Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter Sting made his Tangleood debut two days after the BSO wrapped their summer in the Berkshires, along with his son Joe Sumner and The Lost Bandoleers, in support of his 2016 release, 57th and 9th. A sold-out audience filled the Koussevitsky Music Shed on a chilly night for a… read more
Beethoven’s Ninth closes 2017 Tanglewood season
Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter The honeymoon between Music Director Andris Nelsons, born 1978, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, born 1881, is over; their marriage was on full display for the 2017 season finale at Tanglewood, where they produced as beautiful performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 as you could imagine. With four soloists,… read more
Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood Aug. 6, 2017
Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter This was a special Tanglewood concert on a Sunday in early August, with drama-free weather, with traffic streaming through Lenox since noon for a 2:30 performance. An audience of almost 14,000 assembled to listen to the ebullient Yo-Yo Ma perform the Cello Concerto of the troubled composer Robert Schumann…. read more
Tanglewood Takes Flight with Mass Audubon at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter Tanglewood Takes Flight; Celebration of Birds and Music with Mass Audubon at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary is a collaboration between two organizations that span the town of Lenox, a novel merging of their missions. The program is a most obvious idea to anyone who has attended concerts at Tanglewood,… read more
Tanglewood on Parade
Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter Tanglewood on Parade is one of those events that qualifies as the coolest thing in the world, an event you’d make a point of attending, if you knew enough to. It is an all-day celebration of all things classically musical, in a variety of venues spread amid the Boston… read more
Opening week at Tanglewood
Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter For the first time in seventeen years, our Tanglewood season got underway with James Taylor and his All-Star Band, instead of with Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion. During Keillor’s run, which began in the last days of the Clinton Administration and ended at the same point in… read more
July 2017 Tanglewood schedule
Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter Three Friday-evening Shed performances will be part of the popular UnderScore Friday series this season. At these performances, patrons will hear comments about the program directly from an onstage BSO musician. UnderScore Fridays will occur on July 21, August 4, and August 18. July 1, 2017 Saturday, 10am and… read more
August 2017 Tanglewood schedule
Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter Three Friday-evening Shed performances will be part of the popular UnderScore Friday series this season. At these performances, patrons will hear comments about the program directly from an onstage BSO musician. UnderScore Fridays will occur on July 21, August 4, and August 18. Aug. 1, 2017 Tuesday, 8:00pm –… read more
Tanglewood Popular Artists 2017 schedule
Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter Tanglewood Popular Artists 2017 schedule represents a roster of musical acts that, taken together, could be the answer to only one question, “Who is playing at Tanglewood this summer, besides the classical stuff?” The programming and marketing departments at Symphony Hall in Boston have attained a level of expertise… read more
BSO and Nelsons win second Grammy
Article by Dave Read Facebook Twitter The Boston Symphony Orchestra was awarded its ninth Grammmy at the February 12, 2016 awards ceremony and the second in a row as part of its collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon to record Dmitri Shostakovich’s entire canon of 15 symphonies, plus his opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. For this year’s… read more
