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July 15 – 21, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 2

Second week of the 2011 season Tanglewood schedule, July 15-21, features Kurt Masur conducting the BSO in a program of Dvorak and Schumann, John Storgaards leading an all-Sibelius program, a tribute to Cole Porter by the Boston Pops led by Keith Lockhart with Broadway stars Kelli O’Hara and Jason Danieley, plus pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing Ravel’s music for solo piano in two Ozawa Hall concerts.

Friday, July 15

Friday, July 15, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, July 15, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 15, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Kurt Masur, conductor
Lynn Harrell, cello
DVORÁK Cello Concerto
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring

Eminent German conductor Kurt Masur, a frequent guest of the BSO and at Tanglewood, conducts Dvo?ák’s Cello Concerto, featuring soloist Lynn Harrell, and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Spring.

Saturday, July 16

Saturday, July 16, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Saturday program

Saturday, July 16, 8:30 p.m. Shed
John Storgaards, conductor
Nikolaj Znaider, violin
ALL-SIBELIUS PROGRAM
Finlandia
Valse triste
Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 5

Maestro John Storgaards leads the orchestra and is joined by Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider (making his Tanglewood debut) for an all-Sibelius program featuring the soaring Violin Concerto, the gripping Symphony No. 5, the beloved tone poem Finlandia, and Valse triste.

Sunday, July 17

Sunday, July 17, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Kelli O’Hara, vocalist
Jason Danieley, vocalist

Broadway stars Kelli O’Hara and Jason Danieley join conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra for a program of Pops orchestral favorites and a tribute to the great Cole Porter.

Sunday, July 17, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Kurt Masur, conductor
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
KODÁLY Háry János Suite
STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

Kurt Masur, along with TMC Conducting Fellows, will lead the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in a program including Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Kodály’s Háry János Suite, Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks, and Schumann’s rousing Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61.

Wednesday, July 20

Wednesday, July 20, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
RAVEL Complete Works for Piano, Program 1
- Serenade grotesque
- Menuet antique
- Miroirs
- Sonatine
- Gaspard de la nuit

Thursday, July 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Thursday, July 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
RAVEL Complete Works for Piano, Program 2
- Pavane pour une infante défunte
- Jeux d’eau
- Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
- Valses nobles et sentimentales
- Prélude
- A la manière de Borodine
- A la manière de Chabrier
- Le Tombeau de Couperin

Outstanding French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Ravel, offers an incredibly rare opportunity to hear the composer’s complete music for solo piano between two Ozawa Hall concerts. Highlights include Miroirs, Gaspard de la nuit, Jeux d’eau, Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Le Tombeau de Couperin. Ravel’s piano music virtually defines the Impressionist period in which he composed, and is considered some of the finest keyboard writing of any era.

*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut

Tanglewood contact info.

297 West Street (Rt. 183)
Lenox, MA 01240
Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
Website: tanglewood.org

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July 22 – 28, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 3

Highlights for Week 3 of the 2011 Tanglewood schedule, July 22-28 are: a program of all-baroque music conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, Beethoven and Brahms concerts led by Jaap van Zweden, from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Steven Stucky’s Rhapsodies; pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet on an all-Ravel program with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted Maestro Emmanuel Krivine.

Friday, July 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Friday, July 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, July 22, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 22, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor**
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano

Young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts Friday, July 22 as he and the orchestra are joined by renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham for a program of all-baroque music including arias by Handel and Gluck, and orchestra works by Bach and Rameau. This concert is performed without intermission.

Saturday, July 23

Saturday, July 23, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, July 23, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, July 23, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden, conductor**
Arabella Steinbacher, violin
STUCKY Rhapsodies
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden, currently Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Brahms’s Violin Concerto with soloist Arabella Steinbacher, and contemporary American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Stucky’s Rhapsodies, a series of short and diverse episodes for orchestra. He’s joined by violinist Arabella Steinbacher for Brahms’s Violin Concerto.

Sunday, July 24

Sunday, July 24, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
ALL-RAVEL PROGRAM
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Piano Concerto in G
Piano Concerto in D for the left hand
Boléro

Outstanding pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet again takes center stage with the BSO and Maestro Emmanuel Krivine, for an all-Ravel program featuring the Piano Concerto in G, the Piano Concerto in D for the left hand, Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Boléro.

