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August 19 – 25, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 7

Highlighting the 7th week of the Tanglewood schedule are the return of Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, the wildly popular Film Night With John Williams, a program of Mozart with Bernard Labadie and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. Conductor von Dohnányi leads the BSO Friday, August 19 in a concert comprised of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica; pianist Martin Helmchen in his BSO and Tanglewood debuts as soloist in Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1.

John Williams Boston Pops Film Night at Tanglewood Aug. 20, 2011.The annual Film Night concert Saturday, August 20 celebrates film music arranged for violin and orchestra. John Williams and the Boston Pops are joined by frequent collaborator violinist Gil Shaham. Also on the program will be Mr. Williams’ nostalgic evocation of early 20th-century America, The Reivers, with a special guest narrator.

Friday, August 19

  • Friday, August 19, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Prelude Concert
  • Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Friday, August 19, 7:15 p.m. Shed
  • This Week at Tanglewood
  • Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
  • Friday, August 19, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
  • Martin Helmchen, piano**
  • SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1
  • SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Saturday, August 20

  • Saturday, August 20, 9:30 a.m. Shed
  • Pre-Rehearsal Talk
  • Saturday, August 20, 10:30 a.m. Shed
  • Rehearsal, Sunday program
  • Saturday, August 20, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Film Night at Tanglewood
  • Boston Pops
  • John Williams, conductor
  • Gil Shaham, violin
  • Guest narrator

One of the season’s most enduring and popular traditions, the annual Film Night concert celebrates the music of the movies. This summer, John Williams is joined by frequent collaborator Gil Shaham in a program featuring film music arranged for violin and orchestra. Also on the program will be Mr. Williams’ nostalgic evocation of early 20th-century America, The Reivers, with special guest narrator.

Sunday, August 21

  • Sunday, August 21, 2:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Bernard Labadie, conductor*
  • Benedetto Lupo, piano**
  • ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
  • Chaconne from Idomeneo
  • Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456
  • Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

Bernard Labadie, renowned Music Director of the Canadian Baroque and Classical specialist orchestra Les Violons du Roy, makes his Tanglewood debut Sunday, August 21 leading the BSO in an all-Mozart program including the Symphony No. 41, Jupiter, Piano Concerto No. 18, K.456, and the Chaconne from Idomeneo. Pianist Benedetto Lupo makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts as soloist for the concerto.

  • Sunday, August 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Radio Deluxe – with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey

Thursday, August 25

  • Thursday, August 25, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Brad Mehldau, piano

On Thursday, August 25, Brad Mehldau takes the Ozawa Hall stage for a solo recital. Mr. Mehldau has forged a unique path, which embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. As a bandleader and in diverse collaborations with artists such as Pat Metheny, Renée Fleming, and Joshua Redman, he continues to garner awards and admiration from jazz purists and open-eared musical omnivores.

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.

Tanglewood driving directions

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Hotels, B & B’s, Motels, and Inns near Tanglewood

  • Canyon Ranch In The Berkshires
  • Lenox MA Days Inn
  • Knights Inn Lenox
  • Econo Lodge Lenox
  • Yankee Inn
  • Howard Johnson Express Inn
  • Wheatleigh
  • The Village Inn
  • Hampton Inn Suites Berkshires Lenox
  • Cranwell Resort Spa And Golf
  • Wagon Wheel Motel
  • Cranwell Resort Spa And Golf Club
  • A B&B in the Berkshires
  • The Red Lion Inn
  • Stockbridge Country Inn

Tanglewood 2011 schedule at-a-glance

Highlights of the 2011 Tanglewood schedule include an all-Italian opening night concert with Maestro James Levine leading the BSO in music by Verdi, Rossini, and Respighi; four performances each by Yo Yo Ma and James Taylor; BSO performing Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess; A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood, with Garrison Keillor; Tanglewood debut of Train; and the annual Labor Day Tanglewood Jazz Festival.

Tanglewood contact info.

  • 297 West Street (Rt. 183)
  • Lenox, MA 01240
  • Box Office: 617-266-1200; 888-266-1200
  • Website: tanglewood.org

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  • Preseason week -June 28 – July 7
  • Week 1 July 8-14
  • Week 2 July 15-21
  • Week 3 July 22 – 28
  • Week 4 July 29 – August 4
  • Week 5 August 5 – 11
  • Week 6 August 12 – 18
  • Week 7 August 19 – 25
  • Week 8 August 26 – 29
  • 2011 Tanglewood Jazz Festival – Sept. 2 – 4

Tanglewood Pre-season schedule June 28 – July 7

Read more: Tanglewood schedule June 28 – July 7, 2011.

