FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: June 2, 2009
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE PART OF 70TH BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION FOR SIR JAMES GALWAY
Flute virtuoso Sir James Galway and the Boston Symphony Orchestra are offering an opportunity for flute players aged 8 through 13 to participate in the premiere performance of a new work for flute ensemble to be written for Sir James Galway’s 70th birthday celebration at Tanglewood on Saturday, August 1. The new work, to be written by American composer and former Tanglewood Music Center Fellow Derek Bermel, will be conducted by maestro Leonard Slatkin and feature Sir James Galway and flutists of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. The young flutists will perform on the stage of the Koussevitzky Music Shed during a Boston Symphony Orchestra performance on August 1.
A committee headed by BSO principal flutist Elizabeth Rowe will select the young flutists from the submitted applications. Those selected to perform with the Tanglewood Festival Flute Ensemble will rehearse at Tanglewood on July 28, July 30, and August 1.
Sir James Galway’s 70th Birthday Celebration concert will be on Saturday, August 1, at 8:30 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In addition to Derek Bermel’s new work, Sir James Galway will also perform Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and two works by Mozart, the Overture to The Magic Flute and Flute Concerto No. 2.
For additional information about Tanglewood, visit www.tanglewood.org.
SPONSORSHIP
Opening Night at Tanglewood is sponsored by the Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation. Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation is the official chauffeured transportation of the BSO. WAMC is Tanglewood’s media partner. Steinway is the exclusive piano of Tanglewood. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is proud to support Tanglewood and its education initiatives for Massachusetts students.
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PRESS CONTACTS: Bernadette Horgan (bhorgan@bso.org) and Kathleen Drohan (kdrohan@bso.org) at 617-638-9280 (September – late June) or 413-637-5280 (late June –Labor Day Weekend)
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