Monty Alexander Trio at Tanglewood August 25, 2004 performance; by Dave Read Monty Alexander peered out from the Ozawa Hall stage at Tanglewood, saw the auditorium half full, and proceeded to deliver a concert of upbeat and optimistic music to an enthusiastic audience that occupied way less than half the hall. Such is the nature […]
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Beethoven’s Ninth closes BSO’s 2013 Tanglewood season
Beethoven’s Ninth closes BSO’s 2013 Tanglewood season August 25, 2013 performance; by Dave Read There is an appealing symmetry in the scheduling of Beethoven’s Ninth at Tanglewood; it is the composition chosen 76 years ago by founding maestro Serge Koussevitsky to open the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer sojourn in the Berkshires and now it is […]
Continue reading Beethoven’s Ninth closes BSO’s 2013 Tanglewood seasonYo Yo Ma’s Goat Rodeo Show at Tanglewood
August 15, 2013 performance by Dave Read If Tanglewood were simply Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its Tanglewood Music Center and eight or nine weeks of classical music performed by the BSO and their various guest soloists and conductors, we Berkshires locals would have plenty to be grateful for. But it is […]
Continue reading Yo Yo Ma’s Goat Rodeo Show at Tanglewood2013 Tanglewood on Parade
2013 Tanglewood on Parade August, 2013 performance; by Dave Read We arrived at Tanglewood on Parade in time for the 8pm round of brass fanfares, which preceded the gala concert in the Shed. At 2pm, brass fanfares at the Main Gate heralded the beginning of an all-day celebration featuring performances throughout the Tanglewood campus by […]
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Esperanza Spalding at Tanglewood August 4, 2013 performance; by Dave Read Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood was transformed Sunday evening into Ms. Esperanza Spalding‘s neighborhood; she is the phenom, who at age 4 made up her mind to have a life in music while watching Yo Yo Ma perform on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. A year later […]
Continue reading Esperanza Spalding at TanglewoodVerdi’s Requiem at Tanglewood
Verdi’s Requiem at Tanglewood July 27, 2013 performance; by Dave Read Maestro Carlo Montanaro conducted a performance of Verdi’s Requiem at Tanglewood, leading four vocal soloists, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in filling the Koussevitsky Music Shed and environs with sound sufficient to console, frighten, excite, and mollify. Verdi composed his […]
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West Side Story at Tanglewood July 13, 2013 performance; by Dave Read Two nights after a merely modest audience was attracted to Tanglewood for the concert performance in Ozawa Hall of John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby, an ungainly horde assembled at the Koussevitsky Music Shed for a screening of West Side Story with the Boston […]
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The Great Gatsby John Harbison’s Opera performed at Tanglewood July 11, 2013 performance; by Dave Read The concert performance in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood of The Great Gatsby, by the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music, was so enjoyable that we’re tempted to propose a corollary to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s adage, There are no second […]
Continue reading The Great Gatsby John Harbison’s Opera performed at TanglewoodVince Gill with Boston Pops after Tanglewood thunderstorms
Vince Gill with Boston Pops after Tanglewood thunderstorms July 7, 2013 performance; by Dave Read Opening weekend of the BSO’s 2013 Tanglewood schedule called for a performance by the Boston Pops with special guest Vince Gill; an ill-timed thunderstorm blew the planned program out the window. Instead of a 2:30 start for the Pops’ set […]
Continue reading Vince Gill with Boston Pops after Tanglewood thunderstormsTanglewood opening night 2013 with Joshua Bell
2013 Tanglewood opening night with Joshua Bell Article by Dave Read The all-Tchaikovsky Opening Night of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2013 season at Tanglewood featured guest artist Joshua Bell in the Violin Concerto and guest conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos on a program that included Symphony No. 5. The July 5, 2013 concert marks the […]
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