Summer 2018 Dear Friends, As we approach our 27th year of presenting the best of classical chamber music in the Berkshires we are planning many exceptional concerts! 2018-19 is the year to include a Close Encounters With Music business partnership in your budget. If you are returning to our playbill, then you know that a partnership option is an exciting vehicle for reaching a broad segment of the Berkshire community (as well as showcasing your appreciation for great music!). Close Encounters With Music is known for being a rich cultural resource in the Berkshires and its playbill offers opportunities for you to shine brightly. No matter what the weather s like outside, CEWM concert-goers warm up in their theater seats by browsing through this glossy, elegant, color 52 page program book, with its engaging articles and advertisements from local shops, restaurants, businesses, and services. Patrons keep our playbill to be enjoyed and referenced at home, long after the music is over. Your on-line ad is also hyperlinked to your web site, which can be viewed on all types of devices www.cewm.org/ cewm_links.html. Here are other compelling reasons to link your business with our upcoming 2018-2019 season: As the leading presenter of chamber music in the region, we attract audiences of 400 to 600 music lovers at each of our seven public concerts. The playbill is also distributed at our two Conversations With lectures and at all fundraising events. Our advertising base has grown steadily for good reason! CEWM audience members know the high standards that our organization achieves. They are discerning shoppers who go out of their way for excellent quality in everything they purchase. Advertisers give us great feedback. They are delighted and impressed by the response they get from our audience. You ll reach the permanent Berkshire residents, not just summer tourists. Our concerts run from October to June, and our patrons are the people who own homes here or who visit year-round, purchase local goods and services, and eat in local restaurants not only during summer. Our playbill carries your message to a broad geographical area. You ll be reaching audience members from Albany, throughout the Berkshires, Hampshire County, Columbia County, and outwards to Connecticut, the Hudson Valley, New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, Vermont and Boston. This is a one-time advertising decision that keeps giving back, from fall through early summer. We print one playbill for the whole season, and it gives you visibility from October to June. The playbill is given to each audience member at every event. BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS: This year, those who support us at the ($475) Bronze Level will receive a ¼ page Color ad in our Playbill, 4 tickets to a CEWM concert of their choice from October to May and a logo plus acknowledgement on our 27th anniversary page. A Silver Level of business support ($850) will give you a ½ page ad, six complimentary tickets to your choice of concerts October through June, your logo and acknowledgement. Our Gold Level ($1600) gives partners a full page ad, a logo and acknowledgement, a full 2 subscriptions to our upcoming 2018-19 season including 2 tickets to our Gala Patrons Reception and a CD. I hope you will join our circle of advertisers this coming season to use our rich cultural resource to your full advantage. Please don t hesitate to call me if you have any questions or to reserve your spot. Best Wishes, Pamela Dreyfus Smith Director of Marketing and Public Relations PO Box 34 Great Barrington MA 01230 (800) 843 0778 www.cewm.org cewmusic@aol.com
27 TH SEASON PLAYBILL RESERVATION (please print clearly) Company Name Contact: Billing Address City State Zip code Business Phone Cell Email Contact Name Website Address (To hyperlink to your web site.) 2018-2019 BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS: Partnerships are partially tax deductible. Bronze Level includes a ¼ page color ad in our Playbill, 4 tickets to a CEWM concert of choice from October to May and a logo and acknowledgement on our 27 th anniversary page. $475 Silver Level includes a ½ page ad, six complimentary tickets to your choice of concerts October through June, your logo and acknowledgement. $850 Gold Level includes a full page ad, a logo and acknowledgement, a full 2 subscriptions to our upcoming 2018-19 season including 2 tickets to our Gala Patrons Reception and a CD. $1600 2018-19 Playbill Sizes and Rates Location/Size of Ad Dimensions B&W Color Outside Back Cover 6.25 w x 9.25 h $1,800* Inside Back Cover 6.25 w x 9.25 h $1,640* Full Page Ad 6.25 w x 9.25 h $1100 $1,395* Half Page Ad 6.25 w x 4.375 $695 $800 Quarter Page Ad 3.0 w x 4.375 h $375 $415 Eighth Page Ad (business card) 3 w x 2 h $295 NA Artwork Design Available $90 per ad *Bleeds available for full page color ads only. Full bleed dimensions are: Trim size 7"w x 10"h, plus add 1/8 inch on all sides for bleed. Electronic artwork is preferred. There will be no bleeds except for full page color ads. Digital formats: Quark or Adobe images should be saved as high res. pdf, jpg, eps, or tiff files; Embed all fonts. CMYK for color, Grayscale for B&W. Please send ad to info@cewm.org. Please continue to fill out the form on the reverse side.
