{"id":25958,"date":"2024-07-08T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=25958"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:08:35","slug":"opening-exercises-at-tanglewood-july-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/opening-exercises-at-tanglewood-july-5-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening exercises at Tanglewood, July 5, 2024."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/contact\/\">Dave Read<\/a>, Lenox, MA, July 5, 2024 event &#8211; Although I&#8217;ve been filing reports from Tanglewood since the Clinton administration, it wasn&#8217;t until 2022 that I attended the open-to-the-public Opening Exercises of the <strong>Tanglewood Music Center<\/strong>, which is the true heart and soul of the <strong>Boston Symphony Orchestra&#8217;s Tanglewood<\/strong> enterprise.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24890\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_7442-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tanglewood Music Center, 2022 opening exercises; Dave Read photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24890\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanglewood Music Center, 2022 opening exercises; Dave Read photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was surprised to be among only a few score of civilians inside Ozawa Hall. Every time I enter that building I am awestruck at its simple majesty, the genius of the architecture. Speaking of which, did you know that <strong>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/strong> said that <em>architecture is frozen music<\/em>?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24887\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_7465-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tanglewood Music Center, 2022 opening exercises; Dave Read photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24887\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanglewood Music Center, 2022 opening exercises; Dave Read photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Besides brief remarks by the suits in charge, the event resolves to the <em>a capella<\/em> performance of the <em>Alleluia<\/em> chorus composed by <strong>Randall Thomspson<\/strong> with a commission from <strong>Serge Koussevitsky<\/strong>, the great man whose great vision now encircles the globe, every part of which sends students to Tanglewood and employs musicians trained there! <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XrT6BOLagrk?si=J-hzOIPbpna8Im_e\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, July 5, 2024 event &#8211; Although I&#8217;ve been filing reports from Tanglewood since the Clinton administration, it wasn&#8217;t until 2022 that I attended the open-to-the-public Opening Exercises of the Tanglewood Music Center, which is the true heart and soul of the Boston Symphony Orchestra&#8217;s Tanglewood enterprise. 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