Pianist Randall Hodgkinson to Perform at Williams College

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Randall Hodgkinson will perform a Bösendorfer piano recital on Sunday, Feb. 8, at 3 p.m. in Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus. Hodgkinson will also give a master class for Williams College piano students that evening at 7:30 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall. These free events are open to the public.     

Hodkinson will play Beethoven’s Sonata, opus 10; Carter’s Sonata; and Schumann’s Davidsbündler Dances.

Grand Prize winner of the International American Music Competition sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Hall, Randall Hodgkinson has performed with New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and Boston Pops, Iceland Philharmonic and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome. Many solo and collaborative recordings include the BBC double 5 star award winner "Petrouschka and other Prophesies" the Grammy Award winner with Dawn Upshaw, “The Girl With the Orange Lips”, the complete music for cello and piano by Leo Ornstein with cellist Joshua Gordon for New World Recordings Numerous appearances in festivals include BargeMusic, Santa Fe Festival, Chamber Music Northwest and Mainly Mozart in La Jolla, California.

Mr. Hodgkinson performs the 2 piano and 4 hand repertoire with his wife, Leslie Amper and the piano trio repertoire with the Gramercy Trio, and is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. Faculty appointments include New England Conservatory of Music and the Longy School in Cambridge and Boston University and Wellesley College.
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Williamstown Fire Personnel Committee to Interview Six Applicants for Chief Position

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Twenty-four applicants from as far away as California applied to be the town's next fire chief, the Prudential Committee learned on Wednesday.
 
By the end of next month, one of those applicants could be named the replacement for retiring Chief Craig Pedercini.
 
At Wednesday's meeting of the committee, which oversees the fire district, member Joe Beverly, who also serves on the district's Personnel Committee, reported that the latter body had reviewed two dozen applicants who sought to lead the call-volunteer department.
 
On Thursday, Beverly said, the Personnel Committee will interview six applicants from that pool.
 
The hiring screening committee hopes to be able to present two or three finalists to the Prudential Committee to interview at its Feb. 26 meeting, Beverly said.
 
"We were all very satisfied with the number [of applicants]," he said. "We all had a chance to review them ourselves and pick out the top six or seven. We met last week and narrowed down the list. We're doing six interviews tomorrow, and then we'll whittle down to a second round [of interviews]."
 
The final interviews by the Prudential Committee, the hiring authority for the department's chief, likely will be conducted without one of the elected members of the body.
 
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