Archived schedules

Program details for week three at Tanglewood, July 18 – July 24, 2008.

• BerkshireMap.com: Tanglewood directions.
• Tanglewood.org: Ticket information.

Festival of Contemporary Music: July 20-24

Elliott Carter Centenary

Friday, July 18, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall

MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Prelude concert

Friday, July 18, 7 p.m., Shed

“This Week at Tanglewood” discussion series
with moderator Martin Bookspan

Friday, July 18, 8:30 p.m., Shed

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JAMES LEVINE, conductor

KATE LINDSEY, mezzo-soprano (Harbison)

Baritone to be announced (Harbison)

HARBISON Symphony No. 5

MAHLER Symphony No. 1

Saturday, July 19, 10:30 a.m., Shed

Open Rehearsal

Sunday program; pre-rehearsal talk at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 19, 8:30 p.m., Shed

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor

MIDORI, violin

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Variants of “Dives
and Lazarus”

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto

COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Festival of Contemporary Music: July 20-24

Elliott Carter Centenary

Sunday, July 20, 10 a.m., Ozawa Hall

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS

OLIVER KNUSSEN, conductor

CHARLES ROSEN, piano

URSULA OPPENS, harpsichord

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Call, for two trumpets and horn

Asko Concerto, for ensemble

Luimen, for ensemble

Refléxions, for ensemble

Double Concerto for piano, harpsichord,
and large ensemble

Sunday, July 20, 2:30 p.m., Shed

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SHI-YEON SUNG, conductor**

GARRICK OHLSSON, piano

SCHUMANN Manfred Overture

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian

Sunday, July 20, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA

JAMES LEVINE, conductor

NICHOLAS HODGES, piano

THOMAS MARTIN, clarinet

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Dialogues, for piano and orchestra

Clarinet Concerto

Sound Fields, for string orchestra (world premiere; commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center)

Variations for Orchestra

Monday, July 21, 4 p.m., Ozawa Hall

ELLIOTT CARTER

JAMES LEVINE

FRED SHERRY

ELLEN HIGHSTEIN, moderator

Panel discussion (FCM)

Monday, July 21, 5 p.m., Ozawa Hall

JAMES LEVINE, CHARLES ROSEN,
and URSULA OPPENS, piano

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Matribute

Piano Sonata

Night Fantasies, for piano

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

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS

STEFAN ASBURY, conductor

LUCY SHELTON, soprano

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Tempo e Tempi, for soprano and ensemble

Syringa, for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and ensemble

Penthode, for ensemble

Triple Duo, for ensemble

Tuesday, July 22, 5 p.m., Ozawa Hall

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Enchanted Preludes, for flute and cello

Figment I, for solo cello

Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux, for flute and clarinet

Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux II, for flute, clarinet,
and marimba

Au Quai, for viola and bassoon

Figment II, for solo cello

Trilogy, for oboe and harp

Two Thoughts about the Piano: Caténaires
and Intermittances, for solo piano

Tuesday, July 22, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS

JAMES LEVINE and JOHN OLIVER, conductors

JO ELLEN MILLER, soprano

ANN HOBSON PILOT, harp

FRED SHERRY, cello

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and Harpsichord

In the Distances of Sleep, for mezzo-soprano
and ensemble

Mosaic, for harp and ensemble (American premiere;
co-commissioned by the BSO
and Nash Ensemble)

Mad-Regales, for solo voices (world premiere; commissioned by
the Tanglewood Music Center)

A Mirror on Which to Dwell, for soprano and ensemble

Wednesday, July 23, 4 p.m., Ozawa Hall

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS

JAMES LEVINE, conductor

DOUGLAS FITCH, director and set designer

Film screening of Carter’s What Next?,
from the American stage premiere filmed
in performace at Tanglewood in 2006 (FCM)

Wednesday, July 23, 5 p.m., Ozawa Hall

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Quintet for Piano and Winds

String Quartet No. 2

Wednesday, July 23, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA

OLIVER KNUSSEN, conductor

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
CONDUCTING FELLOW

FRED SHERRY, cello

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Holiday Overture

Cello Concerto

Three Occasions for Orchestra

Concerto for Orchestra

Thursday, July 24, 4 p.m., Ozawa Hall

Former Boston Globe Music Critic Richard Dyer interviews Elliott Carter. (FCM)

