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June 2011 events in the Berkshires

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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 Pittsfield, Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Shakespeare and Co. in Lenox, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. And all generations of music fans will be able to satisfy their musical appetites, with concerts and appearances by Wilco at MASS MoCA in North Adams, and Earth Wind & Fire, James Taylor, and Yo Yo Ma with Mark Morris Dance Company at Tanglewood in Lenox.

Links to Berkshires venues that are presenting the events listed below: Berkshires theatres & performing arts venues.

Listed first are events outside the regular programming of established performing arts organizations and/or venues:

Dewey Hall Folk Concert Series – Mitzi Pillow – Saturday June 4 – 7:30 PM – Sheffield, MA
3rd.Thursday – downtown Pittsfield – Thurs., June 16 – 2:30 – 8:30 PM

June 2011 Aston Magna Festival schedule

Aston Magna schedule and ticket details

Bach and Son – Music for violin and harpsichord by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach
- Slosberg Auditorium, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA – June 16 – 8PM
- The Olin Auditorium, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY – June 17 – 8PM
- The Daniel Arts Center, Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA – June 18 – 8PM
- Pre-concert lecture one hour before concert time at all venues

Diversions: Mozart and Hummel
- Slosberg Auditorium, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA – June 23 – 8PM
- The Olin Auditorium, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY – June 24 – 8PM
- The Daniel Arts Center, Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA – June 25 – 8PM
- Pre-concert lecture one hour before concert time at all venues

England, Be Glad – Music from the cosmopolitan court of Henry VIII
- Slosberg Auditorium, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA – June 30 – 8PM
- The Olin Auditorium, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY – July 1 – 8PM
- The Daniel Arts Center, Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA – July 2 – 8PM
- Pre-concert lecture one hour before concert time at all venues

June 2011 Barrington Stage Co. schedule

Barrington Stage Co. 2011 schedule details and links

ONGOINGGuys and Dolls at Barrington Stage Co., June 15 – July 16, 2011 – Mainstage – Pittsfield
- press opening June 19 at 5:00pm
- Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm
- Thursday-Saturday at 8pm
- Sunday at 5pm
- Select Wednesday and Friday matinees at 2pm

ONGOINGZero Hour – Written by and Starring Jim Brochu – May 18, 2011 – June 5, 2011 – BSC Stage2 – Pittsfield
- NB – 5 performances added: June 7-10 at 7:30pm and June 9 at 3pm
- Tuesday-Friday 7:30pm
- Saturday 4pm and 8pm
- Sunday 3pm
- Additional matinee on Friday, May 20 at 3pm

ONGOINGGoing to St. Ives – By Lee Blessing, Directed by Tyler Marchant – June 22, 2011 – July 9, 2011 – BSC Stage2 – Pittsfield
- Tuesday-Friday 7:30pm
- Saturday 4pm and 8pm
- Sunday 3pm
- Additional matinee: Thursday, July 7 at 3pm

June 2011 Berkshire Theatre Festival schedule

Berkshire Theatre Festival 2011 schedule details and links

ONGOINGMoonchildren by Michael Weller, Directed by Karen Allen – June 22, 2011 – July 9, 2011 – BTF Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge
- Opening Night/Press Night July 2 at 8pm
- Previews June 28, 29, 30, July 1, 2 at 2pm
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday at 8pm
- Wednesday at 7pm,
- Thursday and Saturday at 2pm
- Closes July 16

June 2011 Clark Art Institute schedule

Clark Art Institute details and links

ONGOINGPissarro’s People – Clark Art Institute – Williamstown – June 12, 2011 – Oct. 2, 2011
ONGOINGRomantic Nature: British and French Landscapes – Clark Art Institute – Williamstown – through Sep. 20, 2011
ONGOINGEl Anatsui sculpture exhibition – Stone Hill Center – Williamstown
- June 12 through October 16, 2011 – Related events:
- Ghanaian storyteller will present weekly tales – Stone Hill Center balcony
- Susan Vogel documentary and talk – “Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui” – July 24

ONGOINGSpaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth – Clark Art Institute – Williamstown
- June 12 through September 5
- Gallery talks with: Jay A. Clarke, Robin Kelsey, Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone
- Public lecture by Charles W. Haxthausen

June 2011 Colonial Theatre schedule

Colonial Theatre 2011 schedule details and links

Sherri Buxton and Friends: Songs From The Great American Songbook – Thursday, June 2, 7pm
Ron White – Thursday, June 9, 7:30pm
The Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats – Saturday, June 11, 2pm & 7pm
Bobby Sweet – Saturday, June 18 8pm
God’s Trombone’s – Lift Ev’ry Voice – Sunday, June 19, 7pm

June 2011 Guthrie Center schedule

Kim & Reggie Harris – Friday, June 3
Milton – Sat., June 8
Bella’s Bartok – Fri., June 10
The Kennedys – Sat., June 11
Meg Hutchinson – Fri., June 17
Sally Jane Heit – Sat., June 18
Jonathan Edwards – Fri., June 24
Joel Rafael – Sat., June 25

June 2011 Jacob’s Pillow schedule

Jacob’s Pillow 2011 schedule details and links

Jacob’s Pillow Season Opening Gala – Saturday, June 18
Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève – Ted Shawn Theatre
- Wednesday, June 22 – Saturday, June 25, 8pm
- Saturday, June 25 & Sunday, June 26, 2pm
Keigwin + Company – Doris Duke Theatre
- Wednesday, June 22 – Saturday, June 25, 8:15pm
- Saturday, June 25 & Sunday, June 26, 2:15pm
Carte Blanche – Ted Shawn Theatre
- Wednesday, June 29 – Saturday, July 2, 8pm
- Saturday, July 2 & Sunday, July 3, 2pm
Jane Comfort and Company – Doris Duke Theatre
- Wednesday, June 29 – Saturday, July 2, 8:15pm
- Saturday, July 2 & Sunday, July 3, 2:15pm

June 2011 Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center schedule

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 2011 schedule details and links

Berkshire International Film Festival
- Thursday, June 2 at 7:30pm – Opening Night
- Saturday, June 4 at 7:30pm – Tribute Night
- Sunday, June 5 at times TBA – Free Screenings of Family Films
The Importance of Being Earnest “Live in HD” –Thursday, June 9 at 7pm
Berkshire Playwrights Lab – Wednesday, June 15 at 7:30pm
Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts – Readings on Fatherhood – Saturday June 11 at 8PM
Boston Early Music Festival Presents Steffani’s Niobe, Queen of Thebes – Friday, June 24 at 7pm and Saturday, June 25 at 7pm
Boston Early Music Festival Presents Handel’s Acis and Galatea – Sunday, June 26 at 2:30pm and Monday, June 27 at 7pm
The Cherry Orchard –Thursday, June 30 at 2pm

June 2011 MASS MoCA schedule

MASS MoCA 2011 details and links

Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell – Sat. June 11, 2011, 2:00 pm – Hunter Center
Wilco Solid Sound festival at MASS MoCA June, 24-26, 2011

June 2011 Shakespeare and Co. schedule

Shakespeare and Co. 2011 schedule details and links

ONGOINGAs You Like It, By William Shakespeare – June 24 – Sep. 4, 2011 – Founders’ Theatre, Lenox
- Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. at 7:30pm
- Sun. at 2pm
ONGOINGWomen of Will: The Complete Journey (Parts I-V), By Tina Packer – May 27— July 10, 2011 – Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, Lenox
- June 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 30 – 8PM
- June 4, 5, 12, 18, 19, 25 – 3PM
ONGOINGThe Memory of Water, By Shelagh Stephenson – June 16—Sept. 4, 2011 – Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, Lenox
- June 16, 17, 18, 22, 25, 28, 29 – 8PM
- June 26 – 3PM

June 2011 Tanglewood schedule

Williamstown Theatre Festival 2011 schedule details and links

Saturday June 25, 7 p.m. – Koussevitsky Music Shed – Earth Wind & Fire
Tuesday and Wednesday June 28 & 29, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. – Theatre – String Quartet Marathon
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 28 & 29, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall – Mark Morris Dance Group, Tanglewood Music Center Fellows, Yo Yo Ma
Thursday, June 30, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall – James Taylor and guests

