{"id":24340,"date":"2020-04-15T06:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=24340"},"modified":"2020-04-15T06:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:23:17","slug":"berkshires-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshires during the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"byline\">Article updated April 15, 2020 by <a href=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/contact-berkshirelinks\/\" rel=\"author\">Dave Read<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_23523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23523\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190804_185036-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Linde Center for Music and Learning at Tanglewood; Dave Conlin Read photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23523\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linde Center for Music and Learning at Tanglewood; Dave Conlin Read photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nWith the announcement yesterday that <strong>Shakespeare and Company<\/strong> have postponed the plays that had been scheduled for the 2020 season until next year, one wonders why the <strong>Boston Symphony Orchestra<\/strong> is dragging its feet on making the inevitable call? Perhaps <strong>Mark Volpe, CEO of the BSO<\/strong>, is simply hoping beyond hope that he&#8217;ll have one more season running the show here in the halcyon hills before his retirement takes effect next February? <\/p>\n<p>Who could blame him? Or, maybe it is political, as with all things today as the American Dream vaporizes before our eyes? We know <strong>Trump<\/strong> has Boston&#8217;s most popular cultural institution, <strong>Tom Brady<\/strong>, in his pocket, and we know that former MA governor Joseph Volpe was a died-in-the-wool Republican. And we know that Hitler liked Wagner, and that Latvia native Andris Nelsons does too&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I jest, a bit of gallows humor in a time of crisis unseen since the run-up to the Civil War. Won&#8217;t it be good to turn things around, to put America headed toward the proper direction &#8211; there&#8217;s hope yet for America, isn&#8217;t there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshires visitors await Boston Symphony Orchestra&#8217;s announcement regarding its 2020 Tanglewood schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}