Tanglewood Week 4 July 29 – August 4, 2011 highlights are Maestro Hans Graf leading the BSO in programs of Mozart and Mahler, pianist Leon Fleisher, National Symphony Orchestra Music Director Christoph Eschenbach conducting two BSO programs, along with soloists Peter Serkin and Alisa Weilerstein, the audience favorite Tanglewood On Parade with the thrilling 1812 Overture, and the annual Festival Of Contemporary Music, curated this year by the eminent American composer Charles Wuorinen.
Friday, July 29
- Friday, July 29, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
- Prelude Concert
- Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Friday, July 29, 7:15 p. m. Shed
- This Week at Tanglewood
- Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
- Friday, July 29, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Hans Graf, conductor
- Leon Fleisher, piano
- MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414
- MAHLER Symphony No. 5
the Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert features longtime Tanglewood presence and pianist Leon Fleisher, Maestro Hans Graf, and the BSO in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
Saturday, July 30
- Saturday, July 30, 9:30 a.m. Shed
- Pre-Rehearsal Talk
- Saturday, July 30, 10:30 a.m. Shed
- Rehearsal, Sunday program
- Saturday, July 30, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
- Peter Serkin, piano
- ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
- Piano Concerto No. 1
- Symphony No. 4
National Symphony Orchestra Music Director Christoph Eschenbach conducts an all-Brahms program, including the Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring distinguished American pianist Peter Serkin, and Symphony No. 4.
Sunday, July 31
- Sunday, July 31, 2:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
- Alisa Weilerstein, cello
- HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
- MAHLER Symphony No. 1
On Sunday, July 31, Maestro Eschenbach leads the BSO in Mahler’s Symphony No.1 on a program that also features young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein in Haydn’s Cello Concerto No.1 in C Major.
Tuesday, August 2
- Tuesday, August 2, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Tanglewood on Parade
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
- Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos, Stefan Asbury, John Williams, and Christoph Eschenbach, conductors
- WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
- Fireworks to follow the concert
Wednesday, August 3
- Wednesday, August 3 – Sunday, August 7
- 2011 Festival of Contemporary Music
Directed by Pulitzer prize-winning Charles Wuorinen, the six-program festival will feature two world premiere performances including Mr. Wuorinen’s It Happens Like This, a dramatic, semi-staged 35-minute cantata for four singers and 12 instrumentalists set to six selections from James Tate’s Return to the City of White Donkeys (2004), which will open the festival on August 3, and will be conducted by James Levine.
Tanglewood contact info.
- 297 West Street (Rt. 183)
- Lenox, MA 01240
- Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
- Website: tanglewood.org
How to get Tanglewood brochures
Tanglewood brochures are available by sending your request to CustomerService@bso.org.
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