Tuesday and Wednesday, June 28 & 29, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Theatre

  • String Quartet Marathon
  • Two 2-hour concerts each day

Tuesday and Wednesday, June 28 & 29, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

  • Mark Morris Dance Group
  • Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
  • Mark Morris, choreographer
  • Yo-Yo Ma, cello
  • Isaac Mizrahi, costume designer
  • Phil Sandstrom and Michael Chybowski, lighting designers
  • Frisson
  • STRAVINSKY Symphonies of Wind Instruments
  • New work (world premiere; BSO commission)
  • STRAVINSKY Renard
  • Falling Down Stairs
  • J.S. BACH Suite No. 3 in C for solo cello, BWV 1009

Thursday, June 30, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

  • James Taylor in Ozawa Hall
  • James Taylor and guests

In the more intimate setting of Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, James Taylor offers the music that has made him one of the most beloved artists of our day.

Friday, July 1, 8:30 p.m. Shed

  • James Taylor and the Boston Pops
  • Boston Pops
  • James Taylor, soloist

Tanglewood’s favorite singer joins “America’s Orchestra,” the Boston Pops, for a remarkable collaboration.

Saturday, July 2, 5:45 p.m. Shed

  • A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood, with Garrison Keillor
  • Live broadcast

Sunday, July 3, 7 p.m. Shed

  • Monday, July 4, 7 p.m. Shed
  • The Essential James Taylor
  • Fireworks to follow the July 4 concert
  • Proceeds from the July 4 concert to benefit Tanglewood

James Taylor returns to Tanglewood with his extraordinary band of musicians for two spectacular performances.

Tuesday, July 5, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

  • Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
  • Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
  • Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
  • Program to be announced

Thursday, July 7, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

  • Mark O’Connor String Quartet*

Composer and virtuoso violinist Mark O’Connor introduces and performs a fascinating evening of his own music. Drawing on sources as diverse as bluegrass, swing, and the great classical traditions, O’Connor has defined a new style of string playing in North America. The program will include solos, duets, quartets, and excerpts from the acclaimed Appalachia Waltz Trio.

Tanglewood Week 1 July 8-14 – Opening Night All Italian Program, Berlioz’s Requiem, Joshua Bell

Read more: Tanglewood schedule July 8-14, 2011

Friday, July 8, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall

  • Prelude Concert
  • Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, July 8, 7:15 p.m. Shed

  • This Week at Tanglewood
  • Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 8, 8:30 p.m. Shed

  • Opening Night at Tanglewood
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • James Levine, conductor
  • Angela Meade, soprano**
  • Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano
  • Joseph Calleja, tenor**
  • James Morris, bass-baritone
  • Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
  • BELLINI Excerpts from Act 1 of Norma
  • VERDI Overture to La forza del destino
  • VERDI Trio from Act 3 of I lombardi
  • GABRIELI Canzonas for brass
  • ROSSINI Overture to La Cenerentola
  • RESPIGHI Pines of Rome

Saturday, July 9

  • Saturday, July 9, 9:30 a.m. Shed
  • Pre-Rehearsal Talk
  • Saturday, July 9, 10:30 a.m. Shed
  • Rehearsal, Sunday program
  • Saturday, July 9, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • James Levine, conductor
  • Joseph Calleja, tenor
  • Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
  • BERLIOZ Requiem

Sunday, July 10

  • Sunday, July 10, 2:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
  • Joshua Bell, violin
  • HIGDON Loco
  • BRUCH Scottish Fantasy, for violin and orchestra
  • TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique
  • Sunday, July 10, 8 p.m. Theatre
  • Tanglewood Music Center Vocal and Instrumental Fellows
  • Mark Morris, director
  • An evening of short operas and art song

Monday, July 11

  • Monday, July 11, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Tanglewood Music Center Chamber Orchestra
  • Stefan Asbury, conductor
  • Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
  • Program to be announced

Tuesday, July 12

  • Tuesday, July 12, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Emerson String Quartet
  • HAYDN Quartet No. 67 in F, Op. 77, No. 2
  • BARTÓK Quartet No. 6
  • SCHUBERT Quartet No. 15 in G, D.887

Thursday, July 14

  • Thursday, July 14, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Nikolaj Znaider, violin*
  • Saleem Abboud Ashkar, piano*
  • BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 8 in G for violin and piano,Op. 30, No. 3
  • SCHUMANN Sonata No. 2 in D minor for violin and piano, Op. 121
  • FRANCK Sonata in A for violin and piano

Tanglewood Week 2 July 15-21 – Kurt Masur And Lynn Harrell, Levine’s Sibelius, Boston Pops, TMCO, And Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s Ravel

Read more: Tanglewood schedule July 15-21, 2011.

