Tanglewood schedule August 22-30, 2014
Article by Dave Read
The 2014 Tanglewood season winds down by twisting up when the Boston Pops and Keith Lockhart perform Oz with Orchestra in the Shed on Friday August 22. The Wizard of Oz has been re-mastered for accompaniment by a full symphony orchestra playing new transcriptions of Harold Arlen’s lost scores.
Charles Dutoit returns to the podium on Saturday, August 23, and Sunday, August 24, to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s final two concerts of the 2014 Tanglewood season. An Italian-themed program on August 23 begins with Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture and continues with Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, featuring pianist Kirill Gerstein as soloist. Completing the program are Respighi’s tone poems: Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome, and Pines of Rome.
Tanglewood’s annual Family Concert is slated for Aug. 23 2:30 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Then, on August 24, the BSO’s Tanglewood season comes to a close with its traditional performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The final concert this year includes Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, with pianist Yefim Bronfman accompanying the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Vocal soloists include sopranos Nicole Cabell and Meredith Hansen, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, tenors Noah Stewart and Alex Richardson, and bass-baritone John Relyea.
On Sunday Aug. 24, the Maria Schneider Orchestra performs an 8 p.m. concert in Ozawa Hall.
On Thursday, August 28, radio program Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! will be recorded in the Shed for broadcast to its weekly audience of 3.2 million weekly listeners on more than 600 NPR stations nationwide.
The Aug. 30 concert with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart, members of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Josh Groban are the last entry on the Tanglewood 2014 schedule.
Friday, August 22, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
Friday, August 22, 7:15 p.m. Shed, This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, August 22, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Keith Lockhart, conductor
- The Wizard of Oz
Oz with Orchestra
Friday, August 22, 10:30 a.m. Shed Rehearsal, Sunday program
Friday, August 22, 2:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall, Family Concert
Saturdy, August 23, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Charles Dutoit, conductor
- Kirill Gerstein, piano
- BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture
- RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
- RESPIGHI Roman Festivals; Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome
Sunday, August 24, 2:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Charles Dutoit, conductor
- Yefim Bronfman, piano
- Nicole Cabell and Meredith Hansen, sopranos
- Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
- Noah Stewart and Alex Richardson, tenors
- John Relyea, bass-baritone
- Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
- BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy
- BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
Sunday, August 24, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Maria Schneider Orchestra
Thursday, August 28, 8 p.m. Shed
- Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
- Peter Sagal, Carl Kassell.
Saturday, August 30, 7 p.m. Shed
- Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
- Keith Lockhart, conductor
- Josh Groban, vocalist
- Members of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
Tanglewood program August 22-30, 2014
Keith Lockhart the Boston Pops play The Wizard Of Oz, August 22; Charles Dutoit leads the BSO In Berlioz, Rachmaninoff, and Respighi, August 23, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, August 24; Maria Schneider Orchestra in Ozawa Hall, August 24; Wait Wait…don’t Tell Me! on August 28; Josh Groban with Maestro Lockhart And The Pops, August 30, 2014.