Lenox Library to Host Program on Disinformation

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LENOX, Mass. — The Lenox Library will host author and futurist Andrew Edwards for a discussion about disinformation, the ills of social media, and the challenges presented by artificial intelligence on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024 at 5:30 p.m.
 
According to a press release:
 
Do we pay too high a price for instant connectivity? Do social media companies have a right to make trillions while destroying civil society as a byproduct? Can government regulation help turn off the firehose of social media discord? Edwards offers analysis and solutions on these key topics.
 
Andrew Edwards is an author, public speaker, technologist, and entrepreneur residing in New York's Hudson Valley. He is a Co-founder and Director Emeritus of the Digital Analytics Association. He is the author of the new book, Army of Liars: How Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence Are Corrupting and Endangering Humanity (2024) and Digital is Destroying Everything: What the Tech Giants Won't Tell You about How Robots, Big Data, and Algorithms Are Radically Remaking Your Future (2015, 2018). He has written extensively about digital marketing and social media for ClickZ and Substack. In 2023 he founded Verity7, an anti-disinformation training and consulting organization.
 
Copies of "Army of Liars" will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of The Bookstore.
 

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The Classical Beat: Tanglewood Music Festival Concludes Its Classical Season

By Stephen DanknerSpecial to iBerkshires

This week, the Tanglewood Music Festival concludes its magnificently curated, presented and performed 2026 classical season, culminating with the traditional performance of Beethoven's enthralling Symphony No. 9 ('Choral'.) Read below for the details.

THREE TANGLEWOOD CLASSICAL HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

• Thursday, Aug. 20, 8:00 p.m. in Ozawa Hall: The world-renowned Silk Road Ensemble presents "Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual." Led by North Carolinian musician, actor and author Rhiannon Giddens, this program explores how we can experience music to better understand our world, find comfort, process loss and a changing environment, and rebuild community, based upon our mutual humanity.

• Saturday, Aug. 22, 8:00 p.m. in the Shed: Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads the Boston Symphony, with violinist Randall Goosby, a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grantee, boy soprano Edward Njuguna and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in an uplifting program of Leonard Bernstein's mellifluous "Chichester Psalms," Florence Price's Violin Concerto No. 2 and Dvorak's sumptuous Symphony No. 8.

• Sunday, Aug. 23, 2:30 p.m. in the Shed: Maestro Gustavo Gimeno, Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducts Beethoven's magisterial Ninth Symphony, with vocal soloists soprano Mané Galoyan, mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams, tenor Ben Bliss and bass Solomon Howard.

For tickets for all Tanglewood/BSO concerts (lawn and Shed seating) and for special events call (617) 266-1200 or (413) 637-5180; online: tanglewood.org or customerservice@bso.org. In Lenox, visit the Tanglewood box office at the Main Gate located at 297 West Street.

 

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