Close Encounters With Music: Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons—Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla

Close Encounters With Music: Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons—Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla

$ 35-60
Sun, May 17, 2026 • 4:00 PM—5:00 PM

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Live Music

TICKETS   $35 Balcony / $60 Orchestra Mahaiwe Member Discount Event Mahaiwe Member Sale:  Friday, September 5 at noon  Public Sale:  Wednesday, September 10 at noon Mahaiwe Members receive $5 off each ticket Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons (with his accompanying sonnets) and Piazzolla’s sultry Four Seasons of Buenos Airesmeet in a program where time, place, and style intertwine. From the bright renewal of Spring to the icy slips of Winter, Vivaldi paints nature in Baroque brilliance. One of the earliest examples of “program music,” his work evokes creeks, birds, storms, drunken dancers, and warm fires. Piazzolla’s southern-hemisphere vision pulses with tango rhythms and urban melancholy, reframing the seasons through the lens of Buenos Aires. Together, they create a striking dialogue across centuries and continents—earthy, electric, timeless, and dazzlingly performed by the Vivace Baroque Orchestra, a group of fourteen top-tier New York musicians who gather for periodic tours.  Vivace Baroque Orchestra 

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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

Two venues in downtown Great Barrington - the historic Mahaiwe Theater and flexible new performance space the Indigo Room