August 2016 Tanglewood schedule

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August 2016 Tanglewood schedule is highlighted by many annual favorite soloists and programs, including the ever popular picnic event, Tanglewood on Parade, John Williams’ Film Night, Yo Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Gil Shaham. Yo Yo Ma makes another appearance this season along with his Silk Road Ensemble, which he founded at Tanglewood in 1998. Finally, Christoph von Dohnányi will conduct the usual swansong to the BSO’s summer in the Berkshires, Beethoven Symphony No. 9. On Sept. 1, the wacky radio program Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! will be presented in the Koussevitzky Music Shed.

Aug. 1, 2016

8:00 PM – Seiji Ozawa Hall – Tanglewood Music Center: Vocal Recital

Aug. 2, 2016

Tanglewood On Parade
– Koussevitzky Music Shed

2:30pm, Ozawa Hall TMC Chamber Music
3:30pm, Ozawa Hall TMC Chamber Music
5pm, Ozawa Hall TMC Vocal Program: “Sing America” with Stephanie Blythe
7:30pm, Ozawa Hall TMC Fanfares
8pm, Shed

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Stéphane Denève, Giancarlo Guerrero, and John Williams, conductors

Program to include
RAVEL La Valse
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture

Fireworks to follow the concert

Aug. 3, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall

Nelson Freire, piano

J.S. BACH Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
SHOSTAKOVICH Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5
RACHMANINOFF Prelude in G-flat, Op. 23, No. 10; Prelude in G-sharp minor, Op. 32, No. 12
CHOPIN Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

Aug. 4, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Daniil Trifonov, piano

J.S. BACH (arr. BRAHMS) Chaconne, from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, arranged for the left hand
LISZT Grandes Études de Paganini
RACHMANINOFF Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28

Aug. 5, 2016

8 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano

DVO?ÁK Serenade for Winds
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2
MAHLER (arr. BRITTEN) What the Wild Flowers Tell Me
BRAHMS Serenade No. 2

Aug. 6, 2016

8pm Koussevitzky Music Shed

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Daniil Trifonov, piano

ADAMS Harmonielehre
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2
STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

Aug. 7, 2016

2:30pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Moritz Gnann, conductor
Nelson Freire, piano

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K.271
MAHLER Symphony No. 1
8pm Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma

Aug. 8, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
TMC Conducting Fellows
Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Sanford Sylvan, baritone, and TMC Vocal Fellows (Shostakovich)
WEILL The Seven Deadly Sins
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 14

Aug. 9, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Tanglwood Music Center Improvisation Project
TMC Fellows and Mike Block

Aug. 10, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Boston Symphony Chamber Players with Jeremy Flower, electronics and piano

FLOWER Shamu and Clinical, for horn, electronics, and piano
FRANÇAIX Divertissement for flute, oboe, and bassoon
BEETHOVEN String Trio in C, Op. 9, No. 1
SPOHR Nonet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, and double bass

Aug. 11, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center: Vocal Recital

Aug. 12, 2016

8 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor*
Emanuel Ax, piano
*2016 Koussevitzky Artist

NICOLAI Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482
DEBUSSY La Mer
RAVEL Boléro

Aug. 13, 2016

8 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
John Williams’ Film Night
Boston Pops Orchestra
John Williams, conductor

John Williams’ Film Night has long been established as one of the Tanglewood calendar’s most consistently appreciated evenings. Join Mr. Williams as he presents this year’s celebration of the music of Hollywood, and beyond, featuring the Boston Pops and special guests.

Aug. 14, 2016

2:30 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Igor Levit, piano

BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret
Australian Chamber Orchestra

Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti, director and violin
Barry Humphries, conférencier
Meow Meow, cabaret artist
Rodney Fisher, director

Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret
Barry Humphries-Australia’s greatest entertainer, best known to audiences around the world as Dame Edna Everage-curates, presents, and performs the degenerate music of Berlin’s Weimar Republic (1920s-1930s) including jazz, cabaret, tango, and Broadway-musical style pieces. The hedonistic partying and social revolution of this era is re-awakened in this full-throttle concert, featuring transgressive cabaret sensation Meow Meow in the racier numbers. Hear songs by Kurt Weill including The Threepenny Opera’s “Pirate Jenny,” see Barry Humphries and Meow Meow sing the duet “Mousie” and dance a tango, and join Mr. Humphries as he rediscovers the lost music of Krenek, Schulhoff, Toch, Brandt, Grosz, and more.

Please note that this concert contains adult themes. Parental guidance for those under the age of 15 is recommended.
Also note that this production includes the use of theatrical haze (fog) machines.

Aug. 15, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Charles Dutoit conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Aug. 17, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Gil Shaham, violin

J.S. BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, BWV 1001-1006

Aug. 18, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Charles Dutoit and Friends
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Chamber Ensemble
Actors

2016 Koussevitzky Artist Charles Dutoit, in collaboration with violinist Chantal Juillet, selects and directs some of his favorite works for chamber ensemble.
Program to include
FALLA Harpischord Concerto
STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale

Aug. 19, 2016

8 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor*
Menahem Pressler, piano
Vocal soloists
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
*2016 Koussevitzky Artist

MOZART Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
ROSSINI Stabat Mater

Aug. 20, 2016

8 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Andris Nelsons conducts Verdi’s Aida, Acts I and II
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Cast to include:
Kristine Opolais, soprano (Aida)
Andrea Carè, tenor (Radames)
Kwangchul Youn, bass (Ramfis)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus

VERDI Aida, Acts I and II
Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Aug. 21, 2016

2:30 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Robert Sheena, English horn
Dejan Lazi?, piano

BERLIOZ Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict
TSONTAKIS Sonnets, Concerto for English horn and orchestra
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet

Aug. 23, 2016

7 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Train with Andy Grammer

Aug. 24, 2016

8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall
Jeremy Denk, piano

Medieval to Modern – In a fascinating centuries-spanning program, Jeremy Denk charts the history of Western music from the Medieval and Renaissance worlds of Machaut, Couperin, and Frescobaldi to Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, the modernists Stravinsky, Cage, Ligeti, and Adams, and back to Machaut.

Aug. 25, 2016

7:30pm Seiji Ozawa Hall

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Suzana Ograjenšek, soprano
Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano
Clint van der Linde, countertenor
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Douglas Williams, baritone
Members of the Philharmonia Chorale

SCARLATTI La gloria di primavera
Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Aug. 26, 2016

8 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Pops
Keith Lockhart, conductor

‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ with Orchestra
The film that gave the world one of its greatest movie heroes, Indiana Jones, is back and better than ever before! Relive the magic on the silver screen of the original great adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark, with John Williams’ epic score performed live by the Boston Pops.

Aug. 27, 2016

8 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Aug. 28, 2016

2:30 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano
Ruxandra Donose, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Kaiser, tenor
Günther Groissböck, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9

September 2016

Sept. 1, 2016

8 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
NPR’s oddly informative weekly hour-long news quiz program is again live. The Peabody Award-winning series offers a fast-paced, irreverent look at the week’s news, hosted by Peter Sagal along with judge and score-keeper Bill Kurtis.

Sept. 2, 2016

8 pm Koussevitzky Music Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra with Special Guest The B-52s