Article updated Feb. 6, 2019 by Dave Read Tanglewood Learning Institute programs will explore the ways in which music illuminates the human experience by linking Tanglewood performances to relevant themes from the worlds of visual arts, film, history, philosophy, and current events, and offering experiences that dissolve the traditional barrier between performer and audience. TLI’s […]
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Tanglewood Learning Institute opens June 2019
Article updated Feb. 6, 2019 by Dave Read The 2019 Tanglewood season will be highlighted by the opening of the Tanglewood Learning Institute, housed in the Linde Center for Music and Learning, four new buildings on the rise above Seiji Ozawa Hall. Besides supporting the Tanglewood Music Center, the educational component of the Boston Symphony […]
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Article updated Dec. 14, 2018 by Dave Read Highlighting the BSO’s August 2019 Tanglewood schedule is Yo-Yo Ma’s Aug. 11 program, J.S. BACH Suites for unaccompanied cello, which is part of his two-year global initiative, “The Bach Project.” Yet to be announced is the accompanying “days of action,” wherein Ma seeks “to put culture in […]
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Article posted Dec. 13, 2018 by Dave Read The Boston Symphony’s July 2019 schedule includes the July 20 world premier of The Brightness of Light, a BSO co-commission composed by Kevin Puts, based on the letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Written especially for Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry, and accompanied by projections by […]
Continue reading Tanglewood schedule July 2019Wynton Marsalis Quintet and Ellis Marsalis Quintet at Tanglewood
Article updated Sept. 2, 2018 by Dave Read Wynton Marsalis is every bit the national treasure that Leonard Bernstein was and it seems that we in the Tanglewood orbit keep getting luckier. This was dubbed the Bernstein Centennial Summer, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra segment of it was bookended with concerts by artists representing the […]
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Article updated August 30, 2018 by Dave Read Spirits were yet scurrying back to their haunting places when Christopher Eisenbach took to the podium less than fifteen hours after the Bernstein Centennial Celebration to lead the Boston Symphony and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in the program that would conclude the BSO’s Summer of Lenny in […]
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Article updated August 26, 2018 by Dave Read The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood, the culmination of the Summer of Lenny in the Berkshires, was a three hour variety show that wrapped up with the rafter-rattling Finale from Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection.” But, since it would’ve been too tidy for this event to dissolve […]
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Article updated August 21, 2018 by Dave Read The Sunday afternoon (Aug. 19) program on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2018 Tanglewood calendar has loomed in anticipation since I filled out my summer concert list months ago, especially because of the rarity of the Bernstein selection, Three Meditations from Mass, for cello and orchestra, which has […]
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