(LENOX, Mass.) – The official residency of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) at Tanglewood kicks off this Friday, July 5, 2013, with an all-Tchaikovsky program featuring violin virtuoso Joshua Bell — who returns to Tanglewood for his 25th consecutive summer since his first guest appearance in 1989 — in the composer’s beloved Violin Concerto. The…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(LENOX, Mass.) – On Friday, August 10, 2012, at Tanglewood, Pinchas Zukerman — who first performed at Tanglewood in 1969 — acts as both conductor and solo violinist in an all-Bach program — a popular concert format throughout the history of the festival — that highlights some of the exceptional talent within the ranks of…
(LENOX, Mass.) – On Saturday, August 4, 2012, pianist Yefim Bronfman joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood under conductor Christoph von Dohnányi at 8:30 p.m. for a program including Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a prototypically Brahmsian work in its combination of formal mastery and expressive ingenuity, as well as typically monumental in scale…
(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…
(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…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Roaring Twenties, a time exemplified by Art Deco, Prohibition, the loosening of social restraints, Jazz, the Charleston and flappers, will be revisited in a musical cabaret entitled The Roaring Twenties: Berlin, Paris, New York at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall on Saturday, June 2, 2012, at 6p.m. as part of the Close Encounters…
