Sting made his Tangleood debut two days after the BSO wrapped their summer in the Berkshires, along with his son Joe Sumner and The Lost Bandoleers, in support of his 2016 release, 57th and 9th. A sold-out audience filled the Koussevitsky Music Shed on a chilly night for a concert of two dozen songs drawn […]
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Beethoven’s Ninth closes 2017 Tanglewood season
August 28, 2017 Tanglewood concert review by Dave Read The honeymoon between Music Director Andris Nelsons, born 1978, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, born 1881, is over; their marriage was on full display for the 2017 season finale at Tanglewood, where they produced as beautiful performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 as you could imagine. […]
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August 6, 2016 Tanglewood concert review by Dave Read This was a special Tanglewood concert on a Sunday in early August, with drama-free weather, with traffic streaming through Lenox since noon for a 2:30 performance. An audience of almost 14,000 assembled to listen to the ebullient Yo-Yo Ma perform the Cello Concerto of the troubled […]
Continue reading Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood Aug. 6, 2017Tanglewood Takes Flight with Mass Audubon at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
August 2016 Tanglewood program review by Dave Read Tanglewood Takes Flight; Celebration of Birds and Music with Mass Audubon at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary is a collaboration between two organizations that span the town of Lenox, a novel merging of their missions. The program is a most obvious idea to anyone who has attended concerts […]
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August 2, 2016 Tanglewood concert review by Dave Read Tanglewood on Parade is one of those events that qualifies as the coolest thing in the world, an event you’d make a point of attending, if you knew enough to. It is an all-day celebration of all things classically musical, in a variety of venues spread […]
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Tanglewood concert review by Dave Read For the first time in seventeen years, our Tanglewood season got underway with James Taylor and his All-Star Band, instead of with Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion. During Keillor’s run, which began in the last days of the Clinton Administration and ended at the same point in […]
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