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James Taylor to Receive 2024 Tanglewood Medal

by Noah Peretz (Rogovoy Report intern) (LENOX, Mass.) – James Taylor will receive the 2024 Tanglewood Medal from the Boston Symphony Orchestra in recognition of his extraordinary accomplishments as a singer-songwriter and performer as well as his many significant contributions to the BSO and Berkshires communities. The Tanglewood Medal will be presented to Taylor during…

Michael Tilson Thomas, Dawn Upshaw, Ursula Oppens and Peter Serkin Featured in Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music

(LENOX, Mass.) – Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and pianists Ursula Oppens and Peter Serkin will be featured performers in Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music, running now through Monday, July 27, 2015, in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. The festival features programs curated by Oliver Knussen, John Harbison, and Michael Gandolfi; a memoriam tribute…

(Concert Review) James Taylor, Tanglewood, 7.4.15

  James Taylor Tanglewood Lenox, Mass. July 4, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass.) – Once upon a time, as hard as it might be to believe, the Fourth of July at Tanglewood was not synonymous with a James Taylor concert and love-fest. But with a few exceptions, for the past decade…

Indigo Girls Headline Pop Music Festival at Tanglewood

(LENOX, Mass.) – Grammy Award-winning folk duo Indigo Girls will perform on Saturday, May 23, 2015, as part of the SummerSound Live weekend of music on the grounds of Tanglewood. The two-day festival, which takes place on Saturday and Sunday, May 23-24, takes place at a parking lot outside of Tanglewood’s main gates, and includes…

Father and Son Marsalis Pay Tribute to the Birthplace of Jazz at Tanglewood

(LENOX, Mass.) – Jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis, Jr. — patriarch of the Marsalis musical dynasty — and one of his jazz royalty sons, trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis, along with their quartet, bring a program entitled “The Last Southern Gentlemen” to Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood on Sunday, August 17, 2014, at 8 p.m. performing standards and original…

‘Beach Boys’ Bring Endless Summer Tour to Tanglewood

(LENOX, Mass.) – At first I wasn’t even going to mention that a group using the name “The Beach Boys” is performing at Tanglewood in the Shed on Monday, August 18, 2014, at 7 p.m. After all, two of the original founding Wilson brothers are deceased; Brian Wilson rarely if ever tours with the group;…

New Bolcom Work Celebrating Leonard Slatkin at 70 to Premiere at Tanglewood

  (LENOX, Mass.) – Among the highlights of this weekend’s programs at Tanglewood is the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom’s Circus Overture, commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra to celebrate conductor Leonard Slatkin’s 70th birthday, on Friday, August 8, 2014, in a program featuring violinist Gil Shaham and BSO principal oboe John…

Yefim Bronfman, Gil Shaham Guest with BSO at Tanglewood

(LENOX, Mass.) – Pianist Yefim Bronfman and violinist Gil Shaham are back-to-back guest soloists this weekend, performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christoph von Dohnányi at Tanglewood. Shaham tackles Sibelius’s Violin Concerto on Friday, August 9, 2013, at 8:30 p.m., and Bronfman performs Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto on Saturday, August 10,…