West Stockbridge to Host All-Mozart Harvest Concert

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WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The West Stockbridge Chamber Players will present an all-Mozart Harvest Concert on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, at 4 p.m. at the Old Town Hall, located at 9 Main Street. 
 
The concert will feature artistic director Catherine Hudgins alongside fellow musicians William Hudgins, Andrew Sandwick, Sheila Fiekowsky, Daniel Getz, and Adam Esbensen. The program includes Mozart's Divertimento No. 1 in B-flat major for three basset horns, Divertimento “Don Giovanni (arranged by Schottstädt), and Divertimento in E-flat major for string trio, K. 563.
 
Tickets are priced at $35 for members and $40 for nonmembers, available for reservation at weststockbridgehistory.org. Attendance is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. The event is supported by the Richmond Cultural Council.
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Teacher of the Month: Colleen Trager

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff

Colleen Trager had dreams of being an opera singer and working in the music world but family needs brought her back to the Berkshires. After years in accounting, she found her place in teaching. 
BECKET, Mass. — Becket Washington Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Colleen Trager has been selected as the October Teacher of the Month.
 
The Teacher of the Month series, in collaboration with Berkshire Community College, will run for the next seven months and will feature distinguished teachers nominated by community members. You can nominate a teacher here. 
 
Being a teacher is not what Trager first set out to do, originally striving to be an opera singer until a call home to care for her sick mom sent her down a new path. 
 
She obtained her bachelor's degree in performing arts at Wagner College on Staten Island, N.Y. 
 
She then went on to work for Columbia Artists Management in New York, where she organized tours and managed logistics for famous classical musicians and orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor. 
 
She worked there from 1996 until moving back to the Berkshires in 1998. She worked as an accountant for Guido's Whole Sales Office until 2007.
 
"I just knew that I wanted to do something that would impact other people and singing is wonderful, and people love to listen, but I didn't feel like it was really something that I could impact people on a daily basis," Trager said. 
 
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