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 amid the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s million-acre campus in the Berkshires. You could catch two full symphonic concerts plus several recitals, while picnicking in the company of true picnic hobbyists, all on the same nickel.
Tchaikovsky’s simple and triumphant 1812 Overture caps the Gala Concert – the lithe Keith Lockhart conducting a massive ensemble combining the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops, including live mortar rounds while the Overture climaxes, followed by a twenty minute fireworks display over nearby Stockbridge Bowl.
Even the musically challenged, people who don’t know an allegro from a concertante, can witness it once, then again annually for a decade or more and still retain his utter naivete. The place hath charms that soothe even the rustic’s breast.
Tanglewood on Parade Concert Program
Tuesday, August 1, at 8pm
THE GREGORY E. BULGER FOUNDATION CONCERT
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
CHARLES DUTOIT, MORITZ GNANN, KEITH LOCKHART,
KEN-DAVID MASUR, BRAMWELL TOVEY, and
JOHN WILLIAMS, conductors
GARRICK OHLSSON, piano
DAWN UPSHAW, soprano
COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
FELLOWS OF THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER,
KEN-DAVID MASUR conducting
COPLAND Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Andante sostenuto—
Molto moderato—Allegro assai
GARRICK OHLSSON, piano
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA,
BRAMWELL TOVEY conducting
KODÁLY Suite from Háry János
Prelude. The Fairy Tale Begins Viennese Musical Clock Song
The Battle and Defeat of Napoleon
Intermezzo
Entrance of the Emperor and his Court
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA,
CHARLES DUTOIT conducting
INTERMISSION
MENDELSSOHN Overture, The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Opus 26
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
MORITZ GNANN conducting
GERSHWIN / KERN (arr. Nelson Riddle)
“Love is Here to Stay”
“I Won’t Dance”
DAWN UPSHAW, soprano
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
KEITH LOCKHART conducting
John WILLIAMS Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
A New Beginning from Minority Report
Throne Room & Finale from Star Wars
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
JOHN WILLIAMS conducting
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture, Opus 49
TMC ORCHESTRA and
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
KEITH LOCKHART conducting
Tanglewood tickets, : box office info.
Tickets for the 2017 Tanglewood season go on sale January 29 starting at 10 a.m. through Tanglewood’s website, www.tanglewood.org, SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200, and at the Symphony Hall Box Office at 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston MA.
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Getting around the Tanglewood campus
The Tanglewood campus, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center comprises several hundred acres in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge. It is the location of the Koussevitsky Music Shed and Ozawa Hall, where hundreds of thousands attend concerts and a variety of events, including picnics. We always advise new visitors to arrive early and take their daily walking exercise wandering the beautiful Tanglewood grounds. This dynamic map of the Tanglewood grounds includes photos and information for such points of interest as Aaron Copland Library, Highwood Manor House, The Glass House, and The Lion’s Gate.
