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Contemporary Opera Version of ‘Gatsby’ at Tanglewood

(LENOX, Mass.) –  John Harbison’s opera The Great Gatsby will be performed by the orchestra and chorus of Boston-based Emmanuel Music on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 7:30 p.m.,  in Ozawa Hall, as part of Tanglewood’s 75th birthday tribute to the composer. The concert performance will be led by Emmanuel Music artistic director Ryan Turner…

Tina Packer to Join Celebration of Norwegian Chamber Music and Culture

(LENOX, Mass.) – Fjords, forests and fairy tales will be conjured up in Nordic Lights: Grieg Revival, an evening of music and readings at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall — including works by Edvard Grieg and Henrik Ibsen, featuring special guest narrator Tina Packer, founder and former artistic director of Shakespeare & Company — on Saturday, June…

Jazz Trumpeter Terence Blanchard to Lead Group at Tanglewood

(LENOX, Mass.) – The Terence Blanchard Group, featuring New Orleans’ jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, joins the 2013 Tanglewood season line-up with a performance in Ozawa Hall on Friday, June 28, 2013, at 8 p.m. Tanglewood no longer hosts a Labor Day weekend jazz festival; instead it intersperses jazz programs throughout the summer. Blanchard…

Steve Miller Band and NPR Quiz Show Added to Tanglewood Lineup

(LENOX, Mass.) – The Steve Miller Band and the public radio program Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! have been added to the summer 2013 Tanglewood lineup. Known for hits such as “Take the Money and Run,” “The Joker,” and other staples of classic-rock radio, the Steve Miller Band will perform on July 29, 2013, in the…

Jackson Browne, Esperanza Spalding to Play Tanglewood This Summer

(LENOX, Mass.) – Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne will return to the Shed at Tanglewood for the first time in 15 years on Thursday, July 4, 2013, at 7 p.m., and Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist/vocalist/composer Esperanza Spalding, one of the most exciting new voices in jazz in recent years, will bring her…

Father and Son to Conduct All-Mozart Program at Tanglewood

(LENOX, Mass.) – Kurt Masur, who turns 85 on July 18, 2012, will share the Tanglewood podium with his son Ken-David Masur for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Sunday afternoon all-Mozart program on July 22, 2012. Maestro Masur, who canceled most of his appearances through September after taking a fall during a concert in Paris last…

Tanglewood Season Curtain Rises on Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble

(LENOX, Mass.) – The 75th anniversary season of Tanglewood,  the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will kick off with a performance by The Silk Road Ensemble with its founder, the world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, at Ozawa Hall on Friday, June 22, 2012, and again on Sunday, June 24. Performances begin at 8…