Here’s a look around Tanglewood just before the show, which was terrific, with unannounced guest Arlo Guthrie. We’ll have a review and more video from the after-show soon.
The 2009 Tanglewood schedule includes a week of pre-season concerts featuring the Emerson String Quartet, the Julliard String Quartet, the annual live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor, and the opening exercises and performances of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and a piano recital in Seiji Ozawa Hall by Stephen Kovacevich.
This will be the 10th appearance on the stage of the Koussevitsky Music Shed for Mr. Keillor and his cast of beloved Lake Wobegon denizens, joined this time by special guests Martin Sheen, Stuart Duncan, and Steve Martin, who will be playing banjo with the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers. (See our review of the 2006 Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood, which featured Meryl Streep.)
Friday, June 26, 8pm, Ozawa Hall
EMERSON STRING QUARTET
PAUL NEUBAUER, viola
IVES- Quartet No. 1
DVORÁK-Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, The American
BARBER-Adagio, from Quartet, Op. 11
DVORÁK-String Quintet No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 97, American
Saturday, June 27, 5:45pm, Shed
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION AT TANGLEWOOD
with GARRISON KEILLOR
With special guests Martin Sheen, Stuart Duncan, and Steve Martin performing Bluegrass & Banjo with the Steep Canyon Rangers
Live broadcast ending at 8pm
Sunday, June 28, 2:30pm, Ozawa Hall
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
ALL-HAYDN PROGRAM
Quartet No. 27 in D, Op. 20, No. 4
Quartet No. 26 in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3
Quartet No. 23 in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
(“Sun Quartets”)- Quartet No. 25 in C, Op. 20, No. 2
Thursday, July 2, 8pm, Ozawa Hall
STEPHEN KOVACEVICH, piano
BACH – Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828
SCHUMANN – Kinderszenen, Op. 15
BEETHOVEN – Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120
Tanglewood Music Center
Monday, June 29, 2:30pm, Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Opening Exercises
Monday, June 29, 8pm, Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT, conductor
RYAN McADAMS (TMC Conducting Fellow), conductor (The Swan of Tuonela)
GERGELY MADARAS (TMC Conducting Fellow), conductor (Tapiola)
ALL- SIBELIUS Program
The Swan of Tuonela
Tapiola
Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 43