Tanglewood schedule July 28 – Aug. 6, 2009

An augmented at-a-glance look at the Tanglewood schedule for July 24 – 30, 2009 plus introductory notes on the program for the following week.

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Sir James Galway performs at Tanglewood during 2009 season;photo Paul Cox

Tanglewood schedule July 28 – Tanglewood on Parade

Tanglewood on Parade, one of the festivals’ most beloved traditions, is a day of music festivities and family activities throughout the Tanglewood grounds, with activities beginning at 2 p.m. and culminating in an 8:30 p.m. concert in the Shed. The evening program will bring together the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the Boston Pops, under the direction of James Levine, Keith Lockhart, John Williams, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and Leonard Slatkin.

The program will include music by Rossini, Enescu, and Copland, as well as John Williams’s Tributes: For Seiji and a TMCO performance of the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. The evening’s grand finale is a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture followed by a dazzling fireworks display.

Tanglewood schedule July 30 – Thursday July 30, 8:00PM – Seiji Ozawa Hall

Sir James Galway
Lady Jeanne Galway
pianist Phillip Moll

Tanglewood schedule – Friday, July 31, 8:30 p.m. Shed

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Vadim Repin, violin

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
DEBUSSY La Mer
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

Tanglewood schedule – Saturday, August 1,

(Saturday, August 1, 9:30 a.m. Shed -Pre-Rehearsal Talk;
Saturday, August 1, 10:30 a.m. Shed – Open Rehearsal, Sunday program)

8:30 p.m. Shed – Celebrating Sir James Galway’s 70th Birthday
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Sir James Galway, flute

Special Guests
DEBUSSY Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
COPLAND Appalachian Spring (complete)
BERMEL Swing Song for flute ensemble (world premiere; commissioned by the BSO)
MOZART Flute Concerto No. 2

Plus musical surprises especially for the occasion

Tanglewood schedule – Sunday, August 2, 2:30 p.m. Shed

The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Tanglewood schedule – Monday, August 3, 8 p.m. Shed

Tanglewood Music Center Vocal and Conducting Fellows and Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Ryan McAdams, conductor (TMC Conducting Fellow) (Concerto for Piano and Winds)
Peter Serkin, piano
Allison Angelo, soprano; Alex Richardson, tenor; Alan Dunbar, bass-baritone (TMC Vocal Fellows in Pulcinella)

ALL-STRAVINSKY PROGRAM
Pulcinella (complete)
Concerto for Piano and Winds
Suite from The Firebird (1919 version)

Tanglewood schedule – Wed. & Thu. August 5 & 6, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Mark Morris Dance Group
Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
Mark Morris, choreographer
Emanuel Ax, piano
Colin Jacobsen, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Martin Pakledinaz, costume designer
James F. Ingalls, lighting designer
‘A Lake’

HAYDN Horn Concerto No. 2
‘Visitation’ (world premiere)
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 4 in C for cello and piano, Op. 102, No. 1
‘Empire Garden’ (world premiere)
IVES Trio for piano, violin, and cello
‘Candleflowerdance’
STRAVINSKY Serenade in A, for piano

This Week at Tanglewood – free discussion

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is proud to offer for the second year its successful “This Week at Tanglewood” series, a free Friday-evening panel discussion series to take place at 7:15 p.m. prior to each Friday evening’s BSO performance. On Friday July 24, host Martin Bookspan’s guests will include baritone Thomas Hampson. Each week the program will feature special guests in informal and engaging discussions and an overview of the coming week’s schedule, including everything from BSO performances to Tanglewood Music Center concerts to children’s programming. Attendance to “This Week at Tanglewood” is free and open to all ticket holders for the Friday evening BSO concerts.

free prelude concerts in Ozawa Hall

In addition, the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers free prelude concerts in Ozawa Hall before Friday and Saturday Shed concerts. Friday night, July 24 at 6 p.m., guest pianist Orli Shaham joins BSO clarinetist William R. Hudgins, violist Michael Zaretsky and cellist Alexandre Lecarme for a program of Bruch’s Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano, and Beethoven’s Duo in E-flat for viola and cello “with two obbligato eyeglasses,” an early work reportedly subtitled by the composer to humorously reflect the poor eyesight of the amateur cellist for whom it was written. The TMC Prelude for Saturday, July 25, features TMC Fellows in the music of Britten, Henze, and Perle. Throughout the summer, the Friday night Prelude Concerts will feature members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing various chamber works, and the Saturday night concerts will feature Tanglewood Music Center Fellows. Each Prelude Concert is free and open to all ticket holders for the evening’s Shed concert.