Andris Nelsons (photo Marco Borggreve)
(LENOX, Mass.) – Music director Andris Nelsons will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its traditional season-ending performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Tanglewood on Sunday, August 28, at 2:30 p.m. The performance features the BSO, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and vocal soloists including soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen, mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose, tenor Joseph Kaiser, and bass Günther Groissböck.
The program will open with Aaron Copland’s “Quiet City,” featuring BSO principals Thomas Rolfs on trumpet and Robert Sheena on English horn.
Following the close of the BSO’s season, Tanglewood will host a series of performances, including NPR’s oddly informative weekly hour-long news quiz program, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, live at Tanglewood on Thursday, September 1, at 8 p.m.; the B-52s — dubbed “The World’s Greatest Party Band” and known worldwide for hits such as “Love Shack,” “Rock Lobster,” and “Roam”—on Friday, September 2; and Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Swing Orchestra performing “Dancing Under the Stars,” a festive, toe-tapping performance, to close out the 2016 season on Saturday, September 3.
the B-52s
Sunday, August 28, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Thomas Rolfs, trumpet
Robert Sheena, English horn
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano
Ruxandra Donose, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Kaiser, tenor
Günther Groissböck, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
COPLAND Quiet City
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9