Friday, July 15

  • Friday, July 15, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Prelude Concert
  • Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Friday, July 15, 7:15 p.m. Shed
  • This Week at Tanglewood
  • Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
  • Friday, July 15, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Kurt Masur, conductor
  • Lynn Harrell, cello
  • DVORÁK Cello Concerto
  • SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring

Saturday, July 16

  • Saturday, July 16, 9:30 a.m. Shed
  • Pre-Rehearsal Talk
  • Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m. Shed
  • Rehearsal, Saturday program
  • Saturday, July 16, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • James Levine, conductor
  • Nikolaj Znaider, violin
  • ALL-SIBELIUS PROGRAM
  • Finlandia
  • Valse triste
  • Violin Concerto
  • Symphony No. 5

Sunday, July 17

  • Sunday, July 17, 2:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Pops Orchestra
  • Keith Lockhart, conductor
  • Kelli O’Hara, vocalist
  • Jason Danieley, vocalist

Two of Broadway’s most acclaimed stars join Keith Lockhart for a program of Pops orchestral favorites and a tribute to the great Cole Porter.

  • Sunday, July 17, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
  • Kurt Masur, conductor
  • Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
  • DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • KODÁLY Háry János Suite
  • STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

Wednesday, July 20

  • Wednesday, July 20, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
  • RAVEL Complete Works for Piano, Program 1
    • Serenade grotesque
    • Menuet antique
    • Miroirs
    • Sonatine
    • Gaspard de la nuit

Thursday, July 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

  • Thursday, July 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
  • RAVEL Complete Works for Piano, Program 2
    • Pavane pour une infante défunte
    • Jeux d’eau
    • Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
    • Valses nobles et sentimentales
    • Prélude
    • A la manière de Borodine
    • A la manière de Chabrier
    • Le Tombeau de Couperin

Tanglewood Week 3 July 22 – 28 – Susan Graham, Jaap Van Zweden, And Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Read more: Tanglewood schedule July 22-28, 2011.

Friday, July 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall

  • Friday, July 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Prelude Concert
  • Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Friday, July 22, 7:15 p.m. Shed
  • This Week at Tanglewood
  • Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
  • Friday, July 22, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor**
  • Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano

All-Baroque program to include arias by HANDEL and GLUCK, plus popular orchestral works by BACH and RAMEAU. This concert is performed without intermission.

Saturday, July 23

  • Saturday, July 23, 9:30 a.m. Shed
  • Pre-Rehearsal Talk
  • Saturday, July 23, 10:30 a.m. Shed
  • Rehearsal, Sunday program
  • Saturday, July 23, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Jaap van Zweden, conductor**
  • Arabella Steinbacher, violin
  • STUCKY Rhapsodies
  • BRAHMS Violin Concerto
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Sunday, July 24

  • Sunday, July 24, 2:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • James Levine, conductor
  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
  • ALL-RAVEL PROGRAM
  • Valses nobles et sentimentales
  • Piano Concerto in G
  • Piano Concerto in D for the left hand
  • Boléro

Monday, July 25

  • Monday, July 25, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
  • James Levine, conductor
  • José van Dam, bass-baritone (Golaud)
  • Elliot Madore, baritone (Pelleas)
  • Evan Hughes, bass-baritone (Arkel)
  • Vocal Alumni of the TMC
  • DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande

Tanglewood Week 4 July 29 – August 4 – Levine’s Mozart And Mahler, Leon Fleisher, Christoph Eschenbach, Tanglewood On Parade, Festival Of Contemporary Music

Read more: Tanglewood schedule July 29 – August 4, 2011.