Tanglewood 2011 schedule details and links

June 2011 Williamstown Theatre Festival schedule

ONGOINGA Streetcar Named Desire, By Tennessee Williams – June 22 – July 3, 2011 – Nikos Stage, Williamstown
ONGOINGThree Hotels, By Jon Robin Baitz – June 29 – July 24, 2011 – Main Stage, Williamstown

May 2011 events in the Berkshires

July 2011 events in the Berkshires

June 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 Tanglewood Music Center fellows, and the 12th annual broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor.

Saturday June 25, 7 p.m. – Shed

Earth Wind & Fire

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

String Quartet Marathon
Two 2-hour concerts each day

Tanglewood Music Center Instrumental Fellows offer their annual String Quartet Marathon, a series of four 2-hour concerts in the Theater Concert Hall dedicated to the wonderfully intimate chamber music genre.

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

Mark Morris Dance Group makes its annual appearance in two highly anticipated concerts, collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma and the TMC Fellows. The program includes three Morris works: the world premiere of a new work commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra set to Stravinsky’s Renard; Frisson, set to Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments; and Falling Down Stairs, set to Bach’s 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

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra opens their season with a concert led by Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center will also conduct works on this program.

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

Mark O’Connor String Quartet*

Mark O’Connor String Quartetmakes its Tanglewood debut performing Mr. O’Connor’s own music, a fascinating blend of bluegrass, swing, and classical.
*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut

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

August 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 all-Brahms program, and the Tanglewood debut of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

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.

Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leads a program dedicated to Spanish and Spanish-inspired music, with guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero making his Tanglewood debut; highlights include Bizet’s Preludes from Carmen, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with Mr. Romero as soloist, and Falla’s Interlude and First Dance from La vida breve.

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

Two of classical music’s most acclaimed artists join the BSO August 13 as the inimitable cellist Yo-Yo Ma and German-Hungarian conductor Christoph von Dohnányi present a program of Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, Classical, Schumann’s Cello Concerto, and Brahms’s monumental 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

The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra pays homage to Brahms with a concert dedicated entirely to his music, including Nänie and Schicksalslied for chorus and orchestra; the Alto Rhapsody, for mezzo-soprano, male chorus, and orchestra; and Symphony No. 2. The student is conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and joined by Stephanie Blythe and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

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

Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax renew their longstanding and widely celebrated musical partnership with a recital to include music from two of the all-time masterworks of chamber music: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 3 in A for cello and piano, Op. 69, and Brahms’s Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello, and piano, Op. 114. Mr. Ma and Mr. Ax are joined by the principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera, Anthony McGill, who makes his Tanglewood debut.

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

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra makes its Tanglewood debut in dramatic fashion with a complete performance of Handel’s opera seria Orlando under Music Director Nicholas McGegan. Inhabiting the roles of this Baroque masterpiece are soprano Dominique Labelle, soprano Susanne Rydén (Tanglewood debut), mezzo-soprano Diana Moore (Tanglewood debut), countertenor Clint van der Linde (Tanglewood debut), and baritone Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Tanglewood debut). Handel’s opera brings together far-ranging episodes of one of the great heroes of Western literature, based on the 16th-century Ariosto epic Orlando Furioso. This is an extended concert with two intermissions. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Yo Yo Ma tops Tanglewood program

Report of August 1, 2010 perfromance by Dave Conlin Read.

The composition of a Tanglewood program itself sometimes enhances the enjoyment of the various compositions that comprise a program; a transcending element to go along with the enjoyment of the program as performed by the musicians. On paper, this program at Tanglewood was sure to attact a large audience because of the presence on the bill of cellist Yo Yo Ma and the inclusion of the broadly popular Pictures At An Exhibition (the Maurice Ravel orchestration of Mussogorsky’s composition), under the direction of conductor Charles Dutoit, who has been a frequest guest here and in Boston for nearly 30 years.

