Tanglewood schedule week 6 – Aug. 13 – 19, 2010

Tanglewood schedule for week 6 – Aug. 13 – 19, 2010 includes music by Gershwin, Bernstein, and Schuller, plus Caminos del Inka: A Musical Journey, Film Night at Tanglewood, and the Festival of Contemporary Music.

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August 13, 2010, Friday 8:30 PM – Robles, Frank and Golijov
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA

• Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
• Elizabeth Rowe, flute
• Alisa Weilerstein, cello
• ROBLES, El cóndor pasa
• FRANK, Illapa, for flute and orchestra
• GOLIJOV, Mariel, for cello and orchestra

Caminos del Inka: A Musical Journey – Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads a musical journey through the ancient Inca empire with specially created videography by the renowned Peruvian photographer Gabriela Fit. The breathtaking images of Machu Picchu, floating island villages, and the expanses of the Peruvian plains are matched to stirring and evocative music, from the time of the Conquistadores to the sounds of the first new classical voices of 21st-century Latin America.

August 14, 2010, Saturday 10:30 AM – Gershwin, Schuller and Bernstein (Open Rehearsal – Sunday Program)
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA

• Robert Spano, conductor
• Thomas Martin, clarinet
• Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
• GERSHWIN, An American in Paris
• SCHULLER, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
• BERNSTEIN, Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, for clarinet and jazz ensemble
• GERSHWIN, Piano Concerto

August 14, 2010, Saturday 2:30 PM – Festival of Contemporary Music
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

The 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Tanglewood Music Center, and the seven decades of great composers who have led and taken a major role in its composition program, teaching and inspiring the next generation of composers and performers. Directed and programmed by the three still living composers who have chaired the composition activities at the TMC – Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen, and John Harbison – the Festival will feature works by these three composers as well as by some of the great figures of early and recent years, starting with Copland and Hindemith, and continuing up to recent resident composers (complete programs to be announced). In addition to the six concerts of the Festival itself there will be an FCM Preview concert with James Levine, Stefan Asbury, and TMC Fellows conducting, on July 12. Works by the composers to be honored will appear on TMC concerts throughout the season.

August 14, 2010, Saturday 8:30 PM – Film Night at Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA

• John Williams, conductor
• Boston Pops Orchestra

One of the season’s most popular traditions, the annual Film Night concert is a celebration of music from the movies. In his 30th summer at Tanglewood, John Williams presents a memorable evening that recreates some of the great musical moments in Hollywood history.

August 15, 2010, Sunday 10:00 AM – Festival of Contemporary Music
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

• TMC: Chamber Music Concert

Full-length chamber music concerts of both standard repertoire and contemporary works performed by TMC Fellows.

August 15, 2010, Sunday 2:30 PM – Gershwin, Schuller and Bernstein
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA

• Robert Spano, conductor
• Thomas Martin, clarinet
• Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
• GERSHWIN, An American in Paris
• SCHULLER, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
• BERNSTEIN, Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, for clarinet and jazz ensemble
• GERSHWIN, Piano Concerto

August 15, 2010, Sunday 8:00 PM – Festival of Contemporary Music
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

• Operas in concert by John Harbison and Oliver Knussen
• The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood

August 16, 2010, Monday 8:00 PM – Festival of Contemporary Music
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

• Robert Spano, conductor
• Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
• Program to include Copland’s Symphony No. 3

August 18, 2010, Wednesday 8:00 PM – Australian Chamber Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

• Richard Tognetti, violin and leader
• Steven Isserlis, cello
• Australian Chamber Orchestra
• ELGAR, Introduction and Allegro for strings
• SCHUMANN, Cello Concerto
• VASKS, Vox amoris, for violin and strings
• MOZART, Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

August 19, 2010, Thursday 8:00 PM – Ebene String Quartet
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

• Ebene String Quartet
• MOZART, Divertimento in D, K.136
• BARTOK, Quartet No. 1, Op. 7
• BEETHOVEN, Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

Complete 2010 Tanglewood schedule

• Tanglewood schedule – preseason – June 26 – July 6, 2010
• Tanglewood schedule week 1 – July 9 – 15, 2010
• Tanglewood schedule week 2 – July 16 – 22, 2010
• Tanglewood schedule week 3 – July 23 – 29, 2010
• Tanglewood schedule week 4 – July 30 – Aug. 5, 2010
• Tanglewood schedule week 5 – Aug. 6 – 12, 2010
• Tanglewood schedule week 6 – Aug. 13 – 19, 2010
• Tanglewood schedule week 7 – Aug. 20 – 26, 2010
• Tanglewood schedule week 8 – Aug. 27 – 29, 2010

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Tanglewood tickets

Tanglewood tickets go on sale to the general public Sunday, February 14, 2010. Tickets will be available online, and through SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200. Regular season ticket prices at Tanglewood range from $9-$115. Tickets for Open Rehearsals are $17.

Tickets will also available for purchase in person at the Tanglewood Box Office at Tanglewood’s Main Gate on West Street in Lenox, MA, starting June 18.