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For Immediate Release

Press contact: Sherrill Ingalls, 413-443-7171 x28 or singalls@berkshiremuseum.org

JOHN WILLIAMS TO SPEAK AT BERKSHIRE MUSEUM AUGUST 23

PITTSFIELD, MA (August 9, 2005) – John Williams, composer and laureate conductor of the Boston Pops, will speak at the Berkshire Museum in downtown Pittsfield o­n Tuesday, August 23, at 10 a.m. His talk, entitled “Composing for Film,” is the finale of the series “The Joys of Tanglewood, presented by the Tanglewood Association of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers and the Berkshire Museum. Host for the series is Martin Bookspan of PBS’s “Live at Lincoln Center.” Tickets are $12 ($10 for Tanglewood Friends or Berkshire Museum members). To order tickets, call 413-443-7171 extension 10.

Williams’s music can currently be heard in the new Steven Spielberg film, War of the Worlds. The Academy- and Emmy-award-winning composer has created the music for more than 100 films, including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, the three Indiana Jones films, and the six Star Wars movies. Williams was conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1980 to 1993 and is artist-in-residence at Tanglewood.

Series host Martin Bookspan is best known as “the voice of Lincoln Center,” a role he has had since the first Live from Lincoln Center broadcast in 1976. He is the author of 101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers and Consumer Reports Reviews: Classical Recordings.

The Berkshire Museum is located at 39 South Street o­n Route 7 in Downtown Pittsfield, Mass. The galleries, presenting art, science, and history, are open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays noon to 5 p.m. Currently o­n view are the special exhibitions The Power of Place: The Berkshires and Wit and Wine: A New Look at Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation. For more information, contact the Berkshire Museum at (413) 443-7171, or visit www.berkshiremuseum.org.

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