And, with the cooperation of the iffy Berkshires weather, the Koussevitsky Music Shed was full and a few thousand more patrons and picnicers populated the lawn. But it was the opening item on the program that we found most remarkable; Jean Sibelius’ “Karelia” Suite, Opus 11, which had never been performed at Tanglewood, and only once by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Not only would we like to hear it again here, but we wonder why it hasn’t made it onto the regular rotation (if there is such?); it felt like a paean to this place – particularly the immediate Tanglewood environs as well as the greater Berkshires.

Which comports with the composition’s origin as a commission on the history of Karelia, the densely wooded region in northern Europe. Besides a delightful variety of sounds from the percussion section, the piece has an overall deeply sonorous feel. Gazing outside the Shed, the surrounding trees seemed to be as attentive to the music as the paying audience was.

When Yo Yo Ma settles onto the soloists chair near the podium, as he did to perform the Cello Concerto in E Minor, Opus 85, by Edward Elgar, holding cello and bow, it’s as if a new entity comes into being. Well, a pedestrain witness does himself no favor trying to describe artistry at this level. Berkshires resident Ma, who by all accounts is a friendly and humble gentleman, makes music at a level that could inspire composers, as a profound event or dazzling landscape would.

On the other hand, having such a popular soloist, or widely familiar piece on the program, always attracts patrons who are unfamiliar with symphony audience protocal; they’re like new parents who applaud every movement.

Tan Dun’s The Map, with Yo Yo Ma at Tanglewood

August 7, 2004 performance by Dave Read

Among the many memorable images from this Tanglewood program was this tableau: a Paris-born Chinese cellist and a Siberian violinist trading jazzy licks with the video-taped image of a Chinese leaf blower. Coming during the second movement of Tan Dun’s nine-part composition The Map, Concerto for Cello, Video, and Orchestra, the cellist was Yo Yo Ma, the violinist was B.S.O. Associate Concertmaster Tamara Smirnova, and it drew a round of amused applause from the audience of 9,021.

Somehow this was a night of roots music, perhaps the last thing you’d expect on a Saturday evening in the midst of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s annual sojourn in the Berkshires. And it demonstrated that music is blissfully ignorant of geography, having a way of melding ethnic sounds to speak a language known by each of us, regardless us where, or to whom, we were born.

stone drum, I Ching, shamanism

Maybe the oddest thing is that, in the most literal sense, this evening of brilliant playing by the Boston Symphony was rooted in rock music! That’s right folks, it all came about because of an encounter Maestro Dun had during a visit to his native Hunan province in 1981, while a student at Bejing’s Central Conservatory, with an old man who practiced ba gua stone drumming.

Tan recalled of the old man, who combined principles of the I Ching with shamanistic vocalizations, “The man talked to the wind. He talked both to this life and the past one. I had nothing to offer him, or even to make a record of him, but I promised that one day I would return.”

By the time of his return in 1999, no longer a student but a graduate of Columbia University (Doctor of Musical Arts), with a commission for Yo Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the ba gua drummer, and his tradition, had died. In order to reconstruct his “personal memory of someone who could do something that no one else could do,” Dun made two trips to capture the musical life of the Tuija, Miao, and Dong people, 3 of China’s 55 ethnic minority groups.

Tan describes The Map as being “about minority cultures in China, looking at the past as well as the future” – and as a reconstruction of his own “personal memory of someone who could do something that no one else could.” His aim was to invent an entirely new form, keeping the source material in its pure state on the video screen while simultaneously exploring its timbres in orchestral terms. (Source: program notes by Ken Smith.)

The evening opened with Yo Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble presenting Music from The Silk Road Project.

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2019 Tanglewood schedule

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has released the schedule for the 2019 season at Tanglewood, which will be remembered for the opening of the Tanglewood Learning Institute, the four buildings overlooking Seiji Ozawa Hall on the Leonard Bernstein camopus.

Music director Andris Nelsons will be present for the month of July, conducting 13 programs, including the world premiere of a new work by Kevin Puts, The Brightness of Light, based on letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz on July 20, and a concert performance of Wagner’s complete Die Walküre on july 27 and 28.