The Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts,” offers this counsel: 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'tis the gift to come down where we ought to be….” Like the hymn, Jesus’ lesson to his ...

Aaron Copland, whose musical presence looms ever larger over the American landscape 16 years after his death, had close ties to Berkshire County. He visited Hancock Shaker Village many years after he ...