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GREAT BARRINGTON —The 35th Aston Magna season ended over the weekend with a post-concert benefit party on the estate for which the concert series is named. The final program at the Daniel Arts Center, "Music of Henry Purcell," had a sign on the door that read "Completely Sold Out." That message, one would think, better suits an event for Harry Potter than Henry Purcell, and great as his 17th-century music is, Purcell was not the name that brought Berkshire's A-list to hear Purcell's music and visit Lee Elman's estate. That name, and that honor, belong to Great Barrington resident Phyllis Curtin, internationally known opera soprano, reigning Tanglewood vocal teacher, pioneering scholar, composers' muse and diva in the most gracious sense. Just putting her name on a tribute did the trick......MORE...

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