Close Encounters With Music (CEWM) is offering Sheffield Gardeners 50% off tickets to all six concerts of its 35th season at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington. Use the code GARDEN50 at checkout.

Of special interest: “Flowers and Gardens” on Sunday, March 14, with the Skylark Vocal Ensemble performing Britten’s Flower Songs, Benedict Sheehan’s Songbird Antiphons, and other music inspired by gardens and birdsong.

The season opens Sunday, November 1, with “Saluting the Clarinet,” featuring Mozart, Beethoven, Bartók and Gershwin. All concerts start at 4 p.m. Artistic director and cellist Yehuda Hanani introduces the stories behind the music, and an Afterglow reception with the musicians follows each performance.

Programs and tickets: cewm.org. Full lineup and dates: CEWM’s season announcement.

Want to go as a group? Caitlin Marsden McNeill, CEWM’s director of operations, is happy to help arrange seats: caitlin@cewm.org.