Thursday, July 24, 5 p.m., Ozawa Hall

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS

CHARLES ROSEN, piano

FRED SHERRY, cello

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Selected Pieces for Timpani

4 Lauds, for violin

Figment IV, for viola

Figment III, for double-bass

Steep Steps, for bass clarinet

Selected Pieces for Timpani

Elegy, for cello and piano

Thursday, July 24, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JAMES LEVINE, conductor

JAMES SOMMERVILLE, horn

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)

Boston Concerto, for orchestra

Three Illusions for Orchestra

Horn Concerto

Symphonia: Sum fluxae pretium spei

* denotes BSO debut; ** denotes Tanglewood debut

• BerkshireMap.com: Tanglewood directions.
• Tanglewood.org: Ticket information.

Program details for week two at Tanglewood, July 11 – July 17, 2008.

• BerkshireMap.com: Tanglewood directions.
• Tanglewood.org: Ticket information.

Friday, July 11, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall

TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS

JOHN OLIVER, conductor

Prelude concert

Friday, July 11, 7 p.m., Shed

“This Week at Tanglewood” discussion series
with moderator Martin Bookspan

Friday, July 11, 8:30 p.m., Shed

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BERNARD HAITINK, conductor

JONATHAN BISS, piano

JULIA FISCHER, violin

DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT, cello

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM

Triple Concerto for piano, violin, and cello

Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

Saturday, July 12, 10:30 a.m., Shed

Open Rehearsal

Sunday program; pre-rehearsal talk at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 12, 8:30 p.m., Shed

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BERNARD HAITINK, conductor

HEIDI GRANT MURPHY, soprano

CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN, mezzo-soprano**

TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

MAHLER Symphony No. 2, Resurrection

Sunday, July 13, 2:30 p.m., Shed

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JAMES LEVINE, conductor

PETER SERKIN, piano

HAYDN Symphony No. 104, London

J.S. BACH Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor

MOZART Concert Rondo in D, K.382

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 4, Tragic

Sunday, July 13, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall

BARBARA COOK

The legendary soprano and star of Broadway theaters will continue her 80th birthday celebration, following popular concerts in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, July 16, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall

JONATHAN BISS, piano

JULIA FISCHER, violin**

DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT, cello

HALVERSON Passacaglia on a Theme of Handel,
for violin and cello

RAVEL Sonata for Violin and Cello

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio No. 6 in B-flat, Op. 97, Archduke

Thursday, July 17, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall

EMERSON STRING QUARTET

ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM

Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2

Quartet No. 3 in B-flat, Op. 67

Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1

* denotes BSO debut; ** denotes Tanglewood debut

• BerkshireMap.com: Tanglewood directions.
• Tanglewood.org: Ticket information.

Program details for week one at Tanglewood, July 5 – July 10, 2008.

• BerkshireMap.com: Tanglewood directions.
• Tanglewood.org: Ticket information.

Saturday, July 5, 10:30 a.m., Shed

Open Rehearsal

Saturday and Sunday programs; pre-rehearsal talk
at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 5, 8:30 p.m.

Opening Night at Tanglewood

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor

MARCUS HADDOCK, tenor (Aeneas)

ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI, soprano (Cassandra)*

DWAYNE CROFT, baritone (Chorebus)**

CLAYTON BRAINERD, bass-baritone (Pantheus)**

KATE LINDSEY, mezzo-soprano (Ascanius)**

JANE BUNNELL, mezzo-soprano (Hecuba)

RONALD NALDI, tenor (Helenus)**

DAVID KRAVITZ, baritone (Trojan Soldier)**

GUSTAV ANDREASSEN, bass (Ghost of Hector)*

KIRK EICHELBERGER, bass (Greek Captain)**

TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

BERLIOZ The Trojans, Part 1 (The Capture of Troy)

Concert performance sung in French with English supertitles

Sunday, July 6, 2:30 p.m., Shed

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JAMES LEVINE, conductor

MARCUS HADDOCK, tenor (Aeneas)

ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER, mezzo-soprano (Dido)

KRISTINN SIGMUNDSSON, bass (Narbal)*

KATE LINDSEY, mezzo-soprano (Ascanius)

CHRISTIN-MARIE HILL, mezzo-soprano (Anna)

