The 2018 Tanglewood season is underway. We are planning to cover about one-half of the fifteen popular artist shows scheduled before the Boston Symphony Orchestra season gets underway on Friday July 6, when Music Director Andris Nelsons returns to his place at the podium in the Koussevitsky Music Shed to conduct a program that features pianist Lang Lang.
Article updated June 20, 2018 by Dave Read Tanglewood schedules present an embarrassment of riches, putting us at risk of fun-overload, which is as dangerous as second-helpings of pecan pie at Thanksgiving. Having covered Tanglewood since the Clinton Administration, we know enough to moderate, not overbook, and to look closely at the lineup so as… read more
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
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
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
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
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
James Taylor leads Tanglewood’s Popular Artists schedule for the 2018 season, along with Stephen Stills, Judy Collins, Roger Daltry, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Bela Fleck, and others.
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
