Aug. 7, 2016 Tanglewood concert review by Dave Read The Silk Road Ensemble, with Yo-Yo Ma, used the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood like a high school during their Aug. 7, 2016 performance, presenting both lessons in social studies and the senior assembly. Eighteen years since being co-founded by Yo-yo Ma at Ozawa Hall, the […]
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Yo 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 TanglewoodYo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble June 24, 2012 concert review
Review of Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble concert at Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, June 24, 2012; 17 piece ensemble includes Galician bagpiper Christina Pato and Chinese sheng player Wu Tong.
Continue reading Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble June 24, 2012 concert reviewTanglewood schedule June 22-July 5, 2012
Tanglewood schedule for the week before the BSO opens its 75th season, June 22-July 5, 2012 features Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble, June 22 and 24; Diana Krall returns to Tanglewood June 23; Mark Morris Dance Group performs June 28 & 29; A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor broadcasts live from the Shed on June 30; and James Taylor plays concerts on July 2, 3, and 4th.
Continue reading Tanglewood schedule June 22-July 5, 2012Tanglewood schedule week 6 Aug. 10 – 16, 2012
Tanglewood schedule week 6 Aug. 10 – 16, 2012 features Pinchas Zukerman on August 10 as both Conductor And Soloist; Yo-Yo Ma performs Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Conductor Stephane Deneve On August 11.
Continue reading Tanglewood schedule week 6 Aug. 10 – 16, 2012PBS film of Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood
PBS film of Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood Article by Dave Conlin Read. The June 24, 2012 concert by Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood was great fun, as we reported at the time. We haven’t seen the DVD from the show, but […]
Continue reading PBS film of Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at TanglewoodTanglewood 75th anniversary Gala concert scheduled for PBS telecast
PBS schedules broadcast of Tanglewood’s 75th anniversary Gala concert Thanks to the programmers at PBS, the rest of the country will get another opportunity later this year to see what we in the Berkshires are well aware of – The Boston Symphony’s summer home at Tanglewood is the ideal music venue. The PBS television crew […]
Continue reading Tanglewood 75th anniversary Gala concert scheduled for PBS telecastJune 2011 events in the Berkshires
By June, the Berkshires are host to an array of events than span the entertainment and performing arts spectrum. Summer theatre, which first put Berkshire county on the nation’s cultural map when the Berkshire Playhouse opened in the Stockbridge Casino on June 4, 1928, is in full swing with productions at Barrington Stage Co. in […]
Continue reading June 2011 events in the BerkshiresJune 28 – July 7, 2011 Tanglewood schedule
The week leading up to the BSO’s Gala Opening Night July 8 holds some of the most anticipated events on the 2011 Tanglewood schedule. There will be four James Taylor concerts, including one with the Boston Pops and one in Ozawa Hall, two appearances of Mark Morris Dance Group with Yo Yo Ma and the […]
Continue reading June 28 – July 7, 2011 Tanglewood scheduleAugust 12-18, 2011 Tanglewood schedule Week 6
The sixth week of the 2011 Tanglewood schedule, August 12-18, features a program of Spanish Music, with Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos land guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero making his Tanglewood debut; Yo-Yo Ma solos on a program lead by Christoph von Dohnányi, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (TMCO) in an […]
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