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
  • James Levine, conductor
  • Leon Fleisher, piano
  • MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414
  • MAHLER 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

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

Tuesday, August 2

  • Tuesday, August 2, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Tanglewood on Parade
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Boston Pops Orchestra
  • Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
  • James Levine, 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 Week 5 August 5 – 11 – Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos, Sarah Chang, Emanuel Ax, Fcm Continues, Train, And Stephanie Blythe

Read more: Tanglewood schedule August 5-11, 2011.

Friday, August 5

  • Friday, August 5, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Prelude Concert
  • Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Friday, August 5, 7:15 p.m. Shed
  • This Week at Tanglewood
  • Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
  • Friday, August 5, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
  • Yuja Wang, piano*
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
  • RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  • STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Saturday, August 6

  • Saturday, August 6, 9:30 a.m. Shed
  • Pre-Rehearsal Talk
  • Saturday, August 6, 10:30 a.m. Shed
  • Open Rehearsal, Sunday program
  • Saturday, August 6, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Sean Newhouse, conductor**
  • Sarah Chang, violin
  • JALBERT Music of air and fire
  • MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
  • RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Sunday, August 7

  • Sunday, August 7, 2:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Lionel Bringuier, conductor**
  • Emanuel Ax, piano
  • SMETANA The Moldau
  • MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482
  • TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

Monday, August 8

  • Monday, August 8, 7 p.m. Shed
  • Train

Join this Grammy Award-winning band playing songs from their latest release, Save Me, San Francisco, and more.

Tuesday, August 9

  • Tuesday, August 9, 8:00 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Boston Symphony Chamber Players
  • André Previn, piano
  • MARTIN Les Madrigaux, for winds
  • PREVIN Octet for Eleven, for winds, brass, and strings
  • MILHAUD La Cheminée du Roi René, suite for wind quintet, Op. 205
  • MOZART Piano Quartet in G minor, K.478

Wednesday, August 10

  • Wednesday, August 10, 8 p. m. Ozawa Hall
  • Stephanie Blythe and Friends
  • Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
  • Alan Smith, piano
  • Andrew Jennings, violin
  • Norman Fischer, cello
  • Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
  • SMITH Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman, for mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, and piano
  • SMITH An Unknown Sphere, for mezzo-soprano and chorus (world premiere; BSO commission)
  • plus early American popular songs and choruses

Tanglewood Week 6 August 12 – 18 Spanish Music, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Tmco’s Brahms, Handel’s Orlando

Read more: Tanglewood schedule August 12-18, 2011.

Friday, August 12

  • Friday, August 12, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Prelude Concert
  • Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Friday, August 12, 7:15 p.m. Shed
  • This Week at Tanglewood
  • Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
  • Friday, August 12, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
  • Pepe Romero, guitar*
  • BIZET Preludes from Carmen
  • RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and orchestra
  • BOCCHERINI/BERIO Ritirata notturna di Madrid
  • FALLA Interlude and First Dance from La vida breve
  • GRANADOS Intermezzo from Goyescas
  • GIMÉNEZ Intermezzo from La boda de Luís Alonso
  • This concert is performed without intermission.

Saturday, August 13

  • Saturday, August 13, 9:30 a.m. Shed
  • Pre-Rehearsal Talk
  • Saturday, August 13, 10:30 a.m. Shed
  • Rehearsal, Saturday program
  • Saturday, August 13, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
  • Yo-Yo Ma, cello
  • PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical
  • SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
  • BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

Sunday, August 14

  • Sunday, August 14, 2:30 p.m. Shed
  • The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
  • Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
  • Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
  • Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
  • Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
  • ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
  • Nänie, for chorus and orchestra
  • Schicksalslied, for chorus and orchestra
  • Alto Rhapsody¸ for mezzo-soprano, male chorus, and orchestra
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Sunday, August 14, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Emanuel Ax, piano
  • Yo-Yo Ma, cello
  • Anthony McGill, clarinet*
  • BRAHMS Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello, and piano, Op. 114
  • BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 3 in A for cello and piano, Op. 69

Tuesday, August 16

  • Tuesday, August 16, 7:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra*
  • Nicholas McGegan, conductor*
  • Dominique Labelle, soprano (Angelica)
  • Susanne Rydén, soprano (Dorinda) *
  • Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano (Medoro) *
  • Clint van der Linde, countertenor (Orlando) *
  • Wolf Matthias Friedrich, baritone (Zoroastro) *
  • HANDEL Orlando

This is an extended concert with two intermissions. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Tanglewood Week 7 August 19 – 25 Dohnányi Returns, Film Night With John Williams, Mozart With Bernard Labadie, And Brad Mehldau

Read more: Tanglewood schedule August 19-25, 2011.

