Tanglewood schedule week 2 – July 16 – 22, 2010

The second week on the Tanglewood schedule, July 16 – 22, 2010, features Boston Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine conducting Mozart, Stravinsky, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, Arlo Guthrie in a special appearance with the Boston Pops, conducted by Keith Lockhart and, in Seiji Ozawa Hall, Benjamin Bagby‘s “Epic performance” of Beowulf.

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July 16 2010, Friday 8:30 PM – Stravinsky and Mozart
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA

• James Levine, conductor
• Soile Isokoski, soprano
• Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano
• Russell Thomas, tenor
• Jordan Bisch, bass
• Tanglewood Festival Chorus
• John Oliver, conductor
• STRAVINSKY, Symphony of Psalms
• MOZART, Requiem

July 17 2010, Saturday 10:30 AM, Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Open Rehearsal – Saturday Program)
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA

• James Levine, conductor
• Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
• Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
• Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
• John Oliver, conductor
• The American Boychoir
• Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, music director
• MAHLER, Symphony No. 3

July 17 2010, Saturday 8:30 PM, Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA

• James Levine, conductor
• Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
• Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
• Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
• John Oliver, conductor
• The American Boychoir
• Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, music director
• MAHLER, Symphony No. 3
• The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert

July 18 2010, Sunday 10:00 AM – TMC: Chamber Music Concert
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

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

July 18 2010, Sunday 2:30 PM – Boston Pops Orchestra with special guests Arlo Guthrie and Alec Baldwin
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA

• Keith Lockhart, conductor
• Arlo Guthrie, vocalist
• Alec Baldwin, narrator
• Boston Pops Orchestra

Program will include The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers by Peter Boyer (Ellis Island) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime), honoring the legacy of Massachusetts native sons John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy.

July 18 2010, Sunday 8:00 PM – Audra MacDonald: A New American Songbook
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

• Audra McDonald, vocalist
• A New American Songbook

Singer/actress Audra McDonald blends classical training with an extraordinary dramatic sensibility, appearing with equal acclaim as opera singer, television actress, recording artist, and Broadway superstar. Her first Ozawa Hall concert offers an eclectic mix of standard favorites and songs written expressly for her by today’s finest music theater composers.

July 21 2010, Wednesday 8:00 PM – Beowulf: The Epic in Performance
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

• Benjamin Bagby, voice and harp
• Beowulf: The Epic in Performance

Through song and speech, and accompanying himself on a six-stringed harp, medievalist Benjamin Bagby vividly recreates his version of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf – the oldest extant complete poem in English, a narrative that tells the story of the chieftain Beowulf who defeats the monster Grendel in battle. Sung in old English as it may have been heard 1000 years ago, Beowulf draws us back into the world of tribal society and Nordic legend.

Performed in old English with modern English supertitles.

July 22 2010, Thursday 8:00 PM – Pieter Wispelwey: J.S. Bach
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA

• Pieter Wispelwey, baroque cello and violoncello piccolo
• J.S. BACH, Complete Suites for solo cello

This is an extended concert with two intermissions.

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.