August 12, 2015 Tanglewood concert review by Dave Read The culmination of the Tanglewood Music Center’s 75th anniversary celebration was the Aug. 8, 2015 performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, the Symphony of a Thousand, with BSO music director Andris Nelsons conducting 363 musicians, including the TMC Fellows, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, eight leading vocal soloists, […]
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Tanglewood on Parade Aug. 4, 2015
August 7, 2015 Article by Dave Read This year’s Tanglewood on Parade Gala Concert, the Tanglewood Music Center’s main fundraising event, was an especially satisfying evening of music, even if a little sad because John Williams’ health prevented his participation. With the Boston Pops conductor laureate absent, tonight’s audience was made to settle for three […]
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Review of July 14, 2015 concert by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood in the Berkshires.
Continue reading Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Wynton Marsalis at TanglewoodJuly 10, 2015 Tanglewood program Boston Symphony Orchestra
July 13, 2015 Article by Dave Read The Friday July 10, 2015 program in the Koussevitsky Music Shed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave the lie to the popular misconception that symphonic concerts are most suitable for blue hairs and codgers. They simply are not, under any circumstance, but especially tonight, when, funnily enough, performer’s […]
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July 8, 2015 Article by Dave Read The Tanglewood Brass Spectacular featured performances by the Boston Pops Brass & Percussion section, the Boston Crusaders, the third-oldest drum corps in America, celebrating their 75th anniversary; and the sixteen-time Drum Corps International World Champion Blue Devils from Concord, California. The program was suggested by BSO trumpeter and […]
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July 6, 2015 Article by Dave Read James Taylor’s concert at Tanglewood July 4, 2015 attracted another sell-out audience that packed the Koussevitsky Music Shed and temporarily converted the sweeping lawn area into the 2nd most populated town in the Berkshires! The Washington, MA resident, frequently misidentified as living in Lenox, was accompanied by the […]
Continue reading James Taylor at Tanglewood July 4, 2015Tanglewood 2015 season opens with all American program
July 6, 2015 Article by Dave Read The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2015 Tanglewood season got underway with an all-American program of works by John Harbison, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Duke Ellington. While BSO music director Andris Nelsons was conducting in Germany, the orchestra was led tonight by French conductor Jacques Lacombe, who made his […]
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July 1, 2015 Article by Dave Read As Lady Gaga herself mentioned from the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood early in her concert with Tonay Bennett June 30, 2015, it didn’t rain! But a steady drizzle and dreary skies did prevail all day long as a vast crowd assembled, causing miles-long traffic jams and overwhelming […]
Continue reading Tony Bennett Lady Gaga throng swamps Tanglewood2015 A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood
June 19, 2015 performance reviewed by Dave Read The sixteenth Tanglewood broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor, took place Saturday June 27, 2015; it was the penultimate show of their 2014-15 season, and probably the penultimate show in the series that began in 2000 when Keillor instituted an instant Tanglewood tradition at […]
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