Highlights for Week 3 of the 2011 Tanglewood schedule, July 22-28 are: a program of all-baroque music conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, Beethoven and Brahms concerts led by Jaap van Zweden, from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Steven Stucky’s Rhapsodies; pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet on an all-Ravel program with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted Maestro Emmanuel Krivine.
Friday, July 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Friday, July 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Prelude Concert
- Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Friday, July 22, 7:15 p.m. Shed
- This Week at Tanglewood
- Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
- Friday, July 22, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor**
- Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts Friday, July 22 as he and the orchestra are joined by renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham for a program of all-baroque music including arias by Handel and Gluck, and orchestra works by Bach and Rameau. This concert is performed without intermission.
Saturday, July 23
- Saturday, July 23, 9:30 a.m. Shed
- Pre-Rehearsal Talk
- Saturday, July 23, 10:30 a.m. Shed
- Rehearsal, Sunday program
- Saturday, July 23, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Jaap van Zweden, conductor**
- Arabella Steinbacher, violin
- STUCKY Rhapsodies
- BRAHMS Violin Concerto
- BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden, currently Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Brahms’s Violin Concerto with soloist Arabella Steinbacher, and contemporary American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Stucky’s Rhapsodies, a series of short and diverse episodes for orchestra. He’s joined by violinist Arabella Steinbacher for Brahms’s Violin Concerto.
Sunday, July 24
- Sunday, July 24, 2:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
- ALL-RAVEL PROGRAM
- Valses nobles et sentimentales
- Piano Concerto in G
- Piano Concerto in D for the left hand
- Boléro
Outstanding pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet again takes center stage with the BSO and Maestro Emmanuel Krivine, for an all-Ravel program featuring the Piano Concerto in G, the Piano Concerto in D for the left hand, Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Boléro.
Monday, July 25
- Monday, July 25, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
- Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
- José van Dam, bass-baritone (Golaud)
- Elliot Madore, baritone (Pelleas)
- Evan Hughes, bass-baritone (Arkel)
- Vocal Alumni of the TMC
- DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande
James Levine joins the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for a concert performance of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, the centerpiece event of the TMCO’s season. Bass-baritone José van Dam as Golaud will be joined by some of the TMC’s most talented alumni Vocal Fellows, including Elliot Madore as Pelléas and bass-baritone Evan Hughes as Arkel, filling out the cast for the Debussy work.
*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut
Tuesday, July 26 – 7PM Shed
- Steely Dan
Tanglewood contact info.
- 297 West Street (Rt. 183)
- Lenox, MA 01240
- Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
- Website: tanglewood.org
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