PHILIPPE CASTAGNER, tenor (Hylas)**

CLAYTON BRAINERD, bass-baritone (Pantheus)

ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI, soprano
(Ghost of Cassandra)

DWAYNE CROFT, baritone (Ghost of Chorebus)

DAVID KRAVITZ, baritone (Trojan Sentry 1)

GUSTAV ANDREASSEN, bass (Ghost of Hector
and the God Mercury)

KIRK EICHELBERGER, bass (Trojan Sentry 2)

TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

BERLIOZ The Trojans, Part 2
(The Trojans at Carthage)

Concert performance sung in French
with English supertitles

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

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA

BERNARD HAITINK, conductor (Strauss)

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
CONDUCTING FELLOWS

MOZART Symphony No. 25

DEBUSSY Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun

STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony

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

BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA

KEITH LOCKHART

Guest Vocalists

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
VOCAL FELLOWS

SONDHEIM A Little Night Music

Concert performance

Thursday, July 10, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall

IMOGEN COOPER, piano

ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM

Sonata in C, D.840, Reliquie

Four Impromptus, D.935

Sonata in A, D.959

* denotes BSO debut; ** denotes Tanglewood debut

• BerkshireMap.com: Tanglewood directions.
• Tanglewood.org: Ticket information.

Program details for the preseason week at Tanglewood, June 26 – July 4, 2008.

• BerkshireMap.com: Tanglewood directions.
• Tanglewood.org: Ticket information.

Thursday, June 27, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall

Friday, June 27, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall

MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER VOCAL FELLOWS AND ORCHESTRA
MARK MORRIS, choreographer
SUSAN RUDDIE, costume designer
JAMES F. INGALLS and PHIL SANDSTROM, lighting designers
New work (world premiere)

BARBER
Excursions, for piano
Bedtime

SCHUBERT
Wiegenlied, Ständchen, and Erlkönig
New Love Song Waltzes

BRAHMS Neue Liebesliederwalzer, Op. 65
Love Song Waltzes

BRAHMS Liebesliederwalzer, Op. 52

Saturday, June 28, 5:45 p.m., Shed

A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood with Garrison Keillor
Live Broadcast

Sunday, June 29, 2:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall

BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS
MENAHEM PRESSLER, piano
HARBISON Wind Quintet
MOZART Quintet in E-flat for piano and winds, K.452
DVOJAK Quintet in A for piano and strings, Op. 81

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

TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor (Dvojak)
STEFAN ASBURY, conductor
MESSIAEN Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
DVOJAK Symphony No. 8

Thursday, July 3, 7 p.m., Shed

Friday, July 4, 7 p.m., Shed

JAMES TAYLOR

Gates open at 4 p.m. both days.

James Taylor performing at Tanglewood in 2006.

Reviews of James Taylor’s recent Tanglewood performances:

• James Taylor with special guest Yo Yo Ma – July 4, 2001
• James Taylor with the Boston Pops – July 17, 2002
• James Taylor and Band – June 24, 2003
• James Taylor and Band – July 4, 2005
• James Taylor and Band – August 21, 2006

• BerkshireMap.com: Tanglewood directions.
• Tanglewood.org: Ticket information.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced the 2008 Tanglewood season schedule, Maestro James Levine’s fourth as Music Director, and it’s a good bet that by the time Levine takes to the podium on July 5 to lead the B.S.O. in the Berlioz opera Les Troyens, 50,000?patrons will have already paraded through the Tanglewood turnstiles during the popular preseason week of performances by the Mark Morris Dance Group, A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor, and a pair of James Taylor concerts.

Berkshire Night

Berlioz’ Les Troyens, featuring the BSO, a cast of acclaimed singers, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor will be presented in two parts on successive nights. Opening night also will be Tanglewood’s annual Berkshire Night, with free tickets for 1,000 year-round residents of the Berkshires.

The 2008 Tanglewood season also includes an all-Brahms program featuring the Piano Concerto No. 1, with pianist Yefim Bronfman, and the Third Symphony; a program pairing Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 with the Tanglewood premiere of John Harbison’s Symphony No. 5, and a concert featuring pianist Peter Serkin performing music of Bach and Mozart on a program with symphonies of Haydn and Schubert.

