Clark Art Hosts 'Introvert/Extrovert A Two-Piano Recital'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Feb. 8 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a dazzling two-piano recital by composer-pianist Matthew Aucoin and pianist Conor Hanick. 
 
The pair team up for an inventive concert featuring a new work composed by Aucoin for Hanick. This concert takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium.
 
In addition to Aucoin's new piece, which is inspired by the recent poetry of Ben Lerner, Hanick and Aucoin play a program divided into "introverted" and "extroverted" halves: in the former category, a work by Morton Feldman, and in the latter category, a selection of music for one and two pianos by Gabriella Smith, Julius Eastman, and John Adams, including Adams's Hallelujah Junction.
 
Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under). For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524.

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Mount Greylock Schools Focus on Student Literacy

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District is placing an emphasis on literacy instruction that is reflected in the preliminary budget that the administration put forth last week.
 
Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron and Director of Curriculum and Instruction Joelle Brookner laid out the reasons why literacy needs to be a priority for the district and the steps staff plan to take to address that need during the School Committee's Feb. 13 meeting.
 
Bergeron opened by emphasizing that while there are issues that need to be addressed, the district continues to do a good job educating the students of Lanesborough, Williamstown and surrounding towns.
 
He noted that Mount Greylock ranks 25th in the commonwealth and first in the Berkshires in the most recent U.S. News and World Report "Best High Schools Rankings" and pointed out that most of the Massachusetts schools ranking higher on the list are magnet or charter schools like No. 1 Boston Latin and No. 2 Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter of Hadley.
 
And in the area of literacy itself, 65 percent of Mount Greylock's students are above the national average in literacy benchmarks as assessed by the California-based FastBridge Learning system.
 
"So we're starting from a good place, but we're nowhere near perfect," Bergeron said.
 
To help address the 35 students performing at or below average on literacy assessment metrics, district faculty have been pouring over data and looking at what personalized instruction strategies will work for individual students, the administrators said.
 
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