Tanglewood concert reviews

Article updated September 6, 2019 by Dave Read Bob Dylan’s song from the Basement Tapes, Too Much of Nothing, comes to mind while reflecting on my last visit to the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood during the 2019 season, ironically, because both headliners that day delivered an evening’s worth of entertainment, and I could’ve gone […]

Article updated September 4, 2019 by Dave Read Now this was more like it – an unannounced young hard-working musician added to the bill for a concert by a band called Squeeze in the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood, a bill that already boasted the Mavericks, with chastened former maverick Raul Malo included in tonight’s […]

Article updated August 27, 2019 by Dave Read To close the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2019 season at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero conducted the annual climactic Beethoven’s Ninth. The program opened with Arnold Schoenberg’s brief choral work Friede auf Erden, which translates to “Peace on Earth.” It has roots as a Swiss […]

Article updated August 7, 2019 by Dave Read “…we connect Satie with Thoreau…” appears over the dense paragraph that describes Full Tilt: The John Cage Song Books (1970), the program Sunday Aug. 4 at Tanglewood’s new Linde Center for Music and Learning, the stunning suite of wood and glass sculpture on the rise overlooking Seiji […]

Article updated July 27, 2019 by Dave Read Tanglewood on Parade took place on the penultimate Tuesday of July, only the second time this millennium that it hadn’t been scheduled for the first Tuesday in August. Since a good surmise is available, we’ll dispense with the transmission of a query up the media affairs ladder: […]

Article updated July 17, 2019 by Dave Read Classical guitarist Milos drew a large and appreciative audience to Ozawa Hall on July 16, the third program to feature guitar we’ve enjoyed this season at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, following concerts by Richard Thompson, also in Ozawa Hall and by Rodrigo y Gabriela in the Koussevitsky […]

Article updated June 22, 2019 by Dave Read Richard Thompson strode to center stage in Seiji Ozawa hall June 21, carrying a guitar, which was all it took to fill the august band box with beautiful sound. Besides being a first-ballot shoo-in for the guitar hall of fame, artist division, Thompson also is a master […]

Article updated June 20, 2019 by Dave Read Chris Thile has the hardest job in show biz, following Garrison Keillor as host of a live radio broadcast from the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood. The show he ran June 15, 2019, was on par with the 16 editions of Keillor’s that we covered. Just as […]