Article updated Nov. 16, 2018, by Dave Conlin Read Tanglewood photos from the 2018 season, dubbed by the BSO “Summer of Lenny in the Berkshires,” which peaked on Aug. 25 with a kaleidoscopic array of artists and ensembles from the worlds of classical music, film, and Broadway. The entire first half of the program is […]
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Wynton Marsalis Quintet and Ellis Marsalis Quintet at Tanglewood
Article updated Sept. 2, 2018 by Dave Read Wynton Marsalis is every bit the national treasure that Leonard Bernstein was and it seems that we in the Tanglewood orbit keep getting luckier. This was dubbed the Bernstein Centennial Summer, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra segment of it was bookended with concerts by artists representing the […]
Continue reading Wynton Marsalis Quintet and Ellis Marsalis Quintet at TanglewoodChristopher Eisenbach leads BSO and TFC in stunning Beethoven’s Ninth at Tanglewood
Article updated August 30, 2018 by Dave Read Spirits were yet scurrying back to their haunting places when Christopher Eisenbach took to the podium less than fifteen hours after the Bernstein Centennial Celebration to lead the Boston Symphony and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in the program that would conclude the BSO’s Summer of Lenny in […]
Continue reading Christopher Eisenbach leads BSO and TFC in stunning Beethoven’s Ninth at TanglewoodBernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Article updated August 26, 2018 by Dave Read The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood, the culmination of the Summer of Lenny in the Berkshires, was a three hour variety show that wrapped up with the rafter-rattling Finale from Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection.” But, since it would’ve been too tidy for this event to dissolve […]
Continue reading Bernstein Centennial Celebration at TanglewoodBernstein’s Mass Highwood’s Ghost at Tanglewood
Article updated August 21, 2018 by Dave Read The Sunday afternoon (Aug. 19) program on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2018 Tanglewood calendar has loomed in anticipation since I filled out my summer concert list months ago, especially because of the rarity of the Bernstein selection, Three Meditations from Mass, for cello and orchestra, which has […]
Continue reading Bernstein’s Mass Highwood’s Ghost at TanglewoodTanglewood on Parade rained on
Article updated Aug. 11, 2018 by Dave Read Tanglewood on Parade, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s annual fundraiser in support of the Tanglewood Music Center, with a schedule of concerts, recitals and events all afternoon and culminating with a gala evening concert, was visited by late afternoon thunderstorms that sent music lovers as well as all […]
Continue reading Tanglewood on Parade rained onJoshua Bell at Tanglewood, Aug. 5, 2018
Article updated August 10, 2018 by Dave Read Joshua Bell resembled an athlete who knows he’ll soon be sent into the game during the opening moments of the Wienawski Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, the feature selection of the Aug. 5, 2018 program in the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood, with the Boston […]
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Article updated July 17, 2018 by Dave Read Attending the Sunday afternoon (July 15, 2018) program in the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood was no easy matter; every bit of it commanded your attention, from Mendelssohn’s beautifully familiar Italian symphony, through Yuja Wang’s dazzling performance of Beethoven’s 1st piano concerto, to the how-fit-in-these-fraught-times composition from […]
Continue reading Leonard Bernstein Centennial at TanglewoodBSO opens 2018 Tanglewood season with Lang Lang
Article updated July 7, 2018 by Dave Read Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in their 2018 Tanglewood season opener, featuring pianist Lang Lang in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. Since the middle of June, the Popular Artist series has had the run of the place, through good weather and bad. Tonight felt nothing […]
Continue reading BSO opens 2018 Tanglewood season with Lang LangJames Taylor at Tanglewood July 4, 2018
Article updated July 6, 2018 by Dave Read Something about James Taylor’s Fourth of July concert at Tanglewood felt low-key, but that’s in reference to a dozen or so such, which always rank among the most exciting shows of the year. Our expectations may have been out of whack because his July 4, 2008 show […]
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