{"id":965,"date":"2008-11-25T08:55:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T12:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/berkshires-news\/?p=965"},"modified":"2008-11-25T08:55:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T12:55:33","slug":"tanglewood-schedule-birthday-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/tanglewood-schedule-birthday-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanglewood schedule \u2013 birthday celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Tanglewood\u2019s favorite maestros celebrate significant birthdays at the festival this summer. <strong>Andre Previn<\/strong>, who celebrates his 80th birthday in April, returns to the festival with three programs that showcase his remarkable versatility as a conductor, composer, and performer. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to leading a program with the BSO (August 15), Mr. Previn will also be featured in two <strong>Ozawa Hall<\/strong> programs, including an evening of jazz favorites with pianist <strong>David Finck<\/strong> (August 16). A <strong>Boston Symphony Chamber Players<\/strong> concert features Mr. Previn in the <em>Brahms Quintet in F minor for piano and strings<\/em> and reprises his new chamber work premiered in March 2009 (August 12). <\/p>\n<p>One of the BSO\u2019s most popular guest conductors, <strong>Rafael Fr\u00fchbeck de Burgos<\/strong> marks his 75th birthday with three separate programs at Tanglewood, including a reprise of the acclaimed Symphony Hall performances of <em>Carmina burana<\/em> (August 8).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir James Galway<\/strong> celebrates his 70th birthday with a special musical birthday bash, anchored by a performance of <strong>Mozart\u2019s<\/strong> <em>Flute Concerto No. 2<\/em> (August 1). The program also includes music by <strong>Debussy and Copland<\/strong>, and promises some special musical surprises for the occasion. Galway precedes the BSO celebration with an Ozawa Hall recital featuring his wife, flutist <strong>Lady Jeanne Galway<\/strong>, and longtime collaborator, American pianist <strong>Phillip Moll<\/strong> (July 30).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conductors Andre Previn and Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, and flutist Sir James Galway celebrate special birthdays with performances during the 2009 season at Tanglewood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}