{"id":9591,"date":"2012-06-11T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T18:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2012-06-11T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T18:58:22","slug":"tanglewood-schedule-june-22-july-5-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/tanglewood-schedule-june-22-july-5-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanglewood schedule June 22-July 5, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tanglewood schedule June 22-July 5, 2012<\/h1>\n

Tanglewood schedule for the week before the BSO opens its 75th season, June 22-July 5, 2012 features Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble, June 22 and 24; Diana Krall returns to Tanglewood June 23; Mark Morris Dance Group performs June 28 & 29; A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor broadcasts live from the Shed on June 30; and James Taylor plays concerts on July 2, 3, and 4th.<\/p>\n

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Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble opens Tanglewood schedule on June 22, 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>Yo-Yo Ma<\/strong>, a beloved Tanglewood fixture who has performed at the festival in all but one summer since 1983, opens the 2012 Tanglewood season<\/strong> with two performances featuring his Silk Road Ensemble<\/strong> in Ozawa Hall Friday, June 22, and Sunday, June 24. With musicians from around the globe, the Ensemble will perform a special program that reflects a diversity of styles and nationalities, combining Western and non-Western instruments from the old and new worlds in ways that transcend cultural boundaries.<\/p>\n

Diana Krall performs Saturday, June 23, in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, where she last appeared at the festival in 2009. The double platinum-selling recording artist is known for her distinctive jazz stylings across a range of repertoire, especially tunes from the American songbook.<\/p>\n

The Mark Morris Dance Group<\/strong> makes its annual appearance in two highly anticipated concerts Thursday, June 28, and Friday, June 29, collaborating as usual with Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center<\/strong>. The program includes three Morris works: Something Lies Beyond the Scene<\/em>, set to William Walton’s Fa\u00e7ade<\/strong>: An Entertainment<\/em> and featuring soprano and longtime TMC faculty member Phyllis Curtin<\/strong> in the role of narrator; Rock of Ages<\/em>, set to the second movement of Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat, D.897<\/em>; and Festival Dance<\/em>, set to Johann Hummel’s Piano Trio No. 5 in E, Op. 83<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor and a colorful cast of friends from the shores of Lake Wobegon<\/strong>, has become a favorite Tanglewood tradition and once again broadcasts live from the Shed Saturday, June 30<\/strong>. James Taylor, another beloved and annual guest, appears in three concerts July 2, 3, and 4, in a program called James Taylor at Tanglewood<\/strong>, reflecting the style and the songs that have made him an icon. Tanglewood’s annual Independence Day fireworks display follow the July 4 concert<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The pre-season concludes Thursday, July 5, with the always outstanding Emerson String Quartet<\/strong>. In an Ozawa Hall program juxtaposing the classic and the new, the group performs Mozart’s String Quartet No. 21 in D, K.575<\/em>, internationally acclaimed British composer Thomas Ad\u00e8s’s<\/strong> Four Quarters, and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130<\/em>, with the composer’s original Gro\u00dfe Fuge<\/strong> finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tanglewood schedule for the week before the BSO opens its 75th season, June 22-July 5, 2012 features Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble, June 22 and 24; Diana Krall returns to Tanglewood June 23; Mark Morris Dance Group performs June 28 & 29; A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor broadcasts live from the Shed on June 30; and James Taylor plays concerts on July 2, 3, and 4th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46,56],"class_list":["post-9591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-outdated","tag-james-taylor","tag-yo-yo-ma","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}