August 19, 2002 performance, reviewed by Dave Conlin Read The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, which made its debut only five weeks earlier with conductor Seiji Ozawa and soloist Mstislav Rostropovich, gave its valedictory performance under the artful guidance of guest conductor James Conlon to a rapt audience that drew a large audience to Ozawa Hall […]
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How to get to the Berkshires
Here are inks for local and regional public transportation depots and stops, plus where to get Peter Pan bus and Amtrak train schedules and tickets: how to get to the Berkshires.
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos opens 2002 Tanglewood season
July 5, 2002 concert review by Dave Read The first of this season’s 22 BSO concerts at Tanglewood concerts was performed Friday July 5, with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus on board and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducting Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.” It was a perfect evening to sit still for a long time, the […]
Continue reading Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos opens 2002 Tanglewood seasonJames Taylor and Band at Tanglewood, July 4, 2001, with special guest Yo Yo Ma
July 4, 2001 performance reviewed by Dave Conlin Read James Taylor’s Fourth of July concert at Tanglewood was one of those events that remind us why the Berkshires is such a great place to live. From the moment he loped – almost boogied – onstage, until the final note of the fourth encore dissolved, it […]
Continue reading James Taylor and Band at Tanglewood, July 4, 2001, with special guest Yo Yo Ma2001 Tanglewood on Parade with Seiji Ozawa
July 31, 2001 performance reviewed by by Dave Read Nearly 20,000 fans witnessed Seiji Ozawa’s last turn leading Tanglewood on Parade, the annual celebration of (and fund-raiser for) the Tanglewood Mucic Center. It was probably the last time we’ll see him cue the cannon of the Eastover artillery battery that joins the massed orchestras for […]
Continue reading 2001 Tanglewood on Parade with Seiji OzawaTanglewood photos 2018 season
Article updated Nov. 16, 2018, by Dave Conlin Read Tanglewood photos from the 2018 season, dubbed by the BSO “Summer of Lenny in the Berkshires,” which peaked on Aug. 25 with a kaleidoscopic array of artists and ensembles from the worlds of classical music, film, and Broadway. The entire first half of the program is […]
Continue reading Tanglewood photos 2018 seasonWynton Marsalis Quintet and Ellis Marsalis Quintet at Tanglewood
Article updated Sept. 2, 2018 by Dave Read Wynton Marsalis is every bit the national treasure that Leonard Bernstein was and it seems that we in the Tanglewood orbit keep getting luckier. This was dubbed the Bernstein Centennial Summer, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra segment of it was bookended with concerts by artists representing the […]
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