Article updated March 25, 2019 by Dave Read
BREAKING NEWS – NOT FAKE – Brian Wilson’s gig is off – not gonna happen!!!
Tanglewood’s schedule of rock, pop, and jazz concerts for the 2019 season reflects one notable variation from the usual: Tanglewood on Parade moves from its customary first Tuesday in August slot to July 23, perhaps to accommodate music director Andris Nelsons, who will be on campus in July, but not August.
Live From Here with Chris Thile at Tanglewood
- June 15, 2019 @ 5:45 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds – CANCELED
- June 16, 2019 @ 2:30 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
See review of the 2016 concert: Brian Wilson plays Pet Sounds at Tanglewood
Richard Thompson (Solo Acoustic)
- Friday, June 21 at 8
- Seiji Ozawa Hall
Postmodern Jukebox
- Saturday, June 22 at 8
- Seiji Ozawa Hall
Boston Pops with James Burton, Marc Martel’s Queen tribute
- June 27, 2019 @ 8
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Earth, Wind & Fire
- June 28, 2019 @ 7 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Josh Groban at Tanglewood
- July 2, 2019 @ 7 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
James Taylor
- July 3, 2019 @ 8 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
James Taylor
- July 4, 2019 @ 8 PM – Fireworks after the show
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
See review of the 2018 concert: James Taylor at Tanglewood July 4, 2018
Boston Pops, Across the Stars: Music of John Williams
- July7, 2019 @ 2:30 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Join the Boston Pops for the first of three programs this summer, celebrating the art of John Williams. Drawing from her recent recording “Across the Stars,” Anne-Sophie Mutter performs selections from Mr. Williams’ scores. The program includes music from Star Wars and Memoirs of a Geisha, and Schindler’s List.
Tanglewood on Parade
- July 23, 2019 @ 8 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Boston Symphony Children’s Choir
Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart, John Williams, Thomas Wilkins, and James Burton, conductors
Program to include:
WAGNER “The Ride of the Valkyries” from Die Walku?re
James BURTON Lost Words, for children’s choir and orchestra (world premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
Fireworks to follow the concert
Train and Goo Goo Dolls
- August 5, 2019 @ 7 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra
- August 16, 2019 @ 8 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Star Wars: A New Hope
Screening of the film with live orchestral accompaniment of the John Williams score.
Boston Pops John Williams’ Film Night
- August 24, 2019 @ 8 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Pops
David Newman, conductor
John Williams, host
Gladys Knight, with The Spinners
- August 28, 2019 @ 7 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Squeeze at Tanglewood
- August 20, 2019 @ 7 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals – Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- August 31, 2019 @ 7 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Reba McEntire at Tanglewood
- September 1, 2019 @ 3:30 PM
- Koussevitzky Music Shed
Hotels in the Berkshires
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. Details of programs in the Tanglewood Learning Institute will be announced on Feb. 7, 2019.