{"id":12549,"date":"2013-08-30T09:34:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=12549"},"modified":"2013-08-30T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:34:15","slug":"beethovens-ninth-closes-bso-2013-bso-tanglewood-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/beethovens-ninth-closes-bso-2013-bso-tanglewood-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven’s Ninth closes BSO’s 2013 Tanglewood season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beethoven’s Ninth closes BSO’s 2013 Tanglewood season<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

August 25, 2013 performance; by Dave Read<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Maestro<\/a>There is an appealing symmetry in the scheduling of Beethoven’s Ninth at Tanglewood<\/strong>; it is the composition chosen 76 years ago by founding maestro Serge Koussevitsky<\/strong> to open the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s<\/a> summer sojourn in the Berkshires<\/strong> and now it is almost always* played on the closing program. (*Former music director James Levine<\/strong> opened the 2006 Tanglewood season with Beethoven’s Ninth.) <\/p>\n

For today’s concert, with BSO Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink<\/strong> leading the BSO<\/strong>, Tanglewood Festival Chorus<\/strong>, and soprano Erin Wall<\/strong>, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford<\/strong>, tenor Joseph Kaiser<\/strong>, and bass-baritone John Relyea<\/strong>, a capacity audience filled the Koussevitsky Music Shed and seven or eight thousand more convened on the Lawn, all on a day when the weather was the sort that makes even the most sullen among us see the sunny side of things.<\/p>\n

The performance of Maestro Haitink seemed flawless, as if he were at the pre-emeritus peak of his long career. He commanded the 200+ musicians arrayed before him with an economy of action that nonetheless elicited a banquet of beautiful music. He showed that fury can be conveyed without frenzy. <\/p>\n

Today’s performance thwarted my most determined attempt at entering a thought-less state, so that I might simply go with what flows from the stage. The first idea that trotted along was that a setting such as this, the bucolic Berkshires on a splendid summer afternoon, must’ve been put before us so that we could access a tangible, visual analog to these sounds that are rustling our souls. And that was enough to make me quit jotting mental notes. For the balance of today’s 71 minute celebration, I was delighted merely to be marked present. The ovations that followed were joyous and prolonged and included the musicians’ foot stomping salute to Maestro Haitnik. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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