Friday, August 19

  • Friday, August 19, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Prelude Concert
  • Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Friday, August 19, 7:15 p.m. Shed
  • This Week at Tanglewood
  • Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
  • Friday, August 19, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
  • Martin Helmchen, piano**
  • SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1
  • SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Saturday, August 20

  • Saturday, August 20, 9:30 a.m. Shed
  • Pre-Rehearsal Talk
  • Saturday, August 20, 10:30 a.m. Shed
  • Rehearsal, Sunday program
  • Saturday, August 20, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Film Night at Tanglewood
  • Boston Pops
  • John Williams, conductor
  • Gil Shaham, violin
  • Guest narrator

One of the season’s most enduring and popular traditions, the annual Film Night concert celebrates the music of the movies. This summer, John Williams is joined by frequent collaborator Gil Shaham in a program featuring film music arranged for violin and orchestra. Also on the program will be Mr. Williams’ nostalgic evocation of early 20th-century America, The Reivers, with special guest narrator.

Sunday, August 21

  • Sunday, August 21, 2:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Bernard Labadie, conductor*
  • Benedetto Lupo, piano**
  • ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
  • Chaconne from Idomeneo
  • Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456
  • Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
  • Sunday, August 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Radio Deluxe – with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey

Thursday, August 25

  • Thursday, August 25, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Brad Mehldau, piano

One of the most lyrical and intimate voices of contemporary jazz piano, Brad Mehldau has forged a unique path, which embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. From critical acclaim as a bandleader to major international exposure in collaborations with Pat Metheny, Renée Fleming, and Joshua Redman, Mehldau continues to garner numerous awards and admiration from both jazz purists and music enthusiasts alike.

Tanglewood Week 8 August 26 – 29 Porgy And Bess, Itzhak Perlman, Lorin Maazel, Beethoven’s Ninth

Read more: Tanglewood schedule August 26-29, 2011.

Friday, August 26

  • Friday, August 26, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Prelude Concert
  • Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Friday, August 26, 7:15 p.m. Shed
  • This Week at Tanglewood
  • Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
  • Friday, August 26, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Bramwell Tovey, conductor**
  • Alfred Walker, bass-baritone (Porgy)
  • Marquita Lister, soprano (Bess) **
  • Nicole Cabell, soprano (Clara)
  • Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
  • GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess

Saturday, August 27, 8:30 p.m. Shed

  • Saturday, August 27, 9:30 a.m. Shed – Pre-Rehearsal Talk
  • Saturday, August 27, 10:30 a.m. Shed – Rehearsal, Sunday program
  • Saturday, August 27, 8:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Itzhak Perlman, conductor and violin
  • ALL-BEETHOVEN Program
  • Romances Nos. 1 and 2 for violin and orchestra
  • Symphony No. 1
  • Symphony No. 5

Sunday, August 28

  • Sunday, August 28, 2:30 p.m. Shed
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Lorin Maazel, conductor
  • Joyce El-Khoury, soprano**
  • Margaret Gawrysiak, mezzo-soprano**
  • Garrett Sorenson, tenor
  • Eric Owens, bass-baritone*
  • Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9

Tanglewood Jazz Festival – Labor Day weekend – Sept. 2-4

Friday, September 2

  • Friday, September 2, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Robin McKelle Quartet
  • Michael Kaeshammer Quintet

Saturday, September 3

  • Saturday, September 3, 2 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Live taping of the “Jazz Inspired” with host Judy Carmichael with special guest from the worlds of Jazz, Broadway, or Hollywood to be announced.

  • Saturday, September 3, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Federico Britos Sextet
  • John Santos Sextet

A Latin Jazz Tribute to Cachao with Federico Britos Sextet and John Santos Sextet as featured in the American Masters/PBS documentary Cachao: Uno Mas. Five-time Grammy-nominated percussionist John Santos, and Uruguayan violinist Federico Britos, a career symphony concertmaster as well as jazz musician.