Tanglewood on Parade

The wildly popular Tanglewood on Parade will take place Tuesday Aug. 5, with performances by the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center orchestras, under the batons of James Levine, Keith Lockhart, John Williams, Sir Andrew Davis, and Andre Previn. This year’s program includes Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, as well as the traditional performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture followed by fireworks over the Stockbridge Bowl.

all-Mozart weekend

Additional highlights of the 2008 Tanglewood season include an all-Mozart weekend (August 8-10), featuring performances of the symphonies nos. 33, 38, and 39, Horn Concerto No. 3 with BSO principal horn James Sommerville, Piano Concerto No. 12 with Leon Fleisher, Violin Concerto No. 2 with Gil Shaham, and the Flute Concerto No. 1 with BSO principal flute Elizabeth Rowe in her solo debut with the BSO.

all-Beethoven weekend

The BSO will also present an all-Beethoven weekend (August 22-24) to close the BSO’s Tanglewood season. Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos conducts the Mass in C and Symphony No. 5 (August 22), and Christoph von Dohnanyi leads symphonies nos. 2 and 3 (August 23) and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (August 24).

Yo Yo Ma and more favorites

Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink leads the BSO in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, (July 11) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, and mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn (July 12). Cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins the BSO for Lalo’s Cello Concerto (August 3). Other favorites of the orchestral repertoire to be performed include Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (August 1); Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique (August 15), and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (August 17).

tickets on sale February 17

Tickets for the 2008 Tanglewood season go on sale to the public on February 17 through SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200 or online at www.tanglewood.org. Friends of Tanglewood who contribute $75 or more to the Tanglewood Annual Fund are able to purchase tickets in advance of the public sale dates. For information about becoming a Friend of Tanglewood, call 617-638-9267.

(Pittsfield, MA) Can you spell h-o-m-e-c-o-m-i-n-g? Barrington Stage Company (Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director) is proud to announce that The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will return to the Berkshires to open BSC’s 14^th season from June 11 through July 12, with a press opening on Sunday, June 15 at 5:00pm at Barrington Stage (30 Union Street). This production will be the first regional theatre presentation of Spelling Bee after the close of its acclaimed Broadway run in January 2008.

The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was created, workshopped and developed by BSC in the winter of 2004 and presented that summer (where it became the hottest ticket in the Berkshires). It opened Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre where it was an instant hit (“’A Chorus Line’ with pimples,” proclaimed The New York Times) prompting it to move to Broadway’s Circle-in-the-Square Theater. Nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical – it took home two 2005 Tony Awards – Best Book of a Musical for Rachel Sheinkin and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Dan Fogler. The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee recently celebrated 1,000 performances on Broadway; there has been an acclaimed national tour, even an Australian production. Barrington Stage Company’s Spelling Bee will be a co-production with North Shore Music Theatre (Beverly, MA), where it will run from August 12-31.

A hilariously hip musical comedy, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee features six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learning that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. At each performance, four audience volunteers are invited onstage to participate in the Bee.

Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called The 25^thAnnual Putnam County Spelling Bee “irresistible and entirely lovable,” praising William Finn’s “nimble, upbeat score,” Rachel Sheinkin’s “riotously funny” Tony Award-winning book and James Lapine’s “impeccable” direction. Terry Teachout in the Wall Street Journal called the show “the best in town – that rarity of rarities, a super-smart show that is also a bona fide crowd-pleaser.” David Rooney of Variety stated that, “this winning new musical is so generously warm-hearted, only the most bitter misanthrope could resist its charms.” And Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press simply asked, “How do you spell h-i-t?”

The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin and conception by Rebecca Feldman, with original direction by James Lapine and choreography by Dan Knechtges. The director, choreographer and cast of the Barrington Stage Company/North Shore Music Theatre production will be announced at a later date.

The 25^thAnnual Putnam County Spelling Bee will be performed at Barrington Stage Company (30 Union Street) on the following schedule: Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm, Thursday – Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday matinees at 2pm and Sunday at 5pm. There will be no performance July 4; instead there will be a performance Monday, June 30 at 8pm. Flex Pass Subscriptions can be purchased at last year’s rate until December 31. For FlexPasses and Group Sales, please call (413) 236-8888. Flex Passes can also be purchased on line at www.barringtonstageco.org. Single tickets will go on sale in April 2008.

For more information, please visit www.barringtonstageco.org.