Article updated Aug. 11, 2018 by Dave Read Tanglewood on Parade, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s annual fundraiser in support of the Tanglewood Music Center, with a schedule of concerts, recitals and events all afternoon and culminating with a gala evening concert, was visited by late afternoon thunderstorms that sent music lovers as well as all… read more

Article updated August 10, 2018 by Dave Read Joshua Bell resembled an athlete who knows he’ll soon be sent into the game during the opening moments of the Wienawski Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, the feature selection of the Aug. 5, 2018 program in the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood, with the Boston… read more

Article updated July 17, 2018 by Dave Read Attending the Sunday afternoon (July 15, 2018) program in the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood was no easy matter; every bit of it commanded your attention, from Mendelssohn’s beautifully familiar Italian symphony, through Yuja Wang’s dazzling performance of Beethoven’s 1st piano concerto, to the how-fit-in-these-fraught-times composition from… read more

Article updated July 7, 2018 by Dave Read Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in their 2018 Tanglewood season opener, featuring pianist Lang Lang in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. Since the middle of June, the Popular Artist series has had the run of the place, through good weather and bad. Tonight felt nothing… read more

Article updated July 6, 2018 by Dave Read Something about James Taylor’s Fourth of July concert at Tanglewood felt low-key, but that’s in reference to a dozen or so such, which always rank among the most exciting shows of the year. Our expectations may have been out of whack because his July 4, 2008 show… read more

Article updated July 2, 2018 by Dave Read Bela Fleck and the Flecktones played a generous and rousing concert in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood on Friday, June 29, 2018. We hesitate to describe the performance as firey or electrifying, because then the band may be blamed for the heat wave that followed in their wake… read more

Article updated June 25, 2018 by Dave Read Harry Connick, Jr. transported the Tanglewood audience Saturday night from the high land overlooking Lake Mahkeenac to the Ninth Ward below Lake Pontchartrain by way of a concert/seminar of nearly two and a half hours that included a second-line parade through the Koussevitsky Music Shed. Is it… read more

Article updated June 20, 2018 by Dave Read The original iteration of the Berkshires as a playground for the obscenely rich was during the last quarter of the 19th century, when it became an autumnal retreat for robber barons and other scallywags who’d grown bored of their Newport and Adirondack estates. In terms of man-made… read more