Field Farm to Host Summer Sundays Music Series| 01:14PM / Wednesday, July 02, 2014 | |
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Trustees of Reservations will host a new music series this summer to heighten the experience of land, nature and architecture.
For the centerpiece Second Sundays series, song will echo though the meadows and mid-century modern sculptures of a hidden gem and Berkshires treasure - Field Farm in Williamstown. The Lanesboro-based Wintergreen Trio will open the series on July 13 at 4:30 p.m, bringing a folk-music style drawn from the mountains and farms underpinning the history of rural New England.
Subsequent Second Sundays concerts at Field Farm will include the intricately intertwined guitar-work of the upstate New York duo Rosary Beard on Aug. 10, renowned for painting dramatic soundscapes as they explore the sonic differences of unique performance venues. And on Sept. 14, Dan Kennedy & Stephan Katz of Northampton will offer a mesmerizing summer evening with sophisticated and eclectic compositions on piano and cello.
“Artists have always explored landscapes in different light and different seasons.” explains Joanna Ballantine, regional director for The Trustees serving the Berkshires, Pioneer Valley and Central MA. “Music interacting with its surroundings, though a combination of sight and sound can reveal new ways to experience the beloved places we think we already know.”
The classic landscape at Field Farm offers an exceptional opportunity to take a second look — or listen. As one of the northern Berkshires’ most significant cultural landscapes, Field Farm connects two mid-century architectural structures, The Guest House and the Folly (New England’s youngest historic house museum), with 316 sublime acres of conserved meadows, woods and wetlands. Crisscrossed with trails and framed by sweeping views of Mount Greylock, Massachusetts’ highest mountain, the property provides an idyllic setting for the Where Modern Meets Nature summer culture series, which exemplifies mid-century modernism’s reverence for the beauty and genius of the natural world.
Free guided nature walks of Field Farm precede each Second Sundays concert at 3p.m. On July 13, biologist and scientific illustrator Elizabeth Farnsworth will lead visitors around the exquisite property. Farnsworth is co-author of the updated edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America, and is illustrating the forthcoming Flora of New England for the New England Wild Flower Society.
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