Monday, July 25

Monday, July 25, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
José van Dam, bass-baritone (Golaud)
Elliot Madore, baritone (Pelleas)
Evan Hughes, bass-baritone (Arkel)
Vocal Alumni of the TMC
DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande

James Levine joins the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for a concert performance of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, the centerpiece event of the TMCO’s season. Bass-baritone José van Dam as Golaud will be joined by some of the TMC’s most talented alumni Vocal Fellows, including Elliot Madore as Pelléas and bass-baritone Evan Hughes as Arkel, filling out the cast for the Debussy work.

*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut

Tuesday, July 26 – 7PM Shed

Steely Dan

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297 West Street (Rt. 183)
Lenox, MA 01240
Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
Website: tanglewood.org

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July 29 – Aug. 4, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 4

Tanglewood Week 4 July 29 – August 4, 2011 highlights are Maestro Hans Graf leading the BSO in programs of Mozart and Mahler, pianist Leon Fleisher, National Symphony Orchestra Music Director Christoph Eschenbach conducting two BSO programs, along with soloists Peter Serkin and Alisa Weilerstein, the audience favorite Tanglewood On Parade with the thrilling 1812 Overture, and the annual Festival Of Contemporary Music, curated this year by the eminent American composer Charles Wuorinen.

Friday, July 29

Friday, July 29, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, July 29, 7:15 p. m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 29, 8:30 p.m. Shed
The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Hans Graf, conductor
Leon Fleisher, piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414
MAHLER Symphony No. 5

the Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert features longtime Tanglewood presence and pianist Leon Fleisher, Maestro Hans Graf, and the BSO in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.

Saturday, July 30

Saturday, July 30, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, July 30, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, July 30, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Peter Serkin, piano
ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Piano Concerto No. 1
Symphony No. 4

National Symphony Orchestra Music Director Christoph Eschenbach conducts an all-Brahms program, including the Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring distinguished American pianist Peter Serkin, and Symphony No. 4.

Sunday, July 31

Sunday, July 31, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
MAHLER Symphony No. 1

On Sunday, July 31, Maestro Eschenbach leads the BSO in Mahler’s Symphony No.1 on a program that also features young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein in Haydn’s Cello Concerto No.1 in C Major.

Tuesday, August 2

Tuesday, August 2, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Tanglewood on Parade
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos, Stefan Asbury, John Williams, and Christoph Eschenbach, conductors
WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
Fireworks to follow the concert

Wednesday, August 3

Wednesday, August 3 – Sunday, August 7
2011 Festival of Contemporary Music

Directed by Pulitzer prize-winning Charles Wuorinen, the six-program festival will feature two world premiere performances including Mr. Wuorinen’s It Happens Like This, a dramatic, semi-staged 35-minute cantata for four singers and 12 instrumentalists set to six selections from James Tate’s Return to the City of White Donkeys (2004), which will open the festival on August 3, and will be conducted by James Levine.

Tanglewood contact info.

297 West Street (Rt. 183)
Lenox, MA 01240
Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
Website: tanglewood.org

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August 5-11, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 5

The 2011 Tanglewood schedule for Week 5, August 5 – 11 includes Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducting a BSO program featuring the young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, who makes her Tanglewood debut in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Emanuel Ax performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482; the Festival of Contemporary Music continues; California rock band Train makes its Tanglewood debut; and Stephanie Blythe visits Ozawa Hall for a concert of American music including aaron Copland’s In the Beginning.

Friday, August 5

Friday, August 5, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, August 5, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, August 5, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano*
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Spanish conductor and frequent Tanglewood guest conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos takes the podium on Friday, August 5 for a BSO program featuring the young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, who makes her Tanglewood debut in Rachmaninoff’s perennial audience favorite Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Also on the program are Beethoven’s boisterous Symphony No. 8 and Strauss’s Suite from Der Rosenkavalier.

Saturday, August 6

Saturday, August 6, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, August 6, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, August 6, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sean Newhouse, conductor**
Sarah Chang, violin
JALBERT Music of air and fire
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

On Saturday, August 6, renowned violinist Sarah Chang joins the orchestra for Mendelssohn’s sparkling Violin Concerto on a program that also includes Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and American composer Pierre Jalbert’s Music of air and fire. Sean Newhouse, one of the BSO’s new Assistant Conductors, will lead the orchestra for the first time.