27 TH SEASON PLAYBILL RESERVATION 2018-2019 Reservation Forms, Payment and Print Ready Artwork are due by August 17. Please check preferences Business Partnerships Advertisement only Bronze Level $475 Outside back cover $1800 Silver Level $850 Inside back cover $1640 Gold Level $1600 Full page color $1395 Full page black/white $1100 Half page color Half page b/w Quarter page color Quarter page b/w $800 $695 $415 $375 Eighth page b/w $295 This signed form with payment must be included to reserve ad space. Credit Card Type Credit Card Number Expiration Date Cardholder Name Visa MC AMEX (Please circle one) V code number _Yes, please place my ad in the 2018-2019 Playbill and use my credit card. _A check is enclosed. Your signature date Pamela Dreyfus Smith 800.843.0778 info@cewm.org PO Box 34, Great Barrington, MA 01230
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC Experience the Drama y Marvosh, contralto Irina Muresanu, Peter Zazofsky, American Brass Quintet, Emily Marvosh, Live Chamber Music CELEBRATING OUR 27TH SEASON OCTOBER 2018 - JUNE 2019 www.cewm.org 800.843.0778 Dov Scheindlin. Sooyeon Kate Lee, Max Levinson Yehuda Hanani The 2018-19 Season Schedule Saturday, October 13, 6 PM A ROSSINI EXTRAVAGANZA! Saturday, December 8, 6 PM MOZART AND SCHUBERT MARZIPAN AND THE "TROUT" Saturday, February 23, 6 PM HAYDN SEEK DISCOVERING THE HUMOR AND WIT IN PAPA HAYDN Saturday, March 23, 6 PM RUSSIAN TROIKA PROKOFIEV, RACHMANINOFF AND STRAVINSKY Saturday, April 13, 6 PM THE AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET Saturday, May 18, 6 PM THE ESCHER QUARTET BARBER, MOZART, SCHUBERT QUINTET Saturday, June 8, 6 PM LIKE FATHER-IN-LAW, LIKE SON-IN- LAW ANTONIN DVORAK AND JOSEF SUK news & ideas worth sharing Schumann, Brahms Piano Quintets: Truly Titanic Performances at Close Encounters with Music Review by David Noel Edwards, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, Arts & Entertainment The first concert of season 26 for CEWM on October 21 was billed as an event of titanic significance. Genre-bending masterworks performed by an all-star cast. The pinnacle of chamber music. If such language sounds to you like marketing hype, then what you are about to read will exceed your personal bounds of credulity (i.e., you won t believe it). Chamber music has always been the locus of strange magic. Inexplicable voodoo. It s always been that way, and most CEWM concertgoers are aware of how quickly a concert performance can go from ordinary to extraordinary when everything comes together in a perfect storm of musical alchemy. That s what happened on October 21. CEWM patrons have also learned that sooner or later they ll be blindsided by a performance so sublime it will defy explanation. This, too, occurred on October 21. If all you want is a strictly rational account of what happened on the evening of October 21, then perhaps the following will suffice: Five professional musicians delivered accurate renditions of two works by Schumann and Brahms. But as anyone who witnessed those performances well knows, such an explanation fails to account for the open-mouthed, deerin-the-headlights expression so many patrons wore throughout the evening. Then what does account for it? To begin with, the pieces on Saturday s program happen to be two of the world s all-time most popular chamber music works. Robert Schumann s Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 and Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 are monumental masterworks. As such, they have stood the test of time, and today, 175 years after Schumann published Op. 44, both quintets continue to hold their own against legions of worthy rivals. Generations of listeners expert and novice have found these works uniquely engaging, enthralling, unforgettable. That s why it s safe to say that if these quintets are not major pinnacles of chamber music, then Beethoven was a Saint Bernard, and Schubert is a frozen dessert. But performances of the two can hardly amount to perfect storms of musical alchemy every time a well-intentioned ensemble attempts to master them. It requires extraordinarily advanced musicianship to deliver note-perfect performances of either piece, and only the most exceptionally capable musicians will ever go beyond that. And exceptional they were on this Saturday evening: Soyeon Kate Lee, piano; Irina Muresanu and Peter Zazofsky, violin; Michael Strauss, viola and Yehuda Hanani, cello. The group s playing demonstrated remarkable unity: impossibly tight ensemble at the most critical moments, exquisitely nuanced dynamics, all articulations synchronized to highly improbable tolerances. It was stunning and unforgettable. But still not a perfect storm. For any chamber music ensemble* to reach hurricane strength, every member of the group must not only demonstrate virtuosic technique. They must also possess vast reserves of mature enthusiasm. Informed spirit, if you will. This often makes the crucial difference between a perfunctory performance and an inspired one. And it was spirit that catapulted these quintet performances over the top.
Rave Reviews! The New York Times RESCUING NEGLECTED COMPOSERS Mr. Hanani's rich tone and thoughtful phrasing made a powerful case for it [Eduard Franck Sonata for Cello and Piano] in a performance that had a convincing subtext: The 19th-century cello repertory is not so vast that cellists (or their admirers) should neglect works this opulently lyrical...soulful, fiery performance of Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2. Albany Times-Union STUNNER CLOSES SEASON! Though Hanani, Prutsman and Upshaw all performed with that rare combination of mutual understanding and technical finesse which makes for the most satisfying chamber music, Hanani deserves special recognition for his astute program choices. Berkshire Eagle Great music played with great heart. Hanani is the supreme master builder of thematic programming. The blending of Hanani's personality and Bach's provided an exhilarating conclusion to the evening. The Mahaiwe Theatre was thronged..."orpheus and His Lyre" emerged as an idea of substance, as well as popular appeal...the afternoon never failed to fascinate. There's a palpable mystique about these Close Encounters concerts. The Berkshire Record The Berkshires are home to distinguished cultural events, but none so brilliant, perhaps, as the chamber music series, Close Encounters With Music. Rogovoy Report It was a brilliant way to kick off a season...demonstrating it to be a chamber music series on a par with anything heard at Tanglewood at the height of the season. For this, we year-rounders are blessed. Arizona Republic The program provided stellar performances...played with passion and pathos... Berkshire Edge The Close Encounters With Music chamber music series is a living embodiment of all the right ways to present classical music. A stunning, majestic resolution, a brilliant ending to an unforgettable encounter with music. Bravi!