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Tanglewood 2011 schedule at-a-glance

Highlights of the 2011 Tanglewood schedule include an all-Italian opening night concert with Maestro James Levine leading the BSO in music by Verdi, Rossini, and Respighi; four performances each by Yo Yo Ma and James Taylor; BSO performing Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess; A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood, with Garrison Keillor; Tanglewood debut of Train; and the annual Labor Day Tanglewood Jazz Festival.

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Tanglewood Pre-season schedule June 28 – July 7

Read more: Tanglewood schedule June 28 – July 7, 2011.

Tuesday and Wednesday, June 28 & 29, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Theatre

Tuesday and Wednesday, June 28 & 29, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Thursday, June 30, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

In the more intimate setting of Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, James Taylor offers the music that has made him one of the most beloved artists of our day.

Friday, July 1, 8:30 p.m. Shed

Tanglewood’s favorite singer joins “America’s Orchestra,” the Boston Pops, for a remarkable collaboration.

Saturday, July 2, 5:45 p.m. Shed

Sunday, July 3, 7 p.m. Shed

James Taylor returns to Tanglewood with his extraordinary band of musicians for two spectacular performances.

Tuesday, July 5, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Thursday, July 7, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Composer and virtuoso violinist Mark O’Connor introduces and performs a fascinating evening of his own music. Drawing on sources as diverse as bluegrass, swing, and the great classical traditions, O’Connor has defined a new style of string playing in North America. The program will include solos, duets, quartets, and excerpts from the acclaimed Appalachia Waltz Trio.

Tanglewood Week 1 July 8-14 – Opening Night All Italian Program, Berlioz’s Requiem, Joshua Bell

Read more: Tanglewood schedule July 8-14, 2011

Friday, July 8, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Friday, July 8, 7:15 p.m. Shed

Friday, July 8, 8:30 p.m. Shed

Saturday, July 9

Sunday, July 10

Monday, July 11

Tuesday, July 12

Thursday, July 14

Tanglewood Week 2 July 15-21 – Kurt Masur And Lynn Harrell, Levine’s Sibelius, Boston Pops, TMCO, And Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s Ravel

Read more: Tanglewood schedule July 15-21, 2011.

Friday, July 15

Saturday, July 16

Sunday, July 17

Two of Broadway’s most acclaimed stars join Keith Lockhart for a program of Pops orchestral favorites and a tribute to the great Cole Porter.

Wednesday, July 20

Thursday, July 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Tanglewood Week 3 July 22 – 28 – Susan Graham, Jaap Van Zweden, And Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Read more: Tanglewood schedule July 22-28, 2011.

Friday, July 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall

All-Baroque program to include arias by HANDEL and GLUCK, plus popular orchestral works by BACH and RAMEAU. This concert is performed without intermission.

Saturday, July 23

Sunday, July 24

Monday, July 25

Tanglewood Week 4 July 29 – August 4 – Levine’s Mozart And Mahler, Leon Fleisher, Christoph Eschenbach, Tanglewood On Parade, Festival Of Contemporary Music

Read more: Tanglewood schedule July 29 – August 4, 2011.

Friday, July 29

Saturday, July 30

Sunday, July 31

Tuesday, August 2

Wednesday, August 3

Directed by Pulitzer prize-winning Charles Wuorinen, the six-program festival will feature two world premiere performances including Mr. Wuorinen’s It Happens Like This, a dramatic, semi-staged 35-minute cantata for four singers and 12 instrumentalists set to six selections from James Tate’s Return to the City of White Donkeys (2004), which will open the festival on August 3, and will be conducted by James Levine.

Tanglewood Week 5 August 5 – 11 – Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos, Sarah Chang, Emanuel Ax, Fcm Continues, Train, And Stephanie Blythe

Read more: Tanglewood schedule August 5-11, 2011.

Friday, August 5

Saturday, August 6

Sunday, August 7

Monday, August 8

Join this Grammy Award-winning band playing songs from their latest release, Save Me, San Francisco, and more.

Tuesday, August 9

Wednesday, August 10

Tanglewood Week 6 August 12 – 18 Spanish Music, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Tmco’s Brahms, Handel’s Orlando

Read more: Tanglewood schedule August 12-18, 2011.

Friday, August 12

Saturday, August 13

Sunday, August 14

Tuesday, August 16

This is an extended concert with two intermissions. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Tanglewood Week 7 August 19 – 25 Dohnányi Returns, Film Night With John Williams, Mozart With Bernard Labadie, And Brad Mehldau

Read more: Tanglewood schedule August 19-25, 2011.

Friday, August 19

Saturday, August 20

One of the season’s most enduring and popular traditions, the annual Film Night concert celebrates the music of the movies. This summer, John Williams is joined by frequent collaborator Gil Shaham in a program featuring film music arranged for violin and orchestra. Also on the program will be Mr. Williams’ nostalgic evocation of early 20th-century America, The Reivers, with special guest narrator.

Sunday, August 21

Thursday, August 25

One of the most lyrical and intimate voices of contemporary jazz piano, Brad Mehldau has forged a unique path, which embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. From critical acclaim as a bandleader to major international exposure in collaborations with Pat Metheny, Renée Fleming, and Joshua Redman, Mehldau continues to garner numerous awards and admiration from both jazz purists and music enthusiasts alike.

Tanglewood Week 8 August 26 – 29 Porgy And Bess, Itzhak Perlman, Lorin Maazel, Beethoven’s Ninth

Read more: Tanglewood schedule August 26-29, 2011.

Friday, August 26

Saturday, August 27, 8:30 p.m. Shed

Sunday, August 28

Tanglewood Jazz Festival – Labor Day weekend – Sept. 2-4

Friday, September 2

Saturday, September 3

Live taping of the “Jazz Inspired” with host Judy Carmichael with special guest from the worlds of Jazz, Broadway, or Hollywood to be announced.

A Latin Jazz Tribute to Cachao with Federico Britos Sextet and John Santos Sextet as featured in the American Masters/PBS documentary Cachao: Uno Mas. Five-time Grammy-nominated percussionist John Santos, and Uruguayan violinist Federico Britos, a career symphony concertmaster as well as jazz musician.

Sunday, September 4

Schuller, a long-time Tanglewood presence, as well as a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship, will conduct the Mingus Orchestra, one of several orchestras ordained to carry on the legacy of jazz great Charles Mingus. Drummer Jimmy Cobb, an elder statesman of the art, will perform with the Coast to Coast Sextet.

Sing the Truth: Celebrating the History of Women Vocalists at Tanglewood with Grammy award-winning Angelique Kidjo, of Benin, West Africa, four-time Grammy award-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves and genre-defying gospel artist Lizz Wright, and more.

*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut

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