SHEFFIELD – Yehuda Hanani’s friends wanted to visit the Berkshires in the summer. Hanani, the legendary cellist, had been teaching master classes all over the world for years. He'd also long run the ...

For more than 30 years, Israeli-American cellist Yehuda Hanani has presented Close Encounters With Music classical chamber music concerts in the Berkshires, showcasing an ever-changing array of ...

Close Encounters with Music, the chamber series in the Berkshires, is in the midst of its 20th anniversary season and has six more concerts between now and the early summer. The lineup of programs is ...

For the last 14 years, South Floridians have been able to enjoy close encounters of the musical kind, thanks to cellist Yehuda Hanani. He had the idea of putting on intimate, thematically organized ...

Pandemics and peak experiences aren’t usually mentioned in the same breath. But I had something resembling one in May 2021 when I attended a concert at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s stately home in Lenox ...

When opera comes back it’s going to be big. I’m not even a particular opera fan but that thought crossed my mind as I watched cellist Yehuda Hanani and his fellow musicians perform several works, ...

The High Peaks Music Festival, an August celebration organized by internationally prominent cellist Yehuda Hanani, is moving from the Catskills to the Berkshires for its 2018 season. Master classes, ...