Tanglewood 2018 visitor’s guide

The 2018 Tanglewood schedule is highlighted by The Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration and will include several concerts devoted to the legacy of the great composer and conductor whose career practically began and ended at Tanglewood, where he was a conducting fellow in the first class of the Berkshire Music Center, 1940 (now Tanglewood Music Center) and gave his last perfrormance, conducting the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra shortly before his death in 1990.
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2018 Tanglewood schedule
Tanglewood Main Entrance; photo by Dave Read.




Thomas Ades, Kirill Gerstein on 2018 Tanglewood schedule

Article updated March 2, 2018 by Dave Read 2018 BSO artistic partner Thomas Ades Now in his second season as BSO Artistic Partner, the gifted British composer-conductor-pianist Thomas Adès leads the BSO in a suite from his opera Powder Her Face on a program with Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featuring Christian Tetzlaff (7/22); directs Tanglewood’s 2018… read more

Guest soloists, conductors on 2018 Tanglewood schedule

Article updated Feb. 22, 2018 by Dave Read The roster of guest soloists and conductors on the 2018 Tanglewood schedule is especially lustrous because of the summer-long Bernstein Centennial Celebration. Photo: Michael Tilson Thomas; Art Streiber In addition to programs conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony concerts also will be led by BSO… read more

Andris Nelsons on 2018 Tanglewood schedule

Article updated March 1, 2018 by Dave Read Maestro Andris Nelsons opens the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood schedule on July 6, with soloist Lang Lang in a program of Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Besides his participation in The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood on Aug. 25, and performances with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (TMCO), Nelsons… read more

Tanglewood schedule August 2018

Article posted Feb. 14, 2018 by Dave Read The 2018 Tanglewood schedule features a season-long celebration of the centennial of the birth, in Lawrence, MA, of Leonard Bernstein, who became the protege of Serge Koussevitsky in 1940 as a member of the first class of what became the Tanglewood Music Center. Bernstein’s last performance was… read more

Tanglewood schedule July 2018

Article posted Feb. 14, 2018 by Dave Read The 2018 Tanglewood schedule features a season-long celebration of the centennial of the birth, in Lawrence, MA, of Leonard Bernstein, who became the protege of Serge Koussevitsky in 1940 as a member of the first class of what became the Tanglewood Music Center. Bernstein’s last performance was… read more

Bernstein Centennial tops 2018 Tanglewood schedule

Article updated Feb. 21, 2018 by Dave Read The Boston Symphony Orchestra is Celebrating Lenny at Tanglewood; the Bernstein Centennial Summer has more than a dozen pieces composed by Leonard Bernstein listed in the 2018 Tanglewood schedule. He was born August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, MA, was a member of the first class of the… read more