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Tanglewood schedule July 5 – 10, 2014

Dave Read

Tanglewood schedule July 5 – 10, 2014

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Week 1 on the 2014 Tanglewood schedule is highlighted by the BSO’s Opening Night at Tanglewood on July 5 with an all-American program starring soprano Renee Fleming singing works of the American concert hall and opera stage, plus favorites from musical theater and popular genres. Israeli conductor Asher Fisch leads the orchestra in a Shed concert on Sunday, July 6 with pianist Garrick Ohlsson. The program includes orchestral excerpts from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Liszt’s tone poem Les Préludes.

Opening Night at Tanglewood Saturday, July 5, 2014

Sunday, July 6, 2:30 p.m. Shed

Wednesday, July 9, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

On Wednesday, July 9, Chanticleer comes to Ozawa Hall with a program called She Said/He Said. The complex and emotionally charged dialogue between the sexes is an eternal theme for composers, from the bawdiest Renaissance madrigals through standards by Cole Porter. In another vein, godliness bestowed upon women is extolled in works by Andrea Gabrieli and Eric Whitacre. She Said/He Said will feature female voices as diverse as Hildegard von Bingen and Stacy Garrop, German Romanticism from Brahms and Fanny Mendelssohn, and songwriting by Joni Mitchell. The program will conclude with newly created arrangements contributing fresh material to Chanticleer’s popular and jazz repertoire.

In an extended concert with two intermissions on Thursday, July 10, the eminent Emerson String Quartet provides the rare opportunity to hear the last five of Shostakovich’s string quartets in a single evening. The selected quartets are Nos. 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, all composed in the Cold War-era USSR between 1966 and 1975.

Thursday, July 10, 7:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Friday, July 11, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall, Prelude Concert, Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, July 11, 7:15 p.m. Shed. This Week at Tanglewood Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists.

Friday, July 11, 8:30 p.m. Shed

On July 11, Andris Nelsons makes his first Tanglewood appearances since being named the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s music director designate on a program with German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. It will be an all-Dvorak program including the Violin Concerto, the pastoral and tuneful Symphony No. 8, and the rarely performed 1896 symphonic poem The Noonday Witch.

Friday, July 11, 8:30 p.m. Shed

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