the Gilded Age when Cranwell was constructed. Transfer to Tanglewood for a superb evening performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, Liszt’ Piano Concerto No. 2, and Ravel’s La Valse. André Previn, conductor, with renowned French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. BD |
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August 16th – Following breakfast at the hotel, a guided tour
at The Mount, designed by, and home to Pulitzer-prize winning author Edith Wharton. Wharton designed and built this classical revival house in 1902, based on the principles outlined in her influential book, The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-authored with architect Ogden Codman, Jr. Lunch at the award-winning Gateways Inn Restaurant. Gateways Inn, a turn-of-the-century neoclassical mansion, built for Harley Procter, offers European hospitality in an elegant setting. After lunch, depart for Ottawa. Brief refreshment stop in Woodstock. BL For more details on this tour or to request a brochure, please feel free to contact us at 613-236-5555 or email Jean Sheikh at [email protected]. |
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Coordinators: Sally Hutchison Felicity Garrard Travel Agency: Executive Worldwide Travel Agent: Jean Sheikh, C.T.C. (613) 236-5555 Or 1-800-267-5552 Registration No.: 1892605 |
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