Sunday, September 4

  • Sunday, September 4, 2 p.m. Ozawa Hall
  • Coast to Coast Sextet featuring NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb
  • Mingus Orchestra conducted by NEA Jazz Master Gunther Schuller

Schuller, a long-time Tanglewood presence, as well as a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship, will conduct the Mingus Orchestra, one of several orchestras ordained to carry on the legacy of jazz great Charles Mingus. Drummer Jimmy Cobb, an elder statesman of the art, will perform with the Coast to Coast Sextet.

  • Sunday, September 4, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Sing the Truth: Celebrating the History of Women Vocalists at Tanglewood with Grammy award-winning Angelique Kidjo, of Benin, West Africa, four-time Grammy award-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves and genre-defying gospel artist Lizz Wright, and more.

*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut

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Tanglewood Jazz features Jay McShann, Duke Robillard, Modern Jazz Quartet tribute by Donal Fox

Tanglewood Jazz features Jay McShann, Duke Robillard, Modern Jazz Quartet tribute by Donal Fox

August 31, 2003 performances reviewed by Dave Conlin Read

Donal Fox and Stefon Harris perform at 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival.
Donal Fox and Stefon Harris perform at 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival. Photo: Dave Conlin Read.
The Sunday portion of the 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival had enough variety, both in quality and quantity, to make up a nice little festival by itself. It began at 1 p.m. in the Tanglewood Theatre, the very funky, rusty venue where the B.S.O. stages opera, with a program dubbed, “Remembering the Modern Jazz Quartet: Donal Fox, Inventions in Blue”. The Modern Jazz Quartet was formed in 1952, just a few hundred yards down the road from Tanglewood at the Music Inn, whose beloved co-founder, Stephanie Barber, passed away five days ago.

The Modern Jazz Quartet was originally formed as the Milt Jackson Quartet and consisted of Jackson on vibraphone, John Lewis on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums. Lewis would emerge as the leader of the MJQ and also become the dean of the Lenox School of Jazz, the first academy for jazz studies, which operated only from 1957 – 60, but whose pioneering work is carried on now on campuses all around the world.

Pianist and composer Fox was accompanied by Stefon Harris on vibes, Yoron Israel on drums, and John Lockwood on bass for an elegant, energized, and engaging 90 minutes comprised of the works of just three men; himself, John Lewis, and, as Fox called him, “the original blues man, J. S. Bach.”

Now the programmer doffed his mortarboard in favor of a porkpie hat, as next on the schedule was an afternoon “Celebrating the Year of the Blues!” in Ozawa Hall.

Jay McShann and Lousiana Red at 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Jay McShann and Lousiana Red at 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Leading off the five-act marathon was Lousiana Red, the 67 year old true blues original from Alabama who has lived in Germany since 1981, and been touring in the U.S. since his first “comeback tour” in 1997. Winner of the 1983 W. C. Handy Award as Traditional Male Artist of the Year, his CD “A Different Shade of Red – The Woodstock Sessions” was recorded last year at the Woodstock studio of drummer Levon Helm and features both Helm, on drums and harp, and his Band-mate Garth Hudson, on organ and sax.

He kicked off his brief but rollicking set with “Red’s Dream,” wherein he’s beckoned by President Kennedy to help out during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Red’s response is, “Mr. Kennedy, you run the country, I’ll run the Senate,” and proceeds with the list of great blusemen he would replace the rascals with!

Next up was rising R&B singer Nicole Nelson with her band, winners of the 17th annual Battle of the Boston Blues Bands in 2001 by the widest margin ever. Her infectious set delighted the audience; she’s got the whole package and seems destined for a long successful career.

Jay McShann and Duke Robillard at 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival

Jay McShann and Duke Robillard performing at 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Jay McShann and Duke Robillard performing at 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Following her were a pair whose careers add up to more than a century: Duke Robillard, who’s been on top since launching Roomful of Blues in 1967, and Jay McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006), who turned pro in 1931 and whose Kansas City-based orchestra in 1941 introduced Charlie Parker to the world.

It didn’t take long for the audience to see why Robillard has gotten 3 of the last 4 W. C. Handy Guitarist of the Year Awards; he’s master of all the tools in the axeman’s bag, sings good, and has put together a hellacious band, to boot. After about twenty minutes, Robillard was joined on stage by the legendary McShann, who played and sang the blues with an ardor and skill unbelievable for an 87 year old man.

Regrettably, we had to leave before Kendrick Oliver and the New Life Jazz Orchestra came on around 6, in order to take care of some errands before returning for the Festival’s finale at 8.

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