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Article updated March 25, 2019 by Dave Read BREAKING NEWS – NOT FAKE – Brian Wilson’s gig is off – not gonna happen!!! Tanglewood’s schedule of rock, pop, and jazz concerts for the 2019 season reflects one notable variation from the usual: Tanglewood on Parade moves from its customary first Tuesday in August slot to […]

Article updated April 25, 2019 by Dave Read More additions to the Popular Artists portion of the 2019 Tanglewood schedule: The Boston Pops, with James Burton of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Keith Lockhart’s role, will do a Queen tribute show with Freddie Mercury impersonator Marc Martel on Thursday, June 27 at 8 in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]