Sunday, August 7

Sunday, August 7, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Lionel Bringuier, conductor**
Emanuel Ax, piano
SMETANA The Moldau
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

The BSO’s fifth weekend comes to a close Sunday, August 7 with one of the world’s foremost concert pianists, Emanuel Ax, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482. Lionel Bringuier, an Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra making his BSO and Tanglewood debuts, also will conduct Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Smetana’s The Moldau, the composer’s most famous music from his iconic work of musical nationalism, Má Vlast.

Also on August 7 is the orchestral culmination of the Festival of Contemporary Music with a program that features Felipe Lara’s Onda, Jo Kondo’s In Summer, David Felder’s Inner Sky, and Andrew Norman’s drip blip sparkle spin glint glide glow float flop chop pop shatter splash.

Monday, August 8

Monday, August 8, 7 p.m. Shed
Train

Monday, August 8 brings another rock concert to Tanglewood as Train, known around the world for hits such as “Hey, Soul Sister,” take the stage in the Shed.
Join this Grammy Award-winning band playing songs from their latest release, Save Me, San Francisco, and more.

Tuesday, August 9

Tuesday, August 9, 8:00 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
André Previn, piano
MARTIN Les Madrigaux, for winds
PREVIN Octet for Eleven, for winds, brass, and strings
MILHAUD La Cheminée du Roi René, suite for wind quintet, Op. 205
MOZART Piano Quartet in G minor, K.478

On Tuesday, August 9, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players reprise the majority of their October 17 Boston concert and are joined by composer-conductor-pianist André Previn in music that includes Previn’s effervescent new Octet for Eleven, for winds, brass, and strings, a work commissioned by the BSO.

Wednesday, August 10

Wednesday, August 10, 8 p. m. Ozawa Hall
Stephanie Blythe and Friends
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
Alan Smith, piano
Andrew Jennings, violin
Norman Fischer, cello
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
SMITH Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman, for mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, and piano
SMITH An Unknown Sphere, for mezzo-soprano and chorus (world premiere; BSO commission)
plus early American popular songs and choruses

Opera superstar mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe visits Ozawa Hall Wednesday, August 10, joining TMC faculty members Alan Smith, violinist Andrew Jennings, cellist Norman Fischer, as well as the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor, for a concert of American music including Copland’s In the Beginning, Mr. Smith’s Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman and An Unknown Sphere (a world premiere and BSO commission), and selected African American spirituals.

*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut

Tanglewood contact info.

297 West Street (Rt. 183)
Lenox, MA 01240
Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
Website: tanglewood.org

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August 12-18, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 6

The sixth week of the 2011 Tanglewood schedule, August 12-18, features a program of Spanish Music, with Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos land guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero making his Tanglewood debut; Yo-Yo Ma solos on a program lead by Christoph von Dohnányi, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (TMCO) in an all-Brahms program, and the Tanglewood debut of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

Friday, August 12

Friday, August 12, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, August 12, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, August 12, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Pepe Romero, guitar*
BIZET Preludes from Carmen
RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and orchestra
BOCCHERINI/BERIO Ritirata notturna di Madrid
FALLA Interlude and First Dance from La vida breve
GRANADOS Intermezzo from Goyescas
GIMÉNEZ Intermezzo from La boda de Luís Alonso
This concert is performed without intermission.

Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leads a program dedicated to Spanish and Spanish-inspired music, with guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero making his Tanglewood debut; highlights include Bizet’s Preludes from Carmen, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with Mr. Romero as soloist, and Falla’s Interlude and First Dance from La vida breve.

Saturday, August 13

Saturday, August 13, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, August 13, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Saturday program

Saturday, August 13, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

Two of classical music’s most acclaimed artists join the BSO August 13 as the inimitable cellist Yo-Yo Ma and German-Hungarian conductor Christoph von Dohnányi present a program of Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, Classical, Schumann’s Cello Concerto, and Brahms’s monumental Symphony No. 1.

Sunday, August 14

Sunday, August 14, 2:30 p.m. Shed
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Nänie, for chorus and orchestra
Schicksalslied, for chorus and orchestra
Alto Rhapsody, for mezzo-soprano, male chorus, and orchestra
Symphony No. 2

The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra pays homage to Brahms with a concert dedicated entirely to his music, including Nänie and Schicksalslied for chorus and orchestra; the Alto Rhapsody, for mezzo-soprano, male chorus, and orchestra; and Symphony No. 2. The student is conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and joined by Stephanie Blythe and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Sunday, August 14, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Emanuel Ax, piano
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Anthony McGill, clarinet*
BRAHMS Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello, and piano, Op. 114
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 3 in A for cello and piano, Op. 69

Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax renew their longstanding and widely celebrated musical partnership with a recital to include music from two of the all-time masterworks of chamber music: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 3 in A for cello and piano, Op. 69, and Brahms’s Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello, and piano, Op. 114. Mr. Ma and Mr. Ax are joined by the principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera, Anthony McGill, who makes his Tanglewood debut.

Tuesday, August 16

Tuesday, August 16, 7:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra*
Nicholas McGegan, conductor*
Dominique Labelle, soprano (Angelica)
Susanne Rydén, soprano (Dorinda) *
Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano (Medoro) *
Clint van der Linde, countertenor (Orlando) *
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, baritone (Zoroastro) *
HANDEL Orlando

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra makes its Tanglewood debut in dramatic fashion with a complete performance of Handel’s opera seria Orlando under Music Director Nicholas McGegan. Inhabiting the roles of this Baroque masterpiece are soprano Dominique Labelle, soprano Susanne Rydén (Tanglewood debut), mezzo-soprano Diana Moore (Tanglewood debut), countertenor Clint van der Linde (Tanglewood debut), and baritone Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Tanglewood debut). Handel’s opera brings together far-ranging episodes of one of the great heroes of Western literature, based on the 16th-century Ariosto epic Orlando Furioso. This is an extended concert with two intermissions. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Tanglewood contact info.

297 West Street (Rt. 183)
Lenox, MA 01240
Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
Website: tanglewood.org

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August 19 – 25, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 7

Highlighting the 7th week of the Tanglewood schedule are the return of Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, the wildly popular Film Night With John Williams, a program of Mozart with Bernard Labadie and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. Conductor von Dohnányi leads the BSO Friday, August 19 in a concert comprised of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica; pianist Martin Helmchen in his BSO and Tanglewood debuts as soloist in Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1.

The annual Film Night concert Saturday, August 20 celebrates film music arranged for violin and orchestra. John Williams and the Boston Pops are joined by frequent collaborator violinist Gil Shaham. Also on the program will be Mr. Williams’ nostalgic evocation of early 20th-century America, The Reivers, with a special guest narrator.

Friday, August 19

Friday, August 19, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, August 19, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, August 19, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Martin Helmchen, piano**
SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Saturday, August 20

Saturday, August 20, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, August 20, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, August 20, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Film Night at Tanglewood
Boston Pops
John Williams, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
Guest narrator

One of the season’s most enduring and popular traditions, the annual Film Night concert celebrates the music of the movies. This summer, John Williams is joined by frequent collaborator Gil Shaham in a program featuring film music arranged for violin and orchestra. Also on the program will be Mr. Williams’ nostalgic evocation of early 20th-century America, The Reivers, with special guest narrator.

Sunday, August 21

Sunday, August 21, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Labadie, conductor*
Benedetto Lupo, piano**
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Chaconne from Idomeneo
Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456
Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

Bernard Labadie, renowned Music Director of the Canadian Baroque and Classical specialist orchestra Les Violons du Roy, makes his Tanglewood debut Sunday, August 21 leading the BSO in an all-Mozart program including the Symphony No. 41, Jupiter, Piano Concerto No. 18, K.456, and the Chaconne from Idomeneo. Pianist Benedetto Lupo makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts as soloist for the concerto.

Sunday, August 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Radio Deluxe – with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey

Thursday, August 25

Thursday, August 25, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Brad Mehldau, piano

On Thursday, August 25, Brad Mehldau takes the Ozawa Hall stage for a solo recital. Mr. Mehldau has forged a unique path, which embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. As a bandleader and in diverse collaborations with artists such as Pat Metheny, Renée Fleming, and Joshua Redman, he continues to garner awards and admiration from jazz purists and open-eared musical omnivores.

Tanglewood contact info.

297 West Street (Rt. 183)
Lenox, MA 01240
Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
Website: tanglewood.org

How to get Tanglewood brochures

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