Clark Art Presents the Modern Opera 'Rome is Falling'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Aug. 10, the Clark Art Institute presents "Rome is Falling," a modern opera composed by American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) member Doug Balliett. 
 
The event takes place at 4 pm in the Clark’s auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.
 
According to a press release:
 
Rome was one of the greatest civilizations in the world; yet, like all empires, it fell. Why, and how? The story is a mixture of politics, betrayal, immigration, religion, climate, pandemic, natural disaster, xenophobia, and bad luck (in short, everything human, and everything we face today). Rome is Falling is a zany lesson on the absurdity of what can happen when powerful people lose power. In his ever-prescient, ever-joyful way, Balliett brings audiences of all ages on a musical journey through a world that includes lollipops, a ridiculous number of characters, and an emperor with a chicken fetish.
 
Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under). Accessible seating available; call 413 458 0524 for details.

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Williamstown Planning Board Reduces Parking Lot for Art Museum

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College will be back before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday for a development plan review for the school's planned art museum at the Field Park rotary.
 
The ZBA last month held off on making any final determinations about the project, in part because it was waiting on a parking determination from the Planning Board, which was to have considered the college's parking plan on July 16 in a meeting that was canceled due to a blackout that impacted town hall.
 
The Planning Board rescheduled its meeting for July 24 and, after a lengthy back and forth with college officials, accepted on a vote of 3-0 a parking plan that calls for 63 spaces in the museum lot, an 11 percent reduction from the 71 spots that the college proposed in its submission to the town.
 
When it became clear that two of the three Planning Board members participating in the July 24 discussion were not going to vote in favor of accepting the parking plan as submitted, the college development team asked for a recess from the meeting and came back with the counter proposal of 63 spaces.
 
Roger Lawrence, who was the most vocal critic of the parking plan as submitted, characterized the ensuing discussion as "horse trading" and at one point said the board was "flying blind" without good evidence for or against either the original number or 63-space counter.
 
Lawrence appeared to dismiss the college's proposal of 71 spaces after Kenneth Kuttner testified from the floor of the meeting that the college's engineer, Fuss and O'Neill of Manchester, Conn., submitted a determination that amounted to "statistical malpractice" by relying on industry-standard methodology that Kuttner said was flawed.
 
Kuttner, a member of the Planning Board, recused himself from the July 24 discussion due to his employment by the college. Cory Campbell took the same step, reducing the number of Planning Board members involved in